Informal human-relation influence cannot substitute for technicalized formal power.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I do not accept the main framework of their analyses. Neither power nor language is on a par with money or other disembedding mechanisms. Power and the use of language are intrinsic features of social action on a very general level, not specific social forms. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 66 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reciprocal influence schemes rely on love-like bonds, not on power.; System trust cannot supply the mutuality that personal trust provides — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 272; Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy (+11 more)

Related

• Individual persuasion cannot change norm-sustained practices like corporal punishment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power is code-guided communication, not a property possessed by anyone #corroborates (0.60)
• Individual persuasion cannot change norm-sustained practices like corporal punishment #corroborates (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 10747
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #corroborates (0.50)
• Power and language are not disembedding mechanisms like money #complicates (0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 66
• Power as damage threat cannot explain power’s order-creating function in complex societies. #corroborates (0.50)
• System trust cannot supply the mutuality that personal trust provides #complicates (0.45) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 272
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted #corroborates (0.45)
• Formalism’s refusal to consider variable factors is what gives rules their force. #corroborates (0.45) — Frederick Schauer, Formalism, 9