By Stephen Coleman

ISBN-10: 193404377X

ISBN-13: 9781934043776

Social conformity surrounds and enmeshes us, yet we're seldom conscious of its complete influence. This publication demonstrates simply how pervasively social conformity impacts society and politics. The effect of conformity on balloting habit and govt is a specific concentration. whilst conformity impacts citizens' offerings, it runs opposite to the concept they're creating a rational choice between political events or candidates-the foundation of democracy-and it could bring about unforeseen political outcomes. on the severe, social conformity can hijack democratic executive and bring about violence opposed to minority teams or totalitarianism. The effect of conformity is classified via quantitative and qualitative analyses, a number of basic mathematical types, and particular numerical predictions which are proven with old facts from the us, Germany, Japan, Russia, and plenty of different nations over a lot of the twentieth century. the implications supply new insights on balloting, political occasion platforms, crime, ethnic violence, democratic govt, and the character of society, together with either confident and destructive effects of conformity. development on study in cognitive psychology over the past two decades, the ebook additionally ties conformity and ensuing social associations to yes cognitive strategies that move on and not using a person's awake awareness.

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