情感社会学：研究的现状与趋势

近年来,情感已成为社会学中一个相对新颖的主题。学者们对情感的研究兴趣日益浓厚,相关的论文和书籍也越来越多,情感社会学理论初见端倪。事实上,许多古典社会学家与当代的社会学家在其理论建构中都曾提及情感。比如迪尔凯姆曾分析过宗教式情感对团结的作用;韦伯的四种行动类型之一就是情感行动,他还指出科层制发展得越完善,就越容易去除所有个人的情感因素;在霍曼斯的理论中,情感是一种可以用来交换的社会资源;戈夫曼也曾分析过互动中的“脸面”与羞耻感。当然,这些社会学家对情感的分析是在其特定的研究背景下产生的,并未对情感做过系统的…     

Relationship Dynamics,Emotion State,and Domestic Violence: A Stress and Masculinities Perspective

We draw on the burgeoning masculinities literature to develop a framework for understanding how emotional reactions to stress may be associated with domestic violence. We conducted a daily diary study of 22 men with a history of domestic violence and a matched comparison group of 23 men with no known history of domestic violence. Each day, respondents completed a daily diary questionnaire on relationship dynamics, stress, and emotion state. This research design allowed us to examine relationship dynamics and emotion state as they unfolded over a 14‐day period. We find a difference between the two groups in the links between stress, relationship dynamics, and emotion state: Nonviolent men are more emotionally reactive to stress and relationship dynamics than are violent men. Among men with a history of domestic violence, it is as if the link between personal circumstances and emotion state has been disconnected. These findings support the idea that the demonstration of masculinity through repression of emotion and violent behavior may be linked.     

工作不安全感对用户抵制信息系统实施的影响

用户抵制是信息系统领域的一个热点话题。采用问卷调查方法收集12家企业266份信息系统终端用户及其直接主管配对样本,运用SPSS 19.0和AMOS 17.0等软件以及多元层级回归等方法,以压力-情绪理论和情感事件理论为基础,探讨工作不安全感对用户抵制信息系统实施的影响,重点分析积极情绪和消极情绪的中介作用以及不确定性规避的调节作用。研究结果表明,工作不安全感对用户抵制有显著正向影响,积极情绪和消极情绪在工作不安全感与用户抵制之间起完全中介作用,不确定性规避负向调节工作不安全感与积极情绪之间的关系,用户不确定性规避越高,工作不安全感与积极情绪的负向关联越强;不确定性规避正向调节工作不安全感与用户抵制的关系,用户不确定性规避越高,工作不安全感与用户抵制的正向关联越强;不确定性规避正向调节工作不安全感通过积极情绪对用户抵制的间接效应。研究结果为用户抵制研究提供了新的视角,对管理实践具有一定的指导意义。     

Thinking through Domestic Pluralities

Abstract

This article reflects on the meanings of home and domestic space among a group of women, who over the past five decades or so have sought to create alternative public and intimate living spaces. The protagonists who enact the ethnographic narrative are a small group of older lesbians, mainly feminist activists, residing in the metropolis of London. In this article, their life experiences are recounted through memories of domestic space, mainly that of the kitchen. I explore the way the domestic kitchen is experienced, spoken about, and imagined by this specific group of women. In this ethnography, the kitchen emerges as a contested, transformative, and political domestic space. Throughout, I illustrate how this seemingly private space is in fact entangled with larger notions of culture, society, kinship, and politics; and, like the everyday, is fraught with norms, codes and pluralities, and also with emotions, deviations, contestation, and transgression.     

