Annie
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Actually, that depends.
It has been used in many contexts, but even in child raising there are "prevailing community standards," and may or may not be codified. Peer pressure is not just a childhood thing.
Depending on the particular community, and the time in history, it may change.
However
When the larger community determines the parameters of the "greater good" the choice is to comply, suffer the consequences, or try to enlist enough like minds to change it... If it changes, then new standards. If it doesn't, comply or suffer the consequences.
That is and always has been true. Sometimes it works out to the good, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't in a local community, or even country, it may go as far as a world-wide pressure to comply with a different standard.
Do you really need examples of how that works?
First ones off the top of my head: Israeli kibbutz and fascist Germany.