Discussion of culture norms and how if affects a person's behavior an important topic. A culture as the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Before this chapter, I didn't realize the variations across cultures. I also didn't consider the different norms of a culture. The norm being an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior and how a culture should respect another's differences. Without thinking about it, every aspect of our culture shapes its people.
When considering nature vs. nurture, culture diversity is where the nurture comes in to play. Everyone has different experiences, which is determined largely by the differences of cultures. Different child rearing practices affect that culture's people. The reading pointed out that Asian cultures place more emphasis on school and hard work than does North American culture. It also said that this might help explain why Japanese and Taiwanese children get higher scores on mathematic achievement tests. Throughout high school and college I was always curious why it seemed that Asians did better on math test. The text helped shed a little bit of light on this question I have had.
I have taken courses previously dealing with world cultures, but they really didn't go into depth how the culture and its norms affect people as early as birth. The in class lectures as well as the reading explained the human variations across cultures. They also explained how over time differing norms, or expectations, guide behavior. Cultures differ in their norms for such things as personal space, expressiveness, and pace of life. .
Norm is an expected way of behavior that develops out of a group's values. Therefore I chose to sing in two different places in the public. I am a Chinese and I do not really appreciate when someone, who is not well known or who does not "expected" to be a "super star", perform in the public. So my...
Socialisation: Socialisation is a process by which people learn the accepted ways of behaving in the society and the roles, norms, values and culture of the society and a sense of self.it mainly takes place during childhood, but continues throughout life via various agencies like education, mass media etc. ... Society can be seen as a system of moral norms in which individuals respond to the rewards and punishments. ... Individuals take on aspects of society's culture, which makes their behavior largely predictable and contributes to the maintenance of social order. The creation and main...
INTRODUCTION Norms, values and beliefs vary widely across cultures. All cultures are driven by guidelines that direct or conduct particular situations. ... Belief incorporates a culture's values. ... External forces contribute greatly in molding a society's culture. ... To do that they have to understand the diverse cultures of their passengers while at the same time promoting our national culture. ...
And is negatively valued by people in the "Norm."" ... o Cultural Transmission- The theory believes that the process by which one-generation passes culture to the next. ... There is a problem to the theory; it devalues the norms of society so it makes no norms. ... People are naturally deviate from the norms. ... So that is why people may be deviant to use as Americans but in there culture they aren't. ...
Also, such norms are more rigorously held to in certain situations than in others. ... Since, depending upon your personality, violating minor social norms can be fun, and since I was required to do it, I decided to violate the norm of personal space and see what came of it. America is an individualistic culture and as a result, personal space is so revered, it is almost a religion in itself. ... Not all cultures are the same. ... Social norms are cultural products, and as such we should always be aware of the local norms of polite behavior when we are traveling to a foreign, strange place. ...
All human societies develop expectations for behavior that become part of the shared culture. ... Our culture is ruled by these social norms. ... Social norms keep hostility levels down and keep things flowing smoothly. ... Social norms are even more powerful because people feel bound to obey these norms because negative consequences could occur from not acting in accordance with them. Violating norms can make you stand out and can cause discomfort. ...
Media is the prime reflection of society and culture. Music videos and advertisements are two main sources that portray their society and their target audience with how they should view and set standards of what they should consider to be the norm. ... " Christina Aguilera's video "Stronger" is about people who don't fit in to the norms of society. ... In retrospect, media is the reflection of the society and culture that we live in. ...
The Argentine culture is not a culture only based on the region, it is a mix of cultures especially, because of the constant immigration of the Eastern people in the past. ... In our society values are very different so norms can't reach to all those norms and in those cases problems are generated. Many have their personal interests and this involve different norms. In other things norms and values in our society are admirable as the religious affairs. The norm can be no discrimination between religions and the values of our society comply with this norm. ...
This image, however, changed in the period of 1952 to 1966 when America experienced a shift in the social norms and civil unrest. Social norms between the suburban families and middle class families changed as well as stereotypes and the mass media and popular culture. ... Mass media and popular culture of the times was a very good indicator of the problems and current events of the times. ... This however was challenged through popular culture at the times. ... This created a shift in social norms and opened the gate for new possibilities....
