noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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accepted
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But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations.
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In other words, the initial credit inducement may become accepted as the norm , thus shunting all cash inflows forwards.
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She sees this course as explicitly challenging some of the accepted norms of the rest of the course.
cultural
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Research can not tell us how to work with people whose cultural norms and traditions are different from our own.
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Meeting inside a model could logically connect communications protocols to the model itself rather than the cultural norms of a geographical area.
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The analysts will have to adhere to the cultural norms of the organisation in order to be successful with their database project.
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He did not feel comfortable challenging what he thought was a cultural norm .
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Both are equally prisoners of the cultural norms of business.
social
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The social norms can not merely exist as constraints existing outside individuals.
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The study of social norms did not escape.
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Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community.
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The sociology of social norms is a recurring theme.
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Conversely an admiring glance, a word of praise or an encouraging smile provide rewards for conformity to social norms .
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It is a social norm approach without the promise of security.
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Not only have contraceptive methods allowed this kind of Planning but social norms of family size have changed and increased in tolerance.
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In order to understand the force of this social norm , it is necessary to look beyond social presentation.
■ VERB
accept
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Sideways power proves unnecessary because consensus and collaboration are the accepted norms .
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Individuals who can not accept these norms are cast out from the protection of the group.
become
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Retail sales of the quintessential red meats are plummeting, whilst vegetarianism has become a fashionable norm .
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Peer evaluation within the teams has become the norm .
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Eventually the price of such devices will fall and PostScript recorders will become the norm - just as they have with typesetting.
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A shifting constellation of part-time jobs is becoming the middle-class norm .
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At the same time home ownership became easier and the norm .
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Three-and four-flight days again became the norm for him, more hours above the earth than on it.
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If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened.
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During periods of punctuated equilibrium everything is in flux, disequilibrium becomes the norm , and uncertainty reigns!
conform
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We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms .
establish
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New employees join an organization of interacting players, whose perceptions and expectations establish norms of required behaviour.
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We fight to maintain the established Leninist norms of party building.
violate
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Witchcraft thus can not be easily applied to circumvent or violate customary norms of behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Traditional sexual norms have been called into question.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the gospel for so long speaks the correct opposition to what has become the standard and the norm .
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I am told this is the norm .
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It is the norm that volunteering in sport does not stop out of season.
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It is those norms, in turn, that create a trusting environment within which commerce and trade can take place.
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Peer evaluation within the teams has become the norm .
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They provide social contexts for shaping the day-to-day behaviour or adolescents, and encourage conformity to norms and values.
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This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income.
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Yet, again there is the contrast between personal inclinations and social norms.