Reinforcement and the Origin, Rate and Extent of Cultural Diffusion
Reinforcement and the Origin, Rate and Extent of Cultural Diffusion
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强化与文化传播的起源、速率和程度
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1976
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Jerry L. L. Miller
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R. L. Hamblin;Jerry L. L. Miller
文化扩散作为一个逻辑过程而发生，本次调查中的因变量是逻辑方程的起源、速率和渐近线，这些方程由 Zvi Griliches 拟合到 132 个作物报告地区采用杂交玉米的历时数据中。在乘幂函数测量中，对农民的实际强化解释了采用率中 57% 的差异，对农民的预期强化解释了物流过程渐近线中 59% 的差异，对开发商的预期强化解释了起源中 91% 的差异。这证明了强化在解释宏观社会变革过程的变化方面可能具有重要性。社会学最重要的理论问题之一是影响宏观社会变革过程的开始、速度和程度的因素。本文的目的是研究强化如何影响大规模社会变革过程（文化扩散）的起源、速率和程度。该调查使用了 Zvi Griliches 关于中西部和南部各州农民采用杂交玉米的数据，并以 Griliches 对这些数据的逻辑分析为基础。1
Cultural diffusion occurs as a logistic process and the dependent variables in this investigation are origin, rate and asymptotes from logistic equations which were fitted by Zvi Griliches to through-time data on the adoption of hybrid corn in each of 132 crop-reporting districts. In multiplicative power functions measures, actual reinforcement to farmers explained 57 percent of the variance in the rate of adoption, expected reinforcement to farmers explained 59 percent of the variance in the asymptotes of the logistic processes and expected reinforcement to developers explained 91 percent of the variance in the origins. This is evidence for the possible importance of reinforcement in explaining variations in macro social change processes. One of the most significant theoretical problems in sociology is what influences the beginnings, the rate, and the extent of macro social change processes. The purpose of this article is to investigate how reinforcement influences the origin, rate and extent of one large-scale social change process, cultural diffusion. The investigation uses Zvi Griliches' data on the adoption of hybrid corn by farmers in the midwestern and southern states and builds upon Griliches' logistic analyses of those data.1