Minding Norms: Mechanisms and Dynamics of Social Order in Agent Societies

by Bernard Shaw

Norms are prescribed conducts applied by the majority of people. Getting across cultures and centuries, norms evolved to rule all human relationships, from the most formal to the most intimate. Impinging on any sphere of life, from religious to political, norms affect social, moral, and even aesthetical behaviours. They are enforced through centralized sanctions or distributed control, and originate through deliberate acts of issuing or from spontaneous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812675
• ISBN13: 9780199812677
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"