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: 9022926
• 负责人: Douglas Heckathorn
• 金额: $ 1.21万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 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 1994-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9022926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Group; Mediated; Social

This project is collaborative with SES 9022601. 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.

本项目与SES 9022601合作。这项研究测试了一种偏差的社会控制理论，即个人可以影响他人不做出偏差行为的方式。人们对制裁的反应在很大程度上取决于群体背景。例如，社区规范加强和支持法律，预防更多的越轨行为，而不是通过监狱等法律制裁来预防。另外，同辈压力可能违反法律，比如大学生互相支持喝酒，或者产出规范限制了生产率。这里测试的理论包括制裁的实际和感知强度，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，以及感知到的越轨行为被发现的可能性。实验构成了对该理论大多数论断的直接检验。研究结果将有助于发展这一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。