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Showing 1 to 20 of 500 for “"Conformity"”.
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Conformity Analyzed and Related to Personality
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805411.pdf: 7301166 bytes, checksum: 898d17894a46c8dfc4a67b19a4209b7c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Tattooed feminine bodies: regulation, conformity, and resistance
Normative constructions of femininity in the UK are constructed around white, middle-class, and thin ideals for women (Francombe-Webb & Silk, 2016), serving to ‘other’ different productions of femininity. Tattooed women have historically been associated with working-class bodies. Class-based …
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Experiences of Conformity in Postgraduate Medical Education
… was used to study the perception of conformity in Postgraduate Medical Education. The goals were to describe: (1) the extent of perception of pressure to conform in PGME, (2) factors that influence pressure to conform, and (3) trainees’ perception of how conformity influences their …
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Rural Surgeons' Conformity to the Specialty Code
This research describes the manner in which surgeons in nonmetropolitan practice deviate from the specialty code, and seeks to understand this deviation in light of ecological theory. The hypothesis is that the low density of specialists and associated lack of structural constraints on competitors, …
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Ground Under Repair: Balancing Conformity and Non-Conformity in Women's Golf in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… used their actions to balance social ideals of conformity and non-conformity in order to make small, meaningful change within the game and in broader society, while also keeping their appearances as "proper" women of the upper-classes.
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The Influence of Orthopedic Disability on Conformity Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:34:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6104337.pdf: 5266943 bytes, checksum: c825b122d07aad9d4687d151e5c3dfd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Norm Conformity and Social Identity In Collective Action Groups
… distributed between self and others) and norm conformity on social identity and cooperation. Results from the second study suggest that social identity stemming from norms motivates individuals to put aside personal preferences in order to conform to group expectations. This effect is …
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A Field Study of Individual Conformity to Group Opinion
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805400.pdf: 5694085 bytes, checksum: aa286c19589db1930673e2687acf695c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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The Effect of Two Situational Factors on Conformity Behavior
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… small group decision-makers: confirmation and conformity. Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret new information to support one's original beliefs and conformity bias is the tendency to seek out an agreement within the group. Both biases are well-documented among elite decision-making …
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
This thesis examines the life and works of the English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645) through the lens of various printed and manuscript sources, especially his manuscript notebooks in Oxford. It links his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, …
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Previous conformity, status and the rejection of the deviant
… that one built up "idiosyncrasy credits" through conformity to a group's norm. These idiosyncrasy credits may later be used to deviate from a group's norm without fear of rejection. Wahrman (1970a) suggested that a high status deviant who had violated a general expectation of conformity would be …
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Effects of clothing conformity on preschool children's social interactions
… study was to explore the effects of clothing conformity on the social interaction of two groups of preschool children of two socio-economic classes. Subjects were six randomly selected children from a group of fifteen nursery school children, representing the middle economic class and six …
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Conformity, Dissent, and the Death of Henry Barrow, 1570-1593
<p>This thesis explores the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the executions of London Separatist leaders Henry Barrow and John Greenwood on 6 April, 1593. Occurring after a lengthy prison term punctuated by official examinations conducted by authorities, the executions took place only …
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The Faithful Infidel: Exploring Conformity and Deviance of Category Members
… of a category. Given the importance of producer conformity in upholding a category’s continued existence, code deviance then seems a counterintuitive strategy to pursue. Nonetheless, organizations are known to defy codes in certain instances, sometimes even pairing the violation simultaneously …
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The Additive Effects of Varying Stimuli on Cooperative and Conformity Responding
… of verbal stimuli to increase cooperation and conformity in a simulated work task. Various classes of cooperative, and conformity, stimuli were assessed to determine if they had an augmenting function on cooperative and conformity responding, and if there can be a functional distinction drawn …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… Massachusetts perpetuated civility of conformity, a political formulation that fastened society around a mandated theological construct, which was enforced and nourished by the civil state. Civility of conformity posited that societal stability necessitated an established orthodoxy …
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The effects of group cohesiveness on group conformity and member satisfaction
… the effects of group cohesiveness on group conformity, and on member satisfaction. In this study, group cohesiveness, group conformity, and member satisfaction were considered to be constructs. The definition of the construct of group cohesiveness included the interrelated components of …
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The relationships between birth order, fashion opinion leadership and clothing conformity
… order, fashion opinion leadership and clothing conformity. The sample consisted of 60 first borns and 60 subjects from other ordinal positions. The instrument used in this research consisted of three parts: Schrank's (1970) Fashion Opinion Leadership (FOL) and Attitudes-Toward-Conformity and the …
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