Political Position and Social Knowledge
Political Position and Social Knowledge
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01154.x
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Desmond, Matthew
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作者：
Martin, John Levi;Desmond, Matthew
社会认知的本质--我们如何“了解”社会世界--是社会学最明显的问题之一。因为我们知道我们所知道的，所以我们常常认为我们知道我们是如何或为什么知道的。在这里，我们研究社会认知的一个特定方面，即我们称之为“政治意识形态”的东西--即人们在一个维度上的自我定位，在这个维度上，人们可以从左到右排列。我们关注的理解在某种程度上是社会认知的“原始形式”我们对我们如何在一个隐含的社会形态中与他人站在一起的感觉，这个社会形态的意义完全是关系性的。与此同时，这些自我概念似乎对政体和市民社会本身的发展至关重要。我们的问题是，当公民形成这样一种“政治意识形态”时，这意味着什么？他们用它做什么？我们使用一项改变假设政策的调查实验的结果，研究公民从他们的主观位置上从自由主义到保守主义的维度上获得了什么。
The nature of social cognition-how we "know about" the social world-is one of the most deceptively obvious problems for sociology. Because we know what we know, we often think that we know how or why we know it. Here, we investigate one particular aspect of social cognition, namely, what we will call "political ideology"-that is, people's self-placement on a dimension on which persons can be arrayed from left to right. We focus on that understanding that is in some ways the "ur-form" of social cognition-our sense of how we stand by others in an implicit social formation whose meaning is totally relational. At the same time, these self-conceptions seem to be of the greatest importance for the development of the polity and of civil society itself. Our question is, when citizens develop such a "political ideology," what does this mean, and what do they do with it? We examine what citizens gain from their subjective placement on the dimension from liberalism to conservatism by using the results of a survey experiment that alters aspects of a hypothetical policy.