Actual society is mainly conformist and has a root in people imitating the dominant behaviors as well as the forces of the system that are modeling them.
In actual society, conformism is turning into a mass behavior and social tolerance to deviant dissident ideas or behaviors.
Dissidence behaviors or groups today is used to by the power to aggregate a majority and control their destinies using outside "escape-goats".
For the conformist society is not people in the interaction that exchange influence and ideas, he sees society as laws, rules or institutions that everybody should conform and tend to follow "benevolent" dictators.
The conformist forces other people to be compliant with the rules he already knows.
Change is the worst enemy of the conformist and feels all deviant behavior as a threat.
The anti-conformist as an independent autonomous and critical person and normally is beyond innovation a creativity.
It seems that a very repressive education with rigid norms helps the growth of the conformist character and a dialoguing family can be the seed for and anti-conformist.
Dictatorship promotes mass behavior making people to conform with the Power point of view.
People should read the book "The Conformist" from Alberto Moravia that helped me and him to understand how fascistic power builds a conformist.
The most difficult movie to see and understand the mass psychology of fascism was the "120 days of Sodom" by Pasolini.
Wilhelm Reich wrote an interesting book called "mass psychology of fascism" that should be brought to light again because it was a prediction of today's sign of the Times.