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A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [1] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [2]
Orders and permissions express norms. Such norm sentences do not describe how the world is, they rather prescribe how the world should be. Imperative sentences are the most obvious way to express norms, but declarative sentences also may be norms, as is the case with laws or 'principles'.
Fuller was born in Hereford, Texas and grew up in the Imperial Valley in Southern California.He went to Stanford University as an undergraduate and for law school. [3] He taught at the University of Oregon School of Law, then at Duke University School of Law, where one of his students was future US president Richard Nixon.
Social exchange theory is a sociological and psychological theory that studies the social behavior in the interaction of two parties that implement a cost-benefit analysis to determine risks and benefits.