Teenagers Social Norms

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Everyone keeps asking are social norms a real thing. They’re all wondering if you get with a group of friends and their doing something if you’ll join in. Actually yes you can. A trend takes only a matter of time for teens to make a social norms. Teens are actually the easiest to get connected into social norms. They have so many things that go on in there life. Sometimes they don’t even realise it’s happening. Social norms can just happen as soon as it starts. A lot of people don’t realise that people that get a social norm is by pushing people into that. For every one a social norm can be normal for someone, but the person that they talk to might not be a normal thing for them. In the article Six Stages of “Human Growth and Development” …show more content…
Teens don’t even think before they do most the time. Most the time teens just go for it and think about it after. Then they’re like i shouldn’t of done that. That’s why it’s so much easier for older people because they’ve learned what they’re doing with there life. They’ve learned the process of thinking before doing. For example in the column from (45-65) “After a longer period of mature introspection and values clarification, we are prepared to fully comprehend and embrace the purpose of our life.” They’ve figured out how to do all of that. Some people say teens are just as capable as anyone else to think before doing, but for teens it seems so much harder to them. The facts just prove they struggle trying to figure it out. It’s pretty hard to get people to change when they’re use to a specific thing. That’s why everyone feels like it would be hard for teens to change. For some reason teens can change easily as long as other people are doing it, or it becomes something big online. They rated teens as level one. That stands for pre-adult. Another reason it so easy to change for teens is “they are most concerned with where their next meal will be”. Teenagers don’t really worry about there future that’s why it’s so easy for them to get caught in a social

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