The Complexity of Social Norms

The Complexity of Social Norms edited by Maria Xenitidou, Bruce Edmonds.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Xenitidou, Maria (Editor), Edmonds, Bruce (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Computational Social Sciences,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Sociophysics.
Econophysics.
Application software.
Game theory.
Ethics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • The Conundrum of Social Norms
  • Part I: The Complex Roots of Social Norms
  • Misperception is Reality: The “Reign of Error” about Peer Risk Behaviour Norms among Youth and Young Adults
  • Norms and Beliefs: How Change Occurs
  • Social norms from the perspective of embodied cognition
  • It Takes Two to Tango: We-Intentionality and the Dynamics of Social Norms
  • The Relational Foundation Of Norm Enforcement
  • Part II: Methods and Epistemological Implications of Social Norm Complexity
  • Norm Emergence in Regulatory Compliance
  • Norm Dynamics Within the Mind
  • Vulnerability of Social Norms to Incomplete Information
  • Part III: Evaluating Complex Approaches to Norms
  • The “Reign of Mystery”: Have We Missed Something Crucial in Our Experimental and Computational Work on Social Norms?
  • Three Barriers to Understanding Norms: levels, dynamics and context.

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