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

[soloequestrian]

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?!

 

[PapaverFollis]

Normalised?

 

[mairiwick]

Cognitive dissonance? Although that's definitely when something is wrong/bad but they do it anyway...

 

[soloequestrian]

Thanks, those are both applicable, but not what I'm after. It was a more specific term. 'Normalised' would do the job. As you say, I think cognitive dissonance is more about believing one thing and doing another, like saying you object to killing animals but eating meat...

 

[soloequestrian]

Or maybe that's hypocrisy... just looked up cog dis: Cognitive dissonance is the unpleasant mental state that may result if someone really does have certain beliefs but thinks or acts in a way that contradicts them.

 

[Quigleyandme]

Accepted practice?

 

[mairiwick]

Or maybe that's hypocrisy... just looked up cog dis: Cognitive dissonance is the unpleasant mental state that may result if someone really does have certain beliefs but thinks or acts in a way that contradicts them.

I think the example I saw was a smoker knows smoking can cause serious health issues but continue to smoke regardless.. although I'm not convinced that's the best example either.. (but 2 glasses of prosecco on a Sunday eve.. what do I know?! ? )

 

[soloequestrian]

Accepted practice?

Yes, but the term describes not questioning that normal practice because it's so normal to you that you don't think anything else is possible, but if someone from outside the industry sees it or has it described to them it seems very strange e.g. we chop all the tails off piglets soon after they are born; we nail bits of metal to our beloved animals feet etc.

 

[Midlifecrisis]

Best practice?

 

[PapaverFollis]

I feel like I know this word but can't find it in my head.

 

[TheOldTrout]

I think normalised might be the word.

 

[PapaverFollis]

It's certainly how I would use normalised but the dictionary definition of normalised doesn't quite match that usage. So I think there might be another word for it. However no synonyms for normalised are jumping out.

 

[Sussexbythesea]

Belief system / ideology?

 

[PapaverFollis]

Institutionalised?

 

[soloequestrian]

Just found the phrase 'the banality of the everyday' which is kind of what I'm after but I don't think it was the term I'm trying to think of.... I'm sure that was just two words.... though with my memory who knows.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Dogma?

 

[ycbm]

Inured?

If you are inured to something you ignore it even though you would know it was bad/wrong if you thought about it.

 

[criso]

Customary, Conventiional, Established practice?

 

[PapaverFollis]

I'd say "inured" would be as close in meaning as we've got so far.

Inured by familiarity?

 

[my bfg]

complaisant?

 

[dreamcometrue]

Standard practice

 

[soloequestrian]

I suppose 'habituated' would also cover it. Pretty sure I have it written down somewhere at work but I'm not supposed to go to work ho hum!

 

[Red-1]

I think habituated too. Or...

Desensitised?

Indoctrinated?

Brainwashed?

Conditioned?

Programmed?

Numbed?

Institutionalise?

Legitamise?

Radicalise?

 

[SatansLittleHelper]

Blind conformity..??
Mindless acquiescence..??
Classical/operant conditioning..?? (Doubtful on operant)

 

[PapaverFollis]

Ooooo, blind conformity! I reckon that's a winner??

 

[SatansLittleHelper]

Or, as they ssy:
" Tradition is basically peer pressure from dead people " ??

 

[Goldenstar]

Shoeing really !

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I was going to say 'habituation' but I think you've got there.

 

[spotty_pony]

Conditioned to behave in a certain way.

 

[GreyMane]

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