Ozden Ozbay1 and Sabuha Bindik
Affiliation: 1Deptartment of Sociology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Türkiye
Email: 1[email protected]
Abstract: Although there have been many tests of Social Bonding Theory since its first appearance in 1969, there have been very few tests on the relationships between social bonding variables and deviance across rural-urban contexts in the Unites States as well as in the world. The present study explores this issue by using a sample of university students (1.472) in Türkiye. The findings reveal that although social bonding variables are not consistently significant across types of deviance and across types of places (rural-urban contexts), they also indicate that social bonding variables have stronger effects on deviance in the context of rural than urban context.
Keywords: Deviance/Crime; Social Bonding Theory; Rural-Urban; Türkiye.