个体与宏观社会的心理关系:社会心态概念的界定

The Psychological Link between the Individual and Society: The concept of social mentality

本文通过对社会心态的研究框架的讨论,对社会心态进行了概念界定。本文认为,社会心态是一段时间内弥散在整个社会或社会群体/类别中的宏观社会心境状态,是整个社会的情绪基调、社会共识和社会价值取向的总和。社会心态透过整个社会的流行、时尚、舆论和社会成员的社会生活感受、对未来的信心、社会动机、社会情绪等而得以表现;它与主流意识形态相互作用,通过社会认同、情绪感染、去个性化等机制,对社会行为者形成模糊的、潜在的和情绪性的影响。它来自社会个体心态的同质性,却不等同于个体心态的简单加总,而是新生成的、具有本身特质和功能的心理现象,反映了个人与社会之间相互建构而形成的最为宏观的心理关系。

This article proposes conceptual definition of social mentality, according to the analysis of social mentality framework. It is believed that social mentality is a pervasive and all-encompassing macro-phenomena embedded in the whole society. It is the summation of the emotional tune, social consensus and social values. Social mentality influences social participators' potential contingencies and emotions according to the mechanism of social identification, motivation and emotion, de-individualization. This mechanism relies on the investigation of social popularity, consensus, motivation and confidence towards future to interact the relationship with mainstream ideology. Social mentality is ruled out from the homogeneity of individuals' mentality, but not merely a simple summation. However, it is a newly originated, self-characterized and self-functional psychological phenomenon. It reveals the ultimate macro_relationship between individual and society as a whole.