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Direct linkTittle, Charles R.; Antonaccio, Olena; Botchkovar, Ekaterina – Social Forces, 2012
This study reports a cross-cultural test of Social Learning Theory using direct measures of social learning constructs and focusing on the causal structure implied by the theory. Overall, the results strongly confirm the main thrust of the theory. Prior criminal reinforcement and current crime-favorable definitions are highly related in all three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Crime, Reinforcement
Smangs, Mattias – Social Forces, 2010
This article explores the plausibility of the conflicting theoretical assumptions underlying the main criminological perspectives on juvenile delinquents, their peer relations and social skills: the social ability model, represented by Sutherland's theory of differential associations, and the social disability model, represented by Hirschi's…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Interpersonal Competence, Delinquency, Peer Relationship
Zhao, Ruohui; Cao, Liqun – Social Forces, 2010
We apply Durkheim's social transitional theory to explain the variation of anomie in 30 nations in the world. Combining data from two sources--the 1995 "World Values Survey and the United Nations University's World Income Inequality Database" or WIID--we test the hypothesis that rapid sociopolitical change at the structural level disrupts social…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Democracy, Social Change, Cross Cultural Studies
Acevedo, Gabriel A. – Social Forces, 2008
This paper will address the question of Islamic fatalism. Survey data will be used to assess Samuel P. Huntington's controversial "Clash of Civilizations" thesis and its emphasis on fatalism as an inherent characteristic of Islamic religion. The concept of fatalism is expanded and theorized as a function of both structural and…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islamic Culture, Islam, Foreign Countries
Marks, Gary N. – Social Forces, 2009
Modernization theory argues that, as societies industrialize and further develop, the influence of social background and other ascribed characteristics on educational and socioeconomic outcomes declines, while achievement in the education system becomes more important. The purpose of this research is to investigate propositions derived from…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
Ma, Dali; Parish, William L. – Social Forces, 2006
Using a 1995 national survey of 2,870 Chinese private entrepreneurs, this article examines collaboration between private business and government in times of economic transition. Much as in the late 18th century situation in France as described by Tocqueville, special moments occur when a newly emerging business class offers monetary payments for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Status, Political Attitudes, Lobbying
