Animal Farm Conformity

7. Conformity

Definition: Conformity is behavior and appearances that follow and maintain the standards of a group; also the acceptance of cultural goals and the pursuit of those goals through means defined as legitimate.

Example 1: In the book Animal Farm, the pig clarified that the cows milk planned to be sustenance for calves, is being utilized to feed their enemies.

Example 2: The eggs that the hens lay are not utilized for the animals, rather it's being accustomed to bring financial prosperity to humans.

Example 3: Likewise rather than the moms having the capacity to keep their young, they are sold very quickly.

*The animals have adjusted to the methods for the people, to the detriment of their personal satisfaction.*

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Example 3: Lastly, one of the cows softened up the entryway of the store-shed with her horn and every one of the animals started to help themselves from the canisters.

I found this in Chapter 2. “One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins.”

9. Social Control

Definition: Social control is methods used to teach, persuade, or force a group’s members, and even non members, to comply with and not deviate from its norms and expectations.

Example 1: The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.

Example 2: The animals came up with the Seven Commandments to maintain order within their society is another example.

Example 3: A third example of Social Control is when the pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others

This was found in Chapter 1. “"And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig.”

11. Paradigm

Definition: Paradigm is an established theory that guides thinking and research in sociology. Three main theoretical paradigms are structural functionalism, social conflict, and symbolic interactionism.

Example 1: Paradigm was shown throughout the book Animal Farm. One of the examples that I read was the animals saw no reason to disbelieve Old Major, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the Rebellion.

Example 2: Another example that I found while reading Animal Farm was that these three had elaborated Old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they the name of Animalism.

Example 3: Lastly, I read that it was given out that the animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and also had their females in