Culture of Legality and Transgression of Norms in University Youth

Abstract

This paper begins with an overview of the literature on legal, social and moral norms and their relationship with individual behaviours, and then discusses the culture of legality in a group of university students in Italy. In particular, this paper provides a reflection on the relationship that exists between social and legal norms and their mutual capacity to influence the behaviours of young people. We highlight the multidimensional nature of the underlying factors of conditionality, relativity and universality. We also discuss the existence of two types of social norms, general and generational and their differing capacities to affect behaviour. The research technique is a web survey on 3938 students from three Italian universities (Venezia, Bari, Salerno).

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Bertin G., Pantalone M. (2016) "Culture of Legality and Transgression of Norms in University Youth " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 8(3), 169-194. DOI: 10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2016-3-9  
Year of Publication
2016
Journal
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
8
Issue Number
3
Start Page
169
Last Page
194
Date Published
10/2016
ISSN Number
2035-4983
Serial Article Number
9
DOI
10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2016-3-9
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