الطفل بين التقليد و الامتثال

Abstract EN

The aim of this research paper is to investigate the phenomenon of social conformity by identifying the orienting research that may reach results allowing for its understanding and explanation, despite its variance owing to many considerations, mainly cultural, therefore requiring the necessity of experimental testing for this phenomenon in the local environment, since it was applied to the children category, as being the least advantaged category in the studies of compliance, and owing to the fact that it is often criticized for the reason that, what the child engage in is in reality imitation, which is considered a parallel phenomenon that has its importance in shaping the child's behavior starting from surrounding models in his social environment comprising different types of groups and individuals.

And in order to arrive at a decisive answer to decide about the interdependence ( between imitation and conformity) or confirm compliance, it was necessary that we adopt the two concepts with a kind of analysis within the framework of the specificities of each concept as determined in the light of previous studies and the application of Asch's experimental model, as well as Bandura's social learning theory which is considered the theory that investigated imitation more.