Implementing Group Norms

This paper will address what social norms entail and what role they play within a society.

Team norms are a set of rules or guidelines that a team establishes to shape the interaction of team members with each other and with employees who are external to the team. Team norms can be developed during an early team meeting. More norms can be added as the team sees the need for additional guidelines.

Social norms have been shaping the way people interact throughout history. While norms could be seen as something that confides behavior, it also maintains social order allowing certain behaviors to be accepted or to be evaded. The way people respond to a situation depends on the person’s normative beliefs or what they believe society should act.

As we know, norms are social expectations that guide our behavior. In this paper, I will discuss norm violations that I’ve observed, and my own personal norm violation that I committed. I will describe what happened, what was done, and the reactions of the people around when these norms begat. I will also discuss the significance of folkways, mores, values, and sanctions to my observations.

Group norms are shared beliefs and attitudes among a certain set of people. These beliefs include both personal and situational factors. Those who agree with and participate in these norms are welcomed into the group. According to Carron and Eys (2012) group norms are reinforced behaviors, beliefs, and moral standards that are expected among members in their group. These shared beliefs within the group lead to group norms. Group norms can be studied in a variety of settings from schools to athletic teams. Bruner et al. (in press), studied the perceptions of group norms in youth athletes during practice, competition, and social settings. This report also studied the personal and situational factors’ effects on a youth athlete’s perception of group norms and conformity to a group.

ocial mores, or norms, refer to the socially/morally constructed rules/laws prescribing a people’s conduct. Essentially, social norms promote social influence and conformity by prescribing accepted standards of behavior in a given social group. Such groups may range from friendships, works groups, colleagues to nations.

Norming: In this stage, a sense of group cohesion develops. Members accept the team and develop norms for resolving conflicts, making decisions and completing

In every aspect of society there are social norms. We live in a world that some norms are considered normal and some are considered not so normal. These social norms are important so that people can act a certain way in society. Doing a norm violation project for this class has been a fun project. Norms are expectations of a behavior that are considered to be the right way to act. What is considered right behavior? Some things I do in my life can be considered a norm or a norm violation. Norm violations are stepping away from what our society considers to be a norm. There are a few different types of norms. Norms that are not enforced are called folkways. Folkways can be considered people who are half naked in a gay parade. Norms that are strictly enforced because they are a core value of a group are mores. Mores are when a woman would be exposing her breast in the gay parade.

When the team moves into the “norming” stage, they are beginning to work together as a team. The team will start to establish ground rules, clarify who does what, and what will be expected to be done. This stage is characterized by growing sense of “togetherness”

Teams can create norms through discussions among team members. Regularly, during the forming phase of team development, members will have brainstorming about standards of behavior for the members, therefore, teams can identify and develop norms that support their collaboration and productivity.

Norming. With conflicts resolved, and the rules of the team established, and the scope of the teams’ responsibilities and tasks clear and agreed-upon, the team can get to the business at hand. Team members are once again comfortable with each other as well as his/her skills, knowledge, and abilities. These feelings

Theorists have agreed, within their own disciplines, on either specific definitions of or even what distinguishes a rule from a social norm (Gibbs, 1965; Shimanoff, 1980). In general, norms differ from rules in that the latter are more formalized through codification and are prescriptive and controllable. Rules are punishable through external sanctions applies by other members of the group or designated authority outside of the social aggregate (Gibbs, 1965, 1972). A norm is an abstract idea of a behavior held in the mind of the group member that sets certain limits for acceptable behavior (Johnson,

I feel our discussion was semi-successful and our group worked pretty well together. We followed the standard agenda most of the time, but I feel we did some things that did not follow it. We rushed through the first two steps, task clarification and problem definition, in the standard agenda model most likely because we were all nervous from filming ourselves and could not think of how to start it. We then spent most of the time discussing our research in the fact finding step. We ended after the solution criteria step; however, we did talk about possible solutions throughout the discussion especially in the solution criteria step. I feel that the reason we took so long on the fact finding step and did not get farther was mainly due to

Social norms and deviant behaviors are important to society. These standards of behaviors are principles for society’s members to follow and to find their own thoughts and beliefs. Social norms can vary due to societies all over the world and the cultures that lie within them. The norms are known as the principles or rules that are expected by others in various types of social situations. These situations can vary from walking downtown to going to a formal dance.

The change with the group norms is very difficult to work with. There is a saying “In the union there is strength”. I looked up the definition of Group Norms and it says: “Unspoken and often unwritten set of informal rules that govern individual behaviors in a group”. By what the text book says and this definition it is hard but not impossible to change people the ways of thinking. The process is going to be slow and hard to change the mines of the individual since there is a group that is like the force of a magnet trying to separate them but it bulls you every time you try to separate them. You will have person that will resist the change and you may have someone who will not change. These are the ones you need to identify and separate those