Sentences with phrase «enforcing social norms»

In the absence of effective formal institutions, these Big Men are responsible for resolving social conflict and enforcing social norms.

If a group excludes me [an evolutionary tool adapted to enforce social norms] and I try to break my way back in, the group may not try as subtle an exclusionary behavior the next time.

Not exact matches

If my analysis is fundamentally accurate, liberalism's endgame is unsustainable in every respect: It can not perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms, nor can it continually provide endless material growth in a world of limits.

They used the results to give each country a «tightness» figure, reflecting how many social norms there were and how strictly they were enforced.

A new Social Development study reveals that even when children can not be blamed for a transgression, they tattle about it nonetheless, likely because tattling may be a way for children to enforce norms on others and thus help maintain cooperation.

Many teachers in top - achieving schools with high levels of collective efficacy talked about how they used social persuasion to enforce norms of high expectations for student success.

«Fundamentally, social capital refers to the mechanisms by which social norms are enforced.»

-1 for asking how to become an unpaid tool of multinational banks to enforce their preferred social norms on poorly capitalized mom and pop businesses.

we have shown that a social norm can be enforced in a system with a strong moral pretext without the use of a centralised enforcement agency, given that the cost of enforcement is low or non-existent.

The court had to decide if an employer can be held liable under Title VII for enforcing or condoning the social norm that it is acceptable for African Americans to say «nigger» but not whites.