• Social capital facilitates entrepreneurial process in international multiunit franchise outlets. Multiunit franchisee and franchisor agents activate process. Obligations, shared stories, trust norms influence interactions. Interactions involve horizontal, bottom-up, portfolio, franchisor-franchisee franchisee-peers. The study advances a sociological perspective entrepreneurship research. This...

The current study documents and examines college students' perceptions of the drinking behavior of peers from varying class years (i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior). A sample of 522 college students estimated the drinking behavior of peers within their own specific class year, as well as across the three other class years. Participants in each class year overestimated the drinking ...

Social norms help people self-organizing in many situations where having an authority representative is not feasible. On the contrary to institutional rules, the responsibility to enforce social norms is not the task of a central authority but a task of each member of the society. “The social norms I am talking about are not the formal, prescriptive or proscriptive rules designed, imposed, and ...

Consuming an unhealthy level of alcohol is a significant problem for some young women. Potential determinants of excess consumption include perceptions of usual consumption among peers-perceptions of what is "normal." The present study examined whether perceptions of social normative endorsement of drinking, operationalized by measures of perceived alcohol consumption of close friends (proximal...

The main goal of the process of socialization is to prepare individuals for effective participation in society, in the sense of internalizing the values ​​and norms of the ruling community to meet the needs and achieve collective goals. The present article seeks to investigate the functional comparison of the normative conflicts of the educational institution with the family institution and its...