Examples Of Cultural Norms

Introduction
Different parts of the world have their own cultures, and in these cultures there are certain “cultural norms”. Many people decide they would like to go out of a familiar area to study what these “cultural norms” are, but the hardest cultural norms to identify, are the ones in one’s own culture. For this experiment, I decided to sit at a sports bar and see how different groups of people would react to being at a restaurant with multiple NFL games on different televisions. I predicted that there would be a lot of male groups that would be present and intently watching the games. I expected to see a lot of people drinking beers, rooting for teams, and talking about different teams’ statistics. I decided to study this because the south is known for adoring NFL and college football, and I wanted to see if these were the cultural norms for how we watch NFL football in a sports bar.
Methods
I went into downtown Clemson on Sunday, October 25, and sat down in the sports bar, Tiger Town Tavern. From 6:12 to 7:39 pm I watched how twenty-three people interacted with each other, while several different NFL games were shown. I recorded notes on some notebook paper,
This cultural norm can disprove the stereotype that Americans mainly go to a bar to watch a football game. A future study that can be done is to see if the population of the United States goes to sports bars to watch football. Currently the culturally norm that people do not go to sports bars to watch football, can only represent the southern part of the United States. This is because the observations were only taken from a sports bar in Clemson, South Carolina, which is part of the south. If the cultural norm were to be generalized, people in sports bars from around the nation would have to be observed, and that could be a great follow up