Text 01 - Social Practices: Types and Practices of Language.
The social practices
They are habits and ways of doing things that are established in a society and are practiced in the same way
by all its inhabitants. These practices differ from one culture to another and, therefore, behaving in the same
way in two different societies can lead to misunderstandings.
Because they are only implicit agreements about the way of doing things, no social practice is correct or
incorrect. The adaptation of the social practices will have to do with the place and the moment in which they
are carried out; for that reason it does not make sense to think that the practices of another society are wrong.
Social practices are built over the years and are modified as time passes. Therefore, what is common in today's
society has nothing to do with the way in which it was correct to behave several decades ago. This means that
social practices are not immutable either, but are always subject to change.
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Adapted from: https://www.lifepersona.com/social-practices-types-and-practices-of-language, accessed on July 17th
,
2023.