Journal article
The Social Psychology of Corruption: Why It Does Not Exist and Why It Should
Sociology compass, Vol.8(2), pp.187-202
02/01/2014
DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12120
Abstract
In recent decades, corruption has emerged as a major cause of global inequality and an important subject of social scientific research. This article argues that social psychologists have not taken full advantage of analytical tools at their disposal to generate explanatory accounts of corruption in non-Western contexts. In the first part of the article, the author maintains that the lack of social psychological research on why people engage in corruption is due to the dearth of empirical data on corruption, the theoretical complexity of this phenomenon, and current popularity of neoliberalism in politics and academic research. In the second part of the article, the author argues that the symbolic interactionism school of social psychology has a number of tools that could be more helpful in exploring the causes of corruption in non-Western settings than rational-choice approaches that are currently en vogue. The article concludes with an argument that such analyses could generate culturally sensitive as well as policy-relevant theories of corruption.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Social Psychology of Corruption: Why It Does Not Exist and Why It Should
- Creators
- Marina Zaloznaya
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sociology compass, Vol.8(2), pp.187-202
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/soc4.12120
- ISSN
- 1751-9020
- eISSN
- 1751-9020
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984198908502771
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