The documentary American Teen, released in the UK this Friday, is pretty typical in this respect: the film charts the fortunes of a collection of high-school students selected for their supposed conformity to standard-issue types (the jock, the nerd, the princess, et al), and its use of the word American in its title seems intended to suggest universality rather than cultural specificity.
The reason seems to be that Lewis (1936, in Lewis 1970, 286) didn't think that these factors make a hypothesis any more probable, in contrast, presumably, to conformity to standard criteria of induction.
Normality and conformity to standard social behavior brings a sense of security and belonging to these people, keep in mind most people lack self-confidence and are scared of individuality and possible rejections from their peers.
For the company to continue to function, it must do so in total conformity to ethical standards and to civil and kosher law.
This study was conducted in conformity to ethical standards comparable to those espoused in the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.
Some feminists argue that conformity to patriarchal standards perpetuates women's oppression by perpetuating stereotypes about them, which harms, rather than benefits, all women (e.g., Cudd 1988).
The installation of solar power plants as a subset of infrastructure facilities should have the conformity to the standards of land-use planning.
Peer review may be a boring system for ensuring conformity to arcane standards while protecting the privileged status of pampered intellectual elites.
This could have important implications in any domain where voluntary compliance matters — including relations between spouses, employers and employees, market transactions, and conformity to legal standards.
Besides it installs trust in both organizations and consumers in respect to service quality and conformity to respective standards.
