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Deviance, Rule‐Breaking and Male Dominance in Conversation
Author(s) -
Orcutt James D.,
Harvey Lynn Kenneth
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1985.8.1.15
Subject(s) - deviance (statistics) , conversation , normative , psychology , social psychology , perception , dominance (genetics) , empirical research , developmental psychology , communication , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , machine learning , neuroscience , gene
Previous research on dyadic interaction indicates that cross‐sex conversations (male‐female) are characterized by more frequent interruptions than same‐sex conversations. More specifically, males consistently tend to interrupt their female co‐conversationalists. Survey data from three student samples suggest that normative definitions reflected in perceptions of interruption are inconsistent with the empirical distribution of rule‐breaking observed by conversational researchers. These results provide some strategic insights into the problematic distinction between deviance and rule‐breaking that has been central to labeling theory.