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The study of social mentality endeavors to study both individuals and society, and so it is impossible to avoid a core socio-psychological problem, i.e., “what is ‘society’ in socio-psychological terms?” This problem was proposed in both the social representation theory and the social identity theory (Moscovici 2011; Hogg and Abrams 2011). They put forward that it is not enough to only take the presence of others as “society”; mainstream social psychology should study the social phenomena that keeps society running and pushes key operation processes (Moscovici 2011).
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Wang, J. (2019). Structure and Measurement Indicator System of Social Mentality. In: Yang, Y. (eds) Social Mentality in Contemporary China. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7812-6_4
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