Природа повседневных нормативных и оценочных суждений: ресурсы теоретического описания и «трудные вопросы» социологической метатеории

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking ...

Added: September 8, 2026

Intergroup links and aggregate effort in the social-norm model

Petrov I., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026

This paper studies a social-norm model in which agents choose effort in response to their own productivity and the efforts of their neighbours. We analyse how links between groups with different productivity levels affect equilibrium effort and derive the intergroup linking intensity that maximises aggregate effort. We work in a stylised two-group stochastic block setting ...

Added: August 30, 2026

Institutions, Normative Expectations, and Harassment Bribery: Evidence from a Three-country Experiment

Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Engelmann J. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.

Extortionary ("harassment") bribery can persist even when widely condemned, consistent with a coordination problem sustained by beliefs about what others do and what others consider acceptable. We study whether a minimal institutional featurethe presence of a third-party monitor empowered to punish-shifts (i) normative expectations about extortion and compliance and (ii) empirical expectations about their prevalence. ...

Added: July 22, 2026

Аналитический обзор экспериментальных исследований обыденных моральных суждений о войне

Gajiyev A., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 131–163

This article presents an overview of experimental studies comparing ordinary moral judgments about wars with normative models (international humanitarian law and just war theory). Based on an analysis of works in this area, a typology of research designs is proposed based on four key parameters: the object of assessment, the degree of scenario realism, the ...

Added: July 20, 2026

Not more appropriate when unpunishable: normative expectations resist institutional change

Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026 Vol. 21 P. 661–683

Punishment plays a crucial role in driving norm change by incentivizing compliance with evolving shared normative expectations. Punitive measures typically encompass two components: a communicative effect, which delineates inappropriate conduct, and an institutionalized procedure that facilitates sanction enforcement. This study specifically investigates the latter dimension, examining how the mere existence of a punishment institution influences ...

Added: June 5, 2026

Объективна ли мораль? Классификация методов измерения обыденных метаэтических представлений

Mikhaleva V., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2026 Т. 35 № 1 С. 36–70

This article investigates and systematizes methods for measuring folk beliefs about the objectivity of morality. The relevance of the topic stems from the growing interest in understanding how ordinary people, without philosophical training, perceive the nature of moral norms and their objectivity. Based on an analysis of existing approaches to measuring folk metaethical claims, the ...

Added: June 4, 2026

Virtue, moral teleology, and practice: bringing Alasdair MacIntyre into the sociology of morality

Bykov A., Theory and Society 2026 Vol. 55 Article 21

This article seeks to introduce Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of virtue ethics into the sociology of morality as a redeveloping field of enquiry, focusing on the ways it could advance the sociological understanding of moral life. I argue that the virtue perspective, particularly in MacIntyre’s version, allows for conceptualizing morality as a personally and socially continuous ...

Added: March 9, 2026

Toward Sociology of Metaethics: The Effects of Sociopsychological and Demographic Factors on Folk Moral Objectivism (in a Non‐Western Context)

Bykov A., Mikhaleva V., Sociology Compass 2026 Vol. 20 No. 3 Article e70178

Experimental philosophers have been long addressing the problem of folk metaethics, that is, laypeople's ideas about the nature of moral judgments, focusing especially on the question of whether such judgments are believed to represent some objective truth. While the results of their experiments, mostly conducted on small Western samples, suggest that certain personal and social ...

Added: March 3, 2026

Durkheim était-il rationaliste ? Contribution à l’analyse de la sociologie morale durkheimienne

Gofman A. B., Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes 2025 Vol. 29 No. 1 P. 3–17

http://This article attempts to clarify the essence of Durkheim’s rationalism, especially in his interpretation of morality. The author distinguishes between two aspects, or meanings, of Durkheim’s rationalism: 1) epistemological one and 2) ontological one. In the first, epistemological sense, Durkheim was a convinced rationalist, defending rationalistic means of cognition of social phenomena. In the second, ...

