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is a cultural ideal that determines the 'desirable body', imposes a 'grid of intelligibility' on the social, delineates possible modes of bodily life, and blurs the distinction between the descriptive and the normative (i.e. Between how things are how they 'ought to' be).

For Butler, norms impose 'a grid of intelligibility' on the social and, in doing so delineate possible modes of bodily life. One consequence of this is a blurring of the distinction betweeen the descriptive and normative bodies that appear within the social field embody th enorms that productively constrain their own intelligibility and recognisability. Additionally, normas are embedded within the practical exercise of power across various institutions such as law and medicine, and as such, they can be mobilised explicitly or implicitly as standars of evaluation and exclusion..

is a kind of grammar of social interactions that specifies what is acceptable and what is not in a society or group. As with grammar, it is not the product of human design and planning.

. It has been argued (Bicchieri 2006) that social norms ought to be understood as a kind of grammar of social interactions. Like a grammar, a system of norms specifies what is acceptable and what is not in a society or group. And analogously to a grammar, it is not the product of human design and planning. This view suggests that a study of the conditions under which norms come into being, as opposed to one stressing the functions fulfilled by social norms, is important in order to understand the differences between social norms and other types of injunction, such as hypothetical imperatives, moral codes or legal rules.'

is a positive ideal in the sense that it offers a culturally dominant model of those forms of embodiment required to achieve a valorized subjectivity (e.g., 'masculinity' for men, 'femininity' for women).

For Butler, a norm functions as a positive ideal, in the sense that it offers a culturally dominant model of those forms of embodiment required to achieve a valorized subjectivity (e.g., 'masculinity' for men, 'femininity' for women). A sexual type might be considered a 'negative norm' in that it provides a culturally dominant model of those forms of embodiment that must be avoided in order to achieve a valorized subjectivity (e.g., men should avoid 'effeminacy').

is a situational specification of the 'common societal value system'.

Parsons (1969:8), where, at the same time, he defines values by the help of norms and defends a 'distinction between value and differentiated norm' on the basis of the belief that norms can be regarded as situational specifications of the 'common societal value system' (1969:9)

is a standard that an individual relies on in judging how to act toward a given other person.

For Parsons, norms are standards that an individual, or 'ego,' relies on in judging how to act toward a given other person, or 'alter.' Proposals at this level of analysis can generate hypotheses about both specific subjective social values and specific features of social relations (although Parsons himself did not draw or test such predictions). Second, some of Parsons' descriptive claims about particular cultures strike us a promising ways in which to integrate observations by ethnographers and cross-cultural researchers.'

is an average standard created by the human sciences against which people are measured: The sane man, the law-abiding citizen, and the obedient child are all 'normal' people.

Norm An average standard created by the human sciences against which people are measured: the sane man, the law-abiding citizen, and the obedient child are all 'normal' people. (sparknotes).

is an ideational phenomena that have material consequences.

ideational phenomena that have material consequences. '

is an intersubjectively binding reciprocal expectation of behavior which regulates legitimate chances for the satisfaction of need.

intersubjectively binding reciprocal expectations of behavior which regulate legitimate chances for the satisfaction of needs' providing 'socially sanctioned modes of need satisfaction'

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