The Complexity of Social Norms

By Maria Xenitidou and Xenitidou

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319053078
• ISBN13: 9783319053073
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"