Quotes About Norms

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

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.

Te parece correcto —le pregunta— hacer algo solo porque todo el mundo lo hace?

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.

A cultural ecology of violence!

I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

What some call superstructure, and what others call culture

A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.

Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of 'togetherness.' Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels.

Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

There's so many relationships in Hollywood - and in the history of the world - where people have large age gaps.

The concern of Methodist jeremiads in the late nineteenth century (see Chapter 5) was that growing Methodist churches were mimicking the standards of others, seeking to be respectable in their eyes. Finally, professional clergy will be more restrained by the norms of the profession and the larger denomination than lay clergy, because they have more to lose-for

Nonetheless, such environments aren't the norm for many students.

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

There are several reasons secularization is accelerating. One generally overlooked cause springs from the fact that, for many centuries, a coherent set of pro-fertility norms* evolved in most countries that assigns women the role of producing as many children as possible and discourages divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction.

Until recently, natural selection helped impose pro-fertility norms. But a growing number of societies have attained high existential security, long life expectancy, and low infant mortality, making pro-fertility norms no longer necessary for societal survival and opening the way for a shift to individual-choice norms. Normally there is a substantial time lag between changing societal conditions and cultural change. The norms one grows up

and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't

it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even