Social Norms

"Social Norms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Norms" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Norms" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2014 and 2017 and 2018
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