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Consensus and stratification in the affective meaning of human sociality.

Jens Ambrasat1, Christian von Scheve2, Markus Conrad3, Gesche Schauenburg4, Tobias Schröder5.   

Abstract

We investigate intrasocietal consensus and variation in affective meanings of concepts related to authority and community, two elementary forms of human sociality. Survey participants (n = 2,849) from different socioeconomic status (SES) groups in German society provided ratings of 909 social concepts along three basic dimensions of affective meaning. Results show widespread consensus on these meanings within society and demonstrate that a meaningful structure of socially shared knowledge emerges from organizing concepts according to their affective similarity. The consensus finding is further qualified by evidence for subtle systematic variation along SES differences. In relation to affectively neutral words, high-status individuals evaluate intimacy-related and socially desirable concepts as less positive and powerful than middle- or low-status individuals, while perceiving antisocial concepts as relatively more threatening. This systematic variation across SES groups suggests that the affective meaning of sociality is to some degree a function of social stratification.

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Keywords:  affect control theory; cluster analysis; cultural concensus; large-scale survey; mixed-effects models

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Year:  2014        PMID： 24843121      PMCID： PMC4050547          DOI： 10.1073/pnas.1313321111

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A        ISSN： 0027-8424            Impact factor:   11.205


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