Main features of conformity and obedience. Conformity -There is no explicit requirement to act in anyway. -It is only normally peers or people that are equals

Three factors of conformity

1. A factor that may influence conformity is intimidation from fellow group members, they may threaten something might happen to you if you do not agree with them. So you will think it's easier to go with the group decision.

2. Or another reason that may influence conformity is that a whole group could be putting pressure on you, so you will just be pressured into doing what the rest of the group of people want and when you are out numbered your decision counts for less and the pressure of conformity makes you think I might has well go with the very much majority vote. 3. Also you may have to agree with the group because of the consequences that you may face of the group, you don't want to get physically beaten by anyone so you would do the task asked to do, which is major factor of conformity.

Three factors that influence obedience

1. The first factor that may influence obedience is when someone with authority and more power than you tells you what to do, you do it because they don't want to get done because if they don't do it they will be punished for not doing has they were asked of the person that has the job of telling them what to do.

2. Another factor of obedience is that you might be intimidated by the person with the authority because you might think if you say no bad things might happen to you. If you think that things could happen to you if you don't do as you are told, this will automatically trigger obedience, because the fear factor comes into your mind so you will be scared if you don't do what your peer tells you to do.

3. The third factor that may influence obedience is that the man who is getting told by is peer to do something may feel it's is duty to do what ever he is telling him and therefore that is a factor that could trigger obedience. If the mans thinks that he has to listen to people with more power at all times this will automatically trigger obedience.

Meaning of authority in relation to public services.

The definition of authority- the power to enforce laws.

All public service groups have leaders, so they are all kept disciplined and ready for any tasks they may be called up to do. Without a leader it would be Chaos because nobody would be putting them into any kind of order. If there's nobody enforcing the rules the rules are just on paper, but if there's a leader enforcing them you will be forced to obey the written rules.

The police have the police authority's order of 2001 which orders a code of conduct for the police, it came into force for England and Wales on 27th November 2001. Also the Lancashire fire brigade adopted a code of conduct from the 22nd April 2002. The military like to show there authority by choosing leaders to enforce there written rules. The consequences of breaking the fire brigade or the police code of conduct will result in you being disciplined like deduction of pay or even more serious consequences that you may be discharged all together.

Four types of Authority

. Authoritarian- this basically means if the person in authority wants something done in a certain way, it should be done in that way. Advice may be given but it wouldn't be a threatening way of asking someone to do a task. This is an effective way of getting a result but the leader may not get respect from who are carrying out the task, this will not motivate the people either.

2. Dictatorial- This is in a threatening way, e.g. If you don't do it this way I'll have you're house burnt down. This would be an arrogant way of giving orders and the leader would rule by intimidation and fear from the people asked to do the tasks.

3. Consultative- This type of authority would be much better to use so you would actually make friends with the group and stop them from hating you, the leader might share a problem with several members of a team either individually or in a group with a view to hearing ideas and suggestions. The leader would make suggestions in how to do something which may have been an idea of a group member, or influenced by a group member.

4. Participative (democratic) - This type of authority means the leader would include one or more employees in the decision making process, the leader would have final decision. This would not be a sign of weakness but a sign of strength which employees would respect and would prefer.

Positive and Negative effects of Blind obedience

Negative

Blind obedience has many negative effects. It can dehumanise people making them behave in awful ways, referring them to robots or machines. In suicide attacks, the first negative effect is the deaths and maiming of innocent people. Next there are the psychological effects on the grieving families and friends of victims.

In addition to these there are long term effects, which include fear and inconvenience that millions of people have to put up with because of the security risks and security measures that result in terrorism. There are also costs of war which are negative, in the war on terror $100 billion has been spent from America alone so far, this could have easily been spent on something else like saving lives through treatment.

Positive

There aren't much positive effects to blind obedience; there are definitely more negative effects. Many people that die in acts of blind obedience believe they will go to heaven or a better place than this world. The only positive effect of the holocaust is that it has inspired the world to try to make sure that such a crime never takes place again.

Four types of authority

On type of authority is dictatorship, which is powered by intimidation.