Modern anonymity does not weaken regard-based social sanctions.
Evidence
But that consideration apart, the anonymity of modern society is easily exaggerated. While we may each lack a name on the street of a big city, that namelessness is quite consistent with being well known in a range of the interlocking circles that fill the space of the modern world. Some of these circles will be small of radius, like the circles of friendship and workplace and sports associations; others will be of much larger compass, like the circles of the extended family, the professional association, even the email network. There may not be the same concentration of recognition and identity in the modern world that there was in small-scale, premodern society. But having a name in many different, partial communities may facilitate the forces of approval and disapproval just as powerfully as having a name in the one community that exhausts every aspect of your life. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1029
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anonymity leaves some prosocial residue but surveillance reliably amplifies it; Anonymity rules out impression management but not self-deception in surveys.; Anonymity removes the social inhibitions that normally suppress overt racial prejudice — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 269 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Anonymity leaves some prosocial residue but surveillance reliably amplifies it
#contradicts(0.85) - Anonymity removes the social inhibitions that normally suppress overt racial prejudice
#contradicts(0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 269 - Anonymity and distance from victims weaken moral restraint in cybercrime
#contradicts(0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 474 - Undermining anonymity reliably increases prosocial behavior across experiments
#contradicts(0.85) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 86 - Online anonymity weakens the social norm policing prejudiced speech
#contradicts(0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 521 - Internet anonymity weakens the perceived criminality of hacking
#contradicts(0.80) - Anonymity rules out impression management but not self-deception in surveys.
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