Conformity is known as a change in behavior caused by another person or a group. I think that the greatest period when a person in circumvent to conformity is during their adolescent years. This simple act of going to school can hold many opportunities for conformity to take place. For example in America where public schools which do not have a dress code conformity can take place in the type of cloths you wear to school. It the social norm of the school is to dress in a certain way most adolescence would dress in that particular way to avoid being ostracized. Another example of conformity can be seen to authority is school, where by if asked to do something by a teacher the student would mostly likely conform to the teacher, this could be due to the normative influence and authority that is held by the teacher. Peer pressure and bulling also way in which conformity is present in the lives of adolescences. Peer pressure in a group of adolescence often results in compliance whereby they agree to conform to the expectation of other individual in the group.
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Hey archie! It seems to me that it is indeed common for teens to experience conformity through peer pressure. Though peer pressure has been commonly associated with teens picking up bad habits such as smoking or truancy, I know of friends whom experienced positive peer pressure, thus making them feel motivated in performing consistent work in their studies.
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