Sigh No More

Who Am I? A question that arose frequently during this semester. I am a senior at the University of West Georgia, 21 years old, a girlfriend, daughter, and an outgoing friend. These are the general descriptions I can say about myself. This semester I analyzed this question frequently to analyze my “inner self”. Analyzing my inner self was difficult for me because, I had difficulty expressing my emotions. To analyze my emotions, freedom, and inner self this essay will be autoethnographical.…

relate to the words within it, the previous passage states that that is only part of the whole picture, and is only a fraction of Ulrich’s intended purpose for the saying. This is not the only way Ulrich shows her purpose of her slogan, as she speaks more about the people that create meaning to…

A folkway is a custom of everyday life. Folkways are normal expectations on how we act. In contrast with mores, they are both social norms but are enforced differently. Folkways are not as strict as mores. Folkways are merely social expectations while mores are strict beliefs. Mores dictate what is right and wrong, while folkways dictate what is rude and proper behavior. Norms are like folkways in that they are both specific cultural expectations on how to behave. Each culture has their own…

“The laws do not betray what a people are but rather what seems to them foreign, strange, uncanny, outlandish. The laws refer to the exceptions to the morality of mores, and the severest penalties are provided for what accords with the mores of a neighboring people” (What Laws Betray, pg 109). Laws and codes do not make people but people make laws and codes that are especially set up to go against the things and ideas that they believe to be strange or weird and go against their reason. They…

of “right” behavior, so a norm violation would be something going against our culture’s believes. Every culture has their own values, folkways, mores and sanctions. Values are the standard by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly (Henslin, 2011). Folkways are norms that are not strictly enforced, however mores are strictly enforced because they are though essential to core values or the well-being of the group (Henslin, 2011). Sanctions are either…

sanction which is a positive reaction to following a norm while there is negative sanction which follows after one breaks a norm. There are different levels of norms in peoples live those that are Folkways where the norms are not strictly enforced, or mores which are norms that are strictly enforced due to their core…

things based on what was considered cool at the moment, I had very few friends. This attitude has allowed me to be an advocate for friends and family. As I age my economic status has started to improve and I have found myself adhering to authority more than opposing it. However, I am still very much in opposition to people being segregated under labels of "normal" and "abnormal" in the eyes of society. I think I have one foot in Kohlberg 's conventional level and the other foot in his…

Norm Violations: Violation and Observations When we witness someone violate a norm, we question their intent of doing so. Most of us believe that there are common/set guidelines, rules, and behaviors we should, and often times do, follow. The way we react to norm violations is subjective, it varies from person to person and can either be negative or positive. Through my own observations, and probably through many others, I noticed that people tend to react fairly similar. The feeling of having…

today. Norms are defined as being “expectations of ‘right’ behavior” (Henslin, 49). There are two types of norms: folkways and mores. Folkways are a type of norm that are not strongly implemented, meaning that to go against this type of norm is not as severe as going against a more. A more is a type of norm that is forcefully implemented. This is due to the fact that mores are essential to the values of different culture. Norm violations occur when a person thinks or behaves in an abnormal way,…

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…