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Social distance is a measure of social separation between groups caused by perceived or real differences between groups of people as defined by well-known social categories. It manifests across a variety of social categories, including class, race and ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and age, among others.
In sociology, social distance describes the distance between individuals or social groups in society, including dimensions such as social class, race/ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Members of different groups mix less than members of the same group.
Social distance refers to the extent to which people experience a sense of familiarity (nearness and intimacy) or unfamiliarity (farness and difference) between themselves and people belonging to different social, ethnic, occupational, and religious groups from their own.
Explain the meaning of Worldview and its importance in communication. Many theories have been used to describe, predict, and understand communication. In this course, we will focus on three main sociological theories– conflict theory, structural functionalism, and symbolic interactionism .
3 maj 2021 · Beyond the multiple aspects highlighted for the study of social distance between groups, another trait to be taken into account is the different attitudes of a group toward alterity in terms of acceptance, tolerance, intolerance, hostility, confrontation and discrimination, among others.
9 lis 2023 · Findings suggest that increased psychological distance leads to higher-level construals, resulting in a perception of conversation partners as non-descript and homogenous. Importantly, this affects social presence perceptions, with certain nuances. These findings can inform novel approaches to enhance social presence in online learning.
24 sty 2013 · We propose that asymmetric dependence between individuals (i.e., power) produces asymmetric social distance, with high-power individuals feeling more distant than low-power individuals. From this insight, we articulate predictions about how power affects (a) social comparison, (b) susceptibility to influence, (c) mental state inference and ...
