ABSTRACT
The literature of adolescent development and problem behavior has until quite been heavily biased toward recognizing the conflicts between networks—the "generation gap," parent versus peer orientation, and so on—to the neglect of the correspondences. Over time the insight has deepened that many of the developmental processes through which girls pass in the adolescent years have their counterparts in changes in their immediate environments. The girls were asked how they themselves, how their parents, and how their peers evaluated each of these norm-related behaviors. The sanctioning of the girls' social behavior by peers tended to be a norm transmitter component that was more strongly related to the pubertal development of the girls than were peers' evaluations. Few differences in the evaluation of norm breaking among the parents of the early- and the later-developed girls were obtained.
