Discuss the significance of norms for a group.
1. Norms refer to the guidelines for people while interacting with other persons.
2. Norms are shared standards of desirable behaviour. They indicate how people have to bahave in a particular situation.
3. Norms are rules followed by people in different situations.
4. Norms vary from society to society, from group to group and from situation to situation.
5. What may be most desirable action in one society, may be considered disgraceful in another.
6. Norms are prescriptive as well as pros*** iptive, which means that norms prescribe or require us to behave in a certain way but at the same time prohibit people from doing certain activities.
7. How one has to behave in classroom (in a group of students and a teacher) in the presence of a teacher in a court in the presence of a Judge will be applicable to those who are present in that situation.
8. Some norms are more important to the members as compared to some other norms.
9. Norms also govern our emotions and perceptions. For example, people are supposed to feel sad and depressed while attending a funeral Members of all societies follow these norms automatically without questioning.
