Profiles of an Ideal Society: The Utopian Visions of Ordinary People

IF 2.4 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Julian W. Fernando, Nicholas Burden, Madeline Judge, Léan V. O'Brien, H. Ashman, A. Paladino, Y. Kashima
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Throughout history, people have expressed the desire for an ideal society—a utopia. These imagined societies have motivated action for social change. Recent research has demonstrated this motivational effect among ordinary people in English-speaking countries, but we know little about the specific content of ordinary people’s utopian visions in different cultures. Here we report that a majority of samples from four countries—Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States—converge on a small number of utopian visions: a Modern Green utopia, a Primitivist utopia, a Futurist utopia, and a Religious utopia. Although the prevalence of these utopia profiles differed across countries, there was a cross-cultural convergence in utopian visions. These shared visions may provide common ground for conversations about how to achieve a better future across cultural borders.
理想社会的侧面:普通人的乌托邦愿景
纵观历史,人们表达了对理想社会——乌托邦的渴望。这些想象中的社会激发了社会变革的行动。最近的研究已经证明了这种激励效应在英语国家的普通人中存在,但我们对不同文化中普通人乌托邦愿景的具体内容知之甚少。在这里,我们报告了来自四个国家(澳大利亚、中国、英国和美国)的大多数样本都集中在少数乌托邦愿景上:现代绿色乌托邦、原始主义乌托邦、未来主义乌托邦和宗教乌托邦。尽管这些乌托邦形象在不同国家的流行程度不同,但乌托邦愿景存在跨文化趋同。这些共同的愿景可能为如何跨越文化边界实现更美好未来的对话提供共同基础。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology publishes papers that focus on the interrelationships between culture and psychological processes. Submitted manuscripts may report results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways in which culture (and related concepts such as ethnicity) affect the thinking and behavior of individuals as well as how individual thought and behavior define and reflect aspects of culture. Review papers and innovative reformulations of cross-cultural theory will also be considered. Studies reporting data from within a single nation should focus on cross-cultural perspective. Empirical studies must be described in sufficient detail to be potentially replicable.
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