Status, Endorsement and the Legitimacy of Deviance

Autor/in	Younts, C. Wesley
Titel	Status, Endorsement and the Legitimacy of Deviance
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 87 (2008) 1, S.561-590 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Laboratory Experiments; Peer Relationship; Social Influences; Social Status; Cheating; Antisocial Behavior; Undergraduate Students; Males; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Laboratory work; Laborarbeit; Peer-Beziehungen; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozialer Status; Prellen; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This research investigates one process through which deviance becomes legitimate and therefore expected of individuals within a group. On the one hand, the status of an individual initially suggesting deviance affects others' personal beliefs that deviance is proper, and in turn the likelihood that they will enact and transmit deviance to new group members. On the other hand, endorsement of deviance by peers is sufficient to legitimate the behavior. As a result, individuals are more likely to enact and transmit endorsed deviance regardless of propriety. Results of a laboratory experiment, in which a confederate suggests that participants should cheat on a task, indicate that endorsement and status independently affect the likelihood participants cheated and suggested cheating to a new group, but that they do not interact. (Contains 6 tables and 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10