Social Norms: Do We Love Norms Too Much?
dc.contributor.author | Bell, David C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cox, Mary L. | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Sociology, School of Liberal Arts | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-03T15:21:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-03T15:21:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Social norms are often cited as the cause of many social phenomena, especially as an explanation for prosocial family and relationship behaviors. And yet maybe we love the idea of social norms too much, as suggested by our failure to subject them to rigorous test. Compared to the detail in social norms theoretical orientations, there is very little detail in tests of normative theories. To provide guidance to researchers who invoke social norms as explanations, we catalog normative orientations that have been proposed to account for consistent patterns of action. We call on researchers to conduct tests of normative theories and the processes such theories assert. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's manuscript | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bell, David C. and Mary L. Cox. (2015). Social norms: Do we love norms too much? Journal of family theory and review 7(1): 28-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12059 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11353 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1111/jftr.12059 | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Journal of Family Theory & Review | en_US |
dc.rights | IUPUI Open Access Policy | en_US |
dc.source | Author | en_US |
dc.subject | social norms | en_US |
dc.subject | relationship behaviors | en_US |
dc.subject | normative theories | en_US |
dc.title | Social Norms: Do We Love Norms Too Much? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |