conformity
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Whatever one thinks of Reform—and it’s hard to know what to think of it—such an outcome would suggest that Scotland’s era of slumbrous conformity may soon come to an end.
The director of research for office-furnishings maker Herman Miller designed the workstation to combat corporate monotony and conformity, even though his creation became associated with it.
Today it’s synonymous with corporate monotony and conformity, but it actually started life as the antithesis of what it came to represent.
The family argued that their rights, which requires the State providing education to "respect the right of parents to ensure such education is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions", had been contravened.
From BBC
The book was followed by William H. Whyte’s “The Organization Man,” published in 1956, which explored how large corporations bred conformity in managers and, as a result, lost their ability to be innovative.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
