The Norms

This week in sociology, we talked about social norms. Social norms are different social construction of reality. These differences are important and need to be acknowledge because it may offend people with a different culture. This unit reminds me of an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. Spongebob accidentally went to another city called Rock Bottom. In this city, everyone looked weird and he wasn't familiar with the place. At first he was freaked out because he couldn't seem to communicate, as they had to make a noise after each sentence or else they wouldn't understand. It shows that the social norm in their society is to do the sound. This teaches me to be more sensitive and consider what you say when you're around people who grew up in a different place because people may misunderstood and get offended.