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

该项目与SES 9022926合作。 这项研究测试了社会控制越轨行为的理论， 个人可以影响他人不承诺的方式 异常行为 人们对制裁的反应千差万别 取决于群体背景。 例如，社区规范 加强和支持法律，防止更多的越轨行为 而不是被监禁等法律的制裁所阻止。 或者，同龄人的压力可能会违反法律， 学生互相支持喝酒，或输出规范限制 生产力 这里测试的理论包括实际的 制裁的强度，个人的成本 合规性，试图让其他人 遵守或不遵守，以及感知的可能性， 偏差将被检测到。 实验构成直接测试 大多数理论的断言。 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-- ses，并将在执法和非正式的应用程序 控制情况。

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.