The complexity of social norms /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 205 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:Computational Social Sciences
Computational social sciences.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11085579
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Other authors / contributors:Xenitidou, Maria, editor.
Edmonds, Bruce, editor.
ISBN:9783319053080
3319053086
3319053078
9783319053073
9783319053073
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2014).
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.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319053073
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-05308-0