set of rules based on socially or culturally shared beliefs of how an individula should behave to be accepted within that group
help sustain order within a culture and lead to the survival of individuals
norms may be explicit or implicit (unwritten rules that people from a culture recognize and follow from the time they are young -when individuals deviate from social or cultural norms they may be punished marginalized, stigmatized
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enculturation
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## refers to the process of becoming socialized into and maintaining the norms of our culture