Sociology Reading and Small-scale research, blog.

I read The Asch Conformity Experiments witch is about how people form opinions in a group. for example lets say that a there is a group of people all answering a question. lets say that there are 5 people in the group and you are the 5th person in the group. everyone is asked what the answer is the their question and the first 4 people got answer B, but you are the last person to reveal your answer and you got the answer A. Would you want to go with the group and say that you got the answer B just to be like everyone else, or would you be true to yourself and say that you got the answer A. This test was done with a lot of people and most people lied and did the same answer as everyone else in the group. This is due to the fact that they were scared of being different.

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