Social Norms In High Schools

As a student, I am often troubled by the rigid routines of the school day, despite the fact that I am actually a very habitual person. The constant ringing of bells, lectures, bellwork, classwork, homework, each a daily practice throughout the school year. Although all of these components promote conformity, which will ultimately support the balance of school and societal norms, they also tend to threaten each student’s own unique characteristics. This then poses the question; to what degree should schools encourage conformity versus individuality? Certainly, a level of conformity is required to achieve a balanced society however, the overall structure of the school day and class, including the methods used to teach and mandatory classes,

I attend Pattonville High School, which is a public school that has many different norms for many different types of people. One norm is that all the kids with good grades will rush to class, for no reason, they just do it. A different norm is that all the people that have girlfriends always walk them to class, even if they get a tardy, you never let them walk alone. A different norm involves the surroundings of the school. There is a Seven-Eleven less than half a mile away from the school, and whenever you have a game, or meet you walk up their buy food, or if you didn’t bring any money you go up and try to smooch off of people. Another norm is that during your sports’ season you sit with everyone on your team, even if its only you as a freshmen

The social norm that I wanted to perform an experiment on, was a social norm of only wearing CSS or affiliated programs apparel at practice. This norm is easy to follow, but I thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if I wore an opposing team’s apparel. As a transfer soccer player from St. Catherine University, I decided that would be a perfect opposing team to represent. So, at practice, I decided to have all of my CSS practice stuff on and have a St. Kate’s sweatshirt on instead of our typical warmup. The school colors are completely different, so I really stood out with my dark purple and yellow sweatshirt.

The following paper will discuss the groups or cliques present in environment such as high school. It will also include and a discussion on if the differential association theory can provide and explanation of the behaviors of the high school age group.

Everyday, American individuals conform to social norms by observing or interacting with one another. These unspoken rules guide how individuals are expected to behave in society. A culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behavior that outlines a person’s way of life, and by conforming to societal norms, humans are creating their own culture. However, when norms are violated, one may respond with any sort of emotions including anger, confusion, or being afraid. Without norms, the world would be chaotic. People would break laws making this world unsafe. For this assignment, I was told to observe people's reaction by breaking a folkway, a type of social norm that results in small consequences.

With the rules and policies set in place today it makes it hard for students to learn, as the strict standards and repetitive nature of a daily high school life causes students to look forward to a day off, and dreading a day that increases their knowledge that might benefit them in their chosen career in the future. These rules and policies are what makes students feel like they are a victim of conformity as for five days a week for nine months we are expected to follow the same routine without any changes which is without a doubt make students lose interest in their education.

Social norms are rules of conduct that materialize based on a society’s values. Social norms are not always the same since different societies have different values. Without social norms there would be chaos; social norms make society’s behavior predictable, for the most part. Most of our society likes predictability; it helps to make us feel safe. Each person is taught social norms through contact with other human beings. The family is one of the first avenues by which children begin to form their understanding of social norms. Parents are constantly teaching their children what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. I will never forget the time that my son asked me, very loudly as a woman walked by us with super short hair and

I felt extremely uncomfortable and like a complete intruder when I violated this norm and I honestly wouldn’t want anyone to do it to me. Personally, I do demand others to respect and be mindful of my personal space. In order to have an effective interaction with other people, it is very important that we understand spatial behavior and spatial needs. Respecting other’s territories is such a basic social norm but sometimes people forget to practice it which creates problems with other people and chaos within societies. Spatial norms should be learned since infancy to such extent that they should become unconscious and almost habitual. Social norms create stability, standardized behaviors, and a shared understanding of what’s expected from

As Ch. 5 focuses on the social structures and interactions of people and society, I am going to relate it to a Stanford research, which is a Professional or Academic Journal, that explores why cliques thrive in some high schools more than others. I am going to also use the Stanford research to explore the internationalist view of how teens are portrayed in contemporary American society. The journal explains that educators may have been able to affect teen cliquishness through changes in school organization. Schools that offer student more choice were more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish and segregated by race, age, gender and social status. The reason for this is because High Schools offer students more choice through, more elective courses, more ways to complete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, more freedom to select seats in a classroom, this creates cliques seen

groups of people. When a seating chart isn’t in place during a class, these social groups tend to conjugate together in certain spots around the room, making a segregated class of cliques. I wondered, what would happen if I chose to leave my usual group and randomly sit in the middle of a different group’s area and act as nothing had changed?

Deviance is a title that insinuates the violation of social norms in society. This can be described as adjacent to criminal and improper behaviour imposed by the people who break the social norms of a society. Thus, becoming subjective to a label of 'deviant'. Deviants often have punishment bestowed upon them by authoritive figures such as the enforcers of law. There are many universal types of deviance throughout societys over the world such as alcoholism, addiction, mental illness and homosexuality. All of these may be a result of biological and social constructionist theories of deviance, this essay will define the opposing differences and the relation of the two in this essay. Both hold contributing factors to the construction of

Social norms are behaviors that are expected within our society. When we see these norms out in public we might not acknowledge them because we’re expected to know how to act in different places or situations. When these norms are violated people may be confused of the situation and can become confused, annoyed, or mad. Social norms are a part of our everyday lives since before we were born there were norms laid out for us already, from the way we’re supposed to behave, dress, and even talk. Norms have high value in our society “they are the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad beautiful or ugly”. There’re what we expect in our society from our behavior at school, in public, or school. Each place has a certain norm we as a society should know when and how to follow.

Social media is the make or break of a teen’s social status; many adults will not understand the importance. It is a must to have a social media because a teen needs validation to get by their need of society’s acceptance. They need to post about where they go because it makes their life look superior compared to others. They need to make certain their relationship with their significant other is promoted to assert dominance over any competition or threat in their way. They also need the occasional “selfie” to validate how attractive they are to their peers. The Snapchat story, a social media app feature that allows you to post a picture or video with digital effects for twenty four hours, is the best of the best. The Snapchat story helps confirm how hilarious a teen is and how skilled a teen is at placing an emoticon in the shape of male genitalia on picture of an off-guard person with their mouth open. It would be in a teen’s favor to post things like that on their Snapchat story. Although social media seems fabulous, there is a morbid side, the side in which you can get made fun of. A teenager has to be extremely careful when fooling around on campus and off campus because that there is a social media accounts on Twitter such as “@SoCalFession” where anonymous people post derogatory remarks or secrets about students and teachers from Southern California high schools, and which posts are proven to be rumors. Even proven false, the posts

In my small hometown of Caribou, Maine, there are several factors that play into the structure of the community as a whole; one being the kids who are attending our schools. But, how do these kids get involved into our community? School obviously provides an outlet for socialization and integration of education as well as sports and various other activities, however; what drives these kids to participate in them?

Social norms are very common among human beings. The meaning of social norms is the rule that tell us how we should behave in specific situations. Social norms help us better understand how and why human behave the way they do. Conformity is one form of social norm. In conformity, human tend to adjust the way they behave or think in fit into a group. Conformity, is probably one of the biggest form of social norm. No one wants to feel left out, so they conform to certain standards to fit in. With obedience, we have been raised to think and respect those who have higher authority. This why, those who are perceived to have higher authority will comply to what they are told to do.