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We explore the different ways in which people make sense of and identify with social and political groups. In so doing, we draw on a structural pragmatic view of political thinking. This view suggests that a person’s political thinking is structured. Drawing on this claim, we explore the hypothesis that although a person may know more about some matters and less about others, the various understanding he or she constructs will share common formal characteristics. Structural pragmatic theory also suggests that the structural qualities of political thinking may vary from one individual to the next. Following this, we explore the hypothesis that individuals may think in structurally different ways and therefore that different people may understand the same event in qualitatively different ways. Unlike earlier research on these questions, we adopt an approach which bridges the interpretive concerns and empirical methods of structural pragmatics with those which are more commonly adopted in political science studies of public opinion. Thus we use an open-ended problem solving task, a chemistry experiment, to assess the quality of the subjects thinking. We then draw on this to predict how subjects will perform on close-ended survey measures of their social identification with ingroups and their evaluation and political tolerance of outgroups. The results provide general support for hypothees of an underlying structure of thought and individual differences. They also suggest the potenital of empirical research which combines qualitative and quantitative measures of cognition. |
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| Rosenberg, Shawn. and Wrigley, Ted. "Thinking about Chemistry, Social Identity and Political Tolerance: A Multi-Method Study of Individual Differences in Political Cognition" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p278253_index.html> |
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| Rosenberg, S. W. and Wrigley, T. , 2008-08-28 "Thinking about Chemistry, Social Identity and Political Tolerance: A Multi-Method Study of Individual Differences in Political Cognition" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p278253_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: We explore the different ways in which people make sense of and identify with social and political groups. In so doing, we draw on a structural pragmatic view of political thinking. This view suggests that a person’s political thinking is structured. Drawing on this claim, we explore the hypothesis that although a person may know more about some matters and less about others, the various understanding he or she constructs will share common formal characteristics. Structural pragmatic theory also suggests that the structural qualities of political thinking may vary from one individual to the next. Following this, we explore the hypothesis that individuals may think in structurally different ways and therefore that different people may understand the same event in qualitatively different ways. Unlike earlier research on these questions, we adopt an approach which bridges the interpretive concerns and empirical methods of structural pragmatics with those which are more commonly adopted in political science studies of public opinion. Thus we use an open-ended problem solving task, a chemistry experiment, to assess the quality of the subjects thinking. We then draw on this to predict how subjects will perform on close-ended survey measures of their social identification with ingroups and their evaluation and political tolerance of outgroups. The results provide general support for hypothees of an underlying structure of thought and individual differences. They also suggest the potenital of empirical research which combines qualitative and quantitative measures of cognition. |
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| Thinking about Chemistry Social Identity and Political Tolerance: A Multi-Method Study of Individual Differences in Political Cognition Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Boston MA Shawn Rosenberg and Ted Wrigley University of California Irvine swr@uci.edu & twrigley@uci.edu In this paper we explore the different ways in which people make sense of and identify with social and political groups. In so doing we draw on a structural pragmatic view of political thinking. This |
| I am a person who considers the people of my ethnic/ cultural group important. 7) I am a person who identifies with my ethnic/cultural group. 8) I am a person who criticizes my ethnic/cultural group. Political Tolerance Scale Items (Sullivan et al. 1982) How strongly do you agree or disagree (5 point likert scale) with the following: 1) [Least liked group] should not be banned from being president of the US. 2) [Least liked group] should not be allowed |
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