PART II: THEORETICAL APPROACHES A SOCIOLOGICAL DISCUSSION OF CONSISTENCY AND INCONSISTENCY IN INTERGROUP RELATIONS.

The article presents a sociological discussion to theoretical approaches of consistency and inconsistency. Rulers, judges and moralists have long speculated about behavior labeled by these terms which ran counter to their interests. To minimize it, they have experimented through the ages with the sanctions of religion, of the scaffold, of the bayonet, of the ritualistic inculcation of "correct" principles in the young, and of the paycheck. They have thus attempted to make overtly accepted societal cultural patterns into more effective instruments of social control. But their writings and their experiments add little to our understanding of inconsistent behavior except to attest again and again to its frequency in the affairs of the world. It was not until cross-cultural studies began to shed light upon cultural relativity and until psychiatrists and psychologists began successfully to probe scientifically into human motivations that some progress was made in understanding hypocrisy, delinquency, and straining.