Essay On Violating Social Norms
A norm in society is what people do automatically for society to function. Norms that sociologist have identified include folkways, mores, taboos and laws. For example, shaking someone’s hand in an official meeting or siting with a certain group of people for a whole year in college. In fact, for the purpose of this paper, I have decided to violate this folkway.
By violating the social norm of sitting with people that I know nothing about and just met them for the first time, I am violating the social norm called folkways folkway. Folkways are norms that society people do unconsciously and makes society function and makes people feel uncomfortable if it is disturbed. Folkway have a less serious negative sanction because it is just something people rarely do and it is not like a taboo that as soon as people do something like that they are shunned from society and it is really hard for them to get back but the norm I violated is a folklore and doesn’t give a lot of informal negative sanctions like taboo or laws this is …show more content…
All this sanctions are harsher than all other sanctions in America because of how they treat a person who goes over to sit with them or try’s to associate with them and how they see people can change how they act or what they do to that person. The informal negative sanctions they also do is the negative sanction of many things going on. The things that can happen if a negative sanction is received in Africa are scorn jeers and constant people talking behind your back saying things like that person doesn’t know what he is doing or saying that person needs help, constant negative insults thrown at a person whereas in America people just give u negative comments behind the persons back and cause them grief by distancing themselves from the person. Breaking the social norms in Africa usually comes with more dire consequences than that of
By violating the social norm of sitting with people that I know nothing about and just met them for the first time, I am violating the social norm called folkways folkway. Folkways are norms that society people do unconsciously and makes society function and makes people feel uncomfortable if it is disturbed. Folkway have a less serious negative sanction because it is just something people rarely do and it is not like a taboo that as soon as people do something like that they are shunned from society and it is really hard for them to get back but the norm I violated is a folklore and doesn’t give a lot of informal negative sanctions like taboo or laws this is …show more content…
All this sanctions are harsher than all other sanctions in America because of how they treat a person who goes over to sit with them or try’s to associate with them and how they see people can change how they act or what they do to that person. The informal negative sanctions they also do is the negative sanction of many things going on. The things that can happen if a negative sanction is received in Africa are scorn jeers and constant people talking behind your back saying things like that person doesn’t know what he is doing or saying that person needs help, constant negative insults thrown at a person whereas in America people just give u negative comments behind the persons back and cause them grief by distancing themselves from the person. Breaking the social norms in Africa usually comes with more dire consequences than that of