- No Justification (March 19, 2003)
...asualties and devastation, that will not justify overturning international norms developed over sixty years. Nor can it legitimize a worldview that will ma... - Multinationals Show Their Global Muscle (March 23, 2004)
...eeting in Geneva, is expected to avoid any vote and instead to return the "Norms on Business and Human Rights" to its drafting committee because political... - Russian Minister Says Iraq Attack a Mistake (February 5, 2004)
...t of this situation and methods to solve the Iraq problem in line with the norms of international law, and about ways to ensure a better life for the Iraqi... - Germany to Limit Evidence It Provides to US (June 11, 2002)
...eground, but it's well understood in the United States that constitutional norms must be respected," Schroeder said. Moussaoui was arrested last summer... - Bush Seeks Balance Leading Nation, Party (March 4, 2002)
...g or postponing his trip or his attendance at a Minneapolis fundraiser for Norm Coleman, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Vice President Cheney... - A Moral Campaign to End the Occupation (July 15, 2002)
...ates. In a region where repressive governments and unjust policies are the norm, Israel is certainly more democratic than its neighbors. This does not mak... - The Anti-War Non-March (February 14, 2003)
...r First Amendment law. It is crucial, however, that this not become the norm. Officials cannot decide that from now on marching will be limited to ethn... - Administration Balks At 'Gay' In Gay Suicide Conference (February 16, 2005)
...dies show that LGBT suicide rates are three times higher than the national norm, with suicides among teens the highest. But the name change was not the... - The Real Battle Comes After the War (March 8, 2002)
...he pattern of victories followed by hard campaigning has actually been the norm. Just as in Vietnam, the Americans should have looked at history but on th... - The World Waits (September 10, 2002)
...ined its sudden urgency to punish his decade-old defiance of international norms. This is particularly true given how the Iraq focus distracts from the lar... - Amnesty: Iraq War Increased Fear, Insecurity (May 28, 2003)
...d have been unacceptable on September 10, 2001, is now becoming almost the norm," Amnesty's Secretary-General Irene Khan told a news conference, accusing... - The Legality of Using Force (September 21, 2002)
...extreme cases, and to make collective, multinational security measures the norm. This is not the time for Congress to eliminate these long-standing res... - US 'Virtual' War Protest Jams Congressional Phones (February 26, 2003)
...had received 400 calls in the first three hours of the day, well above the norm. At Nebraska Republican Charles Hagel's office, a spokeswoman said the fro... - Perils of Preemptive War (September 23, 2002)
...mption means the end of the system of international institutions, laws and norms that we have worked to build for more than half a century. To his credit,... - The 'Iraqization' Scam (April 20, 2004)
...Iraq from the kind of brutal oppression or chaotic war that constitute the norm, and not the exception, to life in the Middle East and much of the world. ... - Here are some social norms for Wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSocialNorms
- a map which assigns a length to vectors. Such a vector need not be in physical space; see normed vector space;
- the nonnegative integer function in the definition of Euclidean domain;
- the product of conjugate elements of an algebraic element;
- the field norm from algebraic number theory and Galois theory that is a power of the previous definition;
- the reduced norm in the theory of algebras.
Norm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Etymology: the word norm comes from the latin word norma which means "angle measure" or (lawlike) "rule".
In sociology, a norm is an expected pattern of behavior in a given situation, the custom. In matters of the mind, one who has common sense is following the norm, is normal. In matters of behavior one who follows the norms of society is a regular guy or a right guy. One who does not is considered eccentric. Important norms are called mores. Violations of mores are punished with severe sanctions.
In social situations (e.g. meetings), norms are unwritten (and often unstated) operating rules that govern people's behavior resulting in a smooth interpersonal meshing. Norms are most evident when they are not followed or are broken. This is often experienced when an individual finds him/herself in a foreign country, dealing with a strange culture where the norms are different.
In some groups, norms are consciously prescribed as a set of ground rules.
Persons skilled in facilitation assist groups in recognizing norms, as well as establishing norms to promote greater group (or team) effectiveness.
See also: normative
External links
In mathematics, a norm can be any of several things in mathematical analysis and abstract algebra. These include:
In psychometrics a norm is a statistical characteristic of a sample used for purposes of comparison. For example, a student's score on a standardized test of academic achievement may be expressed as the percentile rank of that score in a norm group intended to be representative of the population of students.
Norm is also the name of a character in the sitcom "Cheers".