%% #💡 #🟢 %% # conformity Value whose defining goals are restraint of actions, inclinations, and impulses likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations or norms. Derive from the requirement that individuals avoid anything that might disrupt and undermine smooth interaction and group functioning. They emphasize self-restraint in everyday interaction. Specific value items include: obedient, self-discipline, politeness, honoring parents and elders, loyal, responsible. Conformity and [[tradition]] are motivationally close in that they both subordinate the self to socially imposed expectations. Conformity subordinates to people one interacts with frequently and demands responsiveness to current, possibly changing expectations. Conformity and [[benevolence]] both promote cooperative and supportive social relations, but conformity does so in order to avoid negative outcomes for self. ([note on p.6](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/3SWNKS8Q?page=6)) ## Sources [[Overview Schwartz Theory - Schwartz 2012]] ## Tags [[Schwartz theory of basic values]] --- <small>*Created on:* 2021-11-11</small> <small>*Last modified on:* 2022-11-05</small>