Quotes About Norms

A man is able to take me to a restaurant, but he's not able to take me home to mom. Society is still not at a place yet where they see us as family.

People are so codified - it's sad.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

I don't see why clothes have to be women's or men's. It seems pretty limiting. I buy women's pants, women's shoes - everything, really.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

While women prefer to have a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship.

In our country, you need to be married to be eligible for many things, and to have a right on your partner's life.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.

Uelskede børn er ofte underkastet voksnes normative tryk, som er stærkere end deres kærlighed. Børnene organiseres i stedet for at elskes,

Døde normer kan ikke analyseres væk, men kun gennem den anormale kærlighedserfaring relativeres og gøres tilgængelig for forandringer. På denne måde sker befrielsen af indre trang, som ikke tager sig betalt med døden - en kærlighed, der identificerer sig med det, der vil leve. Og alligevel er det hvert menneskes egen hemmelighed, hvor langt livssvinget rækker.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

We also know, of course, that human beings are not perfectly rational calculators. Our behavior and decisions are based on a mixture of calculation, emotions, and internalized norms, with calculation often a minor component of the cocktail.

These four mechanisms, (1) competition between groups, (2) competition within groups, (3) cultural distance between competing groups, and (4) cultural homogeneity within groups are not the only processes that can affect the spread of cooperation norms.

Why was cultural group selection the key to the transition from forager to farmer? Because you cannot switch to farming when everybody else in your community is foraging. The whole group needs to shift together. It requires a new set of cultural norms and institutions shared by all. The most important such institution would have been property rights over the food that you have grown.157 The

If anyone had appeared in just a pair of boxer shorts or swimming trunks, the womenfolk would have had "an attack of the vapors" and the menfolk would have exploded in a rage at the indecency of it. What exactly "an attack of the vapors" was is unclear, because there is no such thing as womenfolk anymore, and there is certainly no such thing as an attack of the vapors.

members of any small cohesive group tend to maintain esprit de corps by unconsciously developing a number of shared illusions and related norms that interfere with critical thinking and reality testing.

In Janis's hypothesis, "members of any small cohesive group tend to maintain esprit de corps by unconsciously developing a number of shared illusions and related norms that interfere with critical thinking and reality testing."3 Groups that get along too well don't question assumptions or confront uncomfortable facts. So everyone agrees, which is pleasant, and the fact that everyone agrees is tacitly taken to be proof the group is on the right track.

There's also the "premortem," in which the team is told to assume a course of action has failed and to explain why—which makes team members feel safe to express doubts they may have about the leader's plan. But the superteams did not start with leaders and norms, which created other challenges.

They do not pathologize women who have full-time careers, are lesbians, refuse to marry, commit adultery, want divorces, choose to be celibate, have abortions, use birth control, choose to have a child out of wedlock, choose to breast-feed against expert advice, or expect men to be responsible for 50 percent of the child care and housework.

Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.