Social norms explain why we tip a cabdriver we will never see again, why cheaters blush when caught or why people go to the polls despite knowing their individual vote will make no difference.
"Any study will, of necessity, look at a small number of specific measurable aspects or symptoms, and often the underlying model is very much a medical/disease model, so that outcomes are either 'ill' or 'not ill' according to a cut-off based on clinical norms," explains Heal.
Japan and international refugee protection norms: Explaining non-compliance.
A second difference from Quine is also important: for the crux of the Legal Realist position (at least for the majority of Realists) is that non-legal reasons (e.g., judgments of fairness, or consideration of commercial norms) explain the decisions.
Across both groups, subjective norm explained a substantial amount of variance in intention, followed by attitudes.
Together attitude and subjective norm explained approximately 34% of the variance observed in health professionals' reported intention to inspect feet.
Stratified analyses by PMTCT centre showed that, the explained variance in intended HIV testing from the TPB variables and descriptive norm ranged from 7.7%too 32.5%, whereby attitude, subjective norm and descriptive norm explained most of the variance in intention (not shown in table).
This knowledge norm explains why the hearer can appropriately ask "How do you know?" (Williamson 2000, 249 255).
That is, the fact that the other members of a population follow a norm explains why, and justifies that, an individual in such a population will do so as well.
Still, that relatively meager mass of GOP faithful — more moderate, affluent and educated than the national norm — explains why presidential hopeful John Kasich plopped this weekend onto a counter seat at PJ Bernstein's delicatessen, where a swarm of reporters documented his intake of kreplach, sour pickles and strudel.
We all live in different communities and have different sets of norms," he explained.
