sociological theories of subjective well-being
... My own definition of happiness is close to Diener et al.'s definition of subjective wellbeing, and I also make a distinction between cognitive and affective appraisals of life. Yet I do not see life satisfaction as a mere cognitive appraisal but as an overall judgment of life that draws on two sourc ...
... My own definition of happiness is close to Diener et al.'s definition of subjective wellbeing, and I also make a distinction between cognitive and affective appraisals of life. Yet I do not see life satisfaction as a mere cognitive appraisal but as an overall judgment of life that draws on two sourc ...
IDENTITY, SOCIAL IDENTITY, COMPARISON, AND STATUS
... theory. Similarly, Stets (2001) contrasts identity theory and justice theory; and Jasso (2002) contrasts justice theory and status theory. As all these authors, in company with many others, note, there is much to be gained in generality, parsimony, and insight by systematic articulation across theor ...
... theory. Similarly, Stets (2001) contrasts identity theory and justice theory; and Jasso (2002) contrasts justice theory and status theory. As all these authors, in company with many others, note, there is much to be gained in generality, parsimony, and insight by systematic articulation across theor ...
A Sociological Approach to Self and Identity
... individual. By pooling several such patterns across similar individuals, we can come to know individuals of a certain type. At still another level, we can look at the patterns of behavior across individuals to see how these patterns fit with the patterns of others to create larger patterns of behavi ...
... individual. By pooling several such patterns across similar individuals, we can come to know individuals of a certain type. At still another level, we can look at the patterns of behavior across individuals to see how these patterns fit with the patterns of others to create larger patterns of behavi ...
Relative Deprivation Specification, Development, and Integration
... Theories need to be developed in many ways if they are to continue to have currency in the academic community. The five chapters in this section illustrate some of the important theoretical and empirical developments over the past decade. In the first chapter, Tougas and Beaton examine three types o ...
... Theories need to be developed in many ways if they are to continue to have currency in the academic community. The five chapters in this section illustrate some of the important theoretical and empirical developments over the past decade. In the first chapter, Tougas and Beaton examine three types o ...
1 Educating the Nation: III. Social Mobility* In my first two addresses
... every child born into any one class has an equal chance of ending up in any other class. Relative social mobility can tell you how unequal a society is and whether it is getting more or less equal. In these terms, downward mobility from the salariat is just as important as upward mobility from the w ...
... every child born into any one class has an equal chance of ending up in any other class. Relative social mobility can tell you how unequal a society is and whether it is getting more or less equal. In these terms, downward mobility from the salariat is just as important as upward mobility from the w ...
Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases
... lighting some features of one period (e.g., the retreat from Progressive social engineering to laissez-faire in the 1920s) to juxtapose with selected features of another (the 1980s backlash against the welfare state). In this article, I consider how our understanding of one period may profit from ju ...
... lighting some features of one period (e.g., the retreat from Progressive social engineering to laissez-faire in the 1920s) to juxtapose with selected features of another (the 1980s backlash against the welfare state). In this article, I consider how our understanding of one period may profit from ju ...
Institutional Economics, the Individual Actor and - C
... constraints but from ‘the inmates themselves’. However, as both Commons and Veblen indicated, behavioural habit and institutions are mutually entwined and mutually reinforcing: both aspects are relevant to the full picture. A dual stress on both agency and institutional structure is required. The o ...
... constraints but from ‘the inmates themselves’. However, as both Commons and Veblen indicated, behavioural habit and institutions are mutually entwined and mutually reinforcing: both aspects are relevant to the full picture. A dual stress on both agency and institutional structure is required. The o ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... Let us begin with a discussion of the concept of “precision.” Note that to simply recode a dichotomous natural-language category as a series of binary numbers does not make it any more precise. Thus, 0/1 is no more precise than “pregnant/not pregnant.” However, numerical scales offer the possibility ...
... Let us begin with a discussion of the concept of “precision.” Note that to simply recode a dichotomous natural-language category as a series of binary numbers does not make it any more precise. Thus, 0/1 is no more precise than “pregnant/not pregnant.” However, numerical scales offer the possibility ...
cooley`s looking glass self
... • Definition of one's identity, character, abilities, and attitudes, especially in relation to persons or things outside oneself or itself. ...
... • Definition of one's identity, character, abilities, and attitudes, especially in relation to persons or things outside oneself or itself. ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... narrative-based methods, as well as more generic forms of content analysis. There is no such thing as a non-quantifiable observation because any single statement that can be made about one phenomenon could also be made about another phenomenon, thus providing the possibility of some sort of scale. Y ...
... narrative-based methods, as well as more generic forms of content analysis. There is no such thing as a non-quantifiable observation because any single statement that can be made about one phenomenon could also be made about another phenomenon, thus providing the possibility of some sort of scale. Y ...
jccpcomm - University of British Columbia
... They note that in a study where anonymity was guaranteed Japanese showed some evidence of self-enhancement in an attribution paradigm. This is potentially interesting, as many other studies have found a lack of a self-enhancing attribution bias among Japanese (see Kitayama, Takagi, & Matsumoto, 1995 ...
... They note that in a study where anonymity was guaranteed Japanese showed some evidence of self-enhancement in an attribution paradigm. This is potentially interesting, as many other studies have found a lack of a self-enhancing attribution bias among Japanese (see Kitayama, Takagi, & Matsumoto, 1995 ...
Culture, Self, and Development: Are Cultural Templates Useful or
... interpretative, and cognitive factors into account. Invoking broad labels ignores the cognitive construal of situations by individuals. Asch (1952/1987) and others (e.g., Ross & Nisbett, 1991) have proposed that individuals construct social reality by transforming information and giving it meaning, ...
