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Understanding Norms and Values by Meshu Qadir is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses norms, values, and laws in culture. It defines norms as rules of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Mores are norms involving morality, folkways lack moral significance, and laws are formally defined and enforced norms. Norms can be pre-scriptive, prescribing behaviors like helping others, or pro-scriptive, prohibiting behaviors like shaking babies. Values provide the basis for norms. Laws, as a type of sanction, enforce folkways and mores, which are types of norms based on valu

Author

Meshu Qadir

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EN