norms
Unwritten behavioral rules
Norms are standards of behavior or expectation that a group considers typical or acceptable.
Social norms govern everything from how close to stand to strangers to whether you tip at a restaurant.
To violate norms is to behave in ways that others find inappropriate or offensive.
In statistics, a norm is a standard or reference point against which measurements are compared.
Test scores were compared against national norms.
Traditional practices or import taxes
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- moresBinding social standards
- taboosSocially proscribed practices
- folkwaysCustomary community behaviors
conventions · practices · rituals · values · community standards · groupthink · conformity · deviance
Rules of polite conduct
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
- conductManner of behaving
- decorumFitting social conduct
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
courtesy · protocol · decency · comportment · demeanor · civility · politeness · respectfulness
Right and wrong principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
honor · righteousness · justice · equity · fairness · conscience · duty · obligation
Standard for comparison
- criteriaStandards for judgment
- specificationsStated requirements and parameters
- guidelinesSuggested rules for behavior
- metricsStandards for assessment
compliance · regulations · certification · ISO · calibration · parameters · quality · accuracy
Arithmetic mean or ordinary
- meanAverage, or spiteful
- medianCentral sorted value
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- deviationDeparture from expected path
baseline · typical · expected value · bell curve · standard deviation · variance · outlier · percentile
customs
Traditional practices or import taxes
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- moresBinding social standards
- taboosSocially proscribed practices
folkways · conventions · practices · rituals · values · community standards · groupthink · conformity · deviance · sanctions
etiquette
Rules of polite conduct
propriety · courtesy · protocol · decency · comportment · demeanor · civility · politeness · respectfulness · professionalism
morality
Right and wrong principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
virtue · honor · righteousness · justice · equity · fairness · conscience · duty · obligation · accountability
benchmark
Standard for comparison
- criteriaStandards for judgment
- specificationsStated requirements and parameters
- guidelinesSuggested rules for behavior
metrics · compliance · regulations · certification · ISO · calibration · parameters · quality · accuracy · precision
average
Arithmetic mean or ordinary
- meanAverage, or spiteful
- medianCentral sorted value
- distributionAllocation across recipients
deviation · baseline · typical · expected value · bell curve · standard deviation · variance · outlier · percentile · sampling
- culturesAmerican culture, African culture, Asian culture, British culture, Canadian culture
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- normsstandard, rule, custom, conventions, convention
- sociologysocial structure, social class, social institutions, social mobility, socialization
- Ethics Termsmoral reasoning, moral philosophy, meta-ethics, casuistry, teleology
- social constructssocial constructs, gender, race, class, marriage
normsdeviations
Departures from a norm
aberrations · anomalies · transgressions · violations · nonconformity
normsexceptions
Cases not following rules
anomalies · outliers · irregularities · abnormalities · rarities
normsanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
chaos · lawlessness · anomie · disorder · unruliness
- new normalAltered baseline after disruption
- social normShared behavioral expectation
- cultural normsSociety's accepted behaviors
- gender normsSocial expectations by sex
- community normsAccepted group behaviors
- normal curveSymmetric probability distribution shape
normal, norm, abnormal, abnormality, normalize, abnormally, normative, normed, normatively