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The pulse-like nature of decisions in rational choice theory 理性选择理论中决策的脉冲性质
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120961578
Enzo Lenine
Is the act of making a decision a process or pulse? Critiques of rational choice theory and models often treat cognitive processes of preference ordering as part of the act of decision that should be incorporated into the models. The failure to account for human psychology, they argue, responds for RCT’s lack of predictability. However, this argument and the models of human mind, such as prospect theory, see decision as a process that begins at the cognitive considerations of preference ordering and extends up to the act of decision. In this paper, I argue that decision is analogous to a pulse rather than a process. I draw this analogy with the Dirac delta function, which in signal theory represents an unitary pulse. In the exact moment of making a decision, all preferences and contextual evaluations must have been already structured in the agent’s mind, otherwise she would not be capable of making the decision. Acknowledging the pulse-like nature of rational choice models allows modellers to eschew the incorporation of complex cognitive processes into their analyses, which has both theoretical and empirical implications to RCT’s representation of real-world phenomena.
做出决定的行为是一个过程还是一个脉冲?理性选择理论和模型的批评通常将偏好排序的认知过程视为决策行为的一部分,应该纳入模型中。他们认为,未能解释人类心理,是RCT缺乏可预测性的原因。然而,这一论点和人类思维模型,如前景理论,将决策视为一个从偏好排序的认知考虑开始并延伸到决策行为的过程。在本文中,我认为决策类似于一个脉冲,而不是一个过程。我用狄拉克-德尔塔函数来比喻,在信号理论中,它代表一个酉脉冲。在做出决定的确切时刻,所有的偏好和上下文评估必须已经在代理人的脑海中构建好,否则她将无法做出决定。认识到理性选择模型的脉冲状性质,建模者可以避免将复杂的认知过程纳入他们的分析中,这对RCT对现实世界现象的表征既有理论意义,也有经验意义。
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引用次数: 1
Peasant youth experiences of CEOs, risk aversion and corporate performance CEO的农民青年经历、风险规避与企业绩效
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120945636
Kebin Deng, Z. Ding, Yalu Wang
This article examines the impact of spiritual tempering on corporate performance by investigating the experiences of CEOs who were part of the “peasant youth” between 1957 and 1976 in China. Using a sample of China’s listed companies and by developing propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences model, we find that CEOs who had profound peasant youth experiences have a stronger awareness of risk prevention and that these experiences lead to an improvement in corporate performance of over 3%. In addition, the positive impact of CEOs’ peasant youth experience on corporate performance is pronounced in either state-owned or non-state-owned enterprises. Overall, this study confirms that spiritual tempering has a significant positive impact on corporate performance.
本文通过调查1957年至1976年间中国“农民青年”CEO的经历,考察了精神锻炼对企业绩效的影响。以中国上市公司为样本,通过建立倾向得分匹配和差异中的差异模型,我们发现具有深厚农民青年经历的CEO具有更强的风险防范意识,这些经历使公司绩效提高了3%以上。此外,CEO的农民青年经历对企业绩效的积极影响在国有或非国有企业中都很明显。总体而言,本研究证实了精神磨炼对企业绩效有显著的正向影响。
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引用次数: 0
To leave or not to leave? Understanding the support for the United Kingdom membership in the European Union: Identity, attitudes towards the political system and socio-economic status 走还是不走?了解对联合王国欧盟成员资格的支持:身份、对政治制度和社会经济地位的态度
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120945268
Nicola Pensiero
This article proposes a decision model of the British support for leaving the European Union (EU) that includes both identity aspirations, attitudes towards the political system and economic interest and test it on the Understanding Society 6th, 7th and 8th surveys. Current studies tend to interpret the British Euroscepticism as a combination of attachment to British identity, lack of economic opportunities and dissatisfaction with the political class. Using this approach where factors are additive, it is not possible to account for the substantial portion of socio-economically advantaged individuals which prefer to leave the EU, and for those who, despite their low attachment to their British identity, the relatively high educational level and satisfaction with domestic democracy, prefer to leave the EU. I use a theoretical approach which considers both economic and cultural considerations as rational considerations and conceptualise their interaction in terms of trade off. I use classification tree analysis to evaluate the relative importance of the main explanatory factors and of their interaction. The results show that the negative evaluation of the political system makes certain groups, which otherwise tend to support European integration, lean towards Euroscepticism. It helps to explain the Euroscepticism of those who are less attached to their British identity and of advantaged classes. The results have also showed that anti-establishment attitudes are not associated with disadvantaged socio-economic groups. The dissatisfaction with domestic democracy is relevant mostly for the advantaged classes, and the lack of political efficacy affects equally the attitudes of advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Last, disadvantaged groups’ support for European integration is driven by identity aspirations not by economic interest.
