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  2. Anticonformity (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Compliance conformity is the agreement occurring after a public agreement but remaining in disagreement privately. Anticonformity is the continuous need for behavioral and cognitive independence. An anticonformist is both publicly and privately in disagreement with others in the environment.

  3. Nonconformity - Wikipedia

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    Non-conformists of the 1930s, an avantgarde movement during the inter-war period in France; Counterculture of the 1960s; Civil disobedience, the active, professed refusal of a citizen to comply with certain laws, demands, or commands of a government

  4. Conformity - Wikipedia

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    Conformity also increases when individuals have committed themselves to the group making decisions. [76] Conformity has also been shown to be linked to cohesiveness. Cohesiveness is how strongly members of a group are linked together, and conformity has been found to increase as group cohesiveness increases. [77] Similarly, conformity is also ...

  5. Interpersonal influence - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal influence [1] is a type of social influence which results from group members encouraging, or forcing, conformity while discouraging, and possibly punishing, nonconformity. It is one of three types of social influences that lead people to conform to the majority, or the group's norms.

  6. Nonconformity (quality) - Wikipedia

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    In quality management, a nonconformity (sometimes referred to as a non conformance or nonconformance or defect) is a deviation from a specification, a standard, or an expectation. Nonconformities or nonconformance can be classified in seriousness multiple ways, though a typical classification scheme may have three to four levels, including ...

  7. Social construction of technology - Wikipedia

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    Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...

  8. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    Latane's social impact theory posits that three factors influence the extent to which we conform to group norms: personal importance, immediacy, and size. [2] As the group becomes more important to a person, physically closer to him/her, and larger in number, Social Impact Theory predicts that conformity to group norms will increase.

  9. Theories of technology - Wikipedia

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    Structuration theory attempts to define the structures also as resources and their rules that are organized with relevant technological system properties at the social level. The theory employs one recursive notion of actions, constrained and enabled by structures which are produced and reproduced by the action.