SOCB51H3 Lecture Notes - Squeegee
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Norm is relative and contextual and exist in social relations. Norms always have a quality which is characterized. Norms around what we should do are deeply internalized. Norms are always social, how quickly norms can be contested and you can define modern politics in a certain way as the conflict that exists between public culture norms and law. One of the main things about law and regulation is the legal gap. Law is always a gap and it never matches what social norms are and that is one of the reasons of the most successful human movements. Picture of bus line, it is a line to wait for the bus. People line up because it is a norm. The norm of being civilized, and showing civility and consideration and respect those norms don t always exists, but in this example it does and those are all norms internalized deeply.
