Social Norms Are Constantly Changing Social norms are always changing. The changes over the last century have been very drastic. Even this decade has seen some very dramatic changes. One very visible social norm is the style of clothing. Styles rarely stay the same from one year to the next. What is in one day can be completely stupid the next. Just look at the clothes they wore in the eighties. Social norms go deeper than just the style of clothing that you wear. One interviewee described a typical school day that was very different from the ones that we encounter today. She went to school in the late fifties in a one-room schoolhouse that included about fiftee