- What is recognition?
- Labor recognition
- Social recognition
- Legal recognition
- International recognition
- Military recognition
We explain what recognition is and its meaning in labor, social and legal matters. In addition, international and military recognition.
What is recognition?
With the word recognition we usually refer to the public, notorious and formal gratitude of the talents, efforts or outstanding features of someone, or the public and formal expression of gratitude for a favor or benefit received, or some celebrated achievement. It does not always designate a physical award (such as a diploma), but also the act of recognizing to the other what has been achieved before the community in general, or before third parties.
The word recognition is composed of two voices of Latin root, such as the prefix re- ("Again" or "do something again") and the verb I will know ("know"). However, its current meaning is more linked to the idea of admitting, confessing or doing something notorious, present the meaning of the phrase “the thief recognized his crime”. Thus, when we acknowledge someone, we let others know their achievements, talents or good behaviour.
Generally, for this type of use it is spoken of personal recognition, since it is given to a single person. However, it is possible to also give recognition to a institution whole one business or a community, and in those cases it will be an institutional, corporate or community recognition, respectively. There are also other forms of recognition that we will see below.
Labor recognition
Labor recognition is one that is granted for a job performed, that is, within the framework of the job and the committed fulfillment of one's obligations.
It is common, for example, for companies to grant recognition to their workers when they serve a certain time of work in the organization, as a way to motivate them and to publicly express the company's appreciation for the work carried out in a sustained manner during 10, 20 or 30 years of professional career.
Social recognition
By social recognition we understand the approval or individual assessment that we receive from a certain group, after a job well done or for having contributed a lot to the group. Social recognition is often highly coveted by individuals and is very important during certain stages of life, such as adolescence. It is also what most artists aspire to.
From a slightly different point of view, there is also a social recognition that occurs between peers, no longer by distinction, but by belonging, that is, by conformity. This is what we usually refer to as acceptance: when in a group we are treated as equals to the rest, with sense of belongingWe can justly say that we enjoy the recognition of the group, that is, that we are accepted.
Legal recognition
Legal recognition is a legal figure of acceptance, according to which a Condition or determined jurisdiction attest to the validity, truth and worth of consideration that is a procedure, a fact or an administrative decision. Thus, by granting their recognition, the public powers are displayed in accordance with what is recognized.
For example, the States recognize as valid only certain types of bureaucratic procedures, or certain types of transactions that do not contradict the law. law, or even the professional qualification of an individual. For this reason, when emigrating, people with fourth-level studies must usually revalidate their university degree in the other country, that is, demonstrate its validity before the State in order to have their recognition and permission to formally exercise their profession.
Another form of legal recognition is that granted by the parents their children, by presenting them to the State. Children recognized in this way enjoy all the rights that the law establishes for the heirs, while “natural” or unrecognized children must, as adults, prove their parentage if they wish to access those same rights, since they did not enjoy in his moment of paternal recognition.
International recognition
In a similar way to the previous case, international recognition or diplomatic recognition refers to the right of States and governments to recognize (or not recognize) the actions of another, either in an express way (formal and frontal) or tacit (by omission, that is, due to lack of action).
This usually happens, for example, when a country becomes independent from another and sets itself up as a nation independent: its neighbors may recognize the new government and address it, or on the contrary ignore it and continue to treat the young nation as if it were part of the other.
Another common case is that of hit of State, which establish new illegitimate governments and may for that reason not be recognized by the international community, as a way of expressing their discontent and disapproval of the illegitimate methods with which the de facto government acceded to political power.
Military recognition
In the military arts, it is known as reconnaissance or exploration (recon, from English) to a quick and light procedure aimed at obtaining information from the battlefield, before the arrival of the army. It is an intelligence task, carried out to know the enemy's intentions or the state of the battlefield, and thus be able to anticipate future inconveniences or adapt one's own strategy from war to the environment.
Military reconnaissance is carried out by scout or intelligence soldiers, trained in the observation criticism and analysis of the environment, as well as the observation of relief, environmental phenomena or neighboring populations. This clandestine work is, however, very different from counterintelligence and surveillance work.