Psychology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2017 Jun;59(3-4):276-279. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12134. Epub 2017 Mar 27.
Agent-based modeling has provided some interesting investigations of the hypothesis that there is a dialectical relationship between sense of community and diversity. A close look at those models strongly suggests that only models in which the attributes of agents are fixed completely support that hypothesis. Models which acknowledge that diversity is contextually defined, and thus changeable, suggest that there is no inherent dialectical relationship between the two values. Rather, it is the context of the setting, the way in which the setting is socially constructed, that determines whether a strong sense of community can exist in highly diverse settings.
基于主体的建模为这样一种假设提供了一些有趣的研究，即社区意识和多样性之间存在辩证关系。仔细研究这些模型强烈表明，只有那些完全固定主体属性的模型才能支持这一假设。那些承认多样性是由上下文定义的，因此是可变的模型表明，这两个值之间不存在内在的辩证关系。相反，决定在高度多样化的环境中是否能够存在强烈的社区意识的是环境的背景，即环境的社会构建方式。
