Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?
Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?
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DOI：
10.1086/681254
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Macy, Michael
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作者：
DellaPosta, Daniel;Shi, Yongren;Macy, Michael
“生活方式政治”和“文化战争”的流行说法表明，政治和意识形态的分歧也延伸到休闲活动、消费、审美品味和个人道德。根据《一般社会调查》(1972-2010)中总共22,572个成对的相关性，作者为轶事叙述提供了全面的经验支持。此外，生活方式中的大多数意识形态差异不能仅用人口统计协变量来解释。两位作者对生活方式政治之谜提出了一种简单得令人惊讶的解决方案。计算实验表明，同质性和影响力的自我强化动力如何戏剧性地放大生活方式和意识形态之间哪怕是非常微小的选择性亲和力，产生一个与我们生活的世界非常相似的刻板印象的世界，其中包括“拿铁自由派”和“猎鸟保守派”。
Popular accounts of "lifestyle politics" and "culture wars" suggest that political and ideological divisions extend also to leisure activities, consumption, aesthetic taste, and personal morality. Drawing on a total of 22,572 pairwise correlations from the General Social Survey (1972-2010), the authors provide comprehensive empirical support for the anecdotal accounts. Moreover, most ideological differences in lifestyle cannot be explained by demographic covariates alone. The authors propose a surprisingly simple solution to the puzzle of lifestyle politics. Computational experiments show how the self-reinforcing dynamics of homophily and influence dramatically amplify even very small elective affinities between lifestyle and ideology, producing a stereotypical world of "latte liberals" and "bird-hunting conservatives" much like the one in which we live.