This document defines and distinguishes between ethics, morals, norms, social institutions, feelings, and emotions. Morals refer to one's personal values of right and wrong, while ethics apply to principles of correct behavior in a specific context or field. Norms are standards that guide and regulate group behavior. Social institutions structure conduct in core areas like family, education, law, and politics. Feelings are generalized sensations or awareness, while emotions involve a conscious mental state like anger or fear experienced as strong feelings.

1. Difference Between
Ethics, Morals, Norms and
feelings or emotion
By Sannum Kabooro
2k17/MACM/55

2. Contents
• Ethics vs Morals
• Norms vs Social institutes
• Feelings vs emotions

3. Ethics vs Moras Is there any
Difference?
Ethics and morals are both used in the
plural and are often regarded as
synonyms, but there is some distinction
in how they are used.

4. Moral
usually connotes an element of
subjective preference.
while ethics tends to suggest aspects
of universal fairness and the question
of whether or not an action is
responsible of or relating to principles
of right and wrong in
behavior : ETHICAL

5. Morals Vs Ethics
Morals
• Morals often describes
one's particular values
concerning what is
right and what is
wrong:
• It would go against
my morals to help
you cheat on the test.
Ethics
• While ethics can refer
broadly to moral
principles, one often sees
it applied to questions of
correct behavior within
a relatively narrow area
of activity:
• Our class had a debate
over the ethics of
genetic testing.

6. Definition of NORM
1: an authoritative
standard : MODEL
2: a principle of right action binding
upon the members of a group and
serving to guide, control, or regulate
proper and acceptable behavior.

7. No society
lacks norms
governing
conduct.— Robert K. Merton

8. Social Institutions
They order and structure the behavior of
individuals by means of their normative
character. Institutions regulate the behavior of
individuals in core areas of society:
• a) family and relationship networks carry out
social reproduction and socialization.
• b) institutions in the realm of education and
training ensure the transmission and cultivation
of knowledge, abilities and specialized skills.
• d) institutions in the realm of law, governance
and politics provide for the maintenance of the
social order

9. Feelings vs Emotions
Feelings DEF:
• 1 : generalized
bodily consciousness
or sensation.
2 : appreciative or
responsive
awareness or
recognition experien
ce a feeling of
safety.
Emotions DEF
• 1 : a state of
feeling.
• 2 : a conscious
mental reaction
(such as anger or
fear) subjectively
experienced as
strong feeling.

10. References
• https://www.soz.univie.ac.at
• https://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary