scholarly journals Status Threat, Material Interests, and the 2016 Presidential Vote

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Material Interests ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The April 2018 article of Diana Mutz “Status Threat, Not Economic Hardship, Explains the 2016 Presidential Vote,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and contradicts prior sociological research on the 2016 election. Mutz’s article received widespread media coverage because of the strength of its primary conclusion, declaimed in its title. The present article is a critical reanalysis of the models offered by Mutz, using the data files released along with her article. Contrary to her conclusions, this article demonstrates that (1) the relative importance of economic interests and status threat cannot be estimated effectively with her cross-sectional data, and (2) her panel data are consistent with the claim that economic interests are at least as important as status threat. The preexisting sociological literature has offered interpretations that incorporate economic interests and, as a result, provides a more credible explanation of the 2016 election.

scholarly journals Status Threat, Material Interests, and the 2016 Presidential Vote

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311878821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Material Interests ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The April 2018 article of Diana Mutz “Status Threat, Not Economic Hardship, Explains the 2016 Presidential Vote,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and contradicts prior sociological research on the 2016 election. Mutz’s article received widespread media coverage because of the strength of its primary conclusion, declaimed in its title. The present article is a critical reanalysis of the models offered by Mutz, using the data files released along with her article. Contrary to her conclusions, this article demonstrates that (1) the relative importance of economic interests and status threat cannot be estimated effectively with her cross-sectional data, and (2) her panel data are consistent with the claim that economic interests are at least as important as status threat. The preexisting sociological literature has offered interpretations that incorporate economic interests and, as a result, provides a more credible explanation of the 2016 election.

Determinants of citizens' attitude to the Ukrainian government: a sociological analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Rakhmanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article considers the perception of citizens of the government of Ukraine depending on the institutional forms of its formation. Citizens 'attitudes toward government are individuals' reactions to government policies and the activities of its leaders. The formation of these reactions occurs by comparing one's own expectations about the government's activities with the perception of the results of these activities. The dynamics of the influence of socio-economic, value-ideological and structural factors on the assessment of government activities was analyzed on the basis of empirical data from the five waves of the European Social Research (ESS) and the 2020 monitoring study of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. the dynamics of the influence of socio-economic, value-ideological and structural factors on the assessment of power was analyzed. It was found that in the case of forming the government through a coalition of political forces in the parliament, citizens' perception of government activities is largely determined by their ideological beliefs. In particular, in relation to both governments of Yulia Tymoshenko, more satisfaction was observed among people who position themselves on the right ideological flank. On the other hand, in relation to the government of Viktor Yanukovych, more satisfaction was observed among people positioning themselves on the ideological left flank. In contrast to this, when the government is formed on the initiative of the presidential administration, government policy is perceived by the population through the prism of their structural and socio-economic interests. Satisfaction with the activities of the second Mykola Azarov’s Government and the Denys Shmyhal’s Government was mostly conditioned by an income and financial situation of the respondens. The results of the study generally supported the assumption that the turnover of government and the institutional form of government is reflected in the attitude of citizens to the activities of governments.

scholarly journals Covid-19 as the new social reality

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Viktor Stepanenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the paper some aspects of social problematic and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are considered under the angle of sociological approaches. In particular these are the issues of institutional capacity and efficiency of government in facing the pandemic, the problems of actualization of biopolitics and of social inequality, social psychological challenges of the pandemic. It is argued that the global consequences of the pandemic imply the shifts in the configurations of basic societal values and regulations such as freedom, responsibility, security, civility, equality, trust and solidarity. Administrative regulations, restrictions and lockdown during quarantine are not only measures that are justified by the protection of security and public health, but also certain tests by the governments of the thresholds for the perception of strict social control. Based on the analysis of the results of sociological research, in particular by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the features of the coronavirus crisis in Ukraine are outlined. These features are due to the fact that in Ukraine universal social challenges of the pandemic are combined with the country’s multifactorial social transformation. Thus, the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine can manifest themselves in two ways: as a negative catalyst that exacerbates the problem of uncompleted social transformation or as a kind of "equalizer", that is the factor in which the values of security, social survival, tolerance and solidarity will become a priority.

scholarly journals Sociological Monitoring: Experience and Practice of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Nikolai Leonov ◽  
Elena Borodacheva ◽  
Vera Zrazikova ◽  
Nadezhda Malinovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
District Center ◽  
Monitoring Study ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The authors describe and analyze the experience of monitoring research having been conducted by Institute of Sociology of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus over the past 17 years. They state the main features of monitoring as a type of sociological research and under this general point of view analyze the monitoring of the Institute. The researchers specify goals and objectives of the monitoring study, list the procedures included in it and the corresponding functions. The scientific and theoretical base on which the research is conducted is described in the article, in particular, the authors characterize the scientific schools and directions created at the Institute. The paper sets out the methodological principles that form the basis of this monitoring study. The article describesinstrumentarium, the groups of studied indicators in the form of blocks of questions indicating the frequency of inclusion of these blocks in the questionnaire. The authors note that the questionnaire also includes one-time questions in accordance with the problems of interest at the moment. They present the procedure of sample design developed at the Institute in detail. The procedure uses the concept of the so-called zone. This concept refers to settlements of a lower administrative level than district centers and includes both the location of the settlement relative to the district center (distance, transport accessibility), and certain socio-economic characteristics of the settlement, which allow more accurately stratify settlements. In particular, the zone is included in the number of quotas. The authors point out features of mathematical analysis of the data, the development of the original mathematical software providing an increase in both the efficiency of data analysis and its methodological level. Using a specific example the study shows the advantages of monitoring as a means of studying social problems. On the basis of the analysis the authors make conclusions regarding the research tasks that can be solved by this monitoring study.

scholarly journals Institutionalization and paradigmality development of sociology in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-422
Author(s):  
Ye. М. Babosov
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Education Culture ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The institutionalization of sociology in the National Academy of Sciences is conceptualized. The connection between this process and poliparadigmality of sociological research in the Institute of Sociology is characterized. The features of theoretical and empirically applied sociological research in the field of political, economic, ethnonational, regional sociology, the sociology of science, education, culture and other fields of sociological knowledge are revealed. The importance of social technologies is presented.

Materials for the history of the gospel-Baptist movement in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.

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