Cultural norms

As a person who is not from the United States, I found the norm that is taken for granted in the United States but that is not normal for some countries. The norm is that people keep right while walking. I guess this is because driving on the right side is provided by a low in the United States. Thus, the deviant behavior that I did is to break the norm of walking the right side. In order to break this norm, I observed my feelings and others’ reactions in two situations of when I and someone…

interacting with life based out of desperation and necessity. While I was in secondary school I was not interested in following the crowd. If I chose to have friends, they were usually the ones that were considered strange and were outcasts of the social norm. I spent all my time on the sidelines watching the popular people bow to peer pressure and felt disgusted by them. If I felt that someone was being treated unfairly I would jump to their defense immediately. My actions resulted in my being…

completing all the household chores because it was the social norm in the time period! The first half go this excerpt is to accentuate the attitude of women preparing food…

Humans are extremely social creatures and it is a human trait to desire to be liked by others. This all goes back to hunter gatherer societies were if you were not a part of a group you would most likely die; only the humans that stayed together and did the same things as the rest of the group lived on. Going against the pack could get you lost and even killed. This happens nowadays but instead of it being purely on a survival motive, we do it to simply ‘fit in’. Peer pressure has a strong…

Pinker believes that people have so much trouble communicating because people are very sensitive and words can carry a lot of unnoticed weight behind them. Words are not the only thing that can be perceived in a variety of ways, however, as I have noticed that tone can be completely misread as well. Misinterpreted tone can turn a casual, sarcastic comment into a rude jab, or an honest compliment into an inappropriate come-on. Conversations are like playing Jenga, one wrong move and the entire…

confined to certain expectation set by male standards. This can be seen in Emily Dickinson poem, “They shut me up in Prose,” where she introduces us to a world of inequality and uncertainty. Inequality in how it silences opposing views of the social norm, the voiceless stays voiceless. Uncertainty in how if things will ever change. Which is expressed in her other poem “I dwell in Possibility,” where the present and future seem to be blurred and time seems to not exist all together. These two…

constantly judge the people around us and we automatically pick out the what we perceive as not normal. This constant judging influences our behavior since we are lead to behave in certain ways based on the situations just to fit the norms.These norms that are not strictly enforced are referred to as folkways. sees it as the “Right thing to do simply because the gesture of standing shows that we respect the people fighting for our nation and love the country were as sitting shows we don 't…

In society we follow Norms which are rules that people of a society follow. Norms can change depending on different cultures , or what part of the world you live in. There are numbers of norms that we follow, some norms we tend to pick up on, so Norms we don’t. I have chosen a very specific norm to and break it and see how people around me will react. The norm I broke was facing the right was when on an elevator. The reason why I choose this Norm was that I felt it was one that can be easily be…

Social obligation is societal pressure which often changes the way a person may act. All people go through a time in their lives where they must decide based on the way society would want them to, rather than on what they believe. Written by Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carry portrays a situation in which social obligation roams through the mind of O’Brien. He is stuck in a position in which societal pressure inclines him to participate in a war in which he did not believe. While hiding out…

in a community should revolve around being the best person you can be to better the community as a whole. Etzioni spoke of the morality we have as citizens. That citizens in any community are lacking the morality and social norms that we once had. There are no social norms that every single person follows…