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What Is the Conformity-Nonconformity Dichotomy?
Sándor Karikó
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2023.10.001
University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
This paper argues that the conformity-nonconformity dichotomy is a false dilemma. This study first critically reviews the basic philosophical, ethical, social psychological, and pedagogical literature related to the two concepts. It then outlines the way to overcome the phenomena of conformism and nonconformism together. The description of conformity and nonconformity as deprivation of freedom becomes stronger in 20th century philosophy and special literature from Heidegger through Fischer’s definition up to Cooley, and Crutchfield. Conformity is the sinking of the Self into the Anyone, the unprincipled alignment to the opinion of group mates, and nonconformity is the unprincipled resistance to it. But what is beyond conformity and nonconformity together as a group? There is a real community, in it the transformation of our pedagogical culture in a both useful and reasonable manner to allow the youth to accept the world by denying it and to deny the world by accepting it. The real community involves the virtue of goodness. Educate for goodness, because we possibly are the honest and humane man, who disregards the sinking of the self into the anyone and the self-contained rebellion.
conformity, nonconformity, goodness, virtue, education
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