Conduct Norms
Definition
The rules a group holds for how its members ought to behave, learned through socialisation into that group and enforced by informal group sanction rather than by formal law.
Related terms
- Acculturation
- The process by which a person or group absorbs the norms of a new or dominant culture, often incompletely and unevenly across...
- Normative Conflict
- A broader term for the state in which two or more sets of behavioural rules apply to the same population and disagree...
- Primary Culture Conflict
- Conflict between the conduct norms of two distinct, established cultures that come into direct contact through migration, colonisation, or a shift in...
- Secondary Culture Conflict
- Conflict that develops inside a single culture as it differentiates internally, so that competing normative codes emerge without any external group being...
- Thorsten Sellin
- The Swedish-American criminologist who set out culture conflict theory in Culture Conflict and Crime (1938), building on his earlier work on the...
Explained in these topics
- Culture Conflict Theory: Sellin's Primary and Secondary Conflict
- Culture Conflict Theory (Sellin)Informal but binding group expectations about acceptable behaviour, learned through immersion and enforced through approval, shame, or exclusion rather than by...