what are social factors and how do they affect you ?

Answer 1

We typically have an unconscious awareness of social factors until we are exposed to someone from another culture. Social factors determine how we behave in social or employment settings. In the United States, different areas have different social factors. The Bible Belt has unforgiving standards concerning unmarried couples or same sex couples. However, it seems that everyone in the area smokes, drinks, and/or experiments with drugs. It is shocking for a person from the Bible Belt to travel to a different area – say California. You can see pretty much anything in California, and some of it is quite shocking to a Bible Belter. The Bible Belter may take a superior attitude towards California – oh we never see things like this in the South! On the other hand, when that same Bible Belter lights a cigarette on a street corner, he is met with snobbish stares of disgust, despite the fumes from the 6 lanes of traffic.

Social factors impact all of our lives, whether we realize it or not. The best way to determine whether or not social factors have an effect on your life is to answer this simple question. What things will I do at home, but not in public – work, play, social functions? I smoke and drink at home, but never in public. I wear jeans and shorts with flip flops around the house, but dresses and heels when I go to the grocery store. I have voracious appetite and , thankfully, high metabolism. I eat like a race horse at home, but like a dainty bird in public – always leaving at least 1/4th of my food uneaten. Why? That is what society demands of women in my area.

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