How does a society make a shift in norms that greatly disadvantages its most powerful members?
Even with little change in norms and values, changes in social structure reflected in the failure of important functionaries to play their roles adequately may lead to discontent.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is edited every few years to reflect changes in norms: some conditions stop being viewed as pathologies, while others are elevated from mere idiosyncrasies to the status of illness.
Sasa, which means 'now' in Kiswahili, is an acronym for the four phases of a systematic process – start, awareness, support, action – designed to move communities from an initial contemplation of what constitutes violence through to shifts in norms.
The truth is that no amount of funding programmes to prevent gender-based violence will speed up the basic change in norms that a society must go through to reduce the potential for such violent acts.
It should, however, mark the end of a financial system outside public control, lacking in norms, and with a weak and ill-balanced international architecture that has not stood the test of time.
The British vote removes any plausible claim that the Administration can assume consent — that the proper reaction to the horror in Syria is so obvious, so rooted in "norms" that one needn't even ask.
That natural tendency to adjust to explain away the shifts in norms, the eroding public trust and traditions is the reason it's so important to speak loudly when institutions are threatened.
He said he hoped that by revealing the extent of ivory use for religious icons, the article might create pressure on Buddhist and Catholic leadership to seek changes in norms.
Internationalists were split between those who believed that reform would come about mainly or solely through a shift in norms (international morality) and those who thought that the only feasible route was through significant institutional construction at the international level.
First, militaries will no longer have to perpetuate a boundless arms race in a domain that is currently unconstrained by rules and conventions: expectations of military behaviour in cyberspace will be anchored in norms (just as most states do not have to fear attack by nuclear, chemical or biological weapons).
