Francesca M. Cancian

What Are Norms?

A Study of Beliefs and Action in a Maya Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are Norms? challenges the traditional Parsonian theory of the basis of social order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521106795
• ISBN-10: 0521106796
• Artikelnr.: 25854432

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction to the study of norms
2. Strategies for describing and measuring norms
3. Research setting: the Maya community of Zinacantan
4. The frame-sorting method for describing norms
5. Zinacanteco norms and the social order
6. Verifying the model of Zinacanteco norms
7. The theory of the socialised actor v. the evidence
8. Disconfirming evidence from the Zinacantan survey
9. Social identity: an alternative theoretical approach
Appendices 1-9
References
Index.