The Complexity of Social Norms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xenitidou, Maria (Editor), Edmonds, Bruce (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethics.; Application software.; Game theory.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

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 wh...