Individual persuasion cannot change norm-sustained practices like corporal punishment

Evidence

Her central argument — that norms are behavioral rules people follow because they believe (a) most others in their network follow them and (b) most others think they should follow them — provides the diagnostic distinction between practices that can be changed by individual persuasion and those that require collective action to shift. The book’s framework explains the structural failure of individual-level anti-corporal-punishment education campaigns in contexts where corporal punishment functions as a genuine social norm. — , The Rod and the Child, 10747

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges to Cialdini’s descriptive/injunctive distinction and Mackie’s convention tipping mechanism. — connects to: Buddhist doctrine has not measurably reduced corporal punishment in Mahāyāna countries — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3956; Doctrine alone does not change behavior without enforcement and transmission — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4011; Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4203 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral rules cannot be created or altered by deliberate human enactment #expands (0.70) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 443