The Social Norms Theory From The Perspective Of Non Violent Communication

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne, course: Adv. Seminar in Corporate Development and Business Ethics, language: English, abstract: The social norms approach has been used as a foundation for various studies mainly around the prevention of youth risk behaviour and encouragement of pro-social behaviour. The approach is seen as a useful tool to explain human behaviour and actively initiate behavioural changes. This paper sheds light on the social norms approach from a different perspective, namely from the perspective of Non-Violent Communication (NVC). First, the social norms theory (SNT) is presented, referring to the larger framework of the theory and then to the study “The Constructive, Deconstructive and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms” of Wesley Schultz and his colleagues. In chapter 3, the basic assumptions and principles of NVC after Marshall Rosenberg are contoured. In chapter 4, the assumptions of SNT also drawing on the study of Schultz and his colleagues are examined from the perspective of NCV. The conclusion summarizes the findings and points towards implications for ethical culture.

This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms when we ‘take a snapshot’ of them at a particular instant. Further, this book pursues the hypothesis that considering the dynamic aspects of these phenomena sheds new light on them. The sort of issues that this perspective opens to exploration include: Of what is this complex we call a "social norm" composed of? How do new social norms emerge and what kind of circumstances might facilitate such an appearance? How context-specific are the norms and patterns of normative behaviour that arise? How do the cognitive and the social aspects of norms interact over time? How do expectations, beliefs and individual rationality interact with social norm complexes to effect behaviour? How does our social embeddedness relate to social constraint upon behaviour? How might the socio-cognitive complexes that we call norms be usefully researched?

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Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a way of checking the conversion of aggression into violence. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilised in the service of ratifying the state’s monopoly on violence. Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how ‘racial phantasms’ inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. The struggle for nonviolence is found in movements for social transformation that reframe the grievability of lives in light of social equality and whose ethical claims follow from an insight into the interdependency of life as the basis of social and political equality.