The Social Norm - Learning and Understanding Social Skills

Learning and Understanding Social Skills

“The Social Norm” is a video/visual introduction to the concept that there are rules, or "social norms" for social behavior, in any social group. And that, although there are rules, there are many factors that can change the rules.

If you've ever tried to instruct someone with social challenges on "simple" social rules, you find that there's nothing simple about them, and there seems to be an exception to every rule.

So where do we start? Let's start by defining the term, "Social Norm."

I created the character (Social) Norm, to be an authority on social norms and named him thus. I intend to bring him back in future videos about social norms.

Special thanks to Michelle Garcia Winner for her creation of social mapping, and the behavior terms "Expected" and "Unexpected."