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来源

CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.17,Issue2,P.485-503

语言

英文

关键字

MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE; ATTACHMENT; SATISFACTION; SOCIETY; MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; WESTERNERS; EASTERNERS; PERCEPTION; FUTURE

作者单位

[Muir, Jonathan A.] Ohio State Univ, Sociol, Columbus, OH 43210 USA. [Braudt, David B.] Univ N Carolina, Dept Sociol, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA. [Braudt, David B.] Univ N Carolina, Carolina Populat Ctr, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA. [Swindle, Jeffrey] Univ Michigan, Dept Sociol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. [Flaherty, Jeremy] Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT 84602 USA. [Brown, Ralph B.] Brigham Young Univ, Sociol, Provo, UT 84602 USA. Muir, JA (reprint author), Ohio State Univ, Dept Sociol, 238 Townshend Hall,1885 Neil Ave Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 USA. E-Mail: Muir.53@osu.edu

摘要

To what extent does community experience differ between low-context and high-context societies? Prior literature theorizes that community experience consists of two separate, yet highly related concepts: community attachment, an individual's general rootedness to a place, and community satisfaction, how well an individual's community meets their societal needs. We test this conceptualization of community experience across communities in the United States and two Southeast Asian nations: Thailand and Vietnam. We argue that Southeast Asian nations constitute high-context societies with relatively high social integration and solidarity while the United States is more individualized and less socially integrated and thus constitutes a low-context society. Our results provide empirical evidence that individuals' experience of community varies between low- and high-context societies. These results demonstrate that cultural context continues to matter in regards to the lived experience of community and researchers need to remain vigilant in accounting for such differences as they seek to examine the concept of community more broadly.