本文提出了一个英国支持脱欧的决策模型,该模型包括身份愿望、对政治制度的态度和经济利益,并在理解社会第6、第7和第8次调查中进行了测试。目前的研究倾向于将英国的欧洲怀疑主义解释为对英国身份的依恋、缺乏经济机会和对政治阶层的不满。在因素是相加的情况下,使用这种方法,不可能解释大部分倾向于离开欧盟的社会经济优势个人,以及那些尽管对英国身份的依恋程度较低、教育水平相对较高、对国内民主的满意度较高但仍倾向于离开欧盟的人。我采用了一种理论方法,将经济和文化因素视为理性因素,并从权衡的角度对它们的相互作用进行概念化。我使用分类树分析来评估主要解释因素及其相互作用的相对重要性。结果表明,对政治制度的负面评价使某些倾向于支持欧洲一体化的群体倾向于欧洲怀疑主义。这有助于解释那些对自己的英国身份和优势阶级不太依恋的人的欧洲怀疑主义。研究结果还表明,反建制态度与弱势社会经济群体无关。对国内民主的不满主要与优势阶级有关,而政治效能的缺乏同样影响了优势群体和弱势群体的态度。最后,弱势群体对欧洲一体化的支持是由身份愿望而非经济利益驱动的。
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引用次数: 2
Do Koreans like being nudged? Survey evidence for the contextuality of behavioral public policy 韩国人喜欢被人轻推吗?行为公共政策情境性的调查证据
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120937832
D. Kasdan
This study explores the nuances of South Koreans’ approval for nudge policies by replicating a survey conducted in global nudge research, and then extending the analysis and discussion with greater detail about the context. The traditions, culture, and development of Korea have contributed to a distinct behavioral bias profile that must be integrated into approaches for nudge policy design and implementation. This article proposes the qualities of such a profile from the survey results, as well as the prospect that Koreans are more receptive to information nudges that engage analytic reflection. The findings show significantly lower nudge policy approval rates for Koreans in contrast to Americans and other Western countries. This serves to support previous calls for further research about the generalizability of nudge approaches by contributing evidence to the importance of context for identifying and leveraging behavioral biases in the application of policy. The research offers insights into the Korean context that may be used for nudge policies in Korea and other Eastern contexts.
这项研究通过复制全球推动研究中进行的一项调查,探索了韩国人对推动政策的认可程度的细微差别,然后对分析和讨论进行了更详细的扩展。韩国的传统、文化和发展导致了明显的行为偏见,必须将其纳入推动政策设计和实施的方法中。这篇文章从调查结果中提出了这样一个简介的质量,以及韩国人更容易接受参与分析反思的信息推送的前景。研究结果显示,与美国和其他西方国家相比,韩国人的推动政策支持率要低得多。这有助于支持之前关于进一步研究推动方法可推广性的呼吁,通过提供证据证明背景在政策应用中识别和利用行为偏见的重要性。这项研究提供了对韩国背景的见解,可用于推动韩国和其他东方背景的政策。
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引用次数: 6
Selective tolerance and the radical right 选择性宽容和激进右翼
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120920416
C. Jennings, Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow
In recent decades, there has been increased tolerance within many countries towards a range of previous out-groups. This has been displayed most dramatically in the growing acceptance of the LGBT community. Some radical right organisations are also expressing tolerance towards the very same out-groups which they once reviled. We postulate that the radical right strategically uses tolerance to increase its own support and to impose costs on another out-group – Muslims – who are judged to be hostile to the tolerated groups. We provide a theoretical analysis and contrasting case studies that help explain the conditions under which radical right organisations will, or will not, display tolerance towards out-groups.
