Conformity is now viewed as normal rather than pathological

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. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1929

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the framing in my notes on moral panics as deviance — conformity reframed as healthy social glue.