Cultural Models of Nature and Society
Cultural Models of Nature and Society
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自然与社会的文化模式
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2006
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Gabe Ignatow
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Gabe Ignatow
长期以来，社会科学家一直在讨论影响公众对自然环境关注的因素。本研究试图通过论证环境关注是由自然-社会关系的“精神”和“生态”文化模式塑造的，通过区分这两者，我们可以更好地认识环境关注变化的社会来源，从而为这一争论做出贡献。1993年国际社会调查项目使用普通最小二乘回归模型对21个国家的问卷数据进行了分析，结果表明，精神和生态环境世界观具有不同的社会基础。教育通常积极预测后者，而不是前者。国家差异的模式也值得注意。因此，将公众对环境的关注概念化到不同的文化模式中可能比关注环境本身更能说明问题。
Social scientists have long debated the factors influencing public concern for the natural environment. This study attempts to contribute to this debate by arguing that environmental concern is shaped by both “spiritual” and “ecological” cultural models of nature-society relations and that by distinguishing between these two, we can better recognize the social sources of variation in concern for the environment. An analysis of questionnaire data from 21 nations from the 1993 International Social Survey Program using ordinary least squares regression models shows that spiritual and ecological environmental worldviews have different social bases. Education generally positively predicts the latter but not the former. Patterns of national differences are noteworthy as well. Thus, conceptualizing public concern for the environment in terms of distinct cultural models may be more revealing than focusing on environmental concern as such.