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Keywords: Behave, Expected, Behaviorial, Baer, Subgroups

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Expectations of how a person or persons will behave in a given situation based on established protocols, rules of conduct or accepted social practices.

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a way of behaving typical of a certain group.

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a behaviorial expectation

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an expected pattern of behavior shared with the given social community

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an implied agreement among the group's membership regarding how members in the group should behave

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a pattern of behavior that is accepted, expected and reinforced when others behave in the same manner

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a shared expectation of behavior that connotes what is considered culturally desirable and appropriate

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a standard of behavior against which the appropriateness of a behavior is judged

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a standard or custom shared by members of a group about how they should behave

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An expected standard of behavior and belief established and enforced by a group.

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A single value, or a distribution of values, constituting the typical performance of a given group.

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An idea held by members of a group that can be expressed in the form of a rule and specifies what members are expected to do in given circumstances.

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In mathematics, in the field of group theory, the norm of a group is the intersection of the normalizers of all its subgroups. This is also termed the Baer norm.

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