The Integrated Values Survey shows that the positive relationship between religiosity and market friendliness is a uniquely Western feature. With help of public choice theory, author hypothesises this uniqueness result way dimensions political ideologies are formed in West. hypothesis supported by regressing an index on index, identity, measure ‘ideological capital’. Accounting for latter two, ...

In minority language communities, language choice may be related to identity. In the bilingual community of Galicia, some speakers switch language dominance at a late stage in development, normally during adolescence. These 'new speakers', neofalantes, are originally dominant in Spanish but switch to Galician for cultural or ideological reasons. The present study investigated the consequences o...

Two studies examined the effects of self-uncertainty and ingroup entitativity on group identification. From uncertainty reduction theory (Hogg, 2000), it was hypothesized that people would identify most strongly with their group if they felt self-conceptually uncertain and the group was highly entitative. Study One was a field experiment (N = 114) in which the perceived entitativity of particip...

Party identification became rapidly one of the most used concepts in empirical election studies since its first emergence in the 1950’s. Although negative party identification is part of the original concept by Campbell et al. (1960), it has been rarely analyzed in empirical studies as the mainstream of party identification research concentrates on positive party identification. As negative par...

This article explores the ways that hip hop musicians in Mexico City use their creative practice to perpetuate musical traditions associated with indigenous and national identity. Using the connected concepts of ‘cultural intimacy’ and ‘structural nostalgia’ it highlights how, while hip hop was explicitly used to critique Mexican neoliberalism, hip hop recording practices reflected some of the ...

Translation plays an important role in conveying and manipulating ideologies. Accordingly, this study sought to analyze the ideological elements in the English subtitles of the Persian movie The Salesman. The framework to find the driven ideological strategies in the translation of the Persian audio of the same movie was based on the critical discourse analysis (...

We know that teachers’ identities and their ideological assumptions of teaching learning mathematics are critical in influencing thinking about classroom practices. To better understand prospective identity during teacher education, this study investigates how two participants negotiate within the different ideologies they experience education program. This takes position understood terms narra...

Political commentators warn that the fragmentation of the modern media landscape induces voters to withdraw into “information cocoons” and segregate along ideological lines. We show that the option to abstain breaks ideological segregation and generates “cross-over” in news consumption: voters with considerable leanings toward a candidate demand information that is less biased toward that candi...

Many topics that scientists investigate speak to people's ideological worldviews. We report three studies-including an analysis of large-scale survey data-in which we systematically investigate the ideological antecedents of general faith in science and willingness to support science, as well as of science skepticism of climate change, vaccination, and genetic modification (GM). The main predic...

The research presented in this paper reports on three phases of an empirical user study that examines the relationship between identity and technology using contextual interviews, focus groups and cultural probes. The study revealed that federated systems potentially have real relevance for users who are increasingly willing to supply information and even sacrifice their privacy if they are giv...