Social Norms In Funeral Services

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Social norms can vary from culture to culture, but the definition remains the same, which is the rules and regulations that a group of people live by or the standards of behavior of a group of people. The social norms created are generally informal rules based on an idea of how people should, should not, may, may not, must, must not act in public situations. This puts pressure on some people to conform to these behaviors, however, some social norms have a grey area where one has a freedom of choice on whether to conform or not. This can be observed in funeral services because there is a general consensus to wear black as a sign of mourning, but nowadays there is more leeway on what you can wear such as the deceased’s favorite color while still