Specification

• Types of conformity: internalisation, identification and compliance.  Explanations for conformity: informational social influence and normative social influence, and variables affecting conformity including group size, unanimity and task difficulty as investigated by Asch.

• Conformity to social roles as investigated by Zimbardo.

• Explanations for obedience: agentic state and legitimacy of authority, and situational variables affecting obedience including proximity and location, as investigated by Milgram, and uniform. Dispositional explanation for obedience: the Authoritarian Personality.

• Explanations of resistance to social influence, including social support and locus of control.

• Minority influence including reference to consistency, commitment and flexibility.

• The role of social influence processes in social change.