Shanyang Zhao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shanyang Zhao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shanyang |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhao |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5736-0814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth
Truth is a thorny issue for the sociology of knowledge. In emphasizing social influence on knowledge production, sociologists tend to disavow the objectivity of truth and slide down the slope of the consensus theory and the nihilism of post‐truth. In fighting science denial, on the other hand, sociologists often find themselves aligning with the correspondence theory and the naïve notion of naked truth. The aim of this article is to advance a pos…
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective
This article addresses the agency‐structure issue from the evolutionary perspective. Rather than treating it as something unique to human society, the article examines this issue in the broad context of how different species of social organisms, with humans being one of them, influence the constitution of their societies. The main finding of this analysis is that social organisms of different species all exert influence on their societal formatio…
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument
Natural selection is the main mechanism that drives the evolution of species, including human societies. Under natural selection, human species responds through genetic and cultural adaptations to internal and external selection pressures for survival and reproductive success. However, this theory is ineffective in explaining human societal evolution in the Holocene and a cultural selection argument has been made to remedy the theory. The present…
Gender Gaps in Civic and Political Participation in Latin America
This article examines whether there is gender segmentation in civic participation in Latin America, and whether such segmentation is related to gender differences in political participation. Confirming the findings of other studies, this analysis indicates that there is gender segmentation in civic associational activities, and that men are more involved than women in political activities, except for voting. Among those involved in civic activiti…
Reconceptualizing the Self Phenomenon: Toward an Emic Conception of the Self
In sociology, the self has been conceptualized as either self-concept or the process of self-reflectivity. Both notions of the self have been traced to the early thinkers-William James, Charles H. Cooley, and George H. Mead-who laid the foundation for the scientific study of the self phenomenon. In this article, I propose a revised conception of the self based on a re-reading of the classics. I argue that the self is related to but not the same a…
Self as an emic object: A re-reading of William James on self
Building on an emic conception of the self that William James articulated in his seminal chapter on the “Consciousness of Self” (1890/1950), this article defines the self as an object that the individual takes to be him- or herself. This object, which is subjectively identified by the individual, has an empirical dimension that constrains the subjective identification of the individual. As an emic object, the self is neither synonymous with the i…
Ethno-Racial Identity Displays on Facebook
The present study investigates self-presentation in a nonymous setting and explores differences in self-presentation by distinct ethno-racial groups. Based on content analysis of 83 Facebook profiles of African Americans, Latino, Indian and Vietnamese ancestry students, supplemented by 63 in-person interviews, we found that ethno-racial identities are salient and highly elaborated. The intensive investments of minorities in presenting highly soci…
Parental education and children's online health information seeking: Beyond the digital divide debate
Copresence as ‘Being With’: Social contact in online public domains
This article examines the issue of ‘ubiquitous connectivity’ on the Internet. The Internet, combined with the wireless technologies, is said to have made it possible for ‘anyone to contact anyone else anywhere at anytime’, but such ubiquity of connectivity has failed to materialize in actual human contact. Drawing on Goffman and Giddens's theories of human interaction, the authors make a distinction between co-location, which is a spatial relatio…
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism
Do Internet Users Have More Social Ties? A Call for Differentiated Analyses of Internet Use
Research on the impact of Internet use on social ties has generated conflicting results. Based on data from the 2000 General Social Survey, this study finds that different types of Internet usage are differentially related to social connectivity. While nonsocial users of the Internet do not differ significantly from nonusers in network size, social users of the Internet have more social ties than nonusers do. Among social users, heavy email users…
Humanoid social robots as a medium of communication
This article examines the emerging phenomenon of humanoid social robots and human-humanoid interactions. A central argument of this article is that humanoid social robots belong to a special type of robotic technology used for communicating and interacting with humans. These robotic entities, which can be in either mechanical or digital form, are autonomous, interactive and humanlike. Some of them are used to interact with humans for utilitarian …
The Internet and the Transformation of the Reality of Everyday Life: Toward a New Analytic Stance in Sociology
This article examines the impact of the Internet on the social construction of reality. By revisiting the lifeworld Berger and Luckmann depicted 40 years ago, I seek to highlight the changes the Internet has brought to our everyday lives. I argue that the spread of the Internet has altered the conditions of interpersonal contact, as well as the realms of the lifeworld in which we live. Specifically, the Internet has created a new spatiotemporal z…
The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of Telecopresent Others
