By contrast, truly holistic societies — those committed to the coördinated enforcement of norms — tend to be repressive.
Because social norms tend towards the unambiguous establishment of approved behaviours they are intolerant of activities on the margins of society.
"Understanding the shared concepts and patterned behaviours of a culture is a significant challenge," she writes, "because cultural norms tend to be hidden.
"Historically, social and legal norms tended to recognize and treat for-profit and progressive social or environmental motivations and activities separately," said Jonathan S. Storper, a partner at the law firm Hanson Bridgett who specializes in sustainable and socially responsible business.
Most importantly, over and above perceived same-sex social norms, higher perceived reflective norms tended to account for greater variance in alcohol consumption for Greeks (vs. non-Greeks) and males (vs. females), particularly within the friend and sexual partner contexts.
As societal norms tend to do, the racism embodied in the notion that African people's skulls are more similar to those of other primates than those of other homo sapiens skulls made its way into popular culture.
Joel Wong, who led the research team at Indiana University Bloomington, said: "In general, individuals who conformed strongly to masculine norms tended to have poorer mental health and less favourable attitudes toward seeking psychological help, although the results differed depending on specific types of masculine norms".
And religious movements (from the "Deuteronomists" of ancient Israel to the English Puritans) that emphasise moral norms tend to eschew the ecstatic.Max Weber, one of the fathers of religious sociology, contrasted the transcendental feelings enjoyed by Catholic mass-goers with the Protestant obsession with behaviour.
Then for each (lambda>0), the problem (1) admits a sequence of solutions in X whose norms tend to infinity.
