Here, you can see that mores can be quite subjective sometimes (Graves, 2018).Ī Note from Chris: At Helpful Professor, we cite scholarly sources to ensure the information is accurate and meets expert consensus on the topic. Or, you might draw the line at excessive alcohol. If you think it’s okay to have one or two beers at the pub, then maybe not.
If you think it’s immoral to drink alcohol, you’d consider this to be a more. Drinking Alcoholĭepending on your society, culture, and probably also your religion, you might consider drinking alcohol to be a moral issue. For example, is it okay to tell a child a small lie, so they don’t get their feelings hurt? 3. You could think about times when there are grey areas, however. So, telling the truth is also something that you should probably do so that you are trusted and respected in your community – in other words, it’s a social more (Mitchell, 2017). Our parents also teach us not to lie to one another … or to them! If you are known to lie a lot, people around you might not respect what you have to say. some cultures might consider some property to be more shared property than private property (such as if your cousin comes over and takes food out of your fridge – would you consider that stealing or acceptable in your family unit?). This rule is necessary to ensure that we all can live our lives without someone else taking anything we have from us (Mitchell, 2017).īut, if you think about it, different cultures might draw the line at different points. It’s one of the basic mores that you find in nearly all cultures. We’re all told from a young age not to steal from others. Chris Drew (PhD), a university professor who teaches the sociology of education.
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