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  • Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

    People   Risk   Outcast  
    Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.42, A&C Black
  • Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

    People   Groups   Social  
    "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.
  • We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

    Carol P. Christ (1987). “Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess”, HarperOne
  • Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

    Long   Break   Social  
    The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
  • I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

    "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.
  • Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

    Believe   Self   Years  
    "Morals Without God?". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 17, 2010.
  • Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

    Powerful   Play   Media  
    "'Senator McMahon' Sounds like an Outlandish WWE Story-Line by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
  • In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

  • So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  • People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

    Anger   People   Society  
  • Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

    Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

    Jess C. Scott (2010). “Trouble (poetry, contemporary)”, p.59, jessINK
  • Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

    "Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2010.
  • Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

    "Online Social networks go to work". Interview With Xeni Jardin, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.
  • in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

    Taken   Class   White  
    Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon
  • In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

    Country   Jobs   Kids  
    The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
  • Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

    Government   World   Want  
  • For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

    Stupid   Culture   Firsts  
    "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.
  • Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

  • Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

    Peace   Israel   Ideas  
  • We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

    Children   Views   Law  
    Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.480, Penguin
  • Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  • According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

    Art   Self   Promise  
    Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.45, Open Road Media
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