Democracy relies on constitutions, political parties, pluralism, individual rights and community norms.

The question is, Does a school board have the right to define community norms and impose them?

Juries are often justified because they leaven the law with community norms.

Solutions that focus only on the home may be missing a key factor, community norms.

But, it said, "other differences from the community norm may define other groups which need the same protection."

This acts as an instrument of social control, punishing those who transgress community norms.

Everyone is expected to have hiya, and to win the respect of others by conforming to community norms.

Diglossia refers to the community norms for language allocation across domains.

Socialization is influenced primarily by the family, through which children first learn community norms.

They could also complain to a local magistrate about mistreatment that exceeded community norms.