Social bond is the binding ties or social bonding to the family. Social bond is the degree to which an individual is integrated into the society, and also includes social bonding to the school, to the workplace and to the community. Social Bond theory was written by Travis Warner Hirschi in 1969. Social Bond theory theory later developed into Social Control Theory. While David Emile Durkheim first focused on the importance of the social bond it has gained wide acceptance in the theory and research of Travis Hirschi, which argues that when the socal bond is weakened the degree of deviant behavior goes up.
Travis Hirschi presented four social bonds which promote socialization and conformity: attachment, commitment,Swiss Replica Watches involvement and belief. According to Travis Hirschi, the stronger these four social bonds, the least likely one would become delinquent. Hirschi first assumes that everyone has potential to become delinquent and criminal and it is social control, not moral values, that maintain law and order. Without controls, he argues, one is free to commit criminal acts.
Emotions, the Social Bond,
and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis - Thomas J. Scheff.
Innovative approach to researching human behavior which relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. Scheff combines the insights of the
humanities and social sciences to better understand what he calls 'human reality'. He puts
a fresh emphasis on the importance of emotions in the social bond.
Family, Friends and
Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe - Gerd Althoff,
Christopher Carroll.
This work documents and describes just how extensively crucial personal and social bonds
influenced political life in Europe in the Early and High Middle Ages. Political life in
the Middle Ages was significantly influenced by the social bonds people had to one
another, and the bonds of kinship, friendship and
lordship were by far the most important. Gerd Althoff demonstrates how the nature and
importance of these social bonds changed, as did the rules and norms which governed them.
Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory - Thomas J. Scheff.
I nominate shame, specifically, as the premier social emotion. First I review the individualized treatment of shame in psychoanalysis and psychology, and the absence of social context. I consider the contributions to the social dimensions of shame by Georg Simmel, Charles Horton Cooley, Norbert Elias, Richard Sennett, Helen Lynd, Erving Goffman, and a psychologist and psychoanalyst, Helen Lewis.
I show that Cooley and Lynd, particularly, made contributions to a theory of shame and the social bond. Lewis's idea that shame arises from threats to the social bond integrates the contributions of all six sociologists, and points toward future research on emotion, conflict, and alienation/integration.
School Delinquency and the School Social Bond - PATRICIA H. JENKINS. This article examines the independent effects of the four components of the school social bond, like school commitment, attachment to school, school involvement, and belief in school rules, on school crime, school misconduct, and school nonattendance. Results suggest that the school social bond is an important intervening mechanism that helps to explain the effects of certain predictor variables on school crime, school misconduct, and nonattendance in middle schools.
Social Bond Theory and Alcohol Use Among College Students. - Cherry,
Andrew L.,Replica Watches Jr. Abstract: Investigated incidence of alcohol use by college
students, relationship among social bond variables, and ability of social bond
variables to predict alcohol use. Psychosocial scales measuring elements of
social bond to the college community were used successfully to classify
abstainers, light-to-moderate drinkers, and heavy drinkers in 74% of the cases.
An empirical examination of the social bond theory of drug use. -
Dull RT.
This bivariate analysis included a series of bivariate cross-comparison
correlations between the independent variable
which is social bond and the dependent
variable which is drug. The relationship between the independent and
dependent variables was further examined by calculating the correlation and
level of significance within selected categories of several demographic variables
like race, sex, education, and marital status. The results showed a
significant positive correlation between reduced social bonding and greater drug
use. It was concluded that Hirschi's social bond theory fails to provide an
adequate explanation for the use of drugs within the framework of this analysis.
SOCIAL BOND THEORY AND
BINGE DRINKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A MULTIVARIATE
ANALYSIS.
DURKIN, KEITH F.; WOLFE, TIMOTHY W.; CLARK,
GREGORY.
This paper presents the results of a research project that examined the influence of
social bond variables on binge drinking in a sample of college students. The
results indicated that nearly all of the social bond measures were inversely related to
the frequency of binge drinking. A multivariate model that used these social bond measures
explained approximately one-quarter of the variance.
Social bond theory and drunk driving in a sample of college students. (Report): An article from: College Student Journal by Keith F. Durkin, Scott E. Wolfe, Ross W. May. This paper reports the finding from a study that examined the relationship between social bond variables and drunk driving in a sample of university students. A questionnaire containing indicators representing social bond variables, as well as a measure of drunk driving was administered to a sample of 1459 college students. The results of this study provide mixed support for social bond theory.