The density of social networks moderates effects of intergroup contact

This study tests how the density of the social network in which intergroup contact takes place might affect the extent to which contact improves intergroup attitudes. Having contact with more outgroup members in dense social networks, in which everybody knows each other, may reinforce contact's positive effect. In this case, outgroup contact is shared with ingroup members, which suggests positive ingroup norms toward the outgroup. Alternatively, more contact in denser networks may improve intergroup attitudes less because density may increase subtyping or reduce the salience of ethnic group memberships. These competing hypotheses are tested among white American adults in a nonprobability online sample (N = 305) and in a representative national sample (N = 1270). In both studies, contact is associated with more positive attitudes toward racial outgroups but the positive contact effect is weakened if that contact takes place in a denser social network.     

自我的盲点:"傲慢与偏见"

“傲慢与偏见”是人类个性价值的两种偏执的自我取向。在《傲慢与偏见》中,简.奥斯丁通过一个爱情故事在行为理性方面对“傲慢与偏见”的阐释可谓深入浅出。“傲慢与偏见”产生于人类自我意识的盲点。在个体交往中,自我的盲点导致了个体实践行为的模糊性和混乱性以及危机感。简.奥斯丁从女性视角所具有的人文厚度,从日常意义上,对这人性中的两大弱点的关注不仅表现在情节的设置上,而且表现在男女主人公的话语上。     

爱情与金钱的搏弈--《傲慢与偏见》中婚姻观剖析

<傲慢与偏见>是英国女作家简·奥斯汀的著名代表作,在这部作品中作者通过四对青年人的婚姻故事,表现了金钱与爱情在婚姻中的作用.阐释了作者的婚姻观金钱与爱情在婚姻上都很重要,但爱情在成就美满婚姻上的作用要远远大于金钱.     

《傲慢与偏见》中达西感动伊丽莎白的爱情要素

《傲慢与偏见》中达西感动伊丽莎白,促使伊丽莎白克服对其产生的偏见并逐渐爱上他,最后与之牵手于婚姻殿堂的重要原因,是达西对伊丽莎白深深的爱,用弗洛姆爱情理论来剖析,则是其表现出来的关心、责任、尊重和了解。     

文学语篇中的非礼貌探微——以《傲慢与偏见》人物对话为例

交际中的礼貌一直受到学者们的重视,无论是对自然话语中的礼貌现象,还是文学话语中的礼貌问题的研究,都取得了丰富的研究成果。而交际中的另一种现象——非礼貌却被关注得较少。文章从非礼貌言语角度,以《傲慢与偏见》人物对话为例,试图探究非礼貌策略在对文学作品人物塑造、情节发展、引起冲突等方面的作用,为名著欣赏提供一个新视角。     

National nostalgia: A group-based emotion that benefits the in-group but hampers intergroup relations

Social psychological research on nostalgia has mainly considered this emotion at the individual level rather than the group level. The current paper proposes that group-based nostalgia for the nation (i.e., national nostalgia) is likely to be related to a positive in-group orientation and a negative out-group orientation, because it fosters an exclusionary and essentialist sense of national identity that is based on ancestry and common descent (i.e., ethnic national identity). This prediction was tested in three survey studies. Study 1 was conducted among a broad sample of the native Dutch population, and demonstrated that national (and not personal) nostalgia is positively related to national in-group identification and out-group prejudice. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 among a nationally representative sample of the native Dutch population, and provided support for the mediation by ethnic national identity. Study 3 replicated the findings of Study 2 and additionally demonstrated that national nostalgia positively predicts tendencies to protect national in-group identity, via a stronger sense of ethnic national identity. These findings demonstrate the potential of group-based nostalgia to have positive and negative consequences for group dynamics at the same time.     

Threat and Prejudice against Syrian Refugees in Canada: Assessing the Moderating Effects of Multiculturalism,Interculturalism, and Assimilation

A survey experiment (N = 529) was used to test the moderating effects of intergroup ideologies (assimilation, multiculturalism, and interculturalism) on the relationship between social dominance orientation (SDO) and expressions of prejudice under conditions of intergroup threat. Moderated multiple regression analyses suggest a multicultural integration frame moderates the relationship between SDO and feelings toward Syrian refugees in Canada when the target outgroup is portrayed as a source of intergroup threat. This moderating effect was unique to the relationship between SDO and feelings toward Syrians and did not extend to other correlates of prejudice including beliefs in zero-sum group competition or a multicultural ideology, nor did it extend to more general measures of prejudice (i.e., attitudes toward immigrants or evaluations of intercultural contact). Findings suggest the prejudice-reducing effects of a multicultural integration narrative affect group evaluations and functions by targeting beliefs in social dominance, rather than zero-sum group competition or ideological support for cultural diversity. The results offer insights into the prejudice-reducing potential for two alternative integration narratives that are institutionalized in Canada.     

Learning to be prejudiced: A test of unidirectional and bidirectional models of parent–offspring socialization

According to Allport's (1954) model of socialization of prejudice the level of prejudice of parents and their offspring should co-vary due to the offspring's adaptation to the parents’ attitudes. Available empirical studies and literature reviews support Allport's assumption. Modern models of socialization give reason to extend Allport's unidirectional influence model to a bidirectional perspective which assumes that parents influence their offspring's attitudes and are simultaneously influenced by them. In a cross-sectional study, 408 parent–offspring dyads (64% female parents, 55% female offspring, mean age of children = 16.47 years, SD 1.87, parents = 42.08 years, SD 7.08) from the ethnic majority population in Costa Rica were asked about their prejudice towards immigrants and ethnic minorities in Costa Rica. Using structural equation modelling, unidirectional and bidirectional models of prejudice determination were tested. The data clearly support the unidirectional model of prejudice transmission from parents to offspring, even if moderator effects of sex, age, and importance of contact are taken into account.     

从社会翻译学角度再看《傲慢与偏见》两译本

翻译研究在中国经历了翻译的语言学派、文化转向、语用学派等阶段发展到今天的社会翻译学。德国社会学家皮埃尔·布迪厄的社会学思想为我们研究翻译的产生、传播等过程拓宽了方向。如今,越来越多的专家学者将社会学的基本理论、研究方法运用于翻译研究中,翻译学迎来了新的发展。该文试从布迪厄社会学思想中两个核心概念——场域、习性出发,结合《傲慢与偏见》两个中文译本——王科一译本和孙致礼译本探讨不同时期各因素相互斗争形成的特定场域,译者在社会中形成的不同习性在两个译本产生、翻译策略运用中所产生的影响。