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  2. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [ 1 ] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [ 2 ] Social normative influences or social norms, are deemed to be powerful drivers of human behavioural changes and well ...

  3. Norm (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of deontic norm is already an extension of a previous concept of norm, which would only include imperatives, that is, norms purporting to create duties. The understanding that permissions are norms in the same way was an important step in ethics and philosophy of law. A flowchart with examples of constitutive and deontic norms

  4. Norm (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Norm (mathematics) In mathematics, a norm is a function from a real or complex vector space to the non-negative real numbers that behaves in certain ways like the distance from the origin: it commutes with scaling, obeys a form of the triangle inequality, and is zero only at the origin. In particular, the Euclidean distance in a Euclidean space ...

  5. Normalization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of normalization can be found in the work of Michel Foucault, especially Discipline and Punish, in the context of his account of disciplinary power.As Foucault used the term, normalization involved the construction of an idealized norm of conduct – for example, the way a proper soldier ideally should stand, march, present arms, and so on, as defined in minute detail – and then ...

  6. Normative ethics - Wikipedia

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    Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour and is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates questions regarding how one ought to act, in a moral sense. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics in that the former examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, whereas the latter studies the meaning of moral ...

  7. Legal norm - Wikipedia

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    An example of this would be a customary norm, which have been shaped and informed by cultural values over prolonged periods of time. Shapiro refers to these legal norms as "plan-like norms", that have been "sustained by human action" and "economise on deliberation costs, compensate for cognitive incapacities, and organise behaviour between ...

  8. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    Normative social influence is a type of social influence that leads to conformity. It is defined in social psychology as "...the influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them." [1] The power of normative social influence stems from the human identity as a social being, with a need for companionship ...

  9. Internalization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Internalization is directly associated with learning within an organism (or business) and recalling what has been learned. In psychology and sociology, internalization involves the integration of attitudes, values, standards and the opinions of others into one's own identity or sense of self. In psychoanalytic theory, internalization is a ...