论文标题
文化作为文化特征网络：衡量文化和文化距离的统一框架
Cultures as networks of cultural traits: A unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances
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论文摘要
本文提出了一种方法论，它利用了世界价值调查（WVS）中的信息，并运行对民族文化的定义，既包含特定文化特征的相关性，又涵盖了它们之间的相互依存关系，本文提出了一种方法，以揭示国家文化的潜在结构和衡量国家之间文化距离的潜在文化距离，以考虑文化特征的差异和国家文化差异的差异。本文利用Copula图形模型提供的离散数据所提供的可能性，渗透了WVS中包含的所有国家的文化网络（第6波），并提出了一个新颖的统一框架，以衡量民族文化和国际文化距离。 Jeffreys在Copula图形模型之间的差异，被视为国家之间文化距离的度量，捕获了文化距离的两个组成部分的正交性：基于文化特征和基于它们之间的网络结构的组成部分。此外，这两个组成部分被证明与文化网络的不同国家和结构特征相关，因此涵盖了与民族文化有关的不同信息集。
Making use of the information from the World Value Survey (WVS), and operationalizing a definition of national culture that encompasses both the relevance of specific cultural traits and the interdependence among them, this paper proposes a methodology to reveal the latent structure of national culture and to measure cultural distance between countries that takes into account both the difference in cultural traits and the difference in the network structure of national cultures. Exploiting the possibilities offered by copula graphical models for discrete data, this paper infers the cultural networks of all the countries included in the WVS (Wave 6) and proposes a novel unifying framework to measure national culture and international cultural distances. The Jeffreys' divergence between copula graphical models, taken as the measure of cultural distance between countries, captures the orthogonality of the two components of cultural distance: the one based on cultural traits and the one based on the network structure among them. Moreover, the two components are shown to correlate with different national and structural characteristics of cultural networks, thus encompassing the different informational sets related to national cultures.
