Social Relationships in Middle and Late Adolescents

• Social roles are the part people play as members of a social group. With each social role, the behavior changes to fit the expectations both the person and others have of that role. In this case, an individual plays

  a different role in a day, for example, a daughter at home, a student in school, a friend to a neighbor, a guitarist to a band all at the same time.
• Each social role carries expected behaviors called norms. Social Norms are unwritten rules about how to behave. This provides an expected idea of how to behave in a particular social group or culture. In this case, a daughter is expected to honor, and respect her parents. The concept of norms provides a key to understanding social influence in general and conformity in particular. Social norms are the accepted standards of behavior of social groups.
• Norms provide order in society. It will be a chaotic society without social norms. Social roles provide an example of social influence in general and conformity in particular. Generally, People conform to the expectations of others and earn approval. Otherwise, it will be disapproval when we do not play our roles required of us.
• Human beings need norms to guide and direct their behavior, to provide order and predictability in social relationships, and to make

  sense of and understanding each other's actions. To end, there is significant pressure to conform to socialroles.