The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society

Social Psychology is a branch belonging to the sphere of Psychology, preliminarily studying humans’ behaviors in society. Conformity and obedience, two significant terminologies in social psychology, are frequently manifested in real-life situations, such as the case that emerged during COVID-19, which firmly illustrates the above phenomena, and currently, people experience these two situations, or phenomena, often. Starting from their definitions and experiments, this paper mainly studies the phenomena of these two situations, and this aims to investigate the causes of conformity and obedience. The methodology of this paper is literature review and theoretical analysis. This paper finds that such phenomena (obedience and social conformity) could be attributed to some reasons: culture impact, internet impact, pressure impact, education impact, and the existence of authority.