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Other authors / contributors: | Xenitidou, Maria, editor.
Edmonds, Bruce, editor.
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ISBN: | 9783319053080 3319053086 3319053078 9783319053073 9783319053073
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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Notes: | Includes index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2014).
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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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Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319053073
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Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-05308-0
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