The Complexity of Social Norms
Editors: Maria Xenitidou, and Bruce Edmonds
Other Authors: Elinor Ostrom, Wesley Perkins, Cristina Bicchieri, Rosaria Conte, Marco Janssen, Flaminio Squazzoni Christine Horne, Brigitte Burgemeestre, Hugo Mercier, Chris Goldspink, Corinna Elsenbroich, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan, Giulia Andrighetto, and Daniel Villatoro
ISBN:
978-3-319-05307-3 (Print)
978-3-319-05308-0 (Online)
- Takes a fresh, fundamentally dynamic and complexity inspired approach to the study of social norms
- Presents a new methodological and theoretical perspective to study normative behavior
- Contributing authors provide a unique and varied perspective from departments such as philosophy, economics and political science
This book explores the view that
normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes
and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective,
norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather
an interplay of many things that we label as norms when we ‘take a
snapshot’ of them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues
the hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena
sheds new light on them.
The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include:
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/book/978-3-319-05307-3The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include:
- Of what is this complex we call a "social norm" composed of?
- How do new social norms emerge and what kind of circumstances might facilitate such an appearance?
- How context-specific are the norms and patterns of normative behaviour that arise?
- How do the cognitive and the social aspects of norms interact over time?
- How do expectations, beliefs and individual rationality interact with social norm complexes to effect behaviour?
- How does our social embeddedness relate to social constraint upon behaviour?
- How might the socio-cognitive complexes that we call norms be usefully researched?
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-vi -
Book ChapterPages 1-8
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The Complex Roots of Social Norms
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Front Matter
Pages 9-9 -
Book ChapterPages 11-36
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Book ChapterPages 37-54
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Book ChapterPages 55-79
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Book ChapterPages 81-103
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Book ChapterPages 105-120
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Methods and Epistemological Implications of Social Norm Complexity
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Front Matter
Pages 121-121 -
Book ChapterPages 123-139
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Book ChapterPages 141-160
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Book ChapterPages 161-173
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Evaluating Complex Approaches to Norms
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Front Matter
Pages 175-175 -
Book ChapterPages 177-188
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Book ChapterPages 189-197
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Back Matter
Pages 199-205
