Informal Class Structure in 8th and 9th Grades

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Yordanka Arabadzhiyska ◽  
Doncho Donev
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Role Structure ◽  
Power Role ◽  
Informal Structure

The students’ grade is a specific small formal social group. Social psychology studies small groups in various aspects. But this form - the student grade - remains somewhat aside from social scientists’ interest. At the same time, the dynamics, the informal structure and the power-role structure of the students’ grades predetermines a number of processes that can be understood as a key to the pedagogical process. This article presents a comparative analysis between the informal

A Comparative Analysis of Attitudinal Predictions of Brand Preference

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Bass ◽  
William L. Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Brand Preference ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Importance Weights ◽  
Methods Of Analysis

A comparison of cross-sectional methods of analysis of multi-attribute attitude models indicates striking differences in predictive power. Importance weights do not detract from prediction, and correlations of attitude with preference compare favorably with attitude-affect correlations found in social psychology.

A Neo-Marxist Theory of Comparative Analysis

Slavic Review ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

The symposium on “Comparative Politics and Communist Systems” (Slavic Review, March 1967) represents, I believe, a general consensus among social scientists in Slavic studies that the study of Communist countries should be integrated into developments in the social sciences in general. The question is how this should be accomplished. The symposium participants argued for immediate and direct integration through various models such as the developmental or bureaucratic model. Another group, represented by the Communist Studies Conference of the American Political Science Association and the recent Carnegie grant for comparative communism, proposes that comparative communism be considered a major subcategory of comparative analysis. At least in the initial stage, it is reasoned, the various Communist systems should be compared with one another. I would suggest, however, that before either scheme is accepted the net be cast wider for a broader, more flexible organizing device.

How is a new category “born”? On mechanisms of formation, cycles of recognition, and the looping effect of “national trauma”

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Plotkin Amrami
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Group ◽  
National Trauma ◽  
Professional Category ◽  
Mechanisms Of Formation

This article explores the mechanisms underlying the formation of a new category in the Israeli therapeutic field—“national trauma.” By comparing the two different paths of emergence of this category, the research reexamines the meaning of Hacking’s concept “looping effect” and, in particular, the issue of awareness of the categorized individuals and the categorizing knowledge-producers to the effects of a categorization. This study demonstrates that the formation of “national trauma” is both an intentional product of the efforts and ideology of practitioners and an unintentional outcome of their scientific and interventional activities. The comparative analysis allows us to elaborate the distinctions between the different social circles of recognition of new professional categories and different forms of affinity between the new category and an established social group. Understanding these distinctions is particularly valuable in relation to those problematic cases in which the new professional category is a highly contested object.

Countries versus Disciplines: Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Transformations in Academic Publications from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia D. Tregubova ◽  
Marharyta Fabrykant ◽  
Alla Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The objective of this paper is to outline and compare frameworks for studying post-Soviet transformations developed by social scientists from various disciplines in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The objective is realized by means of quantitative content analysis of scholarly articles’ abstracts in ninety-four journals in eight (inter)disciplinary fields that covers the period of 2001-2015. This paper seeks to answer the question whether differences in the studies of the post-Soviet transformations are defined by country discourse or by the field of study. The research results suggest that there is a two-level mechanism, by which the societal context affects academia, in this case, social sciences and humanities. While general directions of scholarly attention are determined by societal differences, representations of post-Soviet transformations are framed through specific disciplinary lenses that combine both international and post-Soviet features.

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