Humour and ex-Yugoslav nations Pavić, Željko; Krivokapić, Nataša
European journal of humour research,
2020, Letnik:
8, Številka:
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This study explores the issue of humour stereotyping between ex-Yugoslav nations, its veridicality and possible explanations. Three research questions were put forward related to humour stereotyping ...and the differences in humour production, use and appreciation between the countries, with Hofstede’s model of culture as a possible explanatory framework. The survey data were collected on a sample of university students from four ex-Yugoslav countries (N = 611). The results revealed strong negative humour stereotyping toward Croats and Slovenians and positive stereotyping toward Bosnians. However, only about 0–4 per cent of the variance in humour production, use and appreciation, depending on the sub-scales of the Multidimensional Sense of Humour Scale, could be attributed to group (country) membership, thus indicating low correspondence between the stereotypes and reality. The study results concerning the stereotypes were interpreted by evoking the discourse of Balkanism, as well as humour-style differences in popular culture between the countries.
This paper is aimed at testing the direct and indirect connections of social media use with substance use (smoking and drinking alcohol). It was hypothesized that one direct and two mediation ...mechanisms existed: the social comparison hypothesis (perception of financial deprivation) and hedonistic behaviour hypothesis. Both hypotheses were tested with a research sample of young people aged 15-30 in Croatia