The importance of stopping at stop signs may significantly be a matter of life and death. In order for a community to be safe, people follow the social norms and abide by these street signs. A stop sign I came across, among many others located all throughout the country, is the one near Uplands Drive. Additionally, the reason I selected this particular sign is to stress and prove its importance as well as its social and cultural existence. As someone who has lived in a country with uncommon street signs, I found this to be a crucial cultural norm in order for a society to be progressive.
As a result of the global and industrial revolution, traffic, and stop signs to be more specific, was created due to the invention of automated vehicles …show more content…
Not only could one receive a legal sanction but it might also lead to negative verbal or nonverbal sanctions. Therefore, we depend on social norms to tell us how to act or behave in a certain way, such as stopping at stop signs, in order to avoid the consequences. “Sociologist Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) studied people’s customs in order to find out how tacit and often unconscious societal rules and norms not only influenced behavior but enabled the social order to exist (Weber 2011). Like the symbolic interactionists, he believed that members of a society together create a social order.”
Another interesting point is how these signs are distributed. In Northern America, you may find stop signs around every corner, and get a ticket or pay a fine by not obeying it. Whereas in places such as Egypt, where there are rare stop signs, breaking road rules aren’t as strictly reprimanded. Therefore, the social norm differs. Additionally, the languages incorporated in this particular stop sign indicates how its culture contains bilingualism. As mentioned by William Little (2011) “Language is a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted” (p.
As a result of the global and industrial revolution, traffic, and stop signs to be more specific, was created due to the invention of automated vehicles …show more content…
Not only could one receive a legal sanction but it might also lead to negative verbal or nonverbal sanctions. Therefore, we depend on social norms to tell us how to act or behave in a certain way, such as stopping at stop signs, in order to avoid the consequences. “Sociologist Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) studied people’s customs in order to find out how tacit and often unconscious societal rules and norms not only influenced behavior but enabled the social order to exist (Weber 2011). Like the symbolic interactionists, he believed that members of a society together create a social order.”
Another interesting point is how these signs are distributed. In Northern America, you may find stop signs around every corner, and get a ticket or pay a fine by not obeying it. Whereas in places such as Egypt, where there are rare stop signs, breaking road rules aren’t as strictly reprimanded. Therefore, the social norm differs. Additionally, the languages incorporated in this particular stop sign indicates how its culture contains bilingualism. As mentioned by William Little (2011) “Language is a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted” (p.