Depending on context, there are a few ways I would communicate this. Take the phrase “We are quiet here.” Said to prospective tenants at an apartment complex, it is “communicating group norms.” Said to a friend who is talking during a funeral, it is “enforcing group norms”. Telling yourself you will do this before you sleep is “enforcing identity norms”. You are sharing information, just local information about the group instead of global information about the world. All the examples given are information sharing.
Believing in an opinion can be a group norm, and this can be useful or harmful. For example, “We believe victims” may not be bulletproof life advice, but groups which have that group norm often are more useful to survivors of sexual assault than groups which try to figure out if they believe the story first.
I think motivations are complex and impossible to fully vocalize. Often I don’t realize why I really want or don’t want to do something until after I’ve had the instinctual response. Its possible narratives that obscure the full depth but feel true are good temporary stand ins in these cases.
Communication and enforcement of group and identity norms happens everywhere all the time, but increases the more status is associated with the group or identity.
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Depending on context, there are a few ways I would communicate this. Take the phrase “We are quiet here.” Said to prospective tenants at an apartment complex, it is “communicating group norms.” Said to a friend who is talking during a funeral, it is “enforcing group norms”. Telling yourself you will do this before you sleep is “enforcing identity norms”. You are sharing information, just local information about the group instead of global information about the world. All the examples given are information sharing.
Believing in an opinion can be a group norm, and this can be useful or harmful. For example, “We believe victims” may not be bulletproof life advice, but groups which have that group norm often are more useful to survivors of sexual assault than groups which try to figure out if they believe the story first.
I think motivations are complex and impossible to fully vocalize. Often I don’t realize why I really want or don’t want to do something until after I’ve had the instinctual response. Its possible narratives that obscure the full depth but feel true are good temporary stand ins in these cases.
Communication and enforcement of group and identity norms happens everywhere all the time, but increases the more status is associated with the group or identity.