A modern society generally denotes a society that tries to continually move forward through its evolving ideas, norms, values, manners, practices and innovation.
In fact, the community introduces the child to two levels of moral reflection: it imparts specific moral values and norms through its institutions and practices, and; it provides the moral concepts that are necessary to the task of conceiving of ways to improve society, in this way making possible the move to the more comprehensive level of Ideal Morality.
The International Court of Justice reinforces legal norms through its judgments.
The poro functions to enforce social norms through its court, to socialize young people through its initiation schools, and to provide bonds that unite members from different kinship and territorial units.
However, while her earlier view had insisted more strongly upon the importance of subverting the norm through its exposure as imitative, what now seem more important are the different kinds of norms at stake, and whether they conduce to possibilities of livable lives for those who are marginalized.
Production is regulated through forms of directly controlled labour, the products of which are distributed through norms of honour and through administrative means.
Johnson careens through social norms like a Ford Mustang through cardboard boxes.
She argued that the well-being of women around the world could be improved through universal norms — an international system of distributive justice.
Both the real world and earlier movies we've seen teach us how to look at films: we look at movies and understand them through their norms.
By insisting that economic laws always take shape through social norms, values, and political choices, Piketty would rescue his discipline from the aridity of abstraction and return it to the richer model of political economy that its best nineteenth-century practitioners pursued.
