From the day we are born to the day we pass is our personal timeline in which we are expected to do things. We are expected to walk, talk, play, socialize, learn, work, and retire, get married, and ...

As our unwritten social constructs change and evolve over time, as a 2024 study suggests, there's certainly expectations and social norms that no longer serve our collective well-being, but rather, ...

Society's boundaries of what is considered acceptable are fluid, influenced by cultural shifts, media portrayals, and evolving values. Behaviors once deemed impolite, unhealthy, or even harmful can ...

Have you ever taken a look at how society functions and thought, Yeahhh, that should not be a thing? Recently, a Redditor asked those in the Reddit community to share which social norm needs to change ...

There is no litter on the streets of Tokyo—and also no litter baskets. That combination tells us much about how this great city maintains its quality of life. Here, public order is preserved not ...

This post is part 2 of a two-part series. I recently spoke with my friend and author, Rhaina Cohen, about platonic life partners. In her book, The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life With ...

Singing in a restaurant is one example of breaking a social norm. Source: picjumbo / Pexels There’s a scene from Disney’s "The Santa Clause 2" that lives rent-free in my head. Scott Calvin, played by ...

America is undeniably the greatest nation to have ever existed in the history of mankind. We call this “American exceptionalism,” a proud tenet of American culture which historically has been revered ...

America has now heard two cases against parents who enabled their son to carry out a mass shooting. Jennifer and James Crumbley purchased a firearm for their son through an illegal straw purchase.