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Domain III: Communication
Published in Nicole M. Augustine, Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide, 2023
Social Norms Marketing is used to promote and shed light on the healthy behavior practices of the majority. Media portrayals of substance use would have youth believing that ‘everyone' drinks, smokes pot, or vapes. The perception is very far from reality. In fact, over the decades since prevention strategies began we have seen a decline in the number of youth reporting underage use (Levy et al., 2020). Check out the latest research (Figure 5.2) showing the upward trend of youth not using substances from 1976 to 2018 (Levy et al., 2020).
Introduction
Published in Jamie Ferrill, Police, Organization, and Wellbeing, 2023
The process of (re)constructing police culture can be usefully understood through Chan’s (1997) cognitive, phenomenological, and relational framework. The cognitive perspective draws attention to shared organizational knowledge. It suggests that cultures develop social norms, rules, and ideologies, and determines how daily practices are carried out. The phenomenological perspective asserts that members of police organizations are active in the construction of their working reality. This draws attention to underlying social and political aspects along with implicit and explicit power relations when considering wellbeing. Finally, the relational perspective finds that formal structures and the relations between them in police organizations are assessed as influencers of culture. Here, tensions between social and political contexts are produced. This three-part framework is not only a guiding principle but also developed throughout the text. This helps brings about an understanding of how police develop social norms, rules, and ideologies, and how they construct their working reality and the socio-political aspects that underlie their construction of reality. The text draws attention to the complex social relations that underlie culture.
Sociological Understandings of Death and Dying
Published in Gerry R. Cox, Neil Thompson, Death and Dying, 2020
Writing from a psychological perspective, Freud argued that the structure of a crystal is apparent where and when it is broken (Van Haute & Geyskens, 2012). The same analogy can be applied to society – that is, we become aware of social norms and unwritten rules when we violate them, when we do something that is deemed “abnormal” or “deviant.” Going from strength to strength after a major loss has the potential to run counter to a range of social norms, such as how we are supposed to function after a loss.
Demand for alcohol use among students at higher education institutions: an integrative literature review
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2023
Miriam Mmamphamo Moagi, Annatjie Elizabeth van der Wath
The interpersonal level comprises the external influences of family and friends. Social norms, social identity and role definition form and operate at this level and can influence lifestyle and health-care choices (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 2015). Family play an important role in the formation of young people’s attitudes toward alcohol, and it is suggested that peers may influence each other in a similar way (Kirmani & Suman, 2015). Ding et al. (2018) indicated that greater peer pressure and lower self-efficacy for alcohol self-regulation contributed directly to students’ drinking frequency. Peer behavior is internalized in a person’s overall evaluations of alcohol use, therefore social network interventions have the potential to substantially reduce students’ alcohol use (Reid & Carey, 2018).
Sharing pro-marijuana messaging on social media: The moderating role of legislation
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Adrienne F. Muldrow, Jinho Joo, Yoon-Joo Lee, Cindy Price Schultz
Perceived social norms influence personal behaviors.35 Social norms theory states that one’s behavior can be driven by perceptions of social norms, whether accurate or inaccurate.17 These perceptions, known as social norms, can arise when students begin to think that certain behaviors are normative.36 These social norms arise from seeing someone engaged in the behavior (i.e., being intoxicated) or from different forms of media broadcasting “typical” happenings on a college campus.37 The two most common types of social norms, namely descriptive norms (perception of actual behavior) and injunctive norms (perception of others’ approval of that behavior), assist college students’ in their decision-making.38 College students’ behavior can follow misperceptions about the typical college student using marijuana at rates higher than themselves or misperceptions about the typical college student approving of marijuana use.1,39 Accordingly, perceived descriptive and injunctive social norms have been one of the strongest indicators of marijuana use behavior.40,41
Young people’s views on religious fundamentalism, ethno-nationalism and SRHR: an SRHM South Asia virtual roundtable discussion
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Sana Qais Contractor, Pushpa Joshi, Ali Rizvi, Adiba Saher, Nabakumar Dutta, Kavya Menon, Souvik Pyne
The relationship between religion, fundamentalism and sexual and reproductive rights is deep and long-standing. Institutionalised religions across the board have sought to control the sexuality of all genders and, when imbued with political power, exercised a great deal of influence on the lives of individuals through the use of legal and social control.1 The sexual and reproductive health of young people has been especially deeply contested. It is well established that young people’s sexual and reproductive health is influenced by social norms that define how people should behave based on their gender. These norms are not universal but are influenced by context, and they are dynamic in that they change across time and place. As Pulweritz et al posit, social norms exist within and are shaped by a social system at different socio-ecological levels – individual, community, resources and institutions.2 Broader social and political contexts, through social norms, exert power over the decisions that young people are able to make and the freedoms available to them.