The Science, Technology, and Society program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 Mar 13;378(1872):20210412. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0412. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
People's attitudes towards social norms play a crucial role in understanding group behaviour. Norm psychology accounts focus on processes of norm internalization that influence people's norm-following attitudes but pay considerably less attention to social identity and group identification processes. Social identity theory in contrast studies group identity but works with a relatively thin and instrumental notion of social norms. We argue that to best understand both sets of phenomena, it is important to integrate the insights of both approaches. Social status, social identity and social norms are considered separate phenomena in evolutionary accounts. We discuss assumptions and views that support this separation, and suggest an integrated view of our own. We argue that we should be open to the early origins of human social complexity, and conjecture that the longer that the human social world involved multi-level societies the more probable it is that norm psychology and social identity interacted in rich ways. This article is part of the theme issue 'Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'.
人们对社会规范的态度在理解群体行为方面起着至关重要的作用。规范心理学的关注点集中在影响人们遵守规范态度的规范内化过程上，但对社会认同和群体认同过程的关注要少得多。相比之下，社会认同理论研究群体认同，但它使用的是相对单薄和工具性的社会规范概念。我们认为，要想最好地理解这两组现象，就必须整合这两种方法的见解。在进化解释中，社会地位、社会认同和社会规范被视为不同的现象。我们讨论了支持这种分离的假设和观点，并提出了我们自己的综合观点。我们认为，我们应该对人类社会复杂性的早期起源持开放态度，并推测，人类社会世界涉及多层次社会的时间越长，规范心理学和社会认同相互作用的可能性就越大。本文是主题为“从进化过渡看人类社会文化进化”的一部分。
