族际冲突的社会表征:词汇网络分析视角

Social Representations on Interethnic Conflict:From a Lexical Network Analysis Perspective

为探索族际冲突的社会表征及其核心要素,以"族际冲突"为激发词,采用词汇联想测试对220名大学生进行自由联想反应,然后应用可视化网络图、K-核解析的复杂网络分析技术解析激发词汇网络结构,并比较了彝汉两民族的表征差异。结果表明:"族际冲突"社会表征是一个以"战争"和"打架"为中心内核组织起来的5-核多层复杂网络,其整体意义产生于"矛盾、战争、斗争、冲突、和平、民族、团结、种族歧视、和谐、打架、歧视、文化、流血、利益"14个中心核元素及其关联性。除了两族有着相似的整体网络特征外,彝族被试主要使用因果论思维,强调"民族"元素,表征为以"死亡(纠纷)→打架(内乱)→战争(矛盾)"为核心轴的层级模型。汉族使用目的论思维,强调"流血"元素,以"语言(分争)→利益(打斗)→战争(和谐)"为分类主轴进行社会表征。结论认为族际冲突的社会表征是一个多层级网络结构,存在民族差异。

To explore social representations of interethnic conflict and its core elements,this arti-cle used a word-association test with interethnic conflict as stimulus to collect220college students’free association responses.Then complex network analysis techniques including network visualization,k-core decomposition were used for analyzing the structures of the evoked words networks,and comparing the representational differences between Yi and Han ethnic groups.Results indicated that the social representations of interethnic conflict was a5-core multilayer network organized by the two core nuclei:war and fight,and its global meaning generated from the following14shared core elements and their connections:Contradiction,war,struggle,conflict,peace,ethnicity,solidarity,racial discrimination,harmony,fight,discrimination,culture,bleeding,and profit.Apart from the similar structure properties in the two groups,Yi mainly represented the interethnic conflict as a nested hierarchical network model constructed on the core axis of the death(dispute)→fight(civil strife)→war(contradiction),emphasizing a causal associations among these levels,and focused on the ethnicity element.Whilst based on the category axis of the language(strife)→interest(tussle)→war(harmony),Han socially represented the interethnic conflict from the angle of teleology,stressing on the bleeding element.The conclusion suggested that the social representation of interethnic conflict is a multi-level network structure,existing discrepancy in ethno-culture context.