书目名称 | Social Mentality in Contemporary China | 编辑 | Yiyin Yang | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/870/869709/869709.mp4 | 概述 | Highlights the latest achievements in research on social mentality from a social psychology perspective.Discusses the concept and theoretical framework of social mentality.Analyzes the structure of so | 丛书名称 | Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book not only seeks to theoretically analyze the concept, chief characteristics and framework of “social mentality”, but also explores the influence of social mentality on such elements of social functioning as individuals, groups, societies, markets and countries, and the influence of such elements as cultural, social, economic, political and mental factors on social mentality. Besides, this book discusses the structure of social mentality, tools for measuring it, and an indicator system. What’s more, it explores the role of the social mentality mechanism in the construction of harmonious societies. | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | Concept of Social Mentality; Theoretical Framework of Social Mentality; Social Psychology; Society and | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7812-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-7814-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-7812-6Series ISSN 2363-6866 Series E-ISSN 2363-6874 | issn_series | 2363-6866 | copyright | Social Sciences Academic Press 2019 |
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,Theoretical Framework for Studying Social Mentality, |
Yiyin Yang |
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A theoretical framework for the study of studies of social mentality studies of social mentality can be obtained via the theoretical analysis of the basic concepts and structures of social mentality. This work is preconditional to as well as an important part of the research of social mentality. Generally speaking, it includes at least the definition of social mentality, the evaluation, analysis and choice of research perspectives, the establishment of an intrinsic structure, and the analysis and discussion of related concepts.
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,The “Mutual Construction” of Society and Individual in the Formation Process of Social Mentality, |
Ying Wu,Yiyin Yang |
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The concept of social mentality refers to a macroscopic social mood, including emotional tones as well as social consensuses and social values, diffused through the whole society or through social groups. It is homogeneous but not equal to the simple sum of individual mentalities in society (Yang .). In this sense, the study of social mentality is neither about the individual psychological mechanism nor is it about pure macroscopic social facts, but rather about exploring the process of the mutual construction of individual mentality and society. In previous mainstream studies, social psychology was understood as a “behavioral science”. These studies focus more on how individual behaviors are influenced by the environment, seldom considering possible co-variations of the environment and the individual and ignoring the “social science” property of social psychology (Moscovici .). Such a perspective emphasizing the individual is not suitable for the study of social psychology. Actually this individualized perspective has been questioned by social psychologists and continuously revised in respective fields.
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,Formation Mechanism and Psychological Effect of Social Mentality, |
Yiyin Yang |
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As the most macroscopic and complicated social mental phenomenon, social mentality is surely quite complicated in its formation mechanism as well. As previously mentioned, in this book, we apply a perspective that is different from that of the “individual in the group” and the “group in the individual”—namely, the perspective of the mutual construction between “individual and group”. This perspective will help us to uncover the internal mechanism of such a macroscopic and complicated phenomenon, and able us to develop a theory to describe and explain more systematically the formation of social mentality and changes it undergoes.
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,Structure and Measurement Indicator System of Social Mentality, |
Junxiu Wang |
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The study of social mentality endeavors to study both individuals and society, and so it is impossible to avoid a core socio-psychological problem, i.e., “what is ‘society’ in socio-psychological terms?” This problem was proposed in both the social representation theory and the social identity theory (Moscovici .; Hogg and Abrams .). They put forward that it is not enough to only take the presence of others as “society”; mainstream social psychology should study the social phenomena that keeps society running and pushes key operation processes (Moscovici .).
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,Risk Perception and Sense of Security and Their Measurements, |
Junxiu Wang |
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Risk is an object studied by many disciplines in social sciences but also in natural sciences. The universality of these disciplinary studies forms the diversity of the concept of risk. Different disciplines and researchers define risk from their own perspective. Therefore, the concept of risk is still disputed, and there is no recognized definition. In social sciences, the concept of risk is also entangled with “danger”, “disaster”, “safety/non-safety”, “uncertainty”, etc.
