Social and Political Attitudes

2024/2025

Academic Year

RUS

Instruction in Russian

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Nastina, Ekaterina

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

The aim of the course is to teach students the skills of analyzing social and political attitudes. Students will learn what are attitudes and how they are studied in social and political sciences, which open databases are widely used, which analytical approaches are applied.

Цель освоения дисциплины

• The aim of the course is to give the students the theoretical and methodological knowledge of the nature of social and political attitudes and the main approaches to their analysis. Students will also learn the most useful statistical methods to analyze the attitudes in the comparative perspective

Планируемые результаты обучения

• Able to use modern empirical databases (including foreign ones) in scientific and project activities, independently create databases for the implementation of research and practical tasks
• Able to develop the design of scientific and applied research, including that carried out by a team, based on modern methodologies of political science and general scientific approaches
• Able to use the current results of scientific research in political science and related disciplines, develop applications of political science for solving practical problems of professional activity

Содержание учебной дисциплины

• Social and political attitudes: introduction
• Religiosity and Attitudes Toward Immigration. Composite Measures.
• Moral attitudes and cultural values. Art of comparison.
• Cosmopolitan attitudes and social identity
• Implicit and explicit attitudes
• Homework discussion
• Ideological Transformation of Russia 1982-2017, WVS data
• Modernization and religion in the West and in the rest of the world
• From love to hate: Russia and the USA after 1991
• Regional variation in Russia
• Suicide in Russia and the US
• Written test

Элементы контроля

• In-class discussion
  In-class discussion is based on home readings and additional tasks during the seminars. Students are expected to be well acquainted with the text, coherently answer the questions of the instructor and volunteer their own questions and ideas.
• Homework
• Written test

Промежуточная аттестация

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.2 * Homework + 0.4 * In-class discussion + 0.4 * Written test

Список литературы

Рекомендуемая основная литература

• Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, & Brian Wansink. (2004). Asking Questions : The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design —— For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires: Vol. Rev. ed. Jossey-Bass.

Рекомендуемая дополнительная литература

• Little, T. D. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods. Oxford University Press.

Авторы

• Понарин Эдуард Дмитриевич
• Настина Екатерина Александровна