norms

Illegitimate and homosexual, he was doubly outside the era’s accepted social norms.

At existing plants, younger folks have injected innovation into longstanding operation norms, improving safety and efficiency.

However, that assumes that members of political parties respect the norms of constitutional government and display greater loyalty to the prerogatives of the branches of government in which they serve than their political party.

There is a generational component to that, along with the familiar trends of personal economics meaning that people have greater autonomy to move away from the accepted norms in their communities.

One of the difficulties for large organisations, he has found, is that “they have their own social structures or social norms which can have an impact when they need to take action”.