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Values as Correlates of Deviancy *
Author(s) -
COCHRANE RAYMOND
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1974.tb00118.x
Subject(s) - deviance (statistics) , psychology , hierarchy , social psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , value (mathematics) , variable (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , group (periodic table) , variables , cognition , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics , law , computer science , psychiatry , chemistry , geometry , organic chemistry , political science , mathematical analysis , programming language
It is suggested that value systems are potentially the most profitable variable to study in the aetiology of deviance. Values are higher in the cognitive hierarchy than attitudes and constitute a finite set of variables. As they are believed to be motivational variables it is argued that values should occupy a central position in accounting for differences in behaviour and life style. Data are presented on four groups of law‐breakers, a group of homosexuals and a group of drug users which strongly support this contention. Although little consistency is found among the value systems of the various deviant groups, they each differ in significant and predictable ways from their respective control groups.