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Descriptor English: Social Norms
Descriptor Spanish: Normas Sociales
Descriptor normas sociales
Scope note: Estándares habituales que gobiernan la conducta en grupos, cultivos o sociedades. Reflejan lo que un grupo estima aceptable en un contexto social en términos de valores, creencias, actitudes y conductas apropiadas o inapropiadas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Normas Sociais
Descriptor French: Normes sociales
Entry term(s): Norm, Social
Norm, Societal
Norms, Social
Norms, Societal
Social Norm
Societal Norm
Societal Norms
Tree number(s): F01.829.750
I01.880.853.903
SP3.311.750.480
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D066262
Scope note: Customary standards that govern behavior in groups, cultures, or societies. They reflect what a group deems acceptable in a social context in terms of appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
HI history
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
Related: Social Conformity MeSH
Social Values MeSH
DeCS ID: 55711
Unique ID: D066262
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Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2014/06/16
Social Norms - Preferred
Concept UI M0593503
Scope note Customary standards that govern behavior in groups, cultures, or societies. They reflect what a group deems acceptable in a social context in terms of appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
Preferred term Social Norms
Entry term(s) Norm, Social
Norm, Societal
Norms, Social
Norms, Societal
Social Norm
Societal Norm
Societal Norms



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