Mcleod: A Social Analysis

Like a well-oiled machine social normality keep communities running smoothly. Social norms provide guidelines to follow. These guidelines help interactions with others run smoothly, and effectively so. It becomes easier to move through social life when the community generally follows the norms created by the collective of people. The community-driven normality’s will normally be simplistic in nature. This causes said norms to become subconscious overtime when becoming used to them. As Saul McLeod states “Social norms are unwritten rules about how to behave. We need them because they provide us with an expected idea of how to behave in a particular social group or culture” (McLeod 1). Eventually, people forget the norms they follow until they