Focus: Experiments on Social Norms II
 | 2020 (42) Issue 2 |
Focus: Experiments on Social Norms
 | 2020 (42) Issue 1 According to the classics of social theory—Durkheim, Weber, Parsons—social order cannot be based on individual utility seeking and external power, but requires ‘normative integration’. Even for large parts of the social sciences today it seems to be almost self-evident that social norms are the very ‘cement of society’ (Elster). The underlying assumption is that essential building blocks of social order in the form of individual cooperation, collective action and political governance |