Talk:Norm (sociology)

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This article makes a very poor attempt at trying to explain the use of norms in sociology and there are no references. Who has used the term 'norms' in sociology and why? --CJ 15:13, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural Norm smerge?

Hey. Could yall take a look at the cultural norm article and see if redirecting here, with or without a merge, would be appropriate? The Literate Engineer 19:43, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm going ahead with the redirect. No merging. Look at the history if you want.

[edit] Merger proposal

Merger? I think a better solution would be to convert convention (norm) into a dab page.All the single sentence definitions from that page should either be thrown away or embedded into relevant specialist pages. David91 16:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

It is absolutely wrong to merge the pages Convention (norm) and Norm (sociology), especially because conventions have a large, autonomous and important discussion in philosophy, which forbids that they are viewed exclusively from a sociological standpoint!! Velho 18:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with the merge, a convention in the sciences are spefic things that are NOT simply norms - and definately not social norms. Fresheneesz 23:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

JA: See Norm (philosophy), where some of the material about methodological norms would fit. Jon Awbrey 21:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I also disagree with the merger in the direction presently proposed. The article Convention (norm) seems to have a broader scope than this one. The merger should be in the opposite direction. FilipeS 22:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)