The impact of others in telecopresence on the formation of self has not been well studied, and existing research on the self in cyberspace has focused mostly on issues related to the presentation of self. A major question researchers have been trying to answer is how people present their self to others when they become disembodied and anonymous in the online world. The question the present study attempts to answer, however, is almost the opposite…
Consociated Contemporaries as an Emergent Realm of the Lifeworld: Extending Schutz's Phenomenological Analysis to Cyberspace
Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence
This paper contributes to the presence literature by explicating the meanings and subtypes of copresence.Copresence is defined here as consisting of two dimensions: copresence as mode of being with others, and copresence as sense of being with others. Mode of copresence refers to the physical conditions that structure human interaction. Six such conditions are delineated. Sense of copresence, on the other hand, refers to the subjective experience…
Effects of Family Structure, Family SES, and Adulthood Experiences on Life Satisfaction
Using data from the General Social Survey, 1989-1994, this study examines the effects of family structure, family socioeconomic status (SES), and adulthood experiences on life satisfaction. Regression analysis shows that both family structure and family SES are associated with life satisfaction in adulthood, controlling for age, gender, race, and education. However, neither family structure nor family SES remains significant after the inclusion o…
Metatheorizing in Sociology
Methodological studies of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in the US national comorbidity survey (NCS)
This paper reports the results of methodological studies carried out in conjunction with the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) to evaluate Version 1.0 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). These studies relied on recent survey data collection methodology literature to investigate problems regarding question comprehension, instruction comprehension, respondent motivation to report accurately…
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? the theory construction movement revisited
Realms, subfields, and perspectives: On the differentiation and fragmentation of sociology
Attributes of Questions and Interviewers as Correlates of Interviewing Performance
Journal Article ATTRIBUTES OF QUESTIONS AND INTERVIEWERS AS CORRELATES OF INTERVIEWING PERFORMANCE Get access STANLEY PRESSER, STANLEY PRESSER University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SHANYANG ZHAO SHANYANG ZHAO University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, SUMMER 1992, Pages 236–240, https://doi.o…
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis: What, Why, and How
This paper examines recent developments in meta-study in sociology which involves metatheory, metamethod, and meta-data-analysis. It argues that the three branches of meta-study, though previously unrelated, are now rapidly converging, signaling, among other things, the existence of a sustained crisis in the discipline. It concludes that meta-study will continue to grow in sociology for some time to come
Paradigms, Theories, and Methods Revisited: We Respond to Our Critics
The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of Telecopresent Others
The impact of others in telecopresence on the formation of self has not been well studied, and existing research on the self in cyberspace has focused mostly on issues related to the presentation of self. A major question researchers have been trying to answer is how people present their self to others when they become disembodied and anonymous in the online world. The question the present study attempts to answer, however, is almost the opposite…
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis: What, Why, and How
This paper examines recent developments in meta-study in sociology which involves metatheory, metamethod, and meta-data-analysis. It argues that the three branches of meta-study, though previously unrelated, are now rapidly converging, signaling, among other things, the existence of a sustained crisis in the discipline. It concludes that meta-study will continue to grow in sociology for some time to come
Humanoid social robots as a medium of communication
This article examines the emerging phenomenon of humanoid social robots and human-humanoid interactions. A central argument of this article is that humanoid social robots belong to a special type of robotic technology used for communicating and interacting with humans. These robotic entities, which can be in either mechanical or digital form, are autonomous, interactive and humanlike. Some of them are used to interact with humans for utilitarian …
Ethno-Racial Identity Displays on Facebook
The present study investigates self-presentation in a nonymous setting and explores differences in self-presentation by distinct ethno-racial groups. Based on content analysis of 83 Facebook profiles of African Americans, Latino, Indian and Vietnamese ancestry students, supplemented by 63 in-person interviews, we found that ethno-racial identities are salient and highly elaborated. The intensive investments of minorities in presenting highly soci…
Do Internet Users Have More Social Ties? A Call for Differentiated Analyses of Internet Use
Research on the impact of Internet use on social ties has generated conflicting results. Based on data from the 2000 General Social Survey, this study finds that different types of Internet usage are differentially related to social connectivity. While nonsocial users of the Internet do not differ significantly from nonusers in network size, social users of the Internet have more social ties than nonusers do. Among social users, heavy email users…
Effects of Family Structure, Family SES, and Adulthood Experiences on Life Satisfaction
Using data from the General Social Survey, 1989-1994, this study examines the effects of family structure, family socioeconomic status (SES), and adulthood experiences on life satisfaction. Regression analysis shows that both family structure and family SES are associated with life satisfaction in adulthood, controlling for age, gender, race, and education. However, neither family structure nor family SES remains significant after the inclusion o…
Gender Gaps in Civic and Political Participation in Latin America
