Citation:
HU Jie. Social Mentality: A Path of Writing and Interpreting the History of Group Spirit[J]. Academic Monthly, 2025, 57(7): 144-154.
Social Mentality: A Path of Writing and Interpreting the History of Group Spirit
-
Abstract
The study of social mentality has gone through three historical stages in Western social psychology. After the reconstruction of Chinese social psychology, the social mentality research in China can also be divided into four periods. This article compares the different mechanisms of constructing social mentality in psychology and sociology, by organizing the process of normalizing the concept of social mentality in Chinese and Western academic systems. Furthermore, based on a sociological stance, a more concise and Chinese-appropriate understanding of social mentality is proposed through the proximity of the individual in relation to different categories or levels of otherness. In the context of historical change or social transformation characterized by marketization, this article raises an analytical framework for the study of social mentality that encompasses both micro- and macro-factors, and also facilitates the analysis of the current situation and the study of change.
-
-
References
-
Access
-
-
[1]
SHI Dan
, LI Peng
. The Least-Cost Path for Energy Use in the Process of Modernization——Scenario Analysis and Theoretical Examination. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(1): 45-58.
-
[2]
ZHANG Yi
. Cognitive Transformation in Historical Research in the Age of AI——“Fluency-Induced Occlusion” in LLM-Assisted Reading of Diplomatic Manuscripts. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(8): 29-40.
-
[3]
ZHAO Lin
, ZHANG Boyu
, LIANG Hua
. The Relationship Between Monopoly and Innovation in Information Product Markets——A Growth Network Perspective. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(7): 64-76.
-
[4]
ZHAN Ling
. Adolescent Narratives and the Poetic Evolution of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(3): 166-175.
-
[5]
GE Yonghai
, PAN Juqiang
. Why Regional Literary History in China Becomes a Discipline——Academic Origins,Historical Evolution,and Theoretical Construction. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(5): 159-173.
-
[6]
YING Qi
. Hegel's Conception of Reconciliation and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(7): 23-31.
-
[7]
LIU Chuang
, LIU Sijia
. Conceptual Engineering: A Way of Understanding Mind and Intelligence in the Future. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(1): 11-19.
-
[8]
,
. . Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(2): 210-216.
-
[9]
WEN Jun
. From Technical Tokens to Social Tokens: the Ontological Construction of Token Sociology. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(8): 145-156.
-
[10]
WANG Jiajun
, ZHENG Ningning
. Breathing: Rethinking a Poetic Concept through Levinas and Celan——Based on the Thought of Levinas and Celan. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(6): 158-169.
-
[11]
YU Jianxing
, LIU Yuxuan
. Beyond the Outside Observer: Repositioning the Social Sciences in the Era of Large Language Models. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(7): 77-89.
-
[12]
YANG Dian
, DONG Shuhao
. The Social Construction of Economic Value——Evidence from Financial Markets, with a Discussion on Building a Valuation System with Chinese Characteristics. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(1): 131-146.
-
[13]
ZANG Leizhen
, LI Wei
. Bringing Context Back in——The Root Metaphor of the “Bringing Back” Approach in Social Science Research. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(1): 84-93.
-
[14]
ZHOU Mujun
. Between Theory and Empirical Facts: Habermas and the Sociological Debate on the Public Sphere. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(8): 157-170.
-
[15]
DING Huiping
. Invisible Governance and the Rebuilding of Local Social Order: A Historical Sociology Analysis of Qi Biaojia's Famine Relief Action in Late Ming Dynasty. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(3): 143-154.
-
[16]
MA Xuejun
. The Echoes of Yan Fu's Thought among Republican-Era Sociologists——Based on the Writings of Tao Menghe,Pan Guangdan,Lin Yaohua,and Fei Xiaotong. Academic Monthly,
2026, 58(3): 132-142.
-
-