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The accelerated arrival of the digital age is aggravating the “digital divide” of the elderly and triggering the class identity crisis. Based on the data of China General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2017, this paper uses Bootstrap to empirically test the influence mechanism of Internet use on the subjective class identity of the elderly in the digital era. The results show that Internet use significantly improves the subjective class identity of the elderly, but the key mediator, social network and relative sense of deprivation, have the opposite effect. Internet use enhance the subjective class identity of the elderly by providing social support through network resources contained in the social network. However, it also blurs the stratum cognition of the elderly group through the reference object and network language, so as to make them have a sense of relative deprivation in social comparison and reduce their subjective stratum identity. In the information society, in order to avoid the risk of low class identity of the elderly group, it is urgent to regulate the network environment, strengthen the network education of the elderly group and constantly improve their network literacy while improving the quality and efficiency of the elderly group’s Internet use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National pride is an important basis for the internal cohesiveness of modern nation-states. This paper makes use of data from a 2007 social survey to examine the national pride amongst Hong Kong youth, and the factors shaping it. It finds that national pride amongst the youth of Hong Kong is very high and similar to that of older age groups, reflecting the success of Hong Kong's reunification with the Chinese nation-state over the past decade. This study also reveals that the factors which have shaped the national pride of Hong Kong people include place of birth, subjective class identification, satisfaction with the local economy, satisfaction with local democratic development, local pride in being citizens of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and trust in the central government. The last two factors seem to most engender national pride. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]