In his book "The Cement of Society", Jon Elster [79] discusses consumption norms, norms against behavior 'contrary to nature', norms regulating the use of money, norms of reciprocity, medical ethics, codes of honor, norms of retribution, work norms, norms of cooperation, and norms of distribution.
As is the case with visual portraits, panegyrics operate according to a code of cultural norms that tell us at least as much about the society that produced them as the individuals they portray.
The institutional proximity dimension refers to formal rules, codes of conduct, norms, and conventions that provide stability and basic level of trust.
These factors are generally regulated through governing formal and informal structures defined by codes of conduct, norms of behavior and conventions.
Hence, health system leadership need to establish formal (for example contracts, laws, regulations, and policies) and informal (including codes of conduct, norms of behaviour, and conventions) institutions [ 12] to enable different organizations to learn, adapt, and interact in ways that improve population health in an equitable and efficient manner.
Alongside this financial dynamic in favour of mining corporations, the Australian Government has actively resisted historical attempts by the United Nations to legislate for a business code of human rights norms (Anderson & Landau 2006: p3).
As soon as professional staff suspected academic dishonesty on the part of a student, the matter was reported promptly, investigated aggressively and thoroughly and adjudicated in accord with our Academic Code of Honor procedures and norms".
To those living in its midst, and to those who make a living delivering ideological diagnoses of its condition, contemporary post-industrial society often seems to proceed in the absence of norms and codes.
Juridification includes the expansion not only of the legal code itself but also of other sets of norms that it recognizes.
Last September, Russia, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan wrote a letter to the U.N. General Assembly that called for an "international code of conduct" that would establish "norms and rules guiding the behaviour" of countries overseeing the Web.
