The monograph Values in transition VIII rounds up presentations of international surveys, in which the program SJM is included since 1991. Books published so far present four big international research programs: ISSP, WVS, EVS, and ESS. This book provides comprehensive insight into five international Central and East European comparative surveys in the field of investigation of values in transition. It also extends in fields of religious studies, election studies, and studies of quality of life. It covers period from 1991 to 2011, which means the period of (post)transitional process and consolidation of democracy after the collapse of socialist systems in Europe. The target audience of the book are not only researchers (sociologists), but a wide range of social scientists from various disciplines, as well as policy makers. The book further emphasizes the status of the SJM project as infrastructure project of social research in Slovenia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 271672576The monograph Values in transition IX stands out from the common framework of previous books from the collection defined by the SJM programme. It presents two sociological research (social surveys), which were conducted by researchers in the SJM programme before the disintegration of former Yugoslavia. The first research deals with migrations and involvement of Slovenes in migration processes. The research was conducted during a period when the Slovenes massively migrated abroad in search of work (1973-1987). The second research deals with problems of class structure and social stratification of “Yugoslav” society or national societies of federal republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia before its disintegration. The research was designed by research team consisted by scholars from all federal units. It was conducted in the mid of 1980’s (1984-1987) in all federal republics and provinces of former Yugoslavia. Social survey with a comprehensive questionnaire was conducted on representative samples for all republics and provinces and it included 15976 respondents. Analytical work was interrupted by disintegration of Yugoslavia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 275870464Slovenian Public Opinion 2013 survey consists of three parts: National Identity, Citizenship II and Mirror of public opinion. The first two are part of the international programme ISSP (Internation Social Survey Programme), which annually covers topics important for social science research and represents a cross-national collaboration of 47 countries. This survey includes ISSP 2013 and ISSP 2014 rounds. The third part of the survey consists of regular Slovenian Public Opinion survey series set of actual questions.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32967261The telephone survey Politbarometer runs continuously over the years. Its purpose is to measure attitudes and estimates towards the government and the state institutions through the perspective of public opinion. The majority of the questionnaire in the survey is longitudinal. Minor part of the questionnaire is dedicated to the current (daily) social and political topics or events. This year survey was carried out in the limited scope of the longitudinal part of the survey, current questions were focused on the issue of party preferences in time before a formal election campaign for early elections of Members for the National Assembly on 13 July 2014 started.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33195101The aim of the thesis was to extend analyses in the field of knowledgegap hypothesis with the research on opinionation in public opinion surveys. The results indicate the existence an opinionation gap between socioeconomic groups groups with a higher socioeconomic status were also more opinionated. The most opinionated turned out to be men, not from the oldest age group and with at least colleague level of education. The least opinionated were women, older than 61 with elementary school education or less. The thesis thesis fills in a gap in the knowledge gap research that already extends to an opinion and belief gap and now adds an opinionation gap. In the analysis, the thesis combines two areas of research that are often intertwined, knowledge gap research and non-response research. If for a working system of democracy we need informed voters, it is important that voters are ready to form and express their opinions, even more so if inequalities in knowledge and opinionation translate into inequalities in power.
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