Normative socio-cultural graded influences are events that affect almost all of the people born in a particular society and immersed in a particular culture. If a person is brought up with certain cultural values, it is expected that society and culture have an impact on the life of that individual.
Since such cultural factors affect a majority of the population they are called normative influences. Events that do not affect a majority of the population are called non normative influences.
Some examples of normative sociocultural graded influences:
- The events that occur in life due to society such as going to kindergarten, enrolling in school, graduating from university are examples of normative sociocultural graded influences.
- A person goes through various events such as celebrating birthdays, getting married, etc. because of cultural influences.
- A person’s race and ethnicity has an influence on the life of the person. The individual can face bias or prejudice due to his racial or ethnic background.
- A person’s social class is an example of sociocultural graded influence. The life of a middle class person will be very different from that of an extremely rich person.
Other kinds of graded influences:
- Normative history graded influences are the historical events that have an influence on a majority of population of that historical period.
- Normative age graded influences are the experiences which people have due to their age.
