norms of behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnormandbehaviour
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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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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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If you are steeped in social norms of behaviour and understand community obligations, you don't calculate every five minutes how you should behave.
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This is typically used to describe norms of behaviour; what one ought to do.
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Provided people are sufficiently far-sighted, norms of behaviour that sustain cooperation can be shown to be self-enforcing in stationary environments.
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The activity of defining thresholds gives way to the imposition of implicit norms of behaviour, character, and attitude that may or may not be met by the individual.
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The population of this area may therefore be, to a large extent, self-selected and follow norms of behaviour not common to the rest of the city.
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We would expect any future government to respect the internationally agreed norms of behaviour towards its own citizens.
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What is their incentive to accept society's norms of behaviour when they can expect so little from it?
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The charter talks in paragraph 1.6 of, "common and comprehensive security based on the allegiance to shared values, commitments and norms of behaviour".
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Social change has a direct impact upon the norms of behaviour that people are brought up in their childhood to accept.
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