Social Sciences Research Institute

Dr. Simona Zavratnik (Center for Spatial Sociology), M.A. Živa Broder and Rebeka Falle Zorman (Public Opinion Research Center) attended WAPOR 71st Annual Conference: Public Opinion Research in a Changing World. They presented a paper: Public opinion and migration: the case study from a Slovenian perspective, which was published in »Teorija in praksa« in 2017

On 1 May, a new research project RePAST – Strengthening European Integration through the analysis of conflicting discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future was launched. The project builds its enthusiasm around the process of European integration, which is, in the recent period, due to radicalization, reactionary policies, populism, migrant and refugee crisis, and the financial crisis, facing major challenges.

At the International conference Gender Differentiation and Media Industries organized by the Peace Institute and the Faculty of Social Sciences last week, the participants discussed gender inequalities in the media, at the intersection of media politics, production, representation and consumption.

The article, published in the scientific journal PLOS One, addresses the question of whether it is possible to generate the networks with a given global structure (operationalized by a blockmodel) with only considering the different triad types.