Peers, student attitudes, and student deviance in Japan and the United States

(Kanazawa University) This study presents evidence on the cross-cultural generalizability of differential association/social learning theory. It does so by testing whether the causal processes of learning attitudes toward deviance, as posited by the theory, are equally applicable, and the causal links, as specified by the theory, are equally strong in Japan and the US. Analyses of comparable survey data from students in Japan and the US provide generally supportive, but somewhat mixed, evidence regarding our predictions.

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