Individual Essays

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 …

This analysis gets it source material from a project initiated by a British newspaper, Guardian Weekly. This paper encouraged its readership to contact American voters in Clark County, Ohio and Americans responded in writing, “Dear Limey assholes.” In evaluating these American comments, it appeared that twenty represented individualistic points of …

Hugh Willmotts article, “Strength is ignorance; slavery is freedom: Managing culture in modern organizations”, is a harsh critique of corporate culturisms’ totalitarian attempt of ‘controlling and winning the hearts and minds of their employees, in order to secure unusual efforts.'(1993 ) The article, which was published in the Journal of …

In society today it is very hard to be ones own individual self. Peopled tend to see other people as either individualists or conformists. If a person doesn’t fall in with the “in” crowd then you are considered to be “weird” or “un-cool”. Ralph Waldo Emerson made this apparent in …

Some of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century wrote about a theme of the individual. Two that come to mind when writing about the individual are Henry David Thoreau who wrote “Civil Disobedience” and Walt Whitman who wrote “One’s-Self I Sing.” Thoreau was known for being an individualist, …

I was reading about win-win conflict in the class textbook and think that the topic was very well stated however, I felt that in my 19 years in the Air Force and my 12 years of managerial leadership skills, there are more to the win-win approach than the book mentions. …

Every society consists of a group of individuals. Lawyers, garbage workers, fickle teenagers, and even infants all interact and produce a diverse, successful society. Each member of that society contributes in his or her own distinct way. But when individualism is repressed, humanity within the society is lost. The importance …

Conformity can be defined as an action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws. Thus, we are all conformists in a sense. So I pose this question to you: Is it possible to be an individual whilst thinking independently and still conform? The answer? No. …

Careful, observant, attentive, and partial to the security offered by solitude, the loon selects some lonely location on the borders of the lake far from the existence of men. Thoreau, in Walden, pursues the loon because it represents what Thoreau is himself searching for””the ability to be at home in …

Strategic issues and problems: The following report will describe and analyze the case of a private hotel management company called “Rosewood Hotels and Resorts”. Rosewood hotels have 12 distinctive hotels worldwide with a strong brand image that makes each property unique. The dilemma found in this case is whether to …