FAMILY HONOUR AS THE CENTRAL INSTITUTION IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES AND A PERSON'S SOCIAL IDENTITY

Abstrak

This article is about family honour in different countries and people’s social identity, Masculine honor has been found to explain
the relationship between insults and aggression in the USA. However, detailed accounts of Mediterranean honor cultures suggest that family honor may be more important in explaining cross-cultural differences in aggression. Two studies revealed that people from Turkish honor culture intended to aggress more after being insulted than Dutch people from a nonhonor culture, and that this effect was driven by differences in family honor rather than differences in masculine honor. We posit that family honor may be a key factor in explaining insult-related aggression in Mediterranean honor cultures.