Text: 1) Describe a group's structural component involving norms.
Instructions: Reflect on a familiar group. This group could be your family, a group of friends, a group on TV or in movies, a group in a book, or a real-world group (like the plane crash group).
a) List the members of your group by first name.
b) From this group, provide an example of each of the following norms:
Descriptive
Consensual
Injunctive
Prescriptive
Proscriptive
Informal
Implicit
c) Are any of these norms relatively unique or unusual? Did anyone violate any norms and need censuring by the group? Explain your answers.
2) In the text, the author describes Sherif's experiment on the autokinetic effect as an example of the development of norms. Briefly describe this study and provide the results. What does this study suggest about norms with regards to social tuning?
3) Give some reasons why norms are so important.
4) How can norms impact your health?
5. Are any of these norms relatively unique or unusual? Did anyone violate any norms and need censuring by the group?