Conformity is a normal, essential social function, not a personality weakness.

Evidence

Where modern social psychologists part company with Allport concerns his pathological view of conformity. Allport wrote about the conformist as weak, psychologically needy, deviant, or incomplete. Today, psychologists do not consider conformity unusual or deviant; instead, conformity is viewed as normal, acceptable, and essential to smooth functioning in society. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1929

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1929