Editing Society (section)

=== Norms and roles ===
[[Social norm]]s are shared standards of [[Acceptance|acceptable]] behavior by groups.<ref name="lapinski & rimal">{{cite journal |last1=Lapinski |first1=Maria Knight |last2=Rimal |first2=Rajiv N. |date=May 2005 |title=An Explication of Social Norms |journal=Communication Theory |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=127–147 |doi=10.1093/ct/15.2.127 |issn=1050-3293 |lccn=91660236 |oclc=49374452}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Finnemore |first=Martha |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1rv61rh |title=National Interests in International Society |date=1996 |publisher=Cornell University Press |pages=22–24, 26–27 |isbn=978-0-8014-8323-3 |jstor=10.7591/j.ctt1rv61rh |lccn=96013991 |oclc=34473682 |access-date=22 December 2023 |archive-date=1 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601221422/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1rv61rh |url-status=live }}</ref> Social norms, which can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into [[wiktionary:rule|rules]] and laws,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pristl |first1=Ann-Catrin |last2=Kilian |first2=Sven |last3=Mann |first3=Andreas |date=8 November 2020 |title=When does a social norm catch the worm? Disentangling social normative influences on sustainable consumption behaviour |journal=Journal of Consumer Behaviour |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=635–654 |doi=10.1002/cb.1890 |doi-access=free |issn=1472-0817 |lccn=2005206515 |oclc=49883766 |s2cid=228807152 |s2cid-access=free |url=https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/123456789/13036/1/cb_1890.pdf |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-date=29 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429040049/https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/123456789/13036/1/cb_1890.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> are powerful drivers of human behavior.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Legro |first=Jeffrey W. |author-link=Jeffrey W. Legro|date=Winter 1997 |title=Which Norms Matter? Revisiting the "Failure" of Internationalism |journal=International Organization |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=31–63 |doi=10.1162/002081897550294 |issn=0020-8183 |jstor=2703951 |lccn=49001752 |s2cid=154368865}}</ref>

[[Social roles]] are norms, [[Duty|duties]], and patterns of behavior that relate to an individual's social status.{{Sfn|Conerly|Holmes|Tamang|2021|p=111}}  In functionalist thought, individuals form the structure of society by occupying social roles.<ref name=":4" />  According to symbolic interactionism, individuals use symbols to navigate and communicate roles.{{Sfn|Conerly|Holmes|Tamang|2021|p=112}} [[Erving Goffman]] used the metaphor of a theater to develop the [[Dramaturgy (sociology)|dramaturgical lens]], which argues that roles provide scripts that govern social interactions.{{Sfn|Conerly|Holmes|Tamang|2021|p=112}}