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observation to be during a high school football game. I will be discussing my observations of the community that I watched including demographics, ages of those at the game, and their possible socioeconomic class. I will also be describing the folkways, customs and mores observed. This paper will also express the forces influencing fashion, the fashion forms reflected by the wearers, and the fundamental attitudes of dress that were observed by the people at the football game. Community Observation

population based on their race, sex, religion, beliefs or values. Through culture we establish acceptable norms; norms are society-based beliefs on how people should behave. A folkway is a norm that is considered to be everyday behavior. Folkways are more society approved than right versus wrong. Members of society that break a folkway do not often times have serious consequences; however, there are usually some less serious negative sanctions like eye rolling or vulgar communication. Internationalization

The purpose of race. Race and racism is always a sensitive subject to talk about in our modern-day society. It is something that is relatable to almost every single person in society. It affects some more than others. To understand the role that racism plays in our world we must first understand structural functionalism. In its simplest form, structural functionalism explains why society functions the way it does through social interaction. The view point of functionalism is that society is always

How Eskimo children socialized to take on their adult roles? There are many different ways the Eskimo children are raised to prepare them for their roles in the group for their adult lives. There are also many different factors of sociology that can be seen in their culture. Some of the more core traditions and cultural methods that can be seen with children is simply how they are raised, which is vastly different from Western life. Norms are rules and expectations by which society

Angola is the seventh largest country in the continent of Africa with much diversity in its culture throughout its areas. Angola is located in the south western part of Africa, along the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. With over 21 million people, Angola many norms and values that are not seen in the United States’ culture. Angola is diverse by the people who live in the country. If one asked someone of Angola who they are, they may say they are Angolan, but most of the people will say there are

Structural functionalism views society as a complex system and focuses on different contributions to social stability. Structural functionalism attempts to explain why society focuses the way it does by targeting relationships such as race, religion, law etc. Each member of society fulfills certain functions to meet the needs that contribute to society’s stability and survival known as norms. Race provides an important way of understanding various parts of the social process. When social institution

reactions to deviance through use of folkway and sanctions. This paper examines the experience I encountered while observing reactions to my norm breaking experiment of bathing in a tourist destination waterfall. Keywords: norms, folkway, deviance, subculture, sanctions NORM BREAKING OBSERVATION 3 Sunday 15 June 2014, traditionally associated with Father’s

How are they going to react emotionally? This affects the Criminal Justice system to be just and fair regarding their decision making based on rational behavior. Page 5 focus two different rational behavior that has the effect of society mores and folkways. Page 5 of the book gave the definition of mores, mores are behaviors that arouse intense feelings and are subject to extreme consequences. Mores are constructed on individual’s behaviors, appearances, and values in society. Mores reflect right and

efficiently maneuver around our Modern day America and establish their own society within ours.The Amish and the United States culture are vastly distinct but they both share similar values. Norms can be put into 4 different types such as Folkways, Mores, Taboos, and Laws. Folkways are defined as a way living while mores are basic rules to follow, taboos are a neglect of law and laws are a set of guidelines enforced by the Bishop and the Church. The Amish don’t rely heavily on the use of technology or electricity

called folkways, mores, taboo, and sometimes laws. These serve as guiding paths for which people attempt to follow. Each of these are sanctioned in different ways and are commonly expected to be followed. One important thing to remember is that many things are found to be based around a bell shape curve known as a normal distribution. There is the average but there are always people that deviate from the average. This is where we find these norms broken. The loosest norm is the folkway. Folkways