This article examines whether there is gender segmentation in civic participation in Latin America, and whether such segmentation is related to gender differences in political participation. Confirming the findings of other studies, this analysis indicates that there is gender segmentation in civic associational activities, and that men are more involved than women in political activities, except for voting. Among those involved in civic activiti…
Consociated Contemporaries as an Emergent Realm of the Lifeworld: Extending Schutz's Phenomenological Analysis to Cyberspace
The Internet and the Transformation of the Reality of Everyday Life: Toward a New Analytic Stance in Sociology
This article examines the impact of the Internet on the social construction of reality. By revisiting the lifeworld Berger and Luckmann depicted 40 years ago, I seek to highlight the changes the Internet has brought to our everyday lives. I argue that the spread of the Internet has altered the conditions of interpersonal contact, as well as the realms of the lifeworld in which we live. Specifically, the Internet has created a new spatiotemporal z…
Parental education and children's online health information seeking: Beyond the digital divide debate
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? the theory construction movement revisited
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective
This article addresses the agency‐structure issue from the evolutionary perspective. Rather than treating it as something unique to human society, the article examines this issue in the broad context of how different species of social organisms, with humans being one of them, influence the constitution of their societies. The main finding of this analysis is that social organisms of different species all exert influence on their societal formatio…
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument
Natural selection is the main mechanism that drives the evolution of species, including human societies. Under natural selection, human species responds through genetic and cultural adaptations to internal and external selection pressures for survival and reproductive success. However, this theory is ineffective in explaining human societal evolution in the Holocene and a cultural selection argument has been made to remedy the theory. The present…
Reconceptualizing the Self Phenomenon: Toward an Emic Conception of the Self
In sociology, the self has been conceptualized as either self-concept or the process of self-reflectivity. Both notions of the self have been traced to the early thinkers-William James, Charles H. Cooley, and George H. Mead-who laid the foundation for the scientific study of the self phenomenon. In this article, I propose a revised conception of the self based on a re-reading of the classics. I argue that the self is related to but not the same a…
Realms, subfields, and perspectives: On the differentiation and fragmentation of sociology
Attributes of Questions and Interviewers as Correlates of Interviewing Performance
Journal Article ATTRIBUTES OF QUESTIONS AND INTERVIEWERS AS CORRELATES OF INTERVIEWING PERFORMANCE Get access STANLEY PRESSER, STANLEY PRESSER University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SHANYANG ZHAO SHANYANG ZHAO University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, SUMMER 1992, Pages 236–240, https://doi.o…
Paradigms, Theories, and Methods Revisited: We Respond to Our Critics
Paradigms, Theories, and Methods Revisited: We Respond to Our Critics
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis: What, Why, and How
This paper examines recent developments in meta-study in sociology which involves metatheory, metamethod, and meta-data-analysis. It argues that the three branches of meta-study, though previously unrelated, are now rapidly converging, signaling, among other things, the existence of a sustained crisis in the discipline. It concludes that meta-study will continue to grow in sociology for some time to come
Attributes of Questions and Interviewers as Correlates of Interviewing Performance
Journal Article ATTRIBUTES OF QUESTIONS AND INTERVIEWERS AS CORRELATES OF INTERVIEWING PERFORMANCE Get access STANLEY PRESSER, STANLEY PRESSER University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SHANYANG ZHAO SHANYANG ZHAO University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, SUMMER 1992, Pages 236–240, https://doi.o…
Realms, subfields, and perspectives: On the differentiation and fragmentation of sociology
The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? the theory construction movement revisited
Methodological studies of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in the US national comorbidity survey (NCS)
This paper reports the results of methodological studies carried out in conjunction with the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) to evaluate Version 1.0 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). These studies relied on recent survey data collection methodology literature to investigate problems regarding question comprehension, instruction comprehension, respondent motivation to report accurately…
Metatheorizing in Sociology
Effects of Family Structure, Family SES, and Adulthood Experiences on Life Satisfaction
Using data from the General Social Survey, 1989-1994, this study examines the effects of family structure, family socioeconomic status (SES), and adulthood experiences on life satisfaction. Regression analysis shows that both family structure and family SES are associated with life satisfaction in adulthood, controlling for age, gender, race, and education. However, neither family structure nor family SES remains significant after the inclusion o…
Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence
This paper contributes to the presence literature by explicating the meanings and subtypes of copresence.Copresence is defined here as consisting of two dimensions: copresence as mode of being with others, and copresence as sense of being with others. Mode of copresence refers to the physical conditions that structure human interaction. Six such conditions are delineated. Sense of copresence, on the other hand, refers to the subjective experience…
Consociated Contemporaries as an Emergent Realm of the Lifeworld: Extending Schutz's Phenomenological Analysis to Cyberspace
The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of Telecopresent Others
