Exploring the impact of internet usage on individuals’social status discordance:evidence from China  

作　　者：Guoxuan Ding Xiao Meng Xiaoyan Fan 

机构地区：[1]School of Marxism,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an 710049,China [2]School of Journalism and New Media,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an 710049,China

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2024年第1期443-466,共24页中国社会学杂志(英文)

基　　金：supported by the Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Foundation of China under Grant[No.2023A024].

摘　　要：This study examines the impact of internet usage frequency and behavior on social status discordance using CSS2021 data,and adopts a causal random forest model to test the heterogeneity of the impact of internet usage on social status discordance.The results reveal a clear inconsistency between objective and subjective social status among Chinese residents.In addition,increasing internet usage frequency can make actors more inclined to underestimate their social status.Moreover,capital enhance-ment through the internet significantly reduces the likelihood of status inflation.Finally,individuals with higher social status are less likely to have an upward bias in status cognition than those with lower social status when they use the internet frequently and use it for capital enhancement.These findings advance our understanding of social status identification among Chinese residents and provide different perspec-tives for studying social stratification in the digital age.

关 键 词：Social status discordance Internet usage Reference group theory Digital divide 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]