Conditions for the Explanatory Power of Life Styles
Conditions for the Explanatory Power of Life Styles
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生活方式解释力的条件
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2007
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Jörg Rössel
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作者：
Jörg Rössel
生活方式研究已成为社会结构分析的一个独立分支，系统地补充了经典社会不平等研究在解释社会行为方面的作用。然而，生活方式研究存在重大差距。首先，缺乏解释生活方式与社会行为之间统计联系的理论基础。其次，目前尚不清楚为什么生活方式有时可以很好地预测社会行为，有时却不能。本文首先提出了一个行动理论框架作为生活方式研究的基础，这意味着从生活方式到文化偏好的概念转变。第二步提出了三个假设，规定了文化偏好高或低解释力的条件。它们通过数据分析的方式进行了实证检验，支持本文中提出的理论思想的适用性。
Life style research has become an independent branch of social structural analysis that systematically complements the role of classical research on social inequality in explaining social action. However, there are important gaps in life style research. First, theoretical bases for explaining the statistical connection between life styles and social action are lacking. Secondly, it remains unclear why life styles sometimes are good predictors of social action and sometimes are not. In a first step this article puts forward an action-theoretic framework as a basis for life style research that implies a conceptual shift from life styles to cultural preferences. In a second step it develops three hypotheses that set out the conditions for a high or low explanatory power of cultural preferences. They are empirically tested by way of a data analysis that supports the applicability of the theoretical ideas developed in the paper.