TRANSFORMING NORMS

Updated April, 2014.

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People re-constitute Society - the Reality of the Social Life World

 

 

During the same time

 

Society re-constitutes People

 

Folk may create transforming stories

Then telling the transforming stories transforms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reality

 

The Common Reality of Everyday Life

 

The Theatre Reality (marked out by raising and lowering the  curtain)

 

The Cartoon Reality

 

The Film reality

 

The Dream reality

 


 

 

GOVERNMENT & GOVERNANCE

 

 

Local Community Self Help Processes

We do things to help ourselves, our families and each other

 

Government Services

We do things for you

 

Above as complementary processes

 

 

 

DOMINANT SYSTEM SOCIETAL RECONSTRUCTION AFTER COLLAPSE

 

1.    Elect Government

2.    Establish Legal Justice System

3.    Establish Police, Courts and prisons

4.    Establish Economy

5.    Care for People

 

 

GRASSROOTS WAY OF SOCIETAL RECONSTRUCTION AFTER COLLAPSE

 

 

1.    Healing Community Wellbeing

a.    Relational mediating

b.    Personal and interpersonal healing

c.    Re-constituting wellbeing

 

2.    Re-constituting of our way of life together (our Lore)

3.    Reconstituting our livelihood (output beyond sustenance)

4.    Re-constituting our local governance

a.    village meetings so local chief gains sense of the community will

 

5.    Reconstituting local law including village justice

6.    Re-constituting provincial governance

7.    Reconstituting Governance of Region-wide issues

8.    Collaborating Governance of the Global Commons (Air, Water,

 

 

 

MAINTAINING CONDUCT AND THE CORRECTING PROCESSES

 

 



 

LEVEL

 

NORMALITY

 

DEVIANCY

 

CORRECTING PROCESS

 

DOMINANT

SYSTEM

 

 

top down

 

authority of

position

 

 

CORRECTING PROCESS

 

HEALING POWER OF COMMUNITY

 

local lateral

 

personal &

communal authority

 

 

 

1 Values

 

 

Moral

Ethical

 

 

Immoral

Unethical

 

Priests

Moral leaders

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

2 Norms

   (Legality)

 

 

Legal

Law-Observance

 

 

Illegal

Criminal

 

 

Judiciary

Police

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

3 Rules

   (Efficacy)

 

 

Loyal

 

Disloyal

 

Administrators

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

4 Obligations

(Capacity)

 

a) Role

Performance

 

 

b) Task

Performance

 

 

 

 

Role responsibility

(Competence)

 

Ability

 

 

 

 

Mental Illness

 

 

Physical Illness

(Disability)

 

 

 

 

 

Psychiatrist

 

 

 

Physician

 

 

 

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

 

TOTAL INSTITUTIONS - FOUR LEVELS

 






 

LEVEL

 

   CAPABILITY AND

       NATURE

 

INSTITUTION

 

 

CONFORMING

    PROCESS

 

 

1 Values

 

 

Capable and in retreat

 

Abbeys, Monasteries, Convents

 

Priests

Moral leaders

 

 

2 Norms

   (Legality)

 

 

Capable and deliberate threat to society

 

 

Jails, Penitentiaries, POW Camps,

 

 

Judiciary

Police

Guards

 

 

3 Rules

  (Efficiency)

 

 

Capable and there for instrumental purpose

 

Army Barracks, Ships

 

 

Administrators

 

 

4 Obligations

(Capacity)

 

a) Role

Performance

 

b) Task

Performance

 

 

 

 

Incapable and unintended threat to society

 

Incapable and harmless

 

 

 

 

 

TB Sanatorium,

Mental Hospital

 

Blind, Orphaned, Aged, Indigent

 

 

 

 

Physician, Psychiatrist

 

Physician, Carer

 

 

 

MAINTAINING CONDUCT AND THE CORRECTING PROCESSES

 

 



 

LEVEL

 

NORMALITY

 

DEVIANCY

 

CORRECTING PROCESS

 

 

HEALING POWER OF COMMUNITY

CORRECTING PROCESS

 

 

 

1 Values

 

 

Moral

Ethical

 

 

Immoral

Unethical

 

Priests

Moral leaders

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

2 Norms

   (Legality)

 

 

Legal

Law-Observance

 

 

Illegal

Criminal

 

 

Judiciary

Police

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

3 Rules

   (Efficacy)

 

 

Loyal

 

Disloyal

 

Administrators

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

4 Obligations

(Capacity)

 

a) Role

Performance

 

 

b) Task

Performance

 

 

 

 

Role responsibility

(Competence)

 

Ability

 

 

 

 

Mental Illness

 

 

Physical Illness

(Disability)

 

 

 

 

 

Psychiatrist

 

 

 

Physician

 

 

 

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

Healing Power of Community

 

 

 

DEPICTING THE WAY DOMINANT SOCIETY AND GRASSROOTS HEALING COMMUNITY ACCOMMODATE DIVERSITY AMONG

PEOPLE, SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS, ETHNIC GROUPS AND CULTURES

 

 

 

Level

 

Normality

 

Deviancy

 

Dominant Society

Correcting

Process

 

Healing

Power of

Community

Correcting

Process

 

 

Cleavage

Diversity

 

Current way:

 

Oppressor/

Oppressed

 

Advantaged/

Disadvantaged

 

Subjugating

Exploiting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Possible way: Harmonious

Unity

 

Oppressor

 

Protest

Disobedience

Conflict

Sabotage

Insurrection

War

Terrorising

Torturing

Killing

 

Oppressed

 

Hiding

Being Terrified

Fearing

Loathing

Numbing

Disintegrating

 

 

 

 

Venting energy

Fines

Compelling

   compliance

Coercion &

   sanctions

Imprisonment

Warrior system yang

Political

   Mediators

Negotiation

Police/Military

Para-military

Militias

Torture &

   Trauma

Shaming &

   Maiming

 

 

(Towards status quo in current way)

 

 

Cultural Keyline

Healing nurturing   Healing Yin

Therapeutic

  Community

Mediation Therapy

 Peacehealing

Healing/Wellbeing

   networks

Festive, and

  celebratory

  gatherings

 

Everyday life

   Integrating

wellbeing

   processes

 

 

 

 

 

(Towards possible way of harmonious cleavered unity)

 

 

 


 

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