Norm Change Over Subject Generations as a Function of Arbitrariness of Prescribed Norms
Norm Change Over Subject Generations as a Function of Arbitrariness of Prescribed Norms
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主体世代的规范变化作为规定规范任意性的函数
DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.34.5.762
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发表时间:
1976
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
M. Sherif
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文献类型:
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作者:
Mark K. MacNeil;M. Sherif
Experimental groups of male high school students making judgments of autokinesis were enculturated with 1 of 2 arbitrary norms by planted Ss. Participants in sessions changed through successive" generations" in accordance with the example of RC Jacobs and DT Campbell (see PA, Vol 36: 46D49J). The principal focus was the effect of differing degrees of arbitrariness on norm formation, persistence, and change. Conformity to imposed arbitrary norms was an inverse function of the degrees of arbitrariness. The 2 prescribed arbitrary norms were set at clearly separated distances from the natural norm and were clearly differentiated from each other. Both of the arbitrary norms in this study had a much broader latitude (17.78 cm) than that of Jacobs and Campbell (5.08 cm). Therefore, as would be predicted from latitude theorizing, the enculturation and transmission of arbitrary norms were more effective and more persistent through generations. The more apparent than real differences between the findings of this study and those of Jacobs and Campbell are reconciled through discussion of the nature of norms.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)