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Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3

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The Social Costs of Violation of Social Norms

The social costs of violating these norms that you're expected to have a certain kind of career. The steepness of the social costs is the same thing true of the more momentous patterns in our lives such as careers relationships education morality political outlook and national identity. A static society can only possibly remove move towards a dynamic society gradually very gradually incrementally because it might be hard enough for you to violate fashion but then if you start violating all the other social norms in your social circle your family and so on then you will feel ever more uncomfortable with each social norm that you violate now.

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