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What are social norms?

• Rules and standards within a society that influences the thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes of an individual.
• Understood rules for accepted and expected behaviors.

• A set of connected behaviors, attitudes, obligations, and rights of an individual's position in a social situation.

• A set of beliefs on how others should behave.

Match the type of norm to its definition

• Norms that are formalized into rules/law

• Taboos

• Behavior that is absolutely not accepted

• Folkway

• Norms that is generally followed

• Mores

What is the main purpose of norms in a society?

• To create a sense of competition

• To guide behavior and provide social control

• To shape material culture

• To encourage unhealthy behavior

What is the main difference between values and beliefs?

• Values are cultural standards, while beliefs are specific ideas about the world

• Values are individualistic, while beliefs are collectivistic

• Values are formalized rules, while beliefs are informal guidelines

• Values are material objects, while beliefs are non-material objects

What does deviance mean in sociology?

• Being popular

• Following Traditions

• Going against what is considered normal

• Being harmful

Match the type of sanctions to their definitions

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• Positive social response to conformity

• Positive Sanction

• (-) response to breaking law/rule/mores

• Negative Sanction

• negative social reaction to deviance

• Informal Sanction

• (-) reaction to breaking a folkway

• Formal Sanction

The learned norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language and symbols that are constantly communicated among people who share a common way of life.

• culture

• dominant culture

• folkways

• norms

The tendency to view one’s own cultural patterns as good and right to judge other culture patterns by those standards.

• ethnocentrism

• folkways

• culture

• cultural relativism

How to act in society and in specific situations

• Social Norms

• Values

• Expectations

• Beliefs

These are established expectations of society as to how a person is supposed to act depending on the requirements of the time, place and situation.

• mores

• social norms

• folkways

• laws