{"id":12484,"date":"2021-07-31T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:27:09","slug":"social-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/social-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Social_Norms\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Social Norms<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_for_Sociology_Optional_paper\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>(Relevant for Sociology Optional paper)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/social-norms\/#Social_Norms\" title=\"Social Norms\">Social Norms<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/social-norms\/#Relevant_for_Sociology_Optional_paper\" title=\"(Relevant for Sociology Optional paper)\">(Relevant for Sociology Optional paper)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26064 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37.png\" alt=\"social norms by Vikash Ranjan sir at Triumph IAS, UPSC Sociology Optional \" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37.png 1080w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-37-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Social norms grow out of social value and both serve to differentiate human social behavior from that of other species. The significance of learning in behavior varies from species to species and is closely linked to processes of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Norms are the means through which values are expressed in behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Norms generally are the rules and regulations that groups live by. Or perhaps because the words, rules and regulations, call to mind some kind of formal listing, we might refer to norms as the standards of behavior of a group. For while some of the appropriate standards of behavior in most societies are written down, many of them are not that formal. Many are learned, informally, in interaction with other people and are passed &#8220;that way from generation to generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The term &#8220;norms&#8221; covers an exceedingly wide range of behaviour. So that the whole range of that behaviour may be included. Sociologists have offered the following definition. Social norms are rules developed by a group of people that specify how people must, should, may, should not, and must not behave in various\u00a0situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Some norms are defined by individual and societies as crucial to the society. For example, all members of the group are required to wear clothing and to bury their dead. Such &#8220;musts&#8221; are often labeled &#8220;mores&#8221;, a term coined by the American sociologist William Graham Sumner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Many social norms are concerned with &#8220;should &#8220;;<\/strong> that is, there is some pressure on the individual to conform but there is some leeway permitted also. The &#8216;should behaviors&#8217; are what Sumner called &#8220;folkways&#8221;; that is, conventional ways of doing things that are not defined as crucial to the survival of either the individual or the society. <strong>The &#8216;should behaviors&#8217; in our own society include the prescriptions that people&#8217;s clothes should be clean, and that death should be recognized with public funerals.<\/strong> A complete list of the should\u00a0behaviors\u00a0in a complex society would be virtually without end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Social norms cover almost every conceivable situation, and they vary from standards where almost complete conformity is demanded to those where there is great freedom of choice. Norms also vary in the kinds of sanctions that are attached to violation of the norms. Since norms derive from values, and since complex societies have multiple and conflicting value systems, it follows that norms frequently are in conflict also.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Taking the illustration of American sex norms, two proscriptive norms prohibit premarital intercourse and extramarital intercourse. But many boys also have been taught that sex is good and that they should seek to &#8220;score&#8221; with girls whenever possible. Somewhat similarly, girls have been taught that promiscuous intercourse before marriage is bad; but they have also been taught that sex is acceptable within true love relationships. Members of both sexes, then, find themselves faced with conflicting demands for participation in sex and for abstinence from it. They also discover that there are sanctions associated with either course of action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Normative conflict is also deeply involved in social change.<\/strong> As statistical norms come to differ too blatantly from existing prescriptive norms, new prescriptive norms give sanction to formerly prohibited behaviour and even extend it. Recent changes in the sex norms of teenage and young adult groups provide examples. The change is more apparent in communal living groups where sometimes there is an explicit ideology of sexual freedom and the assumption that sexual activities will be shared with all members of the group. 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