... interpretative, and cognitive factors into account. Invoking broad labels ignores the cognitive construal of situations by individuals. Asch (1952/1987) and others (e.g., Ross & Nisbett, 1991) have proposed that individuals construct social reality by transforming information and giving it meaning, ...
Abrams_Comments on M.. - the Smith college streaming media server
... un- likely to yield useful interpretable results until the SEH is more completely articulated and param- eters placed around it. It suffers from at least two general shortcomings. First, it over-implicates self-esteem in intergroup behaviour; self-esteem can, under some conditions, be incidental or ...
... un- likely to yield useful interpretable results until the SEH is more completely articulated and param- eters placed around it. It suffers from at least two general shortcomings. First, it over-implicates self-esteem in intergroup behaviour; self-esteem can, under some conditions, be incidental or ...
Leon Festinger
... key to his earlier ideas was the hypothesis that, when there were discrepancies of opinion or ability among the members of a group, pressures arose to reduce such discrepancies. Dissonance theory was an attempt to determine, at a more basic, purely cognitive level, the origin of such pressures. In e ...
... key to his earlier ideas was the hypothesis that, when there were discrepancies of opinion or ability among the members of a group, pressures arose to reduce such discrepancies. Dissonance theory was an attempt to determine, at a more basic, purely cognitive level, the origin of such pressures. In e ...
The Role of Comparison Group Size in the Third
... Prior third-person effect research has demonstrated that the perceived discrepancy between the impact of media messages on one’s self and others is driven by a number of factors. For example, several studies have found that the size of the gap increases as the ‘others’ become more socially remote fro ...
... Prior third-person effect research has demonstrated that the perceived discrepancy between the impact of media messages on one’s self and others is driven by a number of factors. For example, several studies have found that the size of the gap increases as the ‘others’ become more socially remote fro ...
making sense of east asian self-enhancement
... but because of the interdependent nature of their selves, the view of self that they are more motivated to enhance is their group self. Muramoto reviews some compelling evidence that she had earlier collected that Japanese make more favorable attributions for their groups than they do for themselves ...
... but because of the interdependent nature of their selves, the view of self that they are more motivated to enhance is their group self. Muramoto reviews some compelling evidence that she had earlier collected that Japanese make more favorable attributions for their groups than they do for themselves ...
The Evolution of Self-Esteem. In M. Kernis
... One’s abilities to solve specific adaptive problems can change dramatically from year to year, month to month, day to day, or even moment to moment. An individual’s abilities may change due to success or failure in a hunt, the birth of death of a child, an increase in age, acquisition of experience, ...
... One’s abilities to solve specific adaptive problems can change dramatically from year to year, month to month, day to day, or even moment to moment. An individual’s abilities may change due to success or failure in a hunt, the birth of death of a child, an increase in age, acquisition of experience, ...
Relational Orientation and Methodological Individualism Abstract
... throughout the individual's lifetime. The life of the individual is incomplete! It derives its meaning only from the coexistence of other individuals. Without others, the very notion of individual identity loses meaning. In this sense, Asian conceptions of social existence are relation centered--in ...
... throughout the individual's lifetime. The life of the individual is incomplete! It derives its meaning only from the coexistence of other individuals. Without others, the very notion of individual identity loses meaning. In this sense, Asian conceptions of social existence are relation centered--in ...
1 FUN WITH THEORIES OF SOCIALIZATION Charles Horton
... George Herbert Mead described self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized. Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others. This is the notion of, 'Do unto others, as you would have them do unto ...
... George Herbert Mead described self as "taking the role of the other," the premise for which the self is actualized. Through interaction with others, we begin to develop an identity about who we are, as well as empathy for others. This is the notion of, 'Do unto others, as you would have them do unto ...
QSR_11_4_Archibald_K.. - Qualitative Sociology Review
... a hypothesis, and then you look at society through ...
... a hypothesis, and then you look at society through ...
Odious Comparisons
... Bhaskar (1979, 1986, 1997) and Collier (1994, 2005) for the foundations of critical realism and to Archer et al. (1998) for an overview of current work in this area; Steinmetz (1998) discusses the possible relevance of critical realism to historical sociology. The only sustained critical realist tre ...
... Bhaskar (1979, 1986, 1997) and Collier (1994, 2005) for the foundations of critical realism and to Archer et al. (1998) for an overview of current work in this area; Steinmetz (1998) discusses the possible relevance of critical realism to historical sociology. The only sustained critical realist tre ...
ACR 2010 Special Session Proposal
... “Maximizers” are consumers who exhaustively examine every possibility before deciding which choice is best, while “satisficers” are more likely to choose the first available option that meets a threshold of acceptability. In the current paper, we investigate a new question that past work has not con ...
... “Maximizers” are consumers who exhaustively examine every possibility before deciding which choice is best, while “satisficers” are more likely to choose the first available option that meets a threshold of acceptability. In the current paper, we investigate a new question that past work has not con ...
Lecture 7
... The success of such classification systems lies in their ability to map out and structure patterns of consumption that in turn aid both the enhancement and regulation of the capitalist market. …businesses and policy makers alike use geodemographic classifications extensively to inform the targeting ...
... The success of such classification systems lies in their ability to map out and structure patterns of consumption that in turn aid both the enhancement and regulation of the capitalist market. …businesses and policy makers alike use geodemographic classifications extensively to inform the targeting ...
Functionalism
... similar to Mead and Cooley but Becker argues that once people begin to see us as having a particular type of identity that becomes our master status. It becomes very difficult to get rid of this identity and eventually the individual may conform to it. Criticisms of Interpretivist/Social Action Theo ...
... similar to Mead and Cooley but Becker argues that once people begin to see us as having a particular type of identity that becomes our master status. It becomes very difficult to get rid of this identity and eventually the individual may conform to it. Criticisms of Interpretivist/Social Action Theo ...