Help me with terminology! Term for accepting standard practice as good or normal??

[The Jokers Girl]

The status quo? (The Latin phrase not the band)

 

[Reacher]

Chapter 7, page 43 of this report has
"conditioned ethical blindness"

ETA - and also:
"what Robert Garner calls the ‘moral orthodoxy’ of utilitarianism"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280718607_Normalising_the_Unthinkable_The_Ethics_of_Using_Animals_in_Experiments

I LIKe normalising the unthinkable

 

[cauda equina]

Acclimitised?

 

[Keith_Beef]

For instance people who work with commercial pigs are so used to tail docking that it is regarded as normal; people in the horse industry often regard shoeing as normal; people who have certain breeds of dog may regard tail docking as normal for them too.... what's the term for this?? I saw a really nice talk on it a few years ago and the presenter had a neat term to sum it up and of course I thought 'that's so good I'll definitely remember it' and now can't remember it. Google is not being helpful. Some sort of unconscious bias maybe? But that doesn't seem quite right. Some sort of 'blindness' i.e. not seeing that something might be a problem simply because it's so common. Not even sure I've explained that very well argh.

Can anyone help?!

"Customary" or "traditionally" might work.

"In commercial pig-rearing, it is customary to dock the tails of the pigs."

 

[PapaverFollis]

OP is not looking for a synonym for "standard practice". They are looking for a word or short phrase that means "unquestionably accepting standard practice even though it's objectively dodgy."

 

[The Jokers Girl]

OP is not looking for a synonym for "standard practice". They are looking for a word or short phrase that means "unquestionably accepting standard practice even though it's objectively dodgy."

The status quo covers what she is looking for

 

[PapaverFollis]

I'm sorry but it doesn't. "blindly accepting the status quo" covers what she is looking for. But "status quo" on its own does not.

 

[cauda equina]

Habituated?

 

[Keith_Beef]

OP is not looking for a synonym for "standard practice". They are looking for a word or short phrase that means "unquestionably accepting standard practice even though it's objectively dodgy."

My thought was that "customary" and "traditionally" would denote some practice that people follow out of custom and tradition, rather than having any proof that the practice is objectively correct.

Another might be "the conventional wisdom". Wikipedia's article on the term states that:

Conventional wisdom was used in a number of other works before Galbraith, occasionally in a benign or neutral sense, but more often pejoratively. However, previous authors used it as a synonym for 'commonplace knowledge'. Galbraith specifically prepended 'The' to the phrase to emphasize its uniqueness, and sharpened its meaning to narrow it to those commonplace beliefs that are also acceptable and comfortable to society, thus enhancing their ability to resist facts that might diminish them. He repeatedly referred to it throughout the text of The Affluent Society, invoking it to explain the high degree of resistance in academic economics to new ideas. For these reasons, he is usually credited with the invention and popularization of the phrase in modern usage.

 

[PapaverFollis]

They are all synonyms for standard practice though, KB. The phrase in question describes the way someone looks at standard practice.

 

[thefarsideofthefield]

familial allegiance
uncritical acceptance
blind attachment/adherence/acquiescence/allegiance
unquestioning belief/acceptance/allegiance/obedience/acquiescence/conformity/attachment

 

[The Jokers Girl]

I'm sorry but it doesn't. "blindly accepting the status quo" covers what she is looking for. But "status quo" on its own does not.

But thats exactly what op is asking, what is the word or phrase for accepted practice. The status quo plus many others that have been put forward cover what op is asking.
In my suggestion it woukd be used thusly,
"Working dogs have their tails docked, why is that?"
"no idea its just the status quo."
Op has not dismissed other posters out of hand and as its her looking for the word/phrase it will be interesting to see if she comes back and feels any of the many suggestions fit what she is thinking of.

 

[PapaverFollis]

She's asking for a phrase describing the action of not questioning the status quo, even when the status quo is objectively questionable.

 

[Keith_Beef]

She's asking for a phrase describing the action of not questioning the status quo, even when the status quo is objectively questionable.

Yes, that's something that I didn't understand from the initial post...

If I've finally understood correctly OP wants a word that describes the unquestioning acceptance of tradition or custom, not a synonym for tradition or custom.

I have a sneaking suspicion that we are looking for a word that ends in "nymy" or "ism"...

How about "conventionalism": "the philosophical attitude that fundamental principles of a certain kind are grounded on (explicit or implicit) agreements in society, rather than on external reality".

 

[cauda equina]

I keep going back to learned helplessness, which I know it isn't, but I can't think of anything else that means you come to accept an unpleasant situation because you don't feel you can change it

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I keep going back to learned helplessness, which I know it isn't, but I can't think of anything else that means you come to accept an unpleasant situation because you don't feel you can change it

That would imply a recognition of the need for change though, whereas I understood OP to mean that the practice was unthinkingly accepted simply because 'it has always been done that way' . I think habituation is the best word for the meaning required.

 

[blodwyn1]

Socially acceptable?

 

[DabDab]

Recieved wisdom?

Was what jumped out of my brain anywho....
ETA: or 'doctrine' maybe if you were looking for one word

 

[J&S]

As I drove to horse today there was a programme on the radio regarding depression in young people. The lad speaking used the word "normalised" in a context similar to that described by the OP.

 

[GreyMane]

..."the routinisation of violence and the banality of evil"...

"the banality of evil" was the subtitle of a book by Hannah Arendt about the trial of Eichmann
https://veganwise.blogspot.com/2014/06/normalising-unthinkable.html

 

[soloequestrian]

Crumbs, I wasn't expecting this level of response! Thank you everyone.
I like 'conventionalism'. I've also been thinking about 'situational blindness'. I did come across the 'banality of evil' phrase translated into the 'banality of the everyday'.

 

[WandaMare]

I keep thinking of complicit but I think that is where someone is aware what they are doing isn't right, unless you can be unknowingly complicit..

Or you can have implicit bias where you are unaware of why you understand something in a certain way, I heard this on a course and understood the examples at the time, but I can't remember any of them now..

 

[Frumpoon]

Accepted wisdom?

 

[Fransurrey]

Dogmatism.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Here's an example of your original post, with a sentence added at the end.

People who work with commercial pigs are so used to tail docking that it is regarded as normal; people in the horse industry often regard shoeing as normal; people who have certain breeds of dog may regard tail docking as normal for them too. This conventionalism perpetuates traditional and customary practices without seeking to objectively evaluate whether they are of any real benefit to the animal.

 

[hollyandivy123]

Accepted dogma ?

 

[alibali]

In Scotland we use the phrase 'aye been' as in "It's aye (always) been done like that" said in an outraged tone if anyone cares suggest an alternative! Sorry OP probably of no help to you ?

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

Entrenched beliefs/behaviour