0 someone who behaves or thinks like everyone else, rather than being different --
1 behaving or thinking like everyone else, rather than being different: --
2 someone who behaves or thinks like the other people in a group and doesn't do anything unusual --
Rulers naturally have a desire for orderly and conformist societies, hence the positive evaluation of hard work and patriotism.
These arguments are to be found in the sermons of other avant-garde conformists.
There has been considerable debate among historical demographers about the extent to which non-migrant religious conformists are representative of the population as a whole.
Seized upon by conformist propagandists, the episode became the subject of several brutally anti-puritan tracts.
An electoral system which offered the electorate a real choice between candidates would serve to weaken the conformist attitude and encourage private initiatives.
This practice impedes personal initiatives and creates a conformist attitude.
Bowles stresses how conventions can generate and maintain cultural differences between groups, and that cultural processes other than conformist transmission can act in this manner.
Such an innovation is therefore selected for by conformist transmission.
