Conformity means behavioral uniformity in addition to shared beliefs. Such predictability helps groups function, but it can be hard on the individual. Where did these conforming tendencies come from?

I mean, it's like with the economy, you know, we have a mixed capitalism. We've adopted some ideas from socialism, but just haven't gone as far as command and control, for example.

Non-conformity means something went wrong in a product, service, or process. Non-conformities are detected through audits, inspections, document adequacy reviews, checks or tests, customer or ...

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