scholarly journals Clusters of religiosity of Portuguese undergraduate youth

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Pereira Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Phd Thesis

This article presents results of the author’s PhD thesis based on religious beliefs and practices, and attitudes of towards marriage, life, and sexuality. The sample included 500 undergraduate students from public universities of Lisbon. Applying multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis to these beliefs, practices, and attitudes, three clusters or types of religiosity were produced: nuclear Catholics, intermediate Catholics, and non-Catholics. These clusters were characterised in terms of religious socialisation, as well as of non-Catholic beliefs and practices, and aspects of life. When crossed with these last items, the clusters were renamed respectively: socio-centred orthodox, ambitious heterodox, activist and hedonist non-believers.

scholarly journals Patterns of Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics: an analysis based on semiotic-cultural perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Italo Testa ◽  
Raffaele De Luca Picione ◽  
Umberto Scotti di Uccio
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to analyse Italian high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT). In the SCPT framework, attitudes represent how individuals interpret their experience through the mediation of generalized meaning with which they are identified. A view-of-physics questionnaire was used as an instrument to collect data with 1603 high school and university students. Data were analysed through multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis. We identified four generalized meanings of physics: (a) interesting and important for society; (b) a quite interesting, but badly taught subject at school and not completely useful for society; (c) difficult to study and irrelevant for society; and (d) a fascinating and protective niche from society. The identified generalized meanings are significantly correlated to the choice to study physics at undergraduate level and to the choice of attending physics-related activities in high school. Implications for research are discussed.

Is there Stylometric Evidence for Q?

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Mealand
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Source Theory ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Stylometric tests were run to assess whether, in Matthew, Q material differs in style from that of M. Correspondence Analysis was used on larger samples. Then counts of the five most frequent words in smaller samples were tested using three further methods: GLM, Discriminant Analysis and Cluster Analysis. These tests assigned about 80% of the samples to the expected source. This result permits a cautious preference for the Two Source Theory against the theory upheld by Farrer, Goulder and Goodacre.

scholarly journals Spirituality in Late Adulthood

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Heintz ◽  
Imants Barušs
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Late Adulthood ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Paranormal Beliefs ◽  
Religious Behaviors

MacDonald's Expressions of Spirituality Inventory was used to examine spirituality in late adulthood using a sample of 30 people (22 women, 8 men) whose mean age was 72.6 yr. While average scores are higher on scales measuring spiritual and religious beliefs and practices for the sample than for a standardization group of undergraduate students with a mean age of 21.0 yr., means are lower on scales measuring paranormal beliefs. Low scores on death anxiety are correlated only with Existential Well-being and age And, while some religious behaviors such as frequent religious practice, prayer, and church attendance are correlated with some of the dimensions of spirituality, many of the scores on the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory scales are independent of self-reported religious behaviors.

Typology of Household Strategies of Action in Four Countries of Southeastern Europe in a Period of Economic Crisis

Südosteuropa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Predrag Cvetičanin ◽  
Miran Lavrič
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
General Level ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Strategies

AbstractIn this paper, we explore whether the myriad production and consumption household practices in four societies of Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) can empirically be reduced to a relatively small number of coherent and socially meaningful combinations, which we have labelled household strategies of action. Approaching the same data from two different angles, namely, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Two-Step Cluster Analysis (TCA), we have identified five general household strategies and eleven more detailed and specific sub-strategies. More importantly, by projecting these strategies and sub-strategies onto the social space, we have shown that these household practices are linked to the class position of households. On a more general level, it is indicated that the study of household strategies can be viewed as a way of rendering relatively static structural approaches, in this case the Bourdieusian approach to social space, more dynamic.

scholarly journals Socio-economic and technological typology of avocado cv. Hass farms from Antioquia (Colombia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Builes Gaitan ◽  
Marcela Duque Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Crop Biodiversity ◽  
Qualitative Variables ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Cluster 2 ◽  
Farm Types

ABSTRACT: A typology of avocado cv. Hass farms was constructed based on information collected from productive units in Antioquia, Colombia. The study aimed to provide key information about the farms for those involved in the design of programs and public policies directed to growers. The data were scrutinized through Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Cluster Analysis. The sample was made up of 214 growers of the crop. Quantitative and qualitative variables were employed for the MCA, which rendered 40 dimensions, out of which 16 accounted for 70% of the total inertia (variance) found in the data. These 16 dimensions were used as input for the Cluster Analysis, which provided the following results: 52%, 32% and 15% of the farms were located in Clusters 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The identified farm types can be associated to peasant (Cluster 1) and commercial (Cluster 3) agricultural schemes, plus a transition between them (Cluster 2). The most discriminating variables regarding such categorization were: farm size, farm registry at ICA (Colombian Agricultural Institute), Avocado cv. Hass yield, labor source, presence of crops other than avocado, existence of formal commercial alliances and technical assistance type. The percentage of farmers belonging to grower organizations was high in the three clusters. Growers in Clusters 3 and 2 had established formal commercial alliances which enabled them to access better sale prices for the crop. A trend towards establishing cv. Hass as a monocrop is observed, which may threaten both crop biodiversity and the food security of peasant growers.

scholarly journals The Swedish space of lifestyles and symbolic domination

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
Will Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Symbolic Domination

This article constructs a model of the space of lifestyles in Sweden. It does so not simply to test whether its structure conforms to that discovered by Pierre Bourdieu and his colleagues in 1970s’ France, and confirmed by others across the globe, but to examine the extent to which it is wrapped up with symbolic domination. It draws on data from an unusually rich survey of consumption patterns and taste fielded in 2017–2018 (n=1,498) and deploys the technique of multiple correspondence analysis in combination with cluster analysis. Oppositions between exclusive and accessible culture and between ‘highbrow’ culture and materialistic/appearance-oriented practices are revealed and the correspondences with capital, age, gender and other factors explored. The cluster analysis suggests that the force of capital composition in differentiating lifestyles relative to age varies in proportion to capital volume. Crucially, analysis suggests it is the economically rich, rather than those rich in cultural capital, who are most confident in their tastes and lifestyles.

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