Social Norm
Describe context-bound social expectations, associated customs and their evidence without endorsing or enforcing them.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
6 bundles · 12 layers · 12 findings · 36 questions
Identity and meaning Proposed social norm research dimension: identity and meaning.
Norm statement
Maintain one addressable description of a context-bound social expectation across editorial revisions. A wording match does not establish the same norm. The subject is the described norm, not a survey response or behavioural event.
Norm statement
Maintain one addressable description of a context-bound social expectation across editorial revisions. A wording match does not establish the same norm. The subject is the described norm, not a survey response or behavioural event.
- Which master identifier and continuity rationale distinguish this norm from similarly worded expectations? identity
- What behaviour is expected, permitted or discouraged, in whose wording and language? definition
- Is this a supported social expectation, a custom candidate, an individual attitude or an unresolved hypothesis? classification
Labels and variants
Record original terms, translations and scoped variants without forcing exact equivalence. Editorial version and social change are separate assertions. This local design uses qualified vocabulary links.
Labels and variants
Record original terms, translations and scoped variants without forcing exact equivalence. Editorial version and social change are separate assertions. This local design uses qualified vocabulary links.
- Which vocabulary URI, mapping predicate and version describe each label without claiming identical practice? interoperability
- Who reviewed the translation and what meaning remains uncertain or disputed? quality
- Does a variant share this norm identity or require a separate linked description, and why? relationship
People and context Proposed social norm research dimension: people and context.
Reference groups
Separate the group whose expectations matter from the surveyed sample, target population and description steward. Membership does not establish personal endorsement. Several reference groups can differ for the same behaviour.
Reference groups
Separate the group whose expectations matter from the surveyed sample, target population and description steward. Membership does not establish personal endorsement. Several reference groups can differ for the same behaviour.
- Which reference groups are reported to influence this expectation and how were they identified? relationship
- Which external community identifiers resolve the groups without copying membership lists here? composition
- Which segments disagree or fall outside the described group scope? exception
Situational scope
Bound the description by setting, roles, occasion and time. A geographic label is context, not evidence that every resident endorses a norm. Conditions and exceptions are recorded as attributed claims.
Situational scope
Bound the description by setting, roles, occasion and time. A geographic label is context, not evidence that every resident endorses a norm. Conditions and exceptions are recorded as attributed claims.
- In which settings or locations is this expectation reported, and with what spatial precision? spatial
- Which roles, occasions and exceptions delimit the claimed applicability? constraint
- For what observed or reported period is this scope supported, including uncertain endpoints? temporal
Evidence and uncertainty Proposed social norm research dimension: evidence and uncertainty.
Expectation evidence
Keep perceived behaviour, perceived approval, personal attitude and observed practice distinct. A norm hypothesis needs evidence about expectations, not prevalence alone. Neither silence nor conformity establishes consent.
Expectation evidence
Keep perceived behaviour, perceived approval, personal attitude and observed practice distinct. A norm hypothesis needs evidence about expectations, not prevalence alone. Neither silence nor conformity establishes consent.
- What material supports empirical expectations separately from normative expectations? evidence
- What questions, scales, denominators and uncertainty describe each reported expectation measure? measurement
- What alternative explanations or contrary observations weaken the social-norm hypothesis? validation
Research provenance
Attach method and provenance to each evidence assertion. Record selection and response limitations; retain unknowns. Refer to protected study masters rather than putting identifiable respondents in this catalogue.
Research provenance
Attach method and provenance to each evidence assertion. Record selection and response limitations; retain unknowns. Refer to protected study masters rather than putting identifiable respondents in this catalogue.
- Which study, author role, instrument version and derivation support this description? provenance
- What sampling, nonresponse, translation or social-desirability limitations restrict the inference? quality
- What aggregation or suppression prevents reidentification through small groups and contextual details? privacy
Custom and change Proposed social norm research dimension: custom and change.
Custom and transmission
A recurring custom may be linked even when its normative mechanism is unconfirmed. Record reported transmission and variation; heritage recognition is conditional and does not endorse a practice or certify authenticity.
Custom and transmission
A recurring custom may be linked even when its normative mechanism is unconfirmed. Record reported transmission and variation; heritage recognition is conditional and does not endorse a practice or certify authenticity.
- Is this practice described as a custom or recognized heritage, by whom and under what scope? classification
- How is the custom reported to be learned or transmitted without exposing restricted knowledge? process
- Which variations are acknowledged and which details are withheld under the access protocol? exception
Contestation and continuity
Record emerging, contested, changing or reportedly lapsed status as dated assessments with uncertainty. Missing observations are not proof of lapse. A revised questionnaire cannot alone prove social change.
Contestation and continuity
Record emerging, contested, changing or reportedly lapsed status as dated assessments with uncertainty. Missing observations are not proof of lapse. A revised questionnaire cannot alone prove social change.
