The macrosystem includes the broad societal settings under which the others function (shared culture, history, social norms, system of laws, economic system, etc).. Since children spend most of their time at school and at home, and school setting has attractive points in PA promotion, these settings were targeted (school primarily and family secondarily) in the intervention.
How may norm systems relating to specific morphological and physical characters of the context be conceived technically (Carmona et al. 2003)?
Power relations between women and men were seen to be changing as the norm systems change.
Language barriers, different norm systems, fear from the women's side of social risks, and other forums for support might contribute to non-disclosure of violence [ 39, 40].
It does not count as violence, even if they have been held down by several adults".MW9 Thus, the midwives stated all individual's perspectives on violence were influenced by prevailing norm systems, own experience, and by ongoing public debates.
However, social distances [ 47] were depicted in the midwives' reflections on different norm systems and they highlighted presumed divergent views on violence, family roles, and mental distress between the midwife and the Somali born women.
While the study results cannot be generalized to all areas of Tanzania (or Africa) they are in line with many other studies from settings characterized by similar gender norm systems [ 18, 19, 21, 23, 53, 61].
While much work has focused on the semantics of norms, the design of normative systems, and in particular understanding the impact of norms on a system, has received little attention.
In order to apply a norm system with conflicting norms to a particular situation, some of the norms may have to be ignored.
It is argued that funding is a key mechanism of change in the norm system since its reward structure influences the performance and evaluation of research.
