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mooshana On October 17, 2010




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#1New Post! Oct 16, 2010 @ 16:49:58
How do norms and sanctions help us to understand a culture?
cisslybee2012 On January 30, 2013

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#2New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 01:25:48
@mooshana Said

How do norms and sanctions help us to understand a culture?



It don't.

The word culture simply causes confusion.

Nature effects everyone equally, and culture is simply a style of living, so regardless of anyone's style of living, they are still subject to natural law. Nature doesn't care about culture.

What this means is that if you want to learn something about human behavior, you learn that by observation. Child abuse for instance is caused by the same thing and produces the same effects for every human. It in no way matters what the culture of the abused child grown into an adult is. It is caused by one thing and produces the same effect to every person.

It is actually our root situation from where a culture develops.
vekta On November 18, 2013




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#3New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 01:35:44
Norms and sanctions help define the culture itself. But are not a definition in and over itself for any particular culture. Every culture has a different set of these norms and sanctions but some of them may overlap with others.

That whole "nature effects everyone equally" sounds pretty bias to me.

There can be many reasons why child abuse happens and the results of it are not always the same. Granted they are hardly ever pleasant but definitely not all the same. That's an entire course of study all by itself.
cisslybee2012 On January 30, 2013

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#4New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 01:53:35
@vekta Said

Norms and sanctions help define the culture itself. But are not a definition in and over itself for any particular culture. Every culture has a different set of these norms and sanctions but some of them may overlap with others.

That whole "nature effects everyone equally" sounds pretty bias to me.

There can be many reasons why child abuse happens and the results of it are not always the same. Granted they are hardly ever pleasant but definitely not all the same. That's an entire course of study all by itself.



Nature isn't biased and it's rules are equal to every living creature.

Child abuse comes from one thing and effects all humans the same.

Culture is formed from our root conditioning. Norms and sanctions are only aspects of the conditions.
vekta On November 18, 2013




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#5New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 06:49:43
@cisslybee2012 Said

Nature isn't biased and it's rules are equal to every living creature.

Child abuse comes from one thing and effects all humans the same.

Culture is formed from our root conditioning. Norms and sanctions are only aspects of the conditions.



I don't know what sociology course you took but that doesn't add up. "Root conditioning" can me a vast array of things in this context and it's not limited to culture. You could say the same thing about identity when presented like that.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#6New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 07:14:17
@cisslybee2012 Said

Nature isn't biased and it's rules are equal to every living creature.

Child abuse comes from one thing and effects all humans the same.

Culture is formed from our root conditioning. Norms and sanctions are only aspects of the conditions.



I think it's possible to have a father whom beats a child that wasn't beaten himself.

There might be other catalysts like psychological imperfections driving him to beat that child but those imperfections may simply be a brain that was born damaged or disabled with drug abuse and that drug abuse may not be the result of neglectful parenting but a decision the individual made once they were living on their own.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#7New Post! Nov 22, 2010 @ 07:29:54
To answer the OP.

For the few different cultures that I have come by, their norms and sanctions made for common sense so there really wasn't anything to understand.

For instance

Taking shoes off before entering a house and walking across someone's new rug.

or

Not sitting on someone's dinner table with your pants off (I discovered this one the hard way )
chisa96 On December 29, 2014
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Out in Nature, Wisconsin
#8New Post! Nov 23, 2010 @ 16:01:21
@mooshana Said

How do norms and sanctions help us to understand a culture?



That's a huge, vague question; the norms and sanctions provide us with most of our understanding of a culture. They tell us everything about what that society valued, what they believed, how they lived, anything. We can look at a society where people made offerings to gods and learn what they believed. We can look at what kind of offerings they made to determine what kind of gods they worshipped, which in turn tells us more about what kind of society they were. We can look at a society that marries at puberty and determine if they believed in childhood, or look at a society that ostracized whatever group of people to determine what value they placed on what people. We can look at their laws and determine which rights they valued as a people, or how they were enforced to determine how much control they valued. On and on and on.

The norms and sanctions of a culture tell us an enormous ammount about a culture. There are too many ways to count as to how/what they can tell us about a culture.
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