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. (
=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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