Social Attitudes in the Early 21st Century - 9789819697045

Social Attitudes in the Early 21st CenturyAuthor(s): Chau-kiu Cheung\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9789819697045, 978-9819697045\nSynopsis\nThis book is to present a review and new research findings to upgrade the understanding of social attitudes. Social attitudes in the contemporary era are valuable and necessary for a better understanding using the analytical-functionalist framework. The attitudes are a persons association of oneself with social objects. The association can be the maintenance of acceptance, confidence, favor, justification, or trust. These objects are socially relevant or visible, that is, among people or society. This understanding means explaining, predicting, and evaluating social attitudes in a general person in the current world concerning their causes or predictors. The concern is to clarify what influence and predict social attitudes and why the influences and pre.