Added: February 26, 2026

Еще три проблемы для социологии морали

Bykov A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 1 С. 15–25

Аннотация. В данной статье обсуждаются три проблемы, работа над которыми представляется автору актуальной для содержательного развития современной социологии морали – проблема определения морали, социологии метаэтики и «морального фона», а также морального статуса искусственного интеллекта. Показано, что несмотря на наличие некоторой традиции осмысления, а также более современных попыток интеграции этих проблем в предметную область социологии морали, ...

Added: January 23, 2026

Peers Are as Persuasive as Experts in Reducing Willingness to Pay for Sugary Foods

Arzumanyan N., Shestakova A., Moiseeva V. et al., FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION 2025

Non-communicable diseases are influenced by multiple genetic, physiological, environmental, and behavioral factors, with dietary sugar consumption representing one of the key modifiable risk determinants. Interventions aimed at reducing sugar intake often rely on persuasive health messaging by experts, yet it remains unclear whether the expertise of the narrator of the message is an indispensable component ...

Added: November 27, 2025

Extort from Them, but Only if They Comply: Experimental Evidence from Khorog on the Effect of Observed Behavior on Normative Expectations

Afanasev K., Zhuravleva T., Hannum C., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026 Vol. 21 P. 219–262

We are the first to examine the influence of empirical information on both actual behavior and normative expectations in the context of extortion. To this end, we conduct a laboratory experiment that involves a multi-round coordination game, in which participants receive information about the behavior of "officials" and "citizens" playing a harassment bribery game in ...

Added: November 13, 2025

Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures

Eriksson K., Strimling P., Vartanova I. et al., Communications psychology 2025 Vol. 3 P. 1–14

Every social situation that people encounter in their daily lives comes with a set of unwritten rules about what behavior is considered appropriate or inappropriate. These everyday norms can vary across societies: some societies may have more permissive norms in general or for certain behaviors, or for certain behaviors in specific situations. In a preregistered survey of 25,422 ...

Added: November 12, 2025

Сравнительный анализ поведения больших языковых моделей и людей в игре «Диктатор»

Shenkman E., Parshakov P., Matkin N., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2026 № 2(71) С. 177–203

This article analyzes the behavior of large language models (LLMs) in the Dictator game; the comparison was carried out against the results of previously conducted laboratory behavioral experiments with human participants. The study examines modifications of the basic game, that include the possibility of taking resources from the opponent as well as the introduction of ...

Added: October 27, 2025

Теория «двойного процесса» в социальном познании и перспективы приращения социологического знания

Deviatko I. F., Социологические исследования 2025 № 8 С. 3–13

The article examines two main approaches to integrating models, methods, and findings from cognitive science into sociological theory and methodology. It argues for comparative advantages of the first interdisciplinary approach – termed ‘cognitive social science (and neuroscience)’ – while critically assessing the limitations of the second, conventionally labeled ‘cognitive sociology’. Drawing on specific examples, the ...

Added: October 7, 2025

Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries

Schindler S., Schuster C., Olsson M. . et al., British Journal of Social Psychology 2025 Vol. 64 No. 2 Article e12806

In the present work, we addressed the relationship between parental leave policies and social norms. Using a pre-registered, cross-national approach, we examined the relationship between parental leave policies and the perception of social norms for the gender division of childcare. In this study, 19,259 students (11,924 women) from 48 countries indicated the degree to which ...

Added: August 20, 2025

Моральный статус искусственного интеллекта: в поисках социологической перспективы

Aganova A., Катерный И. В., Социологический журнал 2025 Т. 31 № 1 С. 92–109

The article examines AI from the perspective of moral agency and moral patiency. In the forepart, an overview of the main theoretical arguments as well as some experimental data regarding the (im)possibility of grounding the moral status of intelligent machines is provided. Evidence shows that perceived anthropomorphism and animism, this being culturally dependent, significantly influence the moral recognition of ...

Added: April 17, 2025