Who is more likely to be isolated from society in terms of political beliefs? To answer this question, we measure whether individuals’ beliefs are “out of sync”—the extent to which their views differ with their contemporaries—and examine how the level of synchronization is associated with the size of important-matter and political-matter discussion networks. The results show that people with weaker belief synchronization are more likely to have smaller important-matter discussion networks. However, additional analyses of political-matter discussion networks show that weaker belief synchronization is associated with smaller networks only among those without a high school diploma and even provides some advantage in maintaining larger networks for the college-educated. Overall, the results imply that political beliefs that are “out of sync” correspond to the individual being “out of society,” whereas the aspects of “out of society” are quite different among educational groups.

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不同步，脱离社会：政治信仰和社交网络

谁更有可能在政治信仰方面与社会隔绝？为了回答这个问题，我们衡量个人的信念是否“不同步”——他们的观点与同时代人的不同程度——并检查同步程度如何与重要事项和政治事项讨论的规模相关联网络。结果表明，信念同步性较弱的人更有可能拥有较小的重要事项讨论网络。然而，对政治问题讨论网络的其他分析表明，较弱的信念同步仅与没有高中文凭的人的较小网络相关，甚至在为受过大学教育的人维持较大的网络方面提供了一些优势。全面的，