The concept that stands at the center of the classical discourse is dao (way), a notion that refers to norms, patterns, and methods of acting, specifically of ordering the state and conducting one's personal life.
These factors, especially taken together, raise the question of whether the existing norms, patterns and traditions of collaboration in various life sciences fields are likely to support or hinder working in large-scale public-private consortia.
Additional variables (role belief, moral norm and practice pattern-related factors) were also assessed.
New social norms and patterns settled into place.
Like Zimbardo's men, they are bombarded with expectations from the first and shaped by preëxisting norms and patterns of behavior.
They adopted the concept of governance to refer to norms and patterns of rule that arise and persist even in the absence of an enforcing agent.
Just as the world they depict is, for all its hectic quotidian rhythms, governed by invisible norms and patterns of behavior, so are the films, for all the breezy haphazardness with which they unfold, governed by a fierce formal intelligence and a classical sense of symmetry.
Socially, dislocation, displacement and distance are undermining traditional Afar social norms and patterns of behaviour.
What is seen as negative and damaged depends on cultural norms and patterns of interpretation (Douglas and Wildavsky 1982).
