Culture, which is the language, beliefs, values, norms, and behaviors, is around us everyday, all the time. To understand culture, social facts are necessary to know. Social facts are patterns of behavior that characterize a social group, which includes values, norms, and sanctions. In the movie, 12 Angry Men, the jury as a group is an example of a culture in which social facts can be described.
The values of the jurors in 12 Angry Men seem to be along the same lines. Most of the men value that the way they dress at work must be presentable. Their idea of what is desirable in life is to be successful. The group’s values differ when it comes to the way they treat their elders, though.
An obvious norm of the jury is that murder is not acceptable; it disobeys the expectations of behaviors that reflect their values. These men have a few norms that they share, but also have norms that are different, due to their differences in social facts. They all think kids now are worse than when......
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