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring Group Emotion, |
Manqi Chen |
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The concept of group emotions is relative to that of individual emotions. According to studies, even if a given event’s occurrence has nothing to do with an individual, the individual still manifests an emotional reaction (e.g., Cialdini in J Pers Soc Psychol 34:366–375, 1976). At the core of group relative deprivation theory, anger and hate are considered as the conceptualization of group emotions in the early stage of its formation (Smith and Kessler in The social life of emotions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004).
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring Sense of Social Trust, |
Shijie Jing |
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Social trust plays a crucial role in the social life of human beings. It is not only an effective channel for individuals to reduce their psychological complexity and get their own security, but also an effective social integrated force maintaining social order and promoting social cooperation, harmony and stability. Since China’s economic society has entered its comprehensive transition phase, the interpersonal trust model built on the basis of familiarity and interpersonal relationships is facing unprecedented challenges. The trust structure of the whole society tends to dissociation and disintegration. Meanwhile, a new type of trust structure based on the spirit of the new social life has yet to be fully established. These two problems intertwine as society undergoes a “confidence crisis”.
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring Sense of Social Fairness, |
Hui Chen,Yiyin Yang,Shuming Liu |
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“Fairness” is a social judgment at the core of human social life. It is an important basis to establish and maintain social order as well as an important value, ethical principle and belief in society. Therefore, ethics, sociology, economics, legal sciences and social psychology all pay high attention to fairness. Social psychology studies the issues on social fairness from a subjective perspective. From the perspective of social psychology, to feel and judge “fairness” is a subjective experience and internal process.
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Identity and Social Participation, |
Bing Wang |
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The relationship between individuals and groups/society has always been an important research subject in the fields of sociology and social psychology. The occurrence of social identity research initially promoted studies on this field in term of the concept. Studies on social identity not only help us better understand the deep interactive relations between individuals and groups/society but also provide a basis for the explanation of some social phenomena (such as social perception, attitude, attribution, prejudice, social impact, group cohesiveness, cooperative relationship, collective behavior and social mobility) (Augoustinos et al. .).
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring the Sense of Social Support, |
Pengfei Diao |
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Studies of social support initially focused on social environmental factors influencing personal health, meaning to extend the discussion on individual mental disturbances to society and public topics. In order to explore the relationship between social support and personal physical and mental health, we should systematically define the concept of social support, analyze its operations and study its source structures and types comprehensively so as to measure its different influences on personal health and even on social integration. Scholars have been increasingly drawn to study of social support. In psychology, sociology, psychotherapy and social work, areas in which study of social support is conducted, the application field of social support has been expanded. The purpose of this article is to summarize the basic concept and development of study of social support. We will start the discussion by briefly introducing the definition of social support, then explain its source structure, relationship and structure, dimensionalities, mechanism of action, and at last introduce tools for its measurement.
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,Conceptualizing and Measuring the Psychology of Materialism Values, |
Yuan Li,Zhaoxia Li |
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In the course of over 30 years since the start of reform and opening-up, China has undergone spectacular economic growth, improvements in people’s quality of life, and a substantial increase in consumption levels. Correspondingly, the values and lifestyles of Chinese people are also changing. “Materialism”, “consumerism” and even “money-worship”, which were regarded as capitalist values in the past, were brought to China along with its rapid economic development. In their daily lives, Chinese people often hear others say: “I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle”. Recent surveys show that 60% of female college students wanted to marry to a rich person’s son (. 2010). Moreover, Chinese media is full of high-end luxury advertisement for conspicuous consumption goods. These phenomena bring the following questions up: Why does materialism develop so rapidly in the contemporary Chinese environment? What kind of law does its formation and development follow? Does it bring happiness to the public? How can the public be guided to establish healthy and benign consumer outlooks and lifestyles?
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,Belief in the Golden Mean as a Social Mentality Indicator, |
Chungfang Yang |
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Social mentality has been studied from many angles and by numerous scholars. They have studied popular and novel phenomena, the novel questions that therefore emerged, as well as proposed novel solutions for our modern society. Here, the use of the word “novel” is justified because the above elements are different from, conflict with, contradict to, and even stand opposite to their original counterparts.
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