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sj-pdf-1-pus-10.1177_09636625211049531 – Supplemental material for Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pus-10.1177_09636625211049531 for Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration by Stephen G. Sapp, Shawn F. Dorius, Katharine A. Bertelson and Shannon B. Harper in Public Understanding of Science</p
An empirical analysis on the rationalization of world development
Get PDFThe tremendous changes in world society during the past several decades raise a number of important questions that require new empirical evidence and theoretical explanation for studies of rationalization. World society theory treats rationalization as a cultural process. This theory argues that a rational world culture, which originated from western culture, has universal influence. Based on this idea, this thesis proposes the standardized social measurement as one of the main embodiments of the rational world culture. Thus, participation in global social survey infrastructure (GSSI) is used to measure the diffusion of scientific rationality in world society. Based on this measurement, a descriptive analysis on the global participation in GSSI and an event history analysis on the history of global participation are conducted to describe this process and provide insights into its causes. Results of descriptive analysis show the national participation in GSSI is extensive, but highly unbalance even throughout its expansion in recent years. Event history models show that countries with closer connections to world culture are at greater risk of joining the GSSI. Both results support the argument of world society theory. Rationalization in contemporary world is driven by the world culture through diffusion.</p
Global Demographic Convergence? A Reconsideration of Changing Intercountry Inequality in Fertility
No full textThis research challenges the notion that the second half of the twentieth century was a period of global demographic convergence. To be sure, fertility rates fell substantially during the period, but with considerable un-evenness. The declines in total fertility across population-weighted countries were sufficiently disproportionate that intercountry fertility inequality, estimated using standard measures of inequality, did not begin to decline until at least 1995. Regression analysis also shows that only very recently did lagging countries begin to catch up with countries that began the transition to low fertility earlier. Contrary to findings on changing intercountry health inequality, sub-Saharan Africa has had a greater impact on changes in fertility inequality than China. The trend in fertility inequality, where convergence is a relatively new phenomenon, stands in contrast to trends in inequality in other domains, such as income, education, and health. Copyright (c) 2008 The Population Council, Inc..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data
No full textExisting scholarship on developmental idealism demonstrates that ordinary people around the world tend to perceive the level of development and characteristics of different countries similarly. We build on this literature by examining publics’ perceptions of nations and development in internet search data, which we argue offers additional insights into publics’ perceptions that survey data does not address. Our analysis finds that developmental idealism is prevalent in international internet searches about countries. A consistent mental image of national development emerges from the traits publics ascribe to countries in internet searches. We find a positive relationship between the sentiment expressed in Google searches about a given country and its position in the global developmental hierarchy. Diverse publics consistently associate positive attributes to countries ranked high on global development indices and negative characteristics to countries ranked low. We also find a positive correlation between the number of internet searches about a country and the country’s position in indices of global development. These findings illustrate that ordinary people have deeply internalized developmental idealism and that this informs their views about countries worldwide
Chinese and world cultural models of developmental hierarchy
Get PDFPrior research on cultural models of developmental hierarchy finds broad cross-national agreement among publics about the rank ordering of societies on perceived level of development, based on an omnibus measure of development. In this research, I use a multidimensional index of world hierarchy derived from subjective evaluations of a large number of national attributes to explore dimensionality in Chinese perceptions of global hierarchy. Statistical analysis show that the data exhibit over time stability and strong association with objective measures of development and with alternate subjective measures of world hierarchy. Irrespective of the national attributes evaluated, Chinese respondents produced a very similar rank-ordering of countries on each of six different indexes. The Chinese model of world hierarchy shows broad overlap with the global hierarchy produced by raters from 19 other surveyed publics. Notable differences between Chinese and world cultural models of hierarchy include especially negative views of Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India among Chinese respondents, and unusually favorable opinions of Russia, relative to the ratings of these countries by other publics. Analyses also show that respondents from 19 societies ranked China higher on the cultural dimension than on any other dimension but ranked the Chinese government lower than all but one country. Results suggest that scales based on an omnibus subjective measure of developmental hierarchy and indexes based on subjective ratings of national attributes produce a similar world hierarchy of nations.This is a manuscript of an article published as Dorius, Shawn F. "Chinese and world cultural models of developmental hierarchy." Chinese Journal of Sociology 2, no. 4 (2016): 577-608. doi:10.1177/2057150X16670832. Posted with permission.</p
Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data
No full textExisting scholarship on developmental idealism demonstrates that ordinary people around the world tend to perceive the level of development and characteristics of different countries similarly. We build on this literature by examining publics’ perceptions of nations and development in internet search data, which we argue offers additional insights into publics’ perceptions that survey data does not address. Our analysis finds that developmental idealism is prevalent in international internet searches about countries. A consistent mental image of national development emerges from the traits publics ascribe to countries in internet searches. We find a positive relationship between the sentiment expressed in Google searches about a given country and its position in the global developmental hierarchy. Diverse publics consistently associate positive attributes to countries ranked high on global development indices and negative characteristics to countries ranked low. We also find a positive correlation between the number of internet searches about a country and the country’s position in indices of global development. These findings illustrate that ordinary people have deeply internalized developmental idealism and that this informs their views about countries worldwide
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