Social Mentality and Chinese Feeling in the Era of Transformation: A dialogue with the paper "Social Mentality: Social Psychological Research on Transitional Society"

社会心态是一定时期内弥散在整个社会或某些社会群体中的宏观、变动和突生的社会心理态势。本文讨论了社会心态的概念界定和学科谱系,梳理了这一研究领域在社会心理学中兴起、沉匿和复兴的历史背景；结合心理学和社会学的双重视角,分析了在社会转型的特定历史时期,社会心态借由群体表征和个体认同等心理过程的形成机制；倡导通过对社会心态的分析,建立具有中国特色的社会心理学的研究范武；呼吁通过对“中国体验”这一转型期中国人社会心态的研究,在精神层面赋予中国社会的转型以完整的价值和意义。

Social mentality refers to the changeable and emergent macroscopic socio- psychological state diffused in the whole society or in certain social groups, which is most distinct in the era of social transformation or social reform. It is one of the most intensively studied issues among sociology-oriented social psychologists. This paper discusses the concept and disciplinary genealogy of social mentality, followed by the historical background of the emergence, decline and revival of this subject of study. Integrating psychology and sociology into a dual perspective, the paper uncovers the formation mechanism of social mentality through psychological processes such as group representations and individual identity in the special era of social transformation. The author advocates a paradigm of social psychology with Chinese characteristics based on the analysis of social mentality. Hopefully, through the research on the particular social mentality of the Chinese during the era of change, termed as "Chinese feeling", the transformation of Chinese society will be studied on the spiritual level as well, thus endowing the transformation process with all-around significance and value.

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