We all grew up with certain ‘rules’ about how life works. These unwritten guidelines shape our behavior, relationships, and self-image without us even noticing. As adults, we have the chance to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travel has a way of exposing assumptions people didn’t realize they were carrying. For many Americans, encountering everyday norms ...

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...

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 ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

The federal and state governments have been warned that Nigeria’s efforts to promote primary healthcare (PHC) remain at a delicate crossroads, caught between the country’s cultural norms on self-care ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, many businesses are struggling to breathe. In all of the uncertainty, one thing is clear: Yesterday’s “business as usual” will never return. Radically ...