Friday, July 23, 2010

Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

Social norms:

  • Are the behavioral expectations and cues within a society or group
  • Defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors
  • These rules may be explicit or implicit
  • Failure to follow the rules can result in severe punishments, including exclusion from the group.

(Retrieve from:http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/social_norms.htm)

Types of Social Norms

* MORES=are any given society's particular norms, virtues or values.

= Customary behavioral patterns which have taken on a moralistic values.

(Example: respect for authority, marriage, sex behavior prototype, etc…)

* LAWS=is a structure of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions. (Campbell, The Contribution of Legal Studies, 184)

=The most formal and important norms of society.

(Example: The freedom of the Press, etc…)

* FOLKWAYS= a philosophical and ethical generalizations as to societal benefit which are suggested by them, and inherent in them as they grow (W. G. Summer, Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals, 1907, p. 30.)

= Behavior blueprint of society which are organized and repetitive.

= There is no feeling of right and wrong attached to the individual.

(Example: The new sayings “Salad oh init pa”)

* RITUALS= is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community (Retrieve from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituals).

(Example: Ceremonies, Holidays, Religious activity, etc…)

Preferred by: G-one T. Paisones

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