Sociological Study of Formation of the Grayscale of Badness

本研究以社会调查数据为基础，研究了青少年对各种不良观念进行分类、归因和排序的过程。我们的主要发现如下：(1)道德严格性的放松在20岁左右达到高峰，呈现出一条普遍的年龄曲线。(2)尽管性规范和谨慎规范通常是放松的，但在正义和伤害的规范上没有放松。(3)性发展引发了这种道德放松和秩序。(4)从进化的角度来看，这种青少年现象可以解释为一种适应性策略，使人类能够建立更高水平的社会秩序。

In this study, we have focused on the process in which adolescents classify, reason and order various conceptions of badness, based on the social survey data. Our major findings are as follows :(1) Relaxation of moral strictness reaches a peak at about 20 years old, which depicts a universal age curve.(2) Relaxation does not occur concerning norms of justice and harm, although norms of sex and prudence are normally relaxed.(3) Sexual development set off this moral relaxation and ordering.(4) From the evolutionary point of view, this adolescent phenomenon can be explained as an adaptive strategy which enables human beings to make a higher level of social order.