The subject varies greatly depending on social norms and community expectations.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

In sociology, social facts are the values, cultural norms, and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint.

Gay people are perceived as violating social norms and threatening the society with moral decay.

Taking social norms seriously has consequences that pervade the economic system, and also our lives more generally.

They will also come to get the point of more informal social norms against homophobia, for instance.

The most visible incentives behind violent acts against women are the social norms and traditional understanding of chastity.

It was therefore essential to mobilize women and men to confront the social norms that aggravated women's vulnerability.

These stories have long been used to develop social norms and pass along cultural capital via myths, folktales, and legends.

Many of the social democratic countries of Europe, like Sweden, Holland, and Denmark, created similar norms in their full employment eras.

When we examine people s decisions from the perspective of their identities and social norms, we get new answers to many different economic questions.

The radicals soon discover that changing norms is not enough to change reality, while the democrats find that heightened social mobilization makes dialogue impossible.

Advocacy of norms

Smart policy can help us to overcome short run constraints, deeply entrenched behaviors, and social norms, and to develop innovative financing instruments that change incentives.

It is time to exchange the gender norms that are undermining men s health for a social, cultural, and commercial emphasis on healthier lifestyles for everyone.

To see ourselves, touch ourselves and understand ourselves through our own eyes, outside of social norms, will help us to connect, value and enjoy our sexuality.

International Norms in Cyberspace

Compliance with peremptory norms

A clearly designated enemy with an unmistakable plan is psychologically more comforting than the chaotic evolution of social norms and the workings or failures of unfettered capitalism.

The moral case for a wealth tax is more compelling than usual today, with unemployment still at recession levels, and with deep economic inequality straining social norms.

The market for consumer goods makes human status rankings the product of responsiveness to market forces rather than the result of social norms and views about justice.

Education and values will drive local innovation, alter lifestyles, and shift social norms. They will also affect business behavior via choices by customers and employees, including business leaders.

Even when not physically forced, women who are expected by their social norms to provide sex as their marital duty may feel coerced into sex by their husbands.

For example, people living with and affected by HIV organized vibrant social movements that issued demands for change at national and global levels, dismantled legal and social barriers that exacerbated risk, and articulated norms and standards in human rights terms.

Of course, such norms are helpful.

New norms Guidelines relating to implementation

References to norms, laws and standards

New norms Guidelines relating to implementation

Development of new standards and norms

Women s lack of assets, together with out dated social norms, is also a major barrier blocking their access to the capital they need to set up and expand small businesses.

From its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York aristocracy, establishing social norms in a country that did not value class and ceremony as much as England or France.

Their identities and norms are basic motivations.

), Pluricentric languages Differing norms in different nations .

Similarly, social norms and views about distributive justice usually turn out to favor whomever has the biggest spear or can convince others that obedience to the powerful is obedience to God.

It's about religious vs. secular identity, about the degree to which women are or are not afforded equality and about embracing or rejecting social norms that are seen as distinctly Islamic.

Most speakers expressed the need to develop and implement the types of intervention that would be appropriate in the countries concerned, taking into account the various legal, social and cultural norms.

It facilitates the integration of women's differing experience and needs into the development process, as well into the society and helps to change the negative social norms that discriminate against women.

Acknowledging the role of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice and their development, as reflected in Economic and Social Council resolution 2004 28 of 21 July 2004,

Acknowledging the role of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice and their development, as reflected in Economic and Social Council resolution 2003 30 of 22 July 2003,

Acknowledging the role of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice and their development, as reflected in Economic and Social Council resolution 2004 28 of 21 July 2004,

A bit of opportunism is also at work, for they undoubtedly also oppose EU regulation of taxation and social norms, adoption of which would deny them their comparative advantage for Western investors.

Acknowledging the role of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice and their development, as reflected in Economic and Social Council resolution 2004 28 of 21 July 2004,

Acknowledging the role of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice and their development, as reflected in Economic and Social Council resolution 2004 28 of 21 July 2004,

Ms. Hampson stated that standard setting was not only about creating binding legal norms, but also about creating standards or guidelines for the implementation of these norms, which played an important role in shaping the interpretation of norms.

Understanding and exploiting gender norms offers commercial benefits.