| Creators: |
| Creators | Email |
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| Cvetičanin, Predrag | UNSPECIFIED | | Gavrilović, Danijela | UNSPECIFIED | | Mangova, Ilina | UNSPECIFIED | | Popovikj, Misha | UNSPECIFIED | | Krasniqi, Vjollca | UNSPECIFIED | | Ilazi, Hasnija | UNSPECIFIED | | Majstorović, Danijela | UNSPECIFIED | | Jusić, Mirna | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Type of data: |
qualitative and quantitative data |
| Study period: |
| From | To |
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| 1 July 2012 | 30 June 2013 |
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| Temporal coverage: |
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| Date: |
18 August 2013 |
| Geographic coverage: |
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo |
| Study method: |
Data were collected by conducting surveys and semi-structured interviews as well as analyzing secondary sources (mostly statistical data). In a survey 1259 respondents in Serbia were interviewd, 1256 respondents in Bosnia-Herzegovina and 800 respondents in Macedonia and in Kosovo each (in sum 4115 respondents). In addition to the standard socio-demographic variables, the questionnaires contained questions which gave insight into four different groups of data.
Firstly, the data collected about the resources/capitals available to respondents: their economic capital (average monthly income per family member and properties – house/apartment, weekend cottages, arable lands, cars); their social capital (whether they are members of political parties and/or charitable organizations; how big their social networks are; whether they have “connections and acquaintances” in public institutions; how many friends/acquaintances they can rely on in critical situations, etc.); and their cultural capital (the level of education of interviewees and their parents, ownership of cultural goods and products, characteristics of their cultural consumption). Data were also collected about occupations, education, birthplaces/places of residence of interviewees and their ancestors (the span across three generations) in order to reconstruct their educational, occupational and territorial trajectories. On the basis of these data, researchers were able, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis, to reconstruct the social space of targeted societies and the field of lifestyles in them.
The second group of data reveals interviewees’ attitudes, values and beliefs related to issues of state, religion, nation, authority, family, gender roles, abortion, sexual orientation, environmental issues, political activism and issues of self-expression. These types of data are usually used in research aiming to establish the impact of modernization processes on people's attitudes and values. The questionnaire included questions from the World Value Survey and European Value Survey, used by Roland Inglehart in his construction of the map of global cross-cultural variation.
Thirdly, respondents' evaluation of socio-economic changes were recorded: of the improvement/detriment of the overall social situation compared to the period of socialism; of the macro-processes of democratization, the introduction of the multi-party system, privatization of state possessions, and of their attitude to the Euro-integration of their countries. Finally, data were collected about the respondents' practices in the public sphere in the past two decades: on whether they had voted at parliamentary, presidential and local elections, whether they had participated in peaceful protests, in strikes, whether they had volunteered for political parties or candidates, or for nongovernmental organizations, assisted with collecting funds for charities, intentionally purchased or boycotted a particular product for political, ethical, or ecological reasons.
Just as in our previous studies, this study was characterized by a specific link between quantitative and qualitative research techniques. With the help of the software SPAD 7.3, researchers were able to locate characteristic individuals in social space, the field of cultural practices and the field of values and interview them. Within the study 129 interviews with survey respondents were conducted (31 in Serbia, 39 in Bosnia and Herzegovina each, 29 in Macedonia and 30 in Kosovo, respectively). The interviews had the form of narrating life histories and the interviewees were asked to talk about their experiences in the area of labor market, the area of education, health care, their marriage and friendship "strategies" and their experiences related to the religious sphere. Triangulation of the data collected from these sources (and statistical data from the secondary sources) made it possible to achieve exceptional insight into the transitional experiences of the citizens from Western Balkan societies, as well as into their attitudes, values, and beliefs. |
| Resource language: |
English |
| Metadata language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
UK Data Archive |
| Copyright holders: |
RRPP |
| Contact email address: |
pcveticanin@gmail.com |
| Last Modified: |
22 Oct 2019 12:40 |
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