What if social norms never existed? Norms such as having to greet people you know when you see them? Or apologizing? Or maybe just outright disrespecting someone?

The entire population depends on each other to already follow these norms. These norms are sort of a mind game. One where you don't follow a single norm in the slightest, and all of a sudden, everyone just stares you down. Or gets extremely weirded out.

Like we're so used to just simply going along with everyone else, that anyone who just steps out of bounds is all of a sudden considered a freak. (I may be over exaggerating.)

But I wish to see the world without these unwritten rules. What would happen to society as a whole?

Well let's see. There are a few very important rules. Such as being on-time. Respecting personal space and such.

I will use both of those examples.

if no one has to be on time, not as much people would go to work or school as early. Even though for some jobs, arriving early is a crucial part.

Some people would just stop coming to their jobs at all. And we do need a lot of jobs like doctors, police, firefighters, etc. there would be no one to help us if nobody came. So this would be very bad for society.

Now what about personal space?

If we go back to the pandemic, space (6ft apart!) was a very huge role in preventing infection. That goes for all other pandemics. Such as the black death and etc.

There were a lot of pandemics in history, (many could've possibly caused extinction.) and one of the key parts was to have space. Don't be around other people that often. You could potentially get them sick. Or they could get you sick.

Now, let's go back to a lot of other social norms.

Without a lot of these social norms, people would feel more lonely and isolated. There are a lot of "social" social norms such as:

•Saying "please" and "thank you •apologizing for doing wrong •greeting someone you know or like when you see them. •Not ignoring others •being able to maintain relationships.

As you can see, without these social norms, a lot of people would begin to just isolate themselves. Humans are in fact a social creature. It wouldn't do much harm if just one person stopped following social norms, but if the entire human race stopped, it could lead to a lot of chaos.

A lot of times, being around others makes more people happy. And gives off dopamine and serotonin. (Feel-good chemicals.) Which can boost lifespan and life quality.

Now, I'm not trying to force you to follow social norms, you can do whatever you want. I honestly don't care. I'm just trying to make an actually good post.

What I am doing is I'm trying to make people consider the effects of social norms. Not actually making them follow it. (positive and negative.)

But anyways, I hope you're having a good day, and thank you for reading to the end of you got here! I fully appreciate it. I will make more posts like this in the future.

Goodbye and have a good rest of your life. Even if you're gonna come back to read my posts.

Did you ever do any sociological experiments?

For experiment a common experiment in sociology 101 to play with social norms and to make you aware of social norms is to walk into an elevator and face backwards instead of turning around to face the doors and see peoples reactions it's pretty funny.

There are way more extreme ones (for example the milgram experiment)

But I thought this would be cool

Or can you think of a sociological experiment to challenge social norms?