Wang Cheng, Hipp John R, Butts Carter T, Lakon Cynthia M
Wayne State University.
University of California, Irvine.
Sociol Focus. 2022;55(2):191-212. doi: 10.1080/00380237.2022.2049409. Epub 2022 Apr 17.
A social context can be viewed as an entity or unit around which a group of individuals organize their activities and interactions. Social contexts take such diverse forms as families, dwelling places, neighborhoods, classrooms, schools, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and sociocultural events or milieus. Understanding social contexts is essential for the study of individual behaviors, social networks, and the relationships between the two. Contexts shape individual behaviors by providing an avenue for non-dyadic conformity and socialization processes. The co-participation within a context affects personal relationships by acting as a focus for tie formation. Where participation in particular contexts confers status, this effect may also lead to differences in popularity within interpersonal networks. Social contexts may further play a moderating role in within-network influence and selection processes, providing circumstances that either amplify or suppress these effects. In this paper we investigate the joint role of co-participation via social contexts and dyadic interaction in shaping and being shaped by individual behaviors with the context of a U.S. high school. Implications for future study of social contexts are suggested.
社会环境可以被视为一个实体或单元，围绕着它，一群个体组织他们的活动和互动。社会环境具有多种形式，如家庭、居住场所、社区、教室、学校、工作场所、志愿组织以及社会文化活动或环境。理解社会环境对于研究个体行为、社会网络以及两者之间的关系至关重要。环境通过提供非二元从众和社会化过程的途径来塑造个体行为。在一个环境中的共同参与通过充当关系形成的焦点来影响个人关系。在特定环境中的参与赋予地位的地方，这种影响也可能导致人际网络中受欢迎程度的差异。社会环境可能在网络内的影响和选择过程中进一步发挥调节作用，提供放大或抑制这些影响的环境。在本文中，我们在美国高中的背景下，研究通过社会环境的共同参与和二元互动在塑造个体行为以及被个体行为塑造方面的联合作用。文中还提出了对未来社会环境研究的启示。
