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 when we 'take a snapshot' of
them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues the
hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena
sheds new light on them. The sort of issues that this perspective
opens to exploration include: Of what is this complex we call a
"social norm" composed of? How do new social norms emerge and what
kind of circumstances might facilitate such an appearance? How
context-specific are the norms and patterns of normative behaviour
that arise? How do the cognitive and the social aspects of norms
interact over time? How do expectations, beliefs and individual
rationality interact with social norm complexes to effect
behaviour? How does our social embeddedness relate to social
constraint upon behaviour? How might the socio-cognitive complexes
that we call norms be usefully researched?
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