近几十年来,许多国家对以前的一系列外群体的容忍度有所提高。这在人们对LGBT群体越来越多的接受上得到了最显著的体现。一些激进的右翼组织也对他们曾经痛斥的外群体表达了宽容。我们假设,激进右翼在战略上利用宽容来增加自己的支持,并让另一个外部群体——穆斯林——付出代价,后者被认为对宽容的群体怀有敌意。我们提供了理论分析和对比案例研究,以帮助解释激进右翼组织会或不会对外部群体表现出宽容的条件。
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引用次数: 8
You are who your friends are? 你就是你的朋友吗?
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120919380
Fabian Winter, M. Kataria
We study the existence of homophily (i.e. the tendency for people to be friends with people who are similar to themselves) with respect to trustworthiness. We ask whether two friends show similarly trustworthy behavior toward strangers, and whether such behavior is expected by a third party. We develop a simple model of Bayesian learning in trust games and test the derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with the same trustor, where the trustees depending on treatment are either friends or strangers to each other. We confirm the existence of homophily with respect to trustworthiness. The trustors’ beliefs about the trustees’ trustfulness are not affected by the knowledge about the (non-)existent friendship between the trustees. Behaviorally, however, they indirectly reciprocate the (un-)trustworthy behavior of one trustee toward his or her friends in later interactions.
我们研究了在可信度方面是否存在同质性(即人们倾向于与自己相似的人交朋友)。我们询问两个朋友是否对陌生人表现出同样值得信赖的行为,以及第三方是否期望这样的行为。我们在信任游戏中开发了一个简单的贝叶斯学习模型,并在受控的实验室环境中测试了导出的假设。在实验中,两个受托人依次与同一委托人玩信任游戏,根据不同的待遇,受托人要么是朋友,要么是陌生人。我们确认在可信度方面存在同质性。委托人对受托人信任的信念不受受托人之间(不存在的)友谊知识的影响。然而,在行为上,他们在后来的互动中间接地回应了受托人对他或她的朋友的(不)值得信赖的行为。
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引用次数: 0
A theory of norm collapse 规范崩溃理论
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120921255
Chien-hang Liu
How a social norm emerges has been studied extensively. However, how a norm collapses has rarely been addressed in the literature. In this article, extending the theories of norm emergence by Coleman and Axelrod, I propose a theory of norm collapse. This theory specifies one micro mechanism and macro–micro–macro process through which a norm likely decays and eventually collapses. Then, as a test, I use computer simulation to simulate the process of the norm emergence and collapse. The result of the computer simulation demonstrates that the proposed theory has internal logical consistency. Finally, I conclude by discussing some implication of this research.
社会规范是如何产生的已经被广泛研究。然而,一种规范是如何崩溃的,在文献中很少提及。本文对科尔曼和阿克塞尔罗德的规范涌现理论进行了扩展,提出了规范崩溃理论。该理论规定了一个微观机制和宏观-微观-宏观过程,通过这个过程,规范可能会衰减并最终崩溃。然后,作为测试,我使用计算机模拟来模拟规范出现和崩溃的过程。计算机仿真结果表明,该理论具有内在的逻辑一致性。最后,我讨论了本研究的一些启示。
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引用次数: 2
Social hierarchies in democracies and authoritarianism: The balance between power asymmetries and principal-agent chains 民主与威权的社会等级制度:权力不对称与委托-代理链之间的平衡
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-13 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120904051
Björn Toelstede
Social hierarchies exist in democracies as well as in authoritarian societies. However, their nature is different. Democratic hierarchies are built bottom-up through election while autocratic hierarchies are built top-down through domination. Both, however, have power asymmetries between the weaker citizens and the stronger politicians, which are amplified the stronger the hierarchies are. This manuscript introduces a model that combines pro-/anti-social behavior with different degrees of hierarchies. It is argued that this model has the power to categorize countries according to these criteria and indicate when and how societies move between democracy and authoritarianism. Importantly, I illustrate that the balance between power asymmetries and principal-agent chains is key for understanding when and why democracies sometimes transcend into authoritarianism.
