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21 maj 2020 · In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of comparison.
Social distance is embedded in places, in shared social practices, and is overlaid with collective histories and experiences (Hodgetts et al., 2011). People live somewhere and their thoughts and actions are often based on shared norms, values, and practices of their social groups in overlapping social spaces.
3 maj 2021 · North American intellectual scene provides a different treatment of the phenomenon of social distance, connected to the need to respond to emerging social problems of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and social exclusion, derived from migration and cultural contact in complex societies.
It manifests across a variety of social categories, including class, race and ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and age, among others. Sociologists recognize three key types of social distance: affective, normative, and interactive.
Psychological distance. Some researchers have examined social distance as a form of psychological distance. Research in this vein has drawn connections between social distance, other kinds of psychological distance (such as temporal distance).
2 maj 2019 · What points of intersection can be found between sociological and psychological theories and practices? When are sociological and psychological conceptions compatible or contentious? What is interdisciplinarity about?
14 mar 2020 · At present, research on psychological distance has identified four major dimensions: spatial distance, temporal distance, social distance, and hypotheticality (Trope and Liberman 2010). The dimensions of psychological distance interact with one another; i.e., a change in one of the distance dimensions affects the perception of other distance ...
