Deviance can signal status, but only when there are clear norms from which to deviate.
By exposing children to biological norms from a young age it should help dispel any taboo from the past generation.
The earlier era was defined by a rejection of prevailing social norms, from segregation to sexual modesty to name a few.
The world of banking, it's becoming clear, operates according to different norms from those of the rest of the business world.
Faced with evidence of frailty in the American project, in the institutions and norms from which they have benefitted, some are permitting themselves to imagine failure.
The two activities… The world of banking, it's becoming clear, operates according to different norms from those of the rest of the business world.
It draws its social norms from the mores of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora — and it expects new arrivals to assimilate themselves to these norms, and quickly.
Part of this, ironically, is down to sartorial norms from elsewhere being imposed on the beaches of Europe – not from Islamic culture, but from the US, where topless sunbathing was never standard behaviour.
The story is about evolving gender roles and societal norms, from the smoky, sharp, groundbreaking fragrances of the twenties all the way to the watery, unisex "office smells" of the nineties, and beyond.
The word "cynic" comes from the Greek kynikos, meaning "doglike," and Sloterdijk coined the term "kynicism" to differentiate Diogenes' active assault on prevailing norms from the passive disengagement of the late twentieth century.
One of the most exciting trends in the struggle against poverty and social pathologies such as crime is the use of similar youth-owned movements to change cultural norms from the bottom up.
