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Sanctions
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A sanction is the response a group gives to behavior, rewarding conformity to its norms and penalizing departure from them.
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A held door earns thanks; cutting a queue earns a stare. Both are sanctions doing the same work.
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Sanction sounds like punishment, but a reward is a sanction too — the everyday meaning of the word is the trap here.