Essays on Social Norms

Social norms are behavioral rules used to inform group members how to see a given situation, how to feel about it, and how to behave in it. They apply social influence on group members by prescribing which reactions are appropriate and which are not. It influences an individual’s cognition, feelings, and attitude. They also serve...

This chapter contains foreign and local literature related to Social Norms. The researchers used the descriptive method for it is particularly appropriate in the behavioral sciences. FOREIGN Social norms are the study of a human’s behavior. It started as an experiment on fisherman on the sea and fisherman on the lake and it goes to...

Social norms are a combination of written and unwritten rules. Typically, they are not something we are taught about outright. Some things like manners are taught at a young age but for the most part, we learn social norms through observing situations in our everyday lives. For example, when we are in unfamiliar settings, we...