Human beings are defined as ''social animals'' because in every aspects of life they live together, form a variety of groups and improve relationships with eachother. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction, society and its rules has a social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure, great part of them show conformity by changing their behaviours, ideas, decisions in expected way. According to X '' A person conforms if he or she chooses a course of action that a majority favors or that is socially acceptable.'' (X,152). Some kind of conformity is natural and socially healty but obeying all the norms, ideas, decisions, etc. without thinking or accepting is harmful for the society and its democratic norms.

In social life people conform numerous things in different ways because of different reasons. They show conformity to gain social

Conformity has lots of benefits within lots of harms. It is needed for the utility of the group. If members do not conform group norms, it will be difficult to maintain the utility and to make decisions in group so the group cannot reach its goals. For instance, a jury cannot make a decision without conformity of majority of members. XX claims that conformists have no minds of their own and they merely succumb to the will of some unnamed majority (XX,185). Therfore it is easy to commit crimes in groups because responsibility is shared. There is a tragic example in the near past: Nazis at Germany. How could great majority of German people accepted Hitler's ideas and supported him? This fault in history caused by social impact and pressure to conform. As we saw uncontroled and without thinking conformity can lead us to irreversible faults. In addition to these researchers found that people tend to make riskier decisions when they are in group than when they are alone. Popenoe explains risky shift

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