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Differentiate between conformity, compliance and obedience.

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Ans.     Conformity, compliance and obedience—all three have a common factor: they indicate the influence of others on an individual’s behaviour, but all the three are significantly different.

Obedience is the most direct form of social influence in which one person simply orders one or more others to perform some action.

Compliance is less direct than obedience. It is a form of social influence involving direct request from one person to another.

Conformity is the most indirect form because the individuals change their behaviours or attitude in order to adhere to existing social norms.