What's in a Name? A Study of Role Inertia  

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Catton, William R. [Jr]

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 31 no. 01 (Feb. 1969), page 15.

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If onerous role transitions are generally resisted, then incest avoidance is one special case, but by no means the only instance of role inertia. To explore other instances,a hypothetical role transition experience was created for student subjects. Each was confronted with a hypothetical marriage of a widowed parent to a college classmate of the subject. There was strong resistance to applying the parental position-label to a stepparent with whom the subjects had already established a non-filial (peer) relationship-either a specific friendship or merely the classificatory relation of age-mates.The disinclination to address the classmate stepparent as "Mom" or "Dad" prevailed even when seen as a norm violation and thus was tantamount to an active aversion. The pre-established non-filial relation inhibited transition to a filial relation and thus simulated the pre-established non-erotic relation that inhibits incest. There was similar resistance to applying parental position-labels to parents-in-law.Functional theory hardly predicts such results, for resistance to role-transitions which are occurring can hardly be conducive to family integration of' kinship system stability.

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