Collaborative Research on Group-Mediated Social Control: An Experimental Investigation

群体中介社会控制的协作研究：一项实验研究

• 批准号: 9022601
• 负责人: Thomas Conner
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-01 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9022601&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Group; Mediated; Social

This project is collaborative with SES 9022926. This research tests a theory of social control of deviance, the ways in which individuals can influence others not to commit deviant acts. How people respond to sanctions varies greatly depending on group context. For instance, community norms reinforce and support laws, preventing more cases of deviance than are prevented by the legal sanctions such as prison. Alternatively, peer pressure can contravene laws, as when college students support each others' drinking, or output norms restrict productivity. The theory under test here includes both actual and perceived strength of sanctions, the cost of individual compliance, the cost and effectiveness of trying to get others to comply or not to comply, and the perceived likelihood that deviance will be detected. Experiments constitute direct tests of most of the theory's assertions. Results will help develop this explicit theory on the operation of social control proces- ses, and will have applications in law enforcement and informal control situations.

该项目与 SES 9022926 合作。该研究测试了越轨行为的社会控制理论，即个人影响他人不实施越轨行为的方式。 人们对制裁的反应因群体背景而异。 例如，社区规范强化和支持法律，防止的越轨案件比监狱等法律制裁所防止的案件还要多。 另外，同伴压力也可能违反法律，例如大学生支持彼此饮酒，或者产出标准限制生产力。 这里所检验的理论包括制裁的实际强度和感知强度、个人遵守的成本、试图让他人遵守或不遵守的成本和有效性，以及发现异常行为的感知可能性。 实验构成了对大多数理论断言的直接检验。 结果将有助于发展这种关于社会控制过程运作的明确理论，并将在执法和非正式控制情况下得到应用。