Social Norms
An advanced seminar on philosophical and evolutionary approaches to social norms.
Requirements
Having taken the seminar on Cultural Evolution in a previous semester.
Syllabus
Here is a sample of the issues to be discussed:
- History of the notion of social norms
- Philosophical definitions of social norms
- Norm Psychology
- Inter-cultural differences in social norms
- Social emotions
- Cultural Evolution and Social Norms
- Formal models
- Norm engineering