- What is the current assessment of the norm and which evidence dates constrain it? state
- What evidence distinguishes social change, revival or lapse from a change in method or missing data? lifecycle
- Which documented challenge or reassessment prompted this revision and what dissent remains? event
Social response and boundaries Proposed social norm research dimension: social response and boundaries.
Reported social responses
Describe anticipated approval or disapproval and reported reactions in aggregate. Expected and observed responses remain distinct. This catalogue cannot identify alleged violators, rank persons or execute sanctions.
Reported social responses
Describe anticipated approval or disapproval and reported reactions in aggregate. Expected and observed responses remain distinct. This catalogue cannot identify alleged violators, rank persons or execute sanctions.
- Which aggregate responses are anticipated and which are evidenced as observed? definition
- What supports the claimed response and its frequency without naming alleged norm breakers? evidence
- What risks to dissenters require withholding or generalizing this response description? security
Formal rule links
Keep legal and organizational authority outside this model. A related formal rule may coexist with a social expectation; codification does not automatically retire the norm record. This is a boundary design, not a legal applicability finding.
Formal rule links
Keep legal and organizational authority outside this model. A related formal rule may coexist with a social expectation; codification does not automatically retire the norm record. This is a boundary design, not a legal applicability finding.
- Which separately mastered legal, institutional or belief records overlap with the expectation? relationship
- Who assessed the scope of the formal-rule relationship and what remains unverified? authority
- What prevents this descriptive record from being used as legal authority or an enforcement instruction? constraint
Stewardship and review Proposed social norm research dimension: stewardship and review.
Participation and consent
Separate record maintenance from cultural authority and individual consent. Community review can be plural or contested. An adopting profile must define representation and safe dissent; a spokesperson cannot authorize all personal-data uses.
Participation and consent
Separate record maintenance from cultural authority and individual consent. Community review can be plural or contested. An adopting profile must define representation and safe dissent; a spokesperson cannot authorize all personal-data uses.
- Who stewards the description and what scoped mandate supports that role? ownership
- Whose review, consent or objection is recorded and which voices remain unrepresented? authority
- What purposes and audiences are permitted and what restrictions survive publication of an abstract? access
Release and retention
Maintain a reviewable description with evidence status, correction routes and expiration review. A local release is not community endorsement. Protected payloads follow scoped retention and erasure decisions; retained provenance must not recreate deleted personal data.
Release and retention
Maintain a reviewable description with evidence status, correction routes and expiration review. A local release is not community endorsement. Protected payloads follow scoped retention and erasure decisions; retained provenance must not recreate deleted personal data.
- Which unresolved evidence, representation or disclosure issues block release of this particular description? validation
- What retention basis, review date and lawful deletion or hold apply to the description and linked evidence? retention
- When was the record changed and when must its evidence and consent scope be reviewed again? temporal
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- entity
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.CIV.NRM
- Domain
- SOC.CIV.NRM
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- socialnormsoc.civ.nrm
- Also called
- D9
What it is Filled
One persistent social norm description with attributed claims, scoped reference groups, evidence, variants and review history. Custom-only candidates may remain hypotheses; legal rules, people and research datasets remain external masters.
In scope
- Norm wording, reference groups, situational scope and distinctions among expectation constructs
- Evidence quality, uncertainty, transmission, contested change and aggregate social responses
- Role-based stewardship, access, consent scope, correction and qualified formal-rule links
Out of scope
- Enforcing norms, sanction instructions, identifying alleged violators or scoring persons and communities
- Mastering community membership, religious institutions, legal texts, raw research responses or operational interventions
- Universal norm strength scales, proof of compliance, heritage certification or automatic legal classification
Why it exists Filled
Describe context-bound social expectations, associated customs and their evidence without endorsing or enforcing them.
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- Unlike Population Group: Reference the group master; a reference group, survey sample and steward are distinct roles.
- Unlike Religion Institution and Public Discourse: Link belief contexts and public challenges without mastering institutions or equating expressed opinion with a social expectation.
- Unlike Legal and organizational rules: Descriptive social expectation and formal validity are independent claims; linking or codification does not automatically end either record.
- Unlike Custom and intangible heritage: A custom need not be a demonstrated social norm; qualifying heritage is conditional, not a status of every catalogue entry.
- Unlike Legacy D9: Reconcile three legacy bundles through six evidence-oriented dimensions. Reject automatic norm-to-law replacement, observation-only proof, unconditional conformance and wildcard import claims.
Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
Must not
- Deny access to sensitive artifacts unless a current scoped policy authorizes the recipient and purpose; separately approved descriptions may be public.
- Consent withdrawal and contested representation trigger scoped review; never erase dissent solely because a dominant spokesperson objects.
Only with a human decision
- Human release review must include representation, consent scope, dissent safety and applicable privacy duties.
- Consent withdrawal and contested representation trigger scoped review; never erase dissent solely because a dominant spokesperson objects.
May
- Register a norm hypothesis: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Create a local description with bounded meaning and explicit hypothesis status.
- Attach qualified evidence: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Link authorized evidence while keeping expectations, attitudes and observed behaviour separate.
