Master
2024/2025
Social and Political Attitudes
Type:
Compulsory course (Data Analytics for Politics and Society )
Area of studies:
Sociology
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Data Analytics for Politics and Society
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
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.
Learning Objectives
- 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
Expected Learning Outcomes
- 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
Course Contents
- 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
Assessment Elements
- In-class discussionIn-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
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.2 * Homework + 0.4 * In-class discussion + 0.4 * Written test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 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.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Little, T. D. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods. Oxford University Press.