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Children and Compliance: A Comparative Analysis of Socialization Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Sheilah R. Koeppen
Sheilah R. Koeppen*
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University of Minnesota
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Popular compliance with prescribed patterns of behavior is the fundamental constraint on social disruption. Even the effectiveness of control by legal sanctions depends on the public's acceptance of their use by authorities. Inquiry into the sources of popular adherence to norms conducive to compliance with authorities has been an aspect of socialization research. This essay comments on political science research on socialization, and points out how it differs from the research reported by psychologist Joseph Adelson and his associates (1970) in this journal and in a previous study (1966). The socialization studies are compared in order to determine their utility for discerning the sources of compliant behavior.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , May 1970 , pp. 545 - 564
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Copyright © 1970 by the Law and Society Association

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