Week 4, Question 3

One concept from the reading that I found to be interesting was pressures for conformity in groups. When working in a group it can be hard to work with members who come have different assumptions about the work to be done or the group work process itself. When a group member refuses to go along with the majority opinion of the group and constantly raise issues that are irrelevant can cause a lot of discomfort for the group and sometimes even hostility between the members. Although having people go against the majority opinion is inconvenient, the one group member or the few group members who bring up the issues of the can move the group toward creative thinking and bring up new ideas that would have been looked over. Pressures to conformity tend to be very high in larger groups because group members want to get the task done, but if not conforming to the majority opinion of the group grants a better outcome and new ideas I would say don’t conform and voice your opinion.