psychology. peer pressure (not about the book in preview)
Peer pressure have been a long standing theory. Other terms are social pressure, Tabula rasa, interactionist theory, etcetera, which ideas are about the effects of an individual's interaction with their environments.
The question is, how much can you blame the environment you live in for your behaviours? Are your behaviours justified by such explanations? Should your behaviours be let alone or not? What would be the moral basis for what to change and whatnot? How immune should we be to bad habits?
I'm living in a place where my style, ideas, and ideologies can be considered as unorthodox or unconventional. It often gives rise to knocking, asking me to change and follow their apparently thorough step-by-step plans. Should I not be holding onto my beliefs? Should I give in, without weighing the consequences or after weighing them? Or should I hold unto my beliefs just as much as they do on theirs? Aside from that active attempts from others inviting me to change, for better or for worse, there also are passive ones, like when seeing what they do, could stagger a moral compass.
I also believe that "strength over style" which promotes following through, and that style alone isn't enough to predict or determine an outcome, as can be seen in heavy differences in styles of Capablanca and Alekhine, and Petrosian and Tal.
(edit update) The affected areas aren't limited to the behaviours, but also includes beliefs, opinions on matters, and how they perceive stuff.
