BBC radio broadcast "World have your say", BBC world news (22.10.2015): In his discussion Mitja Hafner Fink shows the changing attitudes of Slovenians towards immigration and immigrants in the period since Slovenia's independence until today. This presentation is based on the results of Slovenian Public Opinion (SPO) surveys. He points to possible impact of specific events in the past (from independence onwards) that possibly has been contributing to the formation of these attitudes. In this light he indicates the potential impacts of the migrant crisis, which my result in the interruption of decreasing trend of negative attitude towards immigrants.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 33615453Interview for the daily newspaper Dnevnik (January 2015): In the interview, Niko Toš describes how a supportive environment of the Slovenian Public Opinion (SPO) research program has been developing. Focusing on attitudes of Slovenians to institutions, especially the government and the church, he shows the results of current SPO surveys. He briefly describes the design and course of the European Social Survey as the basic infrastructure social science programme and the participation of the research group SPO within it.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 33111901Editing and preparation of a database for archiving in a social science data arcive: The research on Socio-economic status of students in Slovenia (Ule et al., 2008) was carried out at four universities in Slovenia: University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor, University of Primorska and University of Nova Gorica. The study covered a total of 3006 persons, namely 1827 female and 1175 male students. The aim of the study was to obtain basic parameters of the socioeconomic status, the conditions of the study, the perception of the effect on social changes, the willingness for social engagement, as well as problems and strategies of transition to employment. Research results provide insight into the current profile and reveal the background of the ambivalent situation of the status of the student population.
F.16 Improvements to an existing information system/databases
COBISS.SI-ID: 33498461The present monograph is a new (updated and extended) edition, which is, like the previous edition, a university textbook. The monograph contains three rounded up parts. In the first one, Vlado Miheljak contextualizes the subject in terms of political socialization and political culture. He draws from well-known political science authors such as Almond and Verba, David Easton and the psychological interpretation of political socialization given by Kohlberg, Oerter, Greenstein, von Havinghurst, and Hurrelmann. Kristina Egumenovska continues with three chapters in the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, Vlado Miheljak treats the various problems related to the two principle empirical experiments in terms of social power and social influence (Milgram, Zimbardo). In the third and most extensive section, Vlado Miheljak embarks on an epistemological discussion, by treating the theoretical-epistemic dilemmas in psychology and how the later conceptualizes man in the social and societal world.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 282081536Presentation at the IPSA's RC 10, RC 22 and RC 34 Conference, Rovinj, 2 - 3 October 2015 A significant decreasing trend in political participation could be observed in so-called Western democracies in the last decades of the 20th century. In this framework, researchers largely agree on the key factors of participation: from generational differences and socio-economic status through civic values to civic competencies. The emergence and expansion of the Internet have brought new opportunities to expand political participation practices and to include in these practices certain groups which have so far been less active. By analysing the presence of various forms of participation via the Internet in Slovenia, we assess a thesis on the (possible) expansion of space for political participation and search for answer(s) to research questions about the relationship between traditional forms of political participation in general and digital forms of participation: a) are online forms merely combining with other traditional forms of participation; or b) are they emerging as a new type of political participation? We also investigate whether digital participation does indeed involve new groups of people and who are potential ‘digital citizens’. In the analysis, we use the latest data from the Slovenian Public Opinion Survey 2013, which includes both information on the forms of political participation generally and information on digital-specific forms of participation.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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