Bell David C, Cox Mary L
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
J Fam Theory Rev. 2015 Mar 1;7(1):28-46. doi: 10.1111/jftr.12059.
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.
社会规范常被认为是许多社会现象的成因，尤其是对亲社会的家庭及人际关系行为的一种解释。然而，正如我们未能对其进行严格检验所表明的那样，或许我们过于钟情于社会规范这一概念了。与社会规范理论取向的详尽程度相比，规范理论的检验却几乎没有什么细节。为给那些援引社会规范进行解释的研究者提供指导，我们梳理了为解释一致行动模式而提出的各种规范取向。我们呼吁研究者对规范理论及其所主张的过程进行检验。
