Become aware of when conformity to the group norm is counter-productive and should not be followed, when independence should take precedence and be adopted regardless of social rejection by that group.

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As women, in many cases, the impulse to do something out of the norm of our peer group, like write an opinion piece or ask for a promotion, has simply never occurred to us.

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Have lunch with a group of people outside your norm.

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These investors realized that the employment picture was outside the norm and started to accumulate shares in the schools group.

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"They actually figured out a good intervention there, which was to break apart this central group of girls that were essentially promoting the spread of this norm of a heightened sexuality at a very young age, " Fowler said.

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Group prayer is allowed in Camps 4 and 6 (where communal living is the norm).

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This established the practice of using religion to justify tribal and group interests and authoritarian rule over the rights of the individual that has remained the norm in most Muslim societies to this day.

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This history became a closed cycle of group solidarity and tribal politics, and its victims continue to be Muslims who accept this history as the norm.

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