民族地区师范生乡村教育情怀生成路径探究以凉山A院校学前教育专业为例

为探究师范生乡村教育情怀的生成与厚植,促进凉山地区良好乡村教师队伍的建设与发展,本研究以凉山地区A院校学前教育专业师范生为研究对象,运用Nvivo12对调研数据进行三级编码,探讨了学前教育专业师范生乡村教育情怀生成的多方可能因素。研究结果显示：凉山A院校学前教育师范生对当前凉山乡村教育的认知处于基本认知水平,影响学前教育专业师范生驻村意愿的影响因素包括社会环境、家庭环境、专业感知、职业规划、变更预设五个方面。这对提出构建学前教育专业师范生乡村教育情怀的可行路径,助力学前教育专业师范生驻村意愿长久存留有启示。     

Warranted inferences of mediation and possibility of a threshold effect: Verifying the mediating effects of anger in situational crisis communication theory

Scholars have called for communication research to verify the causal claims of mediation models from a research design perspective, instead of only proving mediation statistically. This study validates whether and how anger mediates the causal effects of crisis types on publics’ responses in Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT), including reputation, negative word-of-mouth intention, and purchase intention in China. Two experiments were conducted based on the experimental-causal-chain design. Results in Study 1 demonstrate that the causal relationships between three crisis types and publics’ emotional and other responses in China are consistent with findings in Western contexts. In Study 2, the results of a 2 (anger: low, high) x 3 (crisis types: victim crisis, accidental crisis, preventable crisis) factorial experiment reveal significant mediating effects of anger on publics’ responses in the victim and accidental crisis conditions, but not for preventable crises. This novel finding suggests the possibility of a threshold effect of anger in the mediating process. Specifically, anger has a mediating effect on publics’ responses when it is below the high-anger threshold. However, anger may no longer be the mediator when it exceeds this threshold. This finding empirically challenges the common assumption that emotions have a linear relationship with publics’ responses, thus offering a new research avenue and deeper understanding of how emotions function in crises. Therefore, this research serves as a pioneer, calling for future studies to validate other theories involving mediation to yield fruitful insights.     

论“思”的实质及其临床意义

中医的“七情学说”始于《内经》时代，其中的“思”历来被解释为“思虑”、“思考”等思维活动的内容。通过多种方法论证、指出“思”的内涵是情绪活动，类同于“抑郁（Ｄｅｐｒｅｓｓｉｏｎ）”情绪，并认为对“思”的新解具有积极的和现实的临床意义。     

Measuring feelings about choices and risks: The Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk Instrument (BERRI)

We introduce a brief instrument specifically validated for measuring positive and negative feelings about risks—the Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk Instrument (BERRI). Based on seven studies involving diverse adults from three countries (n = 2120), the BERRI was found to robustly estimate anticipatory affective reactions derived from subjective evaluations of positive (i.e., assured, hopeful, and relieved) and negative emotions (i.e., anxious, afraid, and worried). The brief BERRI outperformed a 14-item assessment, uniquely tracking costs/benefits associated with cancer screening among men and women (Studies 1 and 2). Predictive validity was further documented in paradigmatic risky choice studies wherein options varied over probabilities and severities across six contexts (health, social, financial, technological, ethical, and environmental; Study 3). Studies 4–6, conducted during the Ebola epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic, indicated BERRI responses were sensitive to subtle effects caused by emotion-related framing manipulations presented in different cultures and languages (the United States, Spain, and Poland). Study 7 indicated BERRI responses remained stable for 2 weeks. Although the BERRI can provide an estimate of overall affect, choices were generally better explained by the unique influences of positive and negative affect. Overall, results suggest the novel, brief instrument can be an efficient tool for high-stakes research on decision making and risk communication.     

A personal reflection of risking and protecting lives during the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic

In this paper, I engage with my personal experiences and reflections regarding my fear of exposure to coronavirus in a collective and physically demonstrative society. I reflect on my ongoing struggle of coping with social and cultural pressures, for example, the avoidance of ‘touch’ that demonstrates care and affection irrespective of whether someone is ill with the virus. Developed during the third wave of the pandemic, this paper reveals the ambivalence and the emotional challenges involved therein as I tried to (re)negotiate social interactions. It reflects the resistance and denial of the people that coronavirus even exists as they tried to justify their illness by linking it with other known diseases. Hence, the majority disapproved of social distancing to avoid stigmatization and being distanced from others. I believe that expressions of ‘care’ and ‘affection’ requires reconsideration in such circumstances as an act of care itself to protect lives.