social norm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandnorm
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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norm
noun[C usually plural]
uk/nɔːm/us/nɔːrm/
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people ...
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(Definition ofsocialandnormfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocial norm
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Until around 1890, thinness had not been a prevalentsocialnorm.
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One might think that asocialnorm, requiring people to keep their agreements, has a role here.
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Within the study's inner city cohort, one might argue that some level of risk-taking behavior represents thesocialnorm.
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The tendency not to visit fellow tenants, except as part of an instrumental relationship, was asocialnormin these schemes, one reinforced by gossip.
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These men and women had deviated from thesocialnormof marrying in young adulthood.
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We need now to make explicit how this notion ofsocialnormis integrated within a proper utility function.
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The core concept in this work is paradeigma, a term meaning asocialnormor usage to be followed by the population.
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The respondents have not said yes to the good in question but rather followed asocialnorm.
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Through advertising campaigns, environmental agencies have tried to establish thesocialnorm'do not litter'.
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In contrast, widespread support tends to legitimise the public sector, and may thus impose somesocialnormto pay rates.
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The equivalence of punishment and correction may be obvious: the point of punishment is to prevent future departures from thesocialnorm, to discourage cheating in the future.
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Second (in all cases), her omission is the violation of asocialnormof reasonable behavior defined by the practice in which she participates.
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It appears, therefore, that conformity to thesocialnorm, of the man being older than his wife, is associated with relatively lower mortality for both parties than the converse case.
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Yonekawa (1998) stated that younger women may be relatively free from thesocialnormor model in language use.
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In this way, tolerance is 'an index of this very capacity for mixing and of the perceived threat to asocialnormthat it portends' (p. 73).
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This consent has two dimensions, one based on thesocialnormof reciprocity between taxpayers and the state, and the second on the perceived fairness of a collective behaviour.
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