- Assess a change claim: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record a proposed continuity or change assessment without establishing community-wide lapse from missing data.
- Record scoped review: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record review, objection or consent scope without treating one voice as universal agreement.
- Prepare a safe description view: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Build a local draft view with suppression, evidence limits and pending approval; do not transmit or publish it.
- Retire a local description: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record retirement or supersession separately from social disappearance and apply retention decisions.
Note: Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.
Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review
- Pinned access, consent, retention and release policies with affected-community review procedures
- No individual compliance scores, alleged-violator records, sanction execution or stigmatizing community rankings.
- Human release review must include representation, consent scope, dissent safety and applicable privacy duties.
- Research documentation of a harmful norm is not endorsement or a safeguarding recommendation.
- Privacy and access reviewer
- Assess consent, group disclosure risks, audience restrictions and retention.
- Consent withdrawal and contested representation trigger scoped review; never erase dissent solely because a dominant spokesperson objects.
- UNESCO ethical principles have indexed evidence only.
Note: Sentences mentioning harm, privacy, consent or similar, collected from the specification.
Owners Filled
Steward
A responsible description steward with a documented mandate and correction route
Roles
- Description steward
- Maintain identity and scope, handle corrections and document a limited mandate.
- Community reviewer
- Review meaning and representation within a recorded scope; preserve disagreement and do not speak automatically for every member.
- Evidence curator
- Check method, provenance, uncertainty and accessible source support.
- Privacy and access reviewer
- Assess consent, group disclosure risks, audience restrictions and retention.
- Consumer
- Respect stated scope, uncertainty and permitted use; never infer personal compliance.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- WM-PER-005 - Candidate population-group binding; preserve distinct reference-group and target-population roles; pin before implementation.
- WM-CIV-002 - Candidate religious-context link; institution records remain external and belief does not prove norm adherence.
- WM-CIV-004 - Candidate discourse link for publicly documented contestation, with access checks.
- Legal rule master - binding unresolved - Optional formal-rule relationship; legal applicability and version require qualified review.
aligned
- SKOS 2009 - Conceptual labels and classification mapping only; no implemented conformance or automatic identity merge.
- PROV-O 2013 - Conceptual evidence and revision mapping; no truth certification.
neighbor
- Population Group - Reference the group master; a reference group, survey sample and steward are distinct roles.
- Religion Institution and Public Discourse - Link belief contexts and public challenges without mastering institutions or equating expressed opinion with a social expectation.
- Legal and organizational rules - Descriptive social expectation and formal validity are independent claims; linking or codification does not automatically end either record.
- Custom and intangible heritage - A custom need not be a demonstrated social norm; qualifying heritage is conditional, not a status of every catalogue entry.
- Legacy D9 - Reconcile three legacy bundles through six evidence-oriented dimensions. Reject automatic norm-to-law replacement, observation-only proof, unconditional conformance and wildcard import claims.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Authoritative master-system identifier with issuer namespace
- Stable local namespaced identifier with revision ID when no master exists
- Content hash for rendition integrity only; never a substitute for norm identity
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Register a norm hypothesis: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Create a local description with bounded meaning and explicit hypothesis status.
- Attach qualified evidence: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Link authorized evidence while keeping expectations, attitudes and observed behaviour separate.
- Assess a change claim: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record a proposed continuity or change assessment without establishing community-wide lapse from missing data.
- Record scoped review: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record review, objection or consent scope without treating one voice as universal agreement.
- Prepare a safe description view: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Build a local draft view with suppression, evidence limits and pending approval; do not transmit or publish it.
- Retire a local description: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record retirement or supersession separately from social disappearance and apply retention decisions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- PROV-O: The PROV Ontology
Context of use required Filled
- English research artifact; retain original-language evidence through controlled references.
- Selected international guidance and a gender-norm measurement example do not establish cultural universality or local legal applicability.
Sources Filled
- Uneven Expectations: Measuring gender norms to address children engagement in unpaid work - UNICEF
- What is social and behaviour change? - UNICEF
- Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage - UNESCO
- Ethical Principles for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage - UNESCO
- SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference - W3C
- PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - W3C
- Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - IETF
Open questions
- Restore independent external review and verify exact source versions, source content and permitted reuse before any canonical promotion.
- Develop and evaluate local community-review and disclosure profiles that protect minorities and dissenters while distinguishing cultural authority from individual consent.
- Build nested instance shapes and fixtures for conflicting reference groups, translation drift, method changes, contested codification, restricted evidence and scoped erasure.
- Independent external review is absent under the owner-authorized single-provider waiver.
- Direct HTTP checks are not attempted under the owner-reported sandbox restriction. Live statuses and exact source versions remain unverified; UNESCO ethical principles have indexed evidence only.
- Nested instance schemas, multilingual field testing, measurement validity, community representation protocols and pinned neighbor versions remain incomplete.
- No universal legal, cultural, retention or consent regime is asserted. Heritage principles are a conditional lens, not a universal rulebook.
Machine files
Provenance
world-models research · reviewable-draft
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