Collective public commitment dissolves pluralistic ignorance by revealing shared doubt
Evidence
The key feature of organized diffusion is not the information it transmits but the social facts it creates. When a community makes a collective public commitment, it changes what every member knows about what every other member knows and believes. The pluralistic ignorance that sustained the old norm is dissolved by the act of public collective deliberation. The parent who privately doubted the practice but assumed everyone else approved discovers, through the deliberation process, that the doubt is widely shared. — , The Rod and the Child, 7371
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off the pluralistic-ignorance concept defined earlier in the chapter — the mechanism that makes public deliberation decisive. — connects to: Pluralistic ignorance sustains norms even after private attitudes have shifted — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7327; Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7389; Collective fears can reshape group behavior in ambiguous situations. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 647 (+8 more)
Related
- Pluralistic ignorance sustains norms even after private attitudes have shifted (similarity 0.85)
- Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them (similarity 0.84)
- Deliberation mechanisms create new social realities that information alone cannot (similarity 0.81)
- Public debate grants permission to voice doubts that already existed privately. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them
#expands(0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 7389 - Collective fears can reshape group behavior in ambiguous situations.
#corroborates(0.65) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 647