Formal - is it definitely imperfect?

In Russian, the word "formal" has several meanings. Formal - it can be and such that corresponds to the form, that is is characteristic for it, and such that observes only external display of any business to the detriment of its essence. Formal is often called something that exists only for appearances. But is it always the term "formal" that has a negative connotation?

Formal communication

Formal communication in a different way is called a contact of masks. That is, this is a situation where the personality of the interlocutor is not taken into account, there is no desire to understand it more deeply. Formal, as a rule, are diplomatic or other business relations, where contacts are forced and occur strictly on an official level. With such communication, the interlocutors use masks of courtesy, modesty, courtesy, while diligently hiding their true attitude to what is happening behind the set of standard smiles, gestures and gestures.

What is a formal relationship?

Formal communication is closely related to formal relationships in which the positions of each are known in advance. They are defined by the rules and do not allow any exits beyond the rules. Due to this, a person can avoid personal relationships with people who may seem unpleasant or unwanted for contact.

After all, with formal relations, the interlocutors, as a rule, are oriented toward an external goal (for example, as in a buyer-seller relationship), and communication in this case is only a means of achieving the goal, and the interlocutor is the instrument for achieving it. By the way, the more programmed the behavior of such a "tool" is, the easier it is to use it, to maintain business contact with it.

How can one treat formal relations?

It should be noted that for a developed society formal relations are very economical. They do not require the expenditure of emotional energy and time to try to get acquainted, develop an opinion about the interlocutor, the desire to put it to oneself, etc. They allow you to act immediately, get in touch for a short time and forget about the interlocutor immediately after achieving the desired result.

Relations that have the status of "formal" - is a way to turn a community into a single organism. At the same time, anyone who does not go beyond the established rules, such relationships are transformed into a component of the body, rewarding in return a sense of security, stability and unity, which are another aspect of formal relations.

A little more about formal relationships

If we communicate within the framework of such relations, the result, even if it is not fully known or not necessarily positive, will still be within the expected or supposed. And this means - you can prepare in advance to react to it in a certain way.

After all, we are often frightened not by the result itself, but precisely what it can take unawares, and the person will not be able to adequately respond. Hence, "formal" is a communication algorithm that allows us to maintain a relationship without having to bother with many small things and anticipating the outcome.

Relationships in Formal Organizations

The described relations can be subordinated to a sufficiently large group of people who make up the organization. That is, a community where the relationship is clearly structured and subject to the charter, rules and internal regulations - this is a formal organization. The person here acts primarily as a functionary. Each such organization inherent in the rationality of relations, their uniqueness and impersonality.

True, sometimes all this can begin to bear the character of a bureaucratic structure, whose absolutes become the absolutization of individual elements of the organization, the loss of the content goals of its activities and the subordination of functioning only to the strengthening of the organization itself. Hence the origin of the concept of bureaucracy, formalism and callousness.

On Formal Law

The state is the same formal organization with strictly structured relations within it and the statute in the form of Legislation, which regulates everything that is happening.

But a citizen living in a modern state has to remember two versions of the law that exist in society: formal and real. Formal law relies on the Law (often imperfect) and the judicial system (often not fully developed and independent), and therefore can not cope with all the variety of manifestations of public life. The real right is a set of traditions, generally accepted behavioral stereotypes and repetitive phenomena of social life. And therefore formal and informal law often do not overlap, having different spheres of application.

Conclusion

As you can see, no matter what branch of social relations we endow with the term "formal", this word can turn out to be very ambiguous. Formal relations in any manifestation are a sign of progress only until they become a "thing in themselves", they do not turn into husks, packaging, in which there is nothing.