Social integration in diverse societies: the importance of contact experiences in youth

不同社会中的社会融合：青少年接触经历的重要性

• 批准号: ES/P000533/1
• 负责人: Miles Hewstone
• 金额: $ 92.64万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP000533%2F1
• 关键词: Social; integration; diverse; societies; importance

Levels of integration barely keep pace with the growing diversity in modern societies. Today, more than 40 million people (about 10%) with an immigrant background live in the European Union and this development will most likely not slow down, as indicated by the recent waves of desperate people seeking asylum in the EU. Many immigrants lack social integration within the immigration country, which creates segregated societies in which immigrants and non-immigrants tend to coexist with little intergroup contact: a breeding ground for prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup conflict.The key challenge is, therefore, to encourage positive intergroup contact, which successfully improves intergroup tolerance. Despite impressive progress in this field of research, a social-developmental perspective has rarely been applied, which prevents researchers (a) from studying long-term contact effects, (b) from identifying age-specific differences in contact effects, and (c) from exploring the complex parallel development of contact experiences and social, emotional, and cognitive skills that is expected to have positive long-term effects for developing adolescents.The proposed research will change this by extending our previous work which launched a longitudinal study that followed more than 10,000 adolescents annually over three waves (from 2010 to 2012). We will, first, continue to study this sample that is now 19 years old: a highly interesting developmental stage that allows us to examine the transition to young adulthood, in which individuals become responsible citizens, enter the labour market, and gain their first political experiences. Moreover, we will also start to study a new cohort of 14-year-olds over three waves, which will-in combination with the older cohort-create a unique longitudinal dataset with two longitudinal cohorts covering almost ten years from early adolescence to early adulthood.Findings will not only provide new data for the scientific community and valuable insights regarding the role and long-term effects of early intergroup contact experiences, but will also inform a broad non-academic audience about possibilities for increasing social integration and reducing prejudice among the future adults of tomorrow's societies. For this ambitious project we will make use of our close links to government departments (e.g., Department for Education, Department for Communities and Local Government) and charity organizations (e.g., The Challenge Network) that seek to build a more integrated society. Finally, we will put the new research findings into practice by designing an effective, age-appropriate, and evidence-based contact intervention in the school context.

一体化程度几乎跟不上现代社会日益增长的多样性。如今，超过 4000 万具有移民背景的人（约占 10%）居住在欧盟，这一发展很可能不会放缓，最近一波又一波绝望的人们在欧盟寻求庇护就表明了这一点。许多移民在移民国家内缺乏社会融合，这就造成了隔离社会，移民和非移民往往共存，很少有群体间接触：这是偏见、歧视和群体间冲突的滋生地。积极的群体间接触，成功地提高了群体间的宽容度。尽管这一研究领域取得了令人印象深刻的进展，但社会发展视角很少被应用，这阻碍了研究人员（a）研究长期接触效应，（b）识别接触效应的年龄特定差异，以及（c）探索接触经历与社交、情感和认知技能的复杂并行发展，预计这将对发展中的青少年产生积极的长期影响。拟议的研究将通过扩展我们之前的工作来改变这一点，该工作启动了一项纵向研究，随后进行了更多研究每年三波超过 10,000 名青少年（2010 年至 2012 年）。首先，我们将继续研究这个现在 19 岁的样本：这是一个非常有趣的发展阶段，使我们能够研究向青年期的过渡，在这个阶段中，个人成为负责任的公民，进入劳动力市场，并获得他们的第一个政治权利。经验。此外，我们还将开始研究三波新的14岁人群，这将与较老的人群相结合，创建一个独特的纵向数据集，其中两个纵向队列涵盖从青春期早期到成年早期的近十年研究结果不仅将为科学界提供关于早期群体间接触经历的作用和长期影响的新数据和有价值的见解，而且还将向广大非学术受众提供有关增强社会融合和减少群体间偏见的可能性的信息。未来的成年人明天的社会。对于这个雄心勃勃的项目，我们将利用与政府部门（例如教育部、社区和地方政府部）和慈善组织（例如挑战网络）的密切联系，寻求建立一个更加一体化的社会。最后，我们将通过在学校环境中设计有效的、适合年龄的、基于证据的接触干预措施，将新的研究成果付诸实践。

项目成果

The socialization of perceived discrimination in ethnic minority groups.

• DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000426
• 发表时间: 2023-09
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• 影响因子: 7.6
• 作者: Bracegirdle, Chloe;Reimer, Nils Karl;Osborne, Danny;Sibley, Chris G;Wolfer, Ralf;Sengupta, Nikhil Kumar
• 通讯作者: Sengupta, Nikhil Kumar

Building bridges, blurring boundaries : the contribution of multiethnic individuals to intergroup relations

搭建桥梁，模糊界限：多民族个体对群体间关系的贡献

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Love Angelika

Socialization of perceptions of injustice within disadvantaged groups

弱势群体内部不公正观念的社会化

• 期刊: (in preparation)
• 作者: Reimer, N.

Multiethnic friends: The secondary transfer of direct and extended contact effects.

多民族朋友：直接接触和延伸接触效果的二次传递。

• 期刊: (in preparation)
• 作者: Love, A.