地域感情問題의 本質 : 實相과 想像 Reality and Imagination = Young-Honam antagonism in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Regional antagonism between the people of Youngnam and Honam has become an important factor in the political process of Korea. It may not be a recently appeared phenomenon but it is the recent issue that seems to hinder even the national identity between the two at present time.
Quite a few studies have been conducted on this issue so far. The issue has been approached mainly by two manners. The on treats it as an aggregation of individual prejudice or attitude against each other, which is a psychological approach. The other is sociological approach that tries to identify its social-political cause assuming that if we know the cause then it can be resolved. However, the nature of mechanism which keeps this phenomenon going on may not just lies on the aboves. It seems not to be reduced or diminished but escalated despite of all the media discussion and condemination on it.
This study assumes that the issue of regional antagonism involves pluralistic ignorance, a phenomenon of which individuals misjudge other's opinion on a given issue. previous literature on the phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance have suggested that the phenomenon functions as a social-psychological mechanism for group integration an resulting resistance to social change. Present study was designed to find of it.
Residents of Taegu and kwangju city were surveyed since they are generally regarded as representing Young-Honam regional antagonism respectively(Sample size : 600 for each city).
The findings can be summarized into the two. Firstly, the regional antagonism has two distinguishable characteristics. The first is politically oriented one disclosed more by Honam, the other is nonpolitical one that appears more in Youngnam. That is, regional antagonism in Youngnam is mainly based on prejudice, while in Honam it seems to lie on a sense of deprevation derived from social political unjustice against Honam. This fundamental differences between the two make antagonism of Youngnam appears with more non-political matters, whereas antagonism of Honam is gushed more with political issues.
Secondly, there is a phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance at the issue of regional antagonism. That is, the percentage of individuals who believe others have antagonism is much greater than the percentage of individuals who actually have it. Further more, the percentage of those who think people in opposite group have antagonism is greater than the percentage of those who believe others in "his/her group" have it. In other words, the size of regional antagonism is magnified in order of actual antagonism, perceived antagonism of others in his/her group, and perceived antagonism of the other party.
The magnification of imaginative perception on other's opinion exposes other aspects of regional antagonism. For a non-political attitude, residents of Taegu shows a more tendency to believe greater antagonism of kwangju than actual antagonism in Kwangju, while for a political attitude, this tendency goes in an opposite manner. That is, residents of Kwangju tend more to believe greater antagonism of Taegu than actual antagonism in Taegu.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 硏究目的
• Ⅱ. 理論的 背景
• Ⅲ. 연구의 틀
• Ⅳ. 조사대상 및 자료수집
• Ⅴ. 硏究結果
• Ⅵ. 結果의 논의 및 提案