Quotes About Norms

Rather than pushing harder to overcome resistance to change, artful leaders discern the source of the resistance. They focus directly on the implicit norms and power relationships within which the norms are embedded.

in a struggle between two groups of people, the group with stronger norms promoting cooperation and the most people following such norms has a greater chance of winning.

For tens if not hundreds of thousands of years before agriculture, human societies had very effective social norms and institutions for controlling bullies. Why would they suddenly (in a few thousand years) replace them with institutions that gave the upstarts legitimacy?

Our behavior and decisions are based on a mixture of calculation, emotions, and internalized norms, with calculation often a minor component of the cocktail.

Lots of people still wore pants and jumpsuits and worksuits of all kinds, but the longshirt is a permanent part of Hella's culture.

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute.

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute. It is as imperfect as any other institution. But a dispassionate, considerate, supportable, and moral resolution of differences is the goal toward which it aspires.

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

Talvez o sentimento do mal tivesse ficado anestesiado, confundido com costumes e ordens sociais

If the aim is to be liked by more and more people, whatever is unusual about a person gets flattened out.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

Customs are reflection of the people and the law is reflection of country's reason.

The way an institution works is that you go along with the prevailing fiction.

In his stimulating book Knowledge and Its Place in Nature (2002), Kornblith addresses the claim that epistemic norms must appeal to a priori intuitions. The standard practice of philosophical

All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

the communities into which people are born are wellsprings of the political claims that they recognize, and, in some formulations, even of their identities as individuals. Collective norms and practices constitute individuals as the beings that they are; they are, in Taylor's phrase, the "sources of the self." By this he means to convey not merely that collective norms and practices are historically prior to any given individual; they also supply her life with meaning and value.

Come lo que desees, pero vístete como el resto.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.