Quotes About Norms

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Society becomes how we behave.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

I belong to a very conservative family.

I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.

Not making a decision —eating "like everyone else" —is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. Without question, in most places and in most times, to decide one's diet by not deciding —to eat like everyone else —was probably a fine idea.

Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and

The third function is the sociological one—supporting and validating a certain social order. And here's where the myths vary enormously from place to place. You can have a whole mythology for polygamy, a whole mythology for monogamy. Either one's okay. It depends on where you are. It is this sociological function of myth that has taken over in our world—and it is out of date.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Many fashion designers, moreover, are homosexual, Versace only the most conspicuous example, and these men create a boylike fashion norm which forces women into patterns of diet and exercise which constitute a new form of oppression. [Boys will be boys]

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.