Archive for August 11th, 2006
Social Norms
Friday, August 11th, 2006In sociology, a norm, or social norm, is a rule that is socially enforced. Social sanctioning is what distinguishes norms from other cultural products or social constructions such as meaning and values. Norms and normlessness are thought to affect a wide variety of human behaviour.
The rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, [...]
