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models conformity as the alignment or movement of an actor's conduct, expressed judgment or private belief toward a perceived group norm, while keeping descriptive similarity distinct from demonstrated social influence; this interpretation remains provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Episodes and patterns of alignment with perceived group norms", "Reference groups, actual norms and actors' perceptions of those norms", "Competing definitions of conformity as observable alignment or socially induced change", "Public agreement, private acceptance and differences between them", "Evidence for normative influence, informational influence and alternative explanations", "Persistence, consequences and options for independent judgment or dissent" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Technical conformity of products or processes to specifications", "Legal compliance and formal conformity assessment", "Obedience to direct authority except where it overlaps with group 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| weakens | reverses | varies by context | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes situational agreement from alignment that continues beyond the original audience or pressure." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate episode using an explicit definition of conformity and a stated evidence threshold.", "Map competing reference groups and identify which perceived norm the actor follows.", "Compare baseline, public and private judgments without treating missing private evidence as agreement.", "Evaluate rival explanations for alignment and identify observations that would distinguish them.", "Assess whether confidential input, independent assessment or protected dissent would improve the decision process.", "Track whether alignment persists when the audience, incentives or available information changes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establish which sense and definition of 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"Conformity cannot be interpreted without specifying whose conduct or expectations matter to the actor.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference-group-selection", "name": "Reference group selection", "description": "Identify relevant groups, membership relations and competing affiliations.", "findings": [ { "id": "whose-position-counts", "name": "Whose position counts", "description": "The relevant reference may be a local majority, valued subgroup or group the actor seeks to join.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which group's position does the actor attend to, and what evidence identifies that group as the reference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "whose-position-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Would the same act count as conformity to one relevant group and dissent from another?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "whose-position-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "perceived-and-observed-norms", "name": "Perceived and observed norms", "description": "Separate what the actor thinks the group does or approves from evidence about the group.", "findings": [ { "id": "norm-content-and-misperception", "name": "Norm content and misperception", "description": "Record the target conduct or judgment, its perceived prevalence or approval, and any discrepancy with observed group positions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the actor responding to what others usually do, what they approve, or both?", "kind": "definition", "id": "norm-content-and-misperception-q01" }, { "text": "How were perceived and actual group positions measured, including disagreement concealed by public responses?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "norm-content-and-misperception-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "influence-and-alternatives", "name": "Influence and alternatives", "description": "Assess why alignment occurs without assigning motives from behaviour alone.", "rationale": "The same outward agreement may reflect social acceptance concerns, reliance on others' information or causes unrelated to conformity.", "layers": [ { "id": "candidate-influence-processes", "name": "Candidate influence processes", "description": "Represent potentially overlapping explanations for the actor's response to the group.", "findings": [ { "id": "acceptance-information-and-identification", "name": "Acceptance, information and identification", "description": "Treat approval seeking, sanction avoidance, informational reliance and affiliation as hypotheses whose relevance must be established.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes concern about acceptance or sanctions from reliance on the group's judgment as information?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "acceptance-information-and-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does identification with the group explain additional alignment, and how would that explanation be tested?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "acceptance-information-and-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causal-discrimination", "name": "Causal discrimination", "description": "Compare social influence with 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"id": "public-private-relationship", "name": "Public-private relationship", "description": "Compare expressed positions, enacted behaviour and evidence about private judgment.", "findings": [ { "id": "outward-agreement-and-acceptance", "name": "Outward agreement and acceptance", "description": "Record public agreement independently of private acceptance, preserving unknowns where private judgment is unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which public statements or actions align with the group, and what separately supports a claim about private acceptance?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outward-agreement-and-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "Could audience visibility, confidentiality concerns or demand cues distort the reported private judgment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "outward-agreement-and-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation-and-baseline", "name": "Operationalisation and baseline", "description": "Specify how conformity is counted or scaled in this task.", "findings": [ { "id": "degree-of-movement", "name": "Degree of movement", "description": "Measure alignment using a declared baseline, reference position, response scale and observation window.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is conformity operationalised as a changed answer, reduced distance from the group, adoption frequency or another task-specific measure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "degree-of-movement-q01" }, { "text": "What threshold distinguishes meaningful movement from measurement noise or a response that already matched the group?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "degree-of-movement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-response", "name": "Persistence and response", "description": "Track how conformity changes and determine what responses are justified by the situation.", "rationale": "Assessing conformity requires understanding its durability and consequences without presuming that agreement is either beneficial or harmful.", "layers": [ { "id": "context-and-duration", "name": "Context and duration", "description": "Follow alignment across changes in audience, group composition and information.", "findings": [ { "id": "alignment-after-pressure-changes", "name": "Alignment after pressure changes", "description": "Record whether the actor maintains or revises the position when the original social conditions no longer apply.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does alignment persist after the audience, anticipated sanctions or group consensus changes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "alignment-after-pressure-changes-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up period and contexts are sufficient to assess persistence without assuming internalisation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "alignment-after-pressure-changes-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequences-and-independent-judgment", "name": "Consequences and independent judgment", "description": "Assess effects on decision quality, coordination and the actor's ability to disagree.", "findings": [ { "id": 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Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "political conformism", "normativity", "social proof", "normopathy", "Fighting Bull Genealogical book", "allonormativity", "cisnormativity", "ritualism", "arophobia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one conformity from another, and a conformity from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a conformity from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a conformity passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a conformity between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a conformity, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a conformity is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a conformity proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a conformity, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a conformity and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a conformity consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a conformity takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What conformity is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of conformity are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is conformity operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of conformity and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of conformity?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as conformity?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a conformity came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a conformity and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a conformity is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a conformity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a conformity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a conformity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }