Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Networks, Social Influence, and Cultural Meanings

SES#：1003419 PI：林恩史密斯-LovinCo-PI：金伯利B。罗杰斯杜克大学这项研究探讨了社会互动模式和共享社会意义之间的关系。有两个研究，（1）探讨结构位置，社会联系和社会意义模式之间的关系，（2）检查意义的变化，通过人际互动的社会影响力的结果。在第一项研究中，受访者将完成一些问卷，测量他们对不同身份群体的情感意义，他们与社会结构各个部分的联系，以及他们个人的社会人口地位。这将有助于展示文化意义在社会结构中的差异，并确定与意义共识相关的社会结构的一些特征。在第二项研究中，受访者将参加一个实验模拟的社会互动，这将衡量群体审议对受访者的社会意义的影响。这将使我们能够解析出意义形成和变化的一些潜在机制，特别关注社会影响过程的作用。更广泛的影响：该项目有可能改变研究人员对社会意义的概念化和测量，并将社交网络的相关性知识扩展到主要的身份理论。此外，通过确定意义形成和变化的机制，这项研究可以为政策制定者管理与文化信仰群体差异有关的社会问题的战略提供信息，例如，污名化，群体间冲突和文化适应。

SES#: 1003419PI: Lynn Smith-LovinCo-PI: Kimberly B. RogersDuke UniversityThis research examines the relationship between patterns of social interaction and shared social meaning. There are two studies which (1) explore the relationship between structural position, social connectedness, and patterns of social meaning, and (2) examine meaning change as a result of the social influence dynamics operating through interpersonal interaction. In the first study, respondents will complete some questionnaires measuring their affective meanings for various identity groups, their ties to various parts of the social structure, and their personal socio-demographic position. This will help demonstrate variation across the social structure in cultural meanings and identify some features of social structure associated with meaning consensus. In the second study, respondents will participate in an experimentally simulated social interaction, which will measure the effects of group deliberation on respondents' social meanings. This will allow us to parse out some potential mechanisms of meaning formation and change, with particular focus on the role of social influence processes. BROADER IMPACTS: This project has the potential to transform researchers' conceptualizations and measurement of social meaning as well as extend knowledge on the relevance of social networks to leading theories of identity. Further, by identifying mechanisms of meaning formation and change, this research can inform policymakers' strategies for the management of social issues related to group differences in cultural beliefs, for example, stigmatization, intergroup conflict, and acculturation.