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Norms and Values. Chapter 3 Section 3. Norms. (DEF) Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior EX. School, Church, Work Folkways = Norms that lack moral significance Not considered vital to group welfare EX. . Norms.
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Norms and Values Chapter 3 Section 3
Norms • (DEF) Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior EX. School, Church, Work • Folkways = Norms that lack moral significance • Not considered vital to group welfare • EX.
Norms • Mores = Norms that have a moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of society. • Strong approval or disapproval in society • Ex. • Taboo = Rule of behavior, violation of which calls for strong punishment • EX. Bomb on an airplane
Norms • Law = Norm that is formally defined and enforces by officials • Silly Laws (Print out) • Page 86 • Mores Vs Laws • Mores emerge more slowly and unconsciously created • Laws are consciously created and enforced
How are norms enforced? • Sanctions = Rewards or Punishments used to encourage people to follow norms. • Informal Sanctions = Rewards or Punishments that can be applied by most members of a group • Formal Sanctions = Rewards or Punishments that are imposed by a person with special authority
Values • (DEF) Broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society. • Values have tremendous influence on human social behavior • They are so general that they can be involved in most aspects of life
6 Basic Values of the United States • Page 90 in Text • Writing Prompt • Which value does not fit anymore and why, which value would you replace it with and why?
Beliefs andMaterial and Non-Material Culture • Beliefs = Ideas about the nature of reality. • Beliefs are important because people base their behavior off what they believe regardless of how true of false they are
Material and Non-Materials Culture • Non-Material Culture = Ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people’s behavior. • EX. • Material Culture = Concrete tangible objects • EX. • Meanings are based on (NORMS, VALUES, AND BELIEFS).