Examples of conformity

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Non-conformity with the specifications given in this notice is likely to lead to delay in publication.
He refers to institutions imposing 'sanctions' and 'penalties' and refers to 'standards of conformity from which an individual may depart only at his peril'.
Instead, it opted for what it saw as the safer path of conformity.
Prisons are sites that seed isolation, conformity, order, and containment of body and mind.
The 20 outcome variables were grouped as follows : (1) intimate relationships ; (2) work and school ; and (3) conformity to social expectations.
The coefficients reveal that the 20 outcomes reflect distinct, but somewhat overlapping, social roles and conformity to social norms.
The first is the existence of a sufficient degree of conformity in a community to the nor ms of a particular system.
Demonstrating the practical relevance of general conformity proceeds as follows: in ever y legal system, most participants are committed to the joint legal activity.
If general conformity to a practice is absent, then there is no possibility that he can contribute to such a practice.
Conformity to the rule works as an invisible-hand mechanism.
The calculated ages taken at face value clearly are not in conformity with the stratigraphy.
Overall there is a trend towards conformity and predictability.
Submission to her husband in all respects and conformity to traditional behaviour are expected of her.
The social and psychological consequences of consumerism are, as we have seen, a conformity and passivity that is ironically experienced as individuality and freedom.
The treated couples, on the other hand, tended to be far more explicit in their references to social conformity.
If such expressions serve as arguments to functions that are defined for a particular shape only, shape conformity can not be statically guaranteed.
Here we note that there has indeed been substantial reorganization of parts of laboratory practice in conformity with a logic of financial calculation.
However, despite detailed assessment, older people and their multiple illnesses are destined to continue to display a remarkable capacity to confound expectations and conformity.
Either way, in rendering an idealized construct, the press offered a 'vision' against which non-conformity jarred abruptly.
Furthermore, a declaration of conformity of the device to these requirements has to be drawn up by the manufacturer or the authorized representative.
Here she gives a strong defence of individual liberty and a spirited critique of conformity.
Structure alone cannot justify explanatory appeals to conformity (p. 171), spontaneous generation (p. 188), convenience of usage (p. 358), or insight (p. 390).
The fourth issue raised is that of outward conformity, and the formal submissions required of recusants wishing to escape the fining system.
If regular church attendance was weak, ' occasional conformity ' - usually to mark the rites of passage - was very common.
They were prone, therefore, to follow their leaders in matters of social conformity.
The former group's deeply ingrained prosocial disposition and strong adherence to conformity may serve to protect them from deflection toward an antisocial pathway.
Accordingly, these teens are more prone to conformity and more at risk for problematic behaviors than teens from more autonomy supportive and loving homes.
At the back of the horse is a group of essays which look at conformity and orthodoxy from the perspective of a single individual.
At the end of this transformative period, a need for social achievement and conformity is replaced by a desire for personal coherence and completeness.
Here the mask, or persona, becomes both a bridge between internal psychological and external social realities and an element of social conformity.
Fundamentally, culture is conformity and adherence to social norms.
If conformity is selected for, the long-term prospects of a culture are dubious.
There are two ways in which conformity between perceived motion paths and kinematic geometry may be construed.
Surely design guidance that seeks to control details results in conformity and eventually in placelessness.
The implication strikes us as untrue in regard to the conformity, obedience, and bystander research that is the centerpiece of their censure.
Conformity to ' age-identity ' turns the subject into a helpless victim of midlife ; a process of subordination to culture and the repression of diversity.
In order to prevent the type system from rejecting such programs, it must support so-called type assertions, which postpone conformity checks until runtime.
Along these lines, two common error patterns, consonant harmony and gliding, are examined for their conformity with the typological predictions of derivational theories.
In the present study, we use four variables to assess social conformity.
However, the recent passage of the three key federal laws provides a common legal denominator, with which sub-federal laws must be brought into conformity.
Conditional supergame strategies can make continued conformity to the device conditional on the past conformity of the other player.
Thirdly, the tendency towards conformity and a possible rigidity in thinking lead us to predict a positive relationship between conscientiousness and dogmatism.
Despite such basic conformity, however, disagreement over particulars as well as over the importance of specific commitments is common.
According to the customar y definition, r ule-conformity is only defined for rule-address11.
How important the role of specifically legal coercion will be depends upon the strength of the other sources of conformity.
Thirdly, conformity to the law can confer many benefits on the members of a community that are unavailable to those who fail to cooperate.
