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International Journal of Social Psychology
Revista de Psicología Social
Volume 9, 1994 - Issue 2
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Efectos culturales de las normas perversas

Cultural effects of perverse norms

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Pages 205-211 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

Según el concepto de «norma perversa» (Fernández-Dols, 1993), la importancia de los amigos y los conocidos en la sociedad española no es debida a un mayor colectivismo sino a graves disfunciones en las organizaciones burocráticas que impulsan a buscar conocidos cuando debemos gestionar una cuestión formal pero no en contextos informales. El presente estudio trató de comprobar esta hipótesis comparando el grado en que sujetos españoles y británicos percibían que era necesario el recurso a conocidos en contextos burocráticos y contextos informales. De acuerdo con la predicción, los conocidos son tan importantes o incluso más importantes para los británicos en contextos informales pero los españoles valoran de forma significativamente más alta a los conocidos para la gestión de asuntos burocráticos.

Abstract

According to Fernández-Dols' (1993) “perverse-norms model”, the importance of acquaintances and friends in Spanish everyday business is due, not to a high degree of collectivism, but to dysfunctions in Spanish bureaucracies that lead people to resort to acquaintances (conocidos) in formal, bureaucratic organizations but not particularly in informal settings. We tested this hypothesis by applying a questionnaire designed to measure to what extent Britons and Spaniards feel that acquaintances are necessary in order to be successful in everyday informal or bureaucratic business. We found that acquaintaces in informal settings are as important, or even more important, in the UK as in Spain, but that acquaintances in formal, bureaucratic organizations are significantly more important for Spaniards than for Britons.

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