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- Abstract:
- In recent years, social norms have attracted increasing notice in the policy realm, particularly in the field of international development. Surprisingly, given a long history of attention to social norms, sociologists have been largely absent from this conversation. The failure to apply conceptual and theoretical insights on norms from sociology to the empirical study of the global South leaves research and policy bereft of these existing contributions, and deprives sociology of opportunities to build and test its theories in new contexts. This study focuses on a particular social norm – a “sharing norm” that stipulates that those who have resources are expected to share them with others – in a real-world context to highlight the value and relevance of sociological approaches to social norms in the development discourse. Drawing on qualitative research with factory workers in Côte d’Ivoire, I find that the sociological understanding of norms as bounded and conditional guidelines for behavior is highly relevant to how this sharing norm works in practice.
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- Thesis (A. M.)--Brown University, 2017
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McNeill, Kristen,
"Social Norms in Practice: The Boundaries and Conditionality of Income-Sharing Norms in Côte d’Ivoire"
(2017).
Sociology Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0QZ28F4