社会等级制度既存在于民主社会,也存在于专制社会。然而,它们的性质是不同的。民主的等级制度是自下而上通过选举建立起来的,而专制的等级制度是自上而下通过统治建立起来的。然而,两者都存在弱势公民和强势政客之间的权力不对称,等级制度越强,这种不对称就会被放大。本文介绍了一个将亲/反社会行为与不同程度的等级相结合的模型。有人认为,这个模型有能力根据这些标准对国家进行分类,并指出社会何时以及如何在民主和威权主义之间移动。重要的是,我说明了权力不对称和委托-代理链之间的平衡是理解民主何时以及为何有时超越为威权主义的关键。
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引用次数: 5
Along which identity lines does 21st-century Britain divide? Evidence from Big Brother 21世纪的英国有哪些身份划分?来自老大哥的证据
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-02-10 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120904049
Tom Lane
This article measures discrimination in the reality TV show Big Brother, a high-stakes environment. Data on contestants’ nominations are taken from 35 series of the British version of the show, covering the years 2000–2016. Race and age discrimination are found, with contestants more likely to nominate those of a different race and those different in age from themselves. However, no discrimination is identified on the basis of gender, geographical region of origin, or level of education. Racial discrimination is driven by males, but females exhibit stronger age discrimination than males. Age discrimination is driven by the younger contestants discriminating against the older. Regional differences emerge, particularly between contestants from Greater London and those from the north of England; northerners have a stronger tendency to engage in racial and age discrimination, and to discriminate in favour of the opposite gender.
这篇文章衡量了真人秀节目《老大哥》中的歧视,这是一个高风险的环境。参赛者的提名数据来自英国版的35期节目,涵盖2000年至2016年。存在种族和年龄歧视,参赛者更有可能提名不同种族和年龄与自己不同的人。然而,没有发现基于性别、原籍地理区域或教育水平的歧视。种族歧视主要由男性主导,但女性的年龄歧视比男性更严重。年龄歧视是由年轻选手歧视年长选手造成的。地区差异出现了,尤其是来自大伦敦和英格兰北部的参赛者之间;北方人更倾向于种族歧视和年龄歧视,也更倾向于歧视异性。
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引用次数: 1
Testing structural and relational embeddedness in collaboration risk 测试协作风险中的结构和关系嵌入性
IF 1 4区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/1043463120902279
Minsun Song, Kyujin Jung, Namhoon Ki, R. Feiock
The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are integrated in a network, on collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. Despite efforts to understand the structural effects of network governance, embedded relationships and their influence on collaboration remain relatively unexplored. A case of intergovernmental collaboration for emergency management is used as a test bed to examine the role of embeddedness in disaster networks and to extend the knowledge of collaboration risk within the institutional collective action framework. We hypothesize and test the effect of relational and structural embeddedness on the level of collaboration risk that an organization perceives. Our analysis of 69 organizations engaged in emergency management operations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea reveals that both structural and relational embeddedness facilitate organizations to mitigate perceived collaboration risk. The results suggest that reachability secures relief of relational risk, and that commitment relationships bind participants.
该研究调查了嵌入性对关系不确定性产生的合作风险的影响,嵌入性被定义为组织整合在网络中的相互依存关系的一种性质。尽管人们努力理解网络治理的结构性影响,但嵌入关系及其对协作的影响仍然相对未被探索。政府间应急管理合作案例被用作试验台,以审查嵌入性在灾害网络中的作用,并在机构集体行动框架内扩大对合作风险的认识。我们假设并测试了关系和结构嵌入对组织感知的合作风险水平的影响。我们对韩国首尔都会区69个从事应急管理业务的组织进行的分析表明,结构和关系嵌入都有助于组织减轻感知到的合作风险。研究结果表明,可达性确保了关系风险的缓解,承诺关系约束了参与者。
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