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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