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On the Importance of Family, Morality, Masculine, and Feminine Honor for Theory and Research
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In this paper, the authors present an approach to honor as multifaceted, defined as having four different facets, or honor codes: morality-based honor, family honor, masculine honor, and feminine honor.Abstract:
This paper presents an approach to honor as multifaceted. In this approach, honor is defined as having four different facets, or honor codes: morality-based honor, family honor, masculine honor, and feminine honor. The honor-as-multifaceted approach has generated much psychological research examining the importance of each honor code across different cultural and social groups. An overview of this research shows that that the different honor codes exert a powerful influence on a variety of group processes, including collective action, in-group identification, the definition of gendered roles within the family, in-group responses to threats to collective honor, intergroup attitudes, and value change within groups. The paper discusses how defining and measuring honor as multifaceted -rather than as an unitary construct- provides a fuller understanding of honor's role in group life.read more
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A different kind of honor culture: Family honor and aggression in Turks [Dataset]
TL;DR: This paper found that family honor may be a key factor in explaining insult-related aggression in Mediterranean honor cultures, and that people from Turkish honor culture intended to aggress more after being insulted than Dutch people from a non-honor culture.
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The social and cultural psychology of honour: What have we learned from researching honour in Turkey?
Ayse K. Uskul,Susan E. Cross +1 more
TL;DR: A growing literature in social and cultural psychology has examined cultures of honour primarily focusing on southern states in the United States and on Mediterranean countries of southern Europe as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the Mediterranean region.
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How criminal organisations exert secret power over communities: An intracultural appropriation theory of cultural values and norms
TL;DR: A criminal organisation has the ability to exert secret power -governance over the community and inhibition of opposition (omerta), which has been attributed to fear or passivity as mentioned in this paper.
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Dual routes from social identity to collective opposition to criminal organisations: Intracultural appropriation theory and the roles of honour codes and social change beliefs:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Italian criminal organizations are a serious global threat and that such groups exploit cultural codes of masculinity and honour to legitimise and legitimise their activities.
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Implications of culture of honor theory and research for practitioners and prevention researchers.
TL;DR: The aim of this article is to review the recent research on culture of honor and to discuss its societal implications by focusing on 3 pressing social problems: intimate partner aggression, school violence, and reluctance to seek mental health care.
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Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An "Experimental Ethnography"
TL;DR: Findings highlight the insult-aggression cycle in cultures of honor, in which insults diminish a man's reputation and he tries to restore his status by aggressive or violent behavior.
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Male honor and female fidelity: implicit cultural scripts that perpetuate domestic violence.
Joseph A. Vandello,Dov Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: Three general predictions were supported: (a) female infidelity damages a man's reputation, particularly in honor cultures; (b) this reputation can be partially restored through the use of violence; and (c) women in honor culture are expected to remain loyal in the face of jealousy-related violence.
Of Vigilance and Virgins: Honor, Shame and Access to Resources
TL;DR: The cultural unity of Mediterranean societies rarely discusses the cultural unity in the area as discussed by the authors, and there has been no systematic attempt to explore the origin of these codes, or to distinguish them as a complex of rules and patterns of behavior from similar rules and rules in other societies.
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The role of honour concerns in emotional reactions to offences
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of honour concerns in mediating the effect of nationality and gender on the reported intensity of anger and shame in reaction to insult vignettes and found that Spanish participants responded especially intensely to insults that threaten family honour.
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