Social Norms In Dillard's Essay 'Seeing'

There will come a day in our society in which everyone will live in harmony and no one will judge someone by their behavior or by what or who they like. This will happen when people put aside the physical aspects if that person and actually get to know them before they make their judgment. In the essay by Butler her thesis is that society changes over time and we all need to change with it and start to accept people for who they are and all just get along. She also goes into basically how we will soon become distant from the ones we used to know and love. Also how one of the things that makes conformity in today’s world it the corrective system. Which forces the social norms that we have in society. Throughout the course of many years
One of these essays it the “ Art of the contact zone” by Pratt. Which she basically describes the contact zone as the point where two cultures clash together at one time and place. Some other things that exist in today's world is how people judge one another. They don't pay attention to what is on the inside but what they first see. Which relates to the essay “Seeing” by Dillard. In which she describes the fact that many people do not look at things the same. Some notice all of the small details but some do not. In the paper “College Student Alcohol Use and Abuse: Social Norms, Health Beliefs, and Selected Socio-Demographic Variables as Explanatory Factors” by Denisha A. Champion, Ph.D., Todd F. Lewis, Ph.D., and Jane E. Myers, Ph.D. they talk about how some social norms in college are slowly changing. One of the major ones stated in this article is alcohol and how that stereotype has declined throughout the years. As in how not as many kids are following that stereotype anymore and are being safe and good throughout their college years. This ties into everything else for the fact that all of the essays and papers talk about society and it’s