Different criteria of rationality apply to these different cases of conformity.
Second, it would be strange to claim that, as a conceptual matter, legal officials must care about the motivational sources of conformity.
Entry of new users is driven by curiosity, temptation, conformity to peers' expectations, failure, and loss.
To some extent they reflect normative pressures furthering societal conformity.
They indoctrinated and baptised, and they expected conformity.
While communitarian societies often have strong conciliatory institutions and processes, these tend to emphasise social conformity rather than equality and justice.
The reduced integral dose and improved conformity is clearly highlighted throughout these studies, demonstrating the potential advantages available with particles when treating paediatric patients.
No attempt was made by the authors to evaluate the conformity of the plans.
Improvements in conformity without associated increased integral dose can be achieved even without intensity modulation techniques.
The spirit may become the letter, and the vision may be lost in a ritual of conformity.
Nonconformity and conformity are both, so to speak, in her repertoire.
A lack of religious conformity was not, therefore, an insurmountable barrier to grand jury service.
He further suggested that this conformity could be captured in a simple geometric model.
The agent must conform to the rule, and information gleaned from the rule must form at least part of the reason for such conformity.
Authoritative directives are not a way to silence only some deliberation-they put an end to all questions about whether conformity is advisable.
A rule guides conduct only if conformity to the rule is secured by the rule making a difference to the practical reasoning of an agent.
Which does not mean that the fact of general conformity is part of the reason why each participant accepts the plan. 17.
The sense of a manifesto includes a certain conformity to the academic critical perspective.
Their conformity to the law is not in doubt.
A paradigmatic case is evidence of bad character used to show conduct in conformity with the character trait (183-189, 227-228).
Not only did the new science of chemistry require conformity regarding the form of inquiry and outcome as the price of admission to the discipline.
Under this pressure they are likely to change towards conformity with the culture's norms.
Nevertheless, however devious, the stratagems chosen by a contender must at least bear the appearance of conformity with the implicit norms of the argumentative game.
Moreover, the truth that one becomes is the eternal truth, that is, it is the conformity of oneself to the objective divine imperative.
Worse yet, it "consistently attenuated individual agency," related individuals to society only through "roles," and enshrined "conformity" and "stability" as the highest values (p. 85).
Both acquisition and attrition data in this large cross-sectional study showed general conformity to the constraints of the hierarchy.
His attempt to dispel allegations of corporate conformity therefore contained an implicit defence of the white-collar employee's masculine status.
Thus, conformity to a majority sometimes represents a simple heuristic process, but can also represent an effortful and more reasoned cognitive process.
Having made the distinction between active and passive resistance, he stressed that any form of refusal constituted an act of resistance or at least non-conformity.
I would suggest three paths: ®rst, the nature and sources of opposition; second, the culture of power; third (and most important), the outlines of conformity.
Filling the syllable peak with [] maximizes both the sonority and the duration of the right half, in conformity with pinl vength.
The new experience is then processed in terms of its deviation from the stereotypical version, or conformity to it.
There may now indeed be more conformity than less.
Is it possible to write with originality if conformity is set?...
Will medicine continue to play an active role in trying to ensure conformity?
Out of the quarrels between words, and within them too, he achieves an extreme argument against extremism, an awakening of the reader to the energies of taken-for-granted conformities.
There is only one way for the upright man - conformity.
There was financial independence, implying conformity with market conditions.
The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic.
The strength of our belief in conformity, based on this" sense of justice" may act quite independently of considerations of immediate personal advantage.
With the former, conformity to objective fact is the standard of reliability.
There is, however, a way out: submission and conformity.
Balancing the needs for originality and conformity makes great demands on a teacher's competence.
The very fact that her past self accepted the law as the guide to conduct would act as the internal force rendering non-conformity infeasible.
Regulation, it is felt, promotes conformity; a successful research enterprise cultivates its outliers.
In particular, if conformity is selected for, then mechanisms are needed so that "mutations" of ideas can occur.
Article 36 provides that the third party must comply with any conditions, stipulated in the agreement" or established in conformity" with it.
Classic social psychology has concentrated on explaining the proximate questions of many human behaviors, for example, how do perceptions of authority affect obedience or conformity?
As we noted, the classic work on conformity, obedience, and bystander behavior was designed to identify important situational constraints on the basic effects.
Second, consider whether social influence research has emphasized mindless conformity to the will of the majority.
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