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Artigo publicado: How Ideological Attitudes Predict Host Society Members’ Attitudes toward Immigrants

Título: How Ideological Attitudes Predict Host Society Members’ Attitudes toward Immigrants

Autores: Roberto González, David Sirlopú and Thomas Kessler

Periódico: Journal of Social Issues, 66, 4, 803-824

A special Latin American acculturative context is currently developing in Chile in which native Chileans have contact with several immigrant groups, particularly newcomers from Peru. This study examines several intergroup variables including contact, national and Latino American identities, group distinctiveness, realistic threat, intergroup anxiety, and acculturation preferences as predictors of prejudice on the part of both Chilean natives and Peruvian immigrants. Three hundred Peruvian immigrants (194 females and 106 males) and 300 Chileans (199 females and 101 males) participated in the study. Acculturation preferences, perceived group distinctiveness, and especially intergroup contact were shown to be important predictors of prejudice toward out-group members. Intergroup anxiety and realistic threat mediated some of these effects. The pattern of these results also varied as a function of nationality. Theoretical as well as practical implications for further research are discussed.

Artigo publicado: Explanations without causes and causes without reasons

Título: Explanations without causes and causes without reasons

Autores: Hudson Meadwell

Periódico: Social Science Information 2010;49 539-562

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Action is a central category in the social sciences. It is also commonplace to assume that the social world has a causal structure. Yet standard ways of specifying causal relations in social science lack explanatory force when the subject matter is intentional action. The present article considers this problem. The metaphysics of action are distinguished from the metaphysics of intentional action, and it is argued that the former forces an implausible unity on the actions of inanimate nature and of rational agents. Agency in the metaphysics of action adds nothing to state-variable causation. Agency in the metaphysics of intentional action, in contrast, is argued to have a different structure, not reducible to state-variable causation. Work on endogenous choice in social science suggests that the concept of agency that is on view in literature on selection effects and social generation implies the metaphysics of intentional action. Recent research in the philosophy of action is considered in order to specify the structure of intentional action and the force of intentional explanations.

Artigo publicado: influence of social environment on learning by older adults

Título: Is learning a family matter?: Experimental study of the influence of social environment on learning by older adults in the use of mobile phones

Autores: Kenji Mori and Etsuko T. Harada

Periódico: Japanese Psychological Research, 52, 3, 244-255

Resumo: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5884.2010.00434.x/abstract