Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2022-09-01
Abstract:
In recent years, impacts of social change on human culture and psychology have become a cutting-edge research area in cultural psychology. This research often implicates three effects: time or period effect, cohort or generation effect, and age or maturation effect, among which the former two are related to societal change, whereas the last one usually constitutes a confounder. In examining cultural and psychological changes as well as its sources, widely used research designs include cross-time comparison, cross-generation comparison and cross-regional comparison (or historical reconstruction) and widely used statistic methods includes traditional correlation and regression analyses and modern time series analyses (e.g. cross-lagged correlation analysis, Granger causality tests). Since each design has specific pros and cons, researchers need to choose suitable design in terms of research question and data collection possibility. If possible, it is highly recommended to pursue convergent evidence by conducting multiple studies with multiple research designs.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2021-07-03
Abstract: Scholars have approached social psychology from two perspectives: a sociological one and a psychological one. Although two perspectives have mostly developed in a parallel way, both has paid much attention into a common area: societal changes and their psychological impacts. Past sociological research on Chinese societal changes has focused on two aspects: changes in society or social structure, and changes in people. The former mainly involves urbanization, changes of social class, changes of social mobility, and changes of family structure; the latter mainly involves changes of Chinese experience, social mentality, group psychology, and organizational psychology. Compared with psychological approach, sociological approach tends to adopt more emic concepts and qualitative analyses, pay more attention to group psychology as well as the influences of politics and policy, and employ more macro–historical perspective. In future studies, Chinese social psychologists from the two perspectives need to learn from and collaborate with each other, ultimately achieving a better understanding of the change of Chinese people and Chinese society.
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