What is the difference between norms and values? The core elements of culture are norms and values. Norms are expectations for behavior, and values are the ideas that justify those expectations. Norms...

What is the difference between norms and values? The core elements of culture are norms and values. Norms are expectations for behavior, and values are the ideas that justify those expectations. Norms are based on one’s status and establish one’s role in society. Norms and values are transmitted through socialization and vary by culture and by groups within a culture. They also change over time. Norms come in various stages of seriousness of transgression and consequences. Values are ethical ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad. They are shared by members of a society. Values and norms interact and change each other. Laws, which are formal norms, are expected to change values. Often, though, there are big gaps between values and actions, between “ideal” and “real” cultures.