The complexity of social norms / Maria Xenitidou, Bruce Edmonds, editors.
This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms wh...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2014.
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| Series: | Computational social sciences.
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| Summary: | This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms when we 'take a snapshot' of them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues the hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena sheds new light on them.The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include:Of what is this complex we call a 'social norm' com. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 205 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| ISBN: | 9783319053080 (electronic bk.) 3319053086 (electronic bk.) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-05308-0 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2014) |