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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'.
Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies is a quarterly academic journal in the field of masculinity studies, published by Routledge. It was established in 2006 as the Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies , a joint effort of the masculinities studies research communities in Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden .