Abstract

BERAMENDI, Maite  and  ZUBIETA, Elena. Perverse Rule: Transgression as Legitimacy Modeling. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.2, pp.591-600. ISSN 1657-9267.

Norms regulate human behavior, mainly to maintain the social order. There are several institutional resources to control, Tyler (2006) suggest that legitimacy is an effective one to generate obedience. This paper, based on exploratory study, presents the characterization that university student have done about norms. Mainly, which they understand for norms, how they describe the relationship between argentines and norms and which is their general perception of the Argentine regulatory system. The result of focus groups, shows that there are a negative conception of norms in Argentina context, a low institutional confidence, a widespread perception of corruption and double standards normative system.

Keywords : Corruption; Legitimacy; Perverse Norm; Transgression; Moral Psychology; Decision Making; Qualitative Research.

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