General information
Code: P5-0151
Period: 1.1.2020 - 31.12.2025
Range on year: 2.35 FTE | 0
Project leader at FDV: prof.dr. Mitja Hafner Fink
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
The program is a continuation of the existing program Slovenian Public Opinion (SPO) and continuous survey of attitudes among residents of Slovenia, which has been conducted since 1968 within the Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre.
The program is based on the idea of monitoring social development through so called subjective indicators that are usually used in the framework of social surveys. We build on the assumption that development processes in various dimensions of social life should not be considered as excluded from the complexity of social systems and social structures. Thus social development is usually related with the following three dimensions:
- Socioeconomic
- Cultural
- Institutional.
Coming from this starting point our general interest lies in this research question:
In the context of current global social trends, what kind of association between dimensions of development can be revealed by means of subjective indicators?
The social survey (with cooperation in key international social survey programs such as ISSP, EVS/WVS, and ESS) is a fundamental research design by which this research question is planned to be answered. In order to observe the above three dimensions of human and social development, the subjective indicators in the surveys will cover, in particular, the following THEMATIC AREAS:
perceptions of social inequalities, attitudes towards marginal groups, self-assessment of social and economic position, identities, satisfaction with life, trust, demographic characteristics, quality of life, value orientations, attitudes toward important social and developmental issues, satisfaction with performance of institutions, perceptions of democracy, citizenship, participation, political choice.
Apart from conceptual aspects, also METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS are important. Their purpose is to improve the quality of social survey data. Research attention will be focused primarily on the following:
- Various types of context effects (question order, social context)
- Mode effects and problems of mixed mode data collection.
RESEARCH METHODS of the program are tied to the social survey as a fundamental research design by which the research objectives of the program are planned to be achieved. The survey is planned annually as face-to-face interview of respondents from a sample of permanent residents of Slovenia and on the basis of instruments developed by the SPO program group. Important part is related to cooperation of SPO group in international social science research programs such as ISSP, WVS/EVS and ESS.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES and expected achievements are:
- Answers to a research question on the applicability of subjective indicators
- Testing and developing methodological approaches for quality survey research
- Building social infrastructure – high-quality databases that are accessible to social science community for further analysis.
Research Organisation
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18100
Researchers
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18100
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