When required conduct conflicts with strongly operative elements of the personal civilisation, pressure arises to reduce the tension by adapting the personal civilisation or reducing the effect of conflicting circle civilisations on the individual.
Domain: Maintenance and Reproduction
Proposition 049 – Circle civilisation and individual conduct
A circle civilisation does not directly determine an individual’s conduct; its influence operates through that individual’s personal civilisation, personality characteristics and concrete situation.
Proposition 048 – Acceptance of pathologisation
Pathologisation legitimates social sanctioning to the extent that the pathologising judgement corresponds to the circle civilisation and is accepted as credible and justified.
Proposition 047 – Pathologisation legitimates exclusion
Pathologisation may legitimate the social sanctioning and exclusion of deviant conceptions or conduct.
Proposition 046 – Conditions of sanctioning influence
The influence of social sanctioning on an individual’s conduct is partly determined by that individual’s personality characteristics and by the strength of conflicting civilisation elements in the personal civilisation.
Proposition 045 – Conformity without internalisation
Social sanctioning may produce conduct in accordance with a circle civilisation without the relevant civilisation elements also being internalised.
Proposition 044 – Sanctioning maintains civilisation
Social sanctioning contributes to maintaining particular civilisation elements of a circle civilisation.
Social sanctioning
The application of informal or formal responses through which a social circle promotes conforming conduct and discourages or punishes deviant conduct.
Reproductive civilisation loop
The self-reinforcing process through which a circle civilisation contributes, by means of civilising, to the internalisation of its elements by individuals, whose thinking, judgement and conduct subsequently contribute to the reproduction of that circle civilisation and its institutions.
Pathologisation
The process through which deviant conceptions or conduct are not assessed primarily on their content, but are treated as indications of a cognitive, moral, psychological or social deficiency in the person who holds or displays them.