Attitude to Immigrants in the Mass Consciousness of Europeans (using the example of secondary analysis of ESS 2016 data)
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Zhavoronkov A.V., Voronina N.S. 2021. Attitude to Immigrants in the Mass Consciousness of Europeans (using the example of secondary analysis of ESS 2016 data) — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 9. No. 2. P. 42-65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2021.9.2.8102
Abstract
The article describes the experience of improving the methodology for identifying diversity and homogeneity in the behaviour of complex social objects. The subject area of the study in it is, on the one hand, methods of obtaining sociological knowledge of them adequate to the semantics of social processes, and on the other, specific areas of the process of forming stable types of attitudes towards immigrants among the population of various European countries. To obtain pictures of what is happening, the authors use a toolkit that has been tested in a wide range of studies, the basis of which is the identification of areas (hereinafter referred to as applications, equally semantic fields) of mass consciousness on the basis of the application of the Tay-b-Kendall correlation coefficients. A feature of the approach is the complete alignment of all indicators in relation to each of the studied countries and to all countries together. The initial alignment of parameters at the level of primary data, standardization of two-dimensional matrices of combinatorial statistical contingency tables of a number of features made it possible to build a comparative portrait of the unity and diversity of stereotypes of the mass consciousness in relation to some aspects of immigration in European countries. The total volume of the analyzed array for 2016 for 23 countries is 44487 respondents. The results, some of which are presented in the article, make it possible to optimize the tool for differentiating countries in relation to immigrants.
Keywords:
European countries, Russian Federation, conjugation of assessments of the usefulness of immigration and degrees of benevolence towards immigrants’, peculiarities of polarization / unity of countries in relation to immigrant’s, correlation analysis, entropy values, analysis of variance, qualitative components of semantic fields homogeneity
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Received: 15.03.2021
Accepted: 30.06.2021
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Zhavoronkov, A. V. and Voronina, N. S. (2021) ’Attitude to Immigrants in the Mass Consciousness of Europeans (using the example of secondary analysis of ESS 2016 data)’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 9(2), pp. 42-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2021.9.2.8102.
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ETHNOSOCIOLOGY
Publisher: Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)