The impact of others in telecopresence on the formation of self has not been well studied, and existing research on the self in cyberspace has focused mostly on issues related to the presentation of self. A major question researchers have been trying to answer is how people present their self to others when they become disembodied and anonymous in the online world. The question the present study attempts to answer, however, is almost the opposite…
Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism
Do Internet Users Have More Social Ties? A Call for Differentiated Analyses of Internet Use
Research on the impact of Internet use on social ties has generated conflicting results. Based on data from the 2000 General Social Survey, this study finds that different types of Internet usage are differentially related to social connectivity. While nonsocial users of the Internet do not differ significantly from nonusers in network size, social users of the Internet have more social ties than nonusers do. Among social users, heavy email users…
Humanoid social robots as a medium of communication
This article examines the emerging phenomenon of humanoid social robots and human-humanoid interactions. A central argument of this article is that humanoid social robots belong to a special type of robotic technology used for communicating and interacting with humans. These robotic entities, which can be in either mechanical or digital form, are autonomous, interactive and humanlike. Some of them are used to interact with humans for utilitarian …
The Internet and the Transformation of the Reality of Everyday Life: Toward a New Analytic Stance in Sociology
This article examines the impact of the Internet on the social construction of reality. By revisiting the lifeworld Berger and Luckmann depicted 40 years ago, I seek to highlight the changes the Internet has brought to our everyday lives. I argue that the spread of the Internet has altered the conditions of interpersonal contact, as well as the realms of the lifeworld in which we live. Specifically, the Internet has created a new spatiotemporal z…
Copresence as ‘Being With’: Social contact in online public domains
This article examines the issue of ‘ubiquitous connectivity’ on the Internet. The Internet, combined with the wireless technologies, is said to have made it possible for ‘anyone to contact anyone else anywhere at anytime’, but such ubiquity of connectivity has failed to materialize in actual human contact. Drawing on Goffman and Giddens's theories of human interaction, the authors make a distinction between co-location, which is a spatial relatio…
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Ethno-Racial Identity Displays on Facebook
The present study investigates self-presentation in a nonymous setting and explores differences in self-presentation by distinct ethno-racial groups. Based on content analysis of 83 Facebook profiles of African Americans, Latino, Indian and Vietnamese ancestry students, supplemented by 63 in-person interviews, we found that ethno-racial identities are salient and highly elaborated. The intensive investments of minorities in presenting highly soci…
Parental education and children's online health information seeking: Beyond the digital divide debate
Self as an emic object: A re-reading of William James on self
Building on an emic conception of the self that William James articulated in his seminal chapter on the “Consciousness of Self” (1890/1950), this article defines the self as an object that the individual takes to be him- or herself. This object, which is subjectively identified by the individual, has an empirical dimension that constrains the subjective identification of the individual. As an emic object, the self is neither synonymous with the i…
Gender Gaps in Civic and Political Participation in Latin America
This article examines whether there is gender segmentation in civic participation in Latin America, and whether such segmentation is related to gender differences in political participation. Confirming the findings of other studies, this analysis indicates that there is gender segmentation in civic associational activities, and that men are more involved than women in political activities, except for voting. Among those involved in civic activiti…
Reconceptualizing the Self Phenomenon: Toward an Emic Conception of the Self
In sociology, the self has been conceptualized as either self-concept or the process of self-reflectivity. Both notions of the self have been traced to the early thinkers-William James, Charles H. Cooley, and George H. Mead-who laid the foundation for the scientific study of the self phenomenon. In this article, I propose a revised conception of the self based on a re-reading of the classics. I argue that the self is related to but not the same a…
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective
This article addresses the agency‐structure issue from the evolutionary perspective. Rather than treating it as something unique to human society, the article examines this issue in the broad context of how different species of social organisms, with humans being one of them, influence the constitution of their societies. The main finding of this analysis is that social organisms of different species all exert influence on their societal formatio…
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument
Natural selection is the main mechanism that drives the evolution of species, including human societies. Under natural selection, human species responds through genetic and cultural adaptations to internal and external selection pressures for survival and reproductive success. However, this theory is ineffective in explaining human societal evolution in the Holocene and a cultural selection argument has been made to remedy the theory. The present…
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth
Truth is a thorny issue for the sociology of knowledge. In emphasizing social influence on knowledge production, sociologists tend to disavow the objectivity of truth and slide down the slope of the consensus theory and the nihilism of post‐truth. In fighting science denial, on the other hand, sociologists often find themselves aligning with the correspondence theory and the naïve notion of naked truth. The aim of this article is to advance a pos…
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