Casual wear dominates contemporary fashion. People dress in jeans, hoodies, and leisure wear in restaurants, offices, airports, and at school. Historically, casual clothing was unacceptable in public ...

Singing in a restaurant is one example of breaking a social norm. Source: picjumbo / Pexels There’s a scene from Disney’s "The Santa Clause 2" that lives rent-free in my head. Scott Calvin, played by ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Stanford Professor of Organizational Behavior presents on "Tightness vs. Looseness of Cultural ...

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...

The federal and state governments have been warned that Nigeria’s efforts to promote primary healthcare (PHC) remain at a delicate crossroads, caught between the country’s cultural norms on self-care ...

In an era where remote work has become more than a trend, evolving into a key facet of our professional landscape, the challenge of building and sustaining a robust workplace culture in a virtual ...

Alexandra Wormley receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Michael Varnum has previously received funding from the National Science Foundation, the US Fulbright Program, and the China ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...