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Example sentences for: norms

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The moral of the story is that cultural norms are extremely important.
But it was a foregone conclusion that when evolutionary psychology began to focus on genetic predispositions and majoritarian norms to the exclusion of everything else, some literalists would in fact forget everything else.
My worry is that we will ignore important human needs at the expense of frivolous human desires; that dominant social norms will crowd out those of the minority; that the self-improvement agenda will be set not by individuals, but by powerful corporate interests; and that in the pursuit of betterment, we will actually make ourselves worse off.
The LAT has a front-page piece about one somewhat surprising consequence of the Army sex scandals: the service is planning to put into effect very soon new physical training standards for women that are much closer to male norms.
John Keegan's excellent book The Face of Battle also looks at the issue and concludes that his command was well within the norms of warfare for the period.