Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Nov. 2008
The term protocol encompasses several meanings, while the most familiar and commonly used by common people refers to the set of behaviors and rules that a person must observe and respect when moving in certain areas officers either for a matter of special circumstance or because he holds a position that leads him to transit for these.
Generally, those people who hold an executive position of relevance in a country such as a minister, a president or a diplomat must respect and take account of certain questions that do not only to good manners or issues related only to attitudes, but also to those things a little more frivolous such as clothing, but that in certain cultures or societies are strictly enforced and that will not go unnoticed at all in the eyes of those who respect and ask to respect the protocols.
For example, in those countries that have a form of government monarchical, the approach and the visit to the kings is surrounded and subject to a strict protocol that must be yes to be respected by the people who are invited to a meeting or celebration in which the kings are the organizers. Although, of course, this situation also extends to the opposite case, because even when it is the king who visits for some other reason
nation, the people who receive it should also be guided by the principles of the protocol that is in force at that time.Although for many of us who are far from this type of situation it seems ridiculous or even almost eccentric to use the very rare hats that women must wear to attend a royal wedding in England, for them it is mandatory and a very serious breach of protocol to ignore the normative.
All this that I commented to you above regarding the protocol that human relations must observe in more official areas than anything else. However, there is also a protocol in other media in which all commoners move assiduously and that must also be respected and observed. Thus, for example, the social, political, academic, military and labor environment have to respect other issues that have nothing to do with hats, but with respect and obedience to certain positions considered superior as may be the case of the military. Indeed, in organizations hierarchical forces such as the armed forces or safety, the structure of the Church and, to a lesser extent, the school structure, respect for the protocol is not only well seen, but also of specific compliance. In a somewhat less accentuated way, the residences of health professionals in hospitals behave in a similar way.
In this sense, the word "protocol"admits another meaning that is worth highlighting, and that is that which corresponds to preclinical or clinical trials for evaluation of a new drug or a new indication of a known drug. Named trials in English and usually referred to as "studies" in translations to our language, these protocols are a source of novel knowledge in health sciences and even in other disciplines such as psychology, the sociology and other areas.
It is also preferred to call the sequence or organization of orders or data protocol. Consequently, there are computer protocols, evacuation protocols for a civil or commercial building, protocols for the initiation of various procedures and another series of small-scale assemblies. scale or national and even international level. Thus, the protocol is a true polysemic concept, which must be interpreted in the correct setting and circumstance to achieve the most appropriate results.
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