Norms are also classified according to their relative social importance. are informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture. they provide rules for conduct but are not considered to be essential to society’s survival.

Suppose that sociologists and cultural anthropologists are tying to measure the amount of child abuse for cross cultural comparison. they run into disagreement over whether spanking a child is abuse or discipline. what problem are they encountering in their research? a. reliability of the definition of abuse. b. validity of the definition of abuse. c. occam's razor about the definition of abuse. d. none of these.