Scholars have long celebrated the importance of norms in corporate law. Indeed, norms likely guide corporate actors more than the omnipresent threat of shareholder suits. This Article divides corporate norms into two distinct groups: aspirational norms and arbiter norms. Aspirational norms announce socially desirable objectives for corporate managers and encourage certain disclosure practices; ...

Abstract This article explains how social norms can help to distinguish and understand a range of different kinds inequality hierarchy. My aim is show the literature on provide crucial resources relational egalitarianism, which has made equality into central topic contemporary normative political theorizing. The hope that more discriminating detailed picture will egalitarians move beyond discus...

OBJECTIVE To understand how social norms about gender and reproduction shape fertility desires and use of family planning among adolescents in post-conflict northern Uganda. METHODS A study was conducted in 2 post-conflict districts in north-central Uganda. Life histories were collected from 40 adolescents (20 males, 20 females). In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 individuals (20 male...

OBJECTIVE This article categorizes and describes current media campaigns to reduce college student drinking, reviews key principles of campaign design and outlines recommendations for future campaigns. METHOD The article describes three types of media campaigns on student drinking: information, social norms marketing, and advocacy. Key principles of campaign design are derived from work in co...

Writing projects are socially-situated identities. The rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. Through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in Persian and English (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether Persian native writers take on the...

In this paper, we study polynomial norms, i.e. norms that are the dth root of a degree-d homogeneous polynomial f . We first show that a necessary and sufficient condition for f to be a norm is for f to be strictly convex, or equivalently, convex and positive definite. Though not all norms come from dth roots of polynomials, we prove that any norm can be approximated arbitrarily well by a polyn...

Social norms are implicit codes of conduct that provide a guide to appropriate action. There is ample evidence that social norms about eating have a powerful effect on both food choice and amounts consumed. This review explores the reasons why people follow social eating norms and the factors that moderate norm following. It is proposed that eating norms are followed because they provide inform...