Comparitive Critique of Doris Lessing's article "Group Minds" and Solomon Asch's experiment.

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Social influences shape every person's practices, judgments, and beliefs. (Asch 306) In "Opinions and Social Pressure", Solomon Asch examines how individuals tend to conform to a group or majority. He does this by explaining the results of his experiment that he devised to observe to what extent conformity occurs. In her essay titled "Group Minds", Doris Lessing claims that as a society we have enough knowledge about conformity to do something about it, yet we choose …

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…on to something. With some instruction in schools, today's youth may grow up to be more individualistic than the generation before them. Works Cited: Asch, Solomon E. "Opinions and Social Pressure." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 9th ed. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. 306-312. Lessing, Doris. "Group Minds." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7th ed. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2000. 333-335.