Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order

Windzio, Michael; Baier, Dirk

doi:10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28627

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order
Authors:	Windzio, Michael Baier, Dirk
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1 10.21256/zhaw-28627
Published in:	Human Nature
Volume(Issue):	34
Issue:	3
Page(s):	400
Pages to:	421
Issue Date:	6-Sep-2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	1045-6767 1936-4776
Language:	English
Subjects:	Honor; Deterrence; School violence; Smith-Price model; Social context; Multilevel analysis
Subject (DDC):	301: Sociology and anthropology
Abstract:	“Culture of honor” means that individuals deter others by signaling their commitment to violent retaliation. We develop a multilevel explanation of cross-level interdependence of honor and violence. According to our concept of system-level honor, a social system is loaded with deterrence signaling if culture of honor is highly prevalent in the system. In line with the Smith and Price (1973, in Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/246015a0) model, we argue that high system-level honor discourages Prober-Retaliator behavior: some individuals might tend to challenge others they assume to be inferior to increase their own reputation. Both individual culture of honor and system-level honor contribute to an increase in violence (H1; H2). However, as system-level honor and deterrence become more prevalent, the impact of individual honor diminishes because engaging in violent behavior becomes increasingly expensive within such a system (H3). As a second contextual effect, inequality in culture of honor should therefore increase violent behavior because it encourages Prober-Retaliator behavior (H4). We analyze the effect of culture of honor on school violence among 15-year-old adolescents. Disentangling the micro- and context-level effects of culture of honor on violent behavior in a multilevel analysis framework allows the estimation of a cross-level interaction using a large data set from more than 25,000 adolescents in more than 1,300 schoolroom contexts. Results are in line with our H3, but not with H4. Model-based predictions show that the deterrent effect must be unrealistically high to generate an equilibrium of average violence.
Further description:	Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28627
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	Social Work
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Delinquency and Crime Prevention (IDK)
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Windzio, M., & Baier, D. (2023). Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order. Human Nature, 34(3), 400–421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1

Windzio, M. and Baier, D. (2023) ‘Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order’, Human Nature, 34(3), pp. 400–421. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1.

M. Windzio and D. Baier, “Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order,” Human Nature, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 400–421, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1.

WINDZIO, Michael und Dirk BAIER, 2023. Honor in the wild : virtuous violence between the Hobbesian trap and social order. Human Nature. 6 September 2023. Bd. 34, Nr. 3, S. 400–421. DOI 10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1

Windzio, Michael, and Dirk Baier. 2023. “Honor in the Wild : Virtuous Violence between the Hobbesian Trap and Social Order.” Human Nature 34 (3): 400–421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1.

Windzio, Michael, and Dirk Baier. “Honor in the Wild : Virtuous Violence between the Hobbesian Trap and Social Order.” Human Nature, vol. 34, no. 3, Sept. 2023, pp. 400–21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09455-1.