IWAHlab will have a symposium at IACCP 2024 conference in Bali, Indonesia:
"Global social identifications and their social consequences in a cross-cultural lens"
Chair: Katarzyna Hamer, IPPAS, Poland
Co-Chair: Anna Wlodarczyk, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
Research on global social identifications to date is limited mostly to WEIRD cultures. This symposium aims at addressing this problem presenting results from a 45 countries project conducted by IWAHlab. It includes four presentations:
The first one by Katarzyna Hamer (IPPAS, Poland) will present cultural differences in the level of three types of global social identifications (with citizens of the world, all humanity, people all over the world) in 45 countries and shows how activating these identifications impact concern for global issues, human rights orientation and willingness to act for sustainable development goals.
The second presentation by Anna Wlodarczyk (Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile) will focus on how Traditional/Secular-Rational and Survival/Self-Expression values moderate the relationship between global social identities and concern for global issues.
The third presentation by Alexa Spence (University of Nottingham, UK) will examine whether the relationship between global social identities and climate change concern varies across 45 countries according to their climate change vulnerability and readiness to adapt to climate change.
The fourth presentation by Theofilos Gkinopoulos (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) will explore the prototypical semantic meaning and the characteristics ascribed to three global labels/categories that are used in studies on global social identifications. Data from an international sample of 17.000 participants from 45 countries are analyzed using BERT topic modeling. The symposium provides a cross-cultural lens into the topic of global human and citizenship identifications and their connection with key attitudes.
Apart from the symposium, there will also be another presentation from the same project. Karolina Marcinkowska (University of Warsaw, IPPAS, Poland) will discuss "Differing levels of global identification depending on religiosity and religious affiliation – a study from 44 countries".
Stay tuned!