Social Values Norms Snd Mores Flashcards

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Define social values

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Are rules shared by most people in a culture or the idea that they hold in a value. It’s more of a general guideline than a norm

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Example of social value

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Most people feel that the elderly should be respected and that seats should be given up for older people to sit in

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Define norms

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Are social expectations that guide behaviour and explain people’s behaviour and the way they act and why they act the way they do.
Norms keep in check deviant behaviour
Social expectation is expected behaviour but could vary form one culture to another

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Example of norms

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In the uk people wear dark somber colours for funerals but in china the colour of mourning is white
Showing how norms change from culture to culture

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Define mores

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These are morals or good ways of behaving. They’re norms that a culture would think of as too serious to break

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Example of mores

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Murder or sexual offences against children

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Example of 3 things that sodurhu changed their veiws on

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Smoking,
Homosexuality
Women right

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What do social values , norms and mores all have in common

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That they’ve all changed overtime resulting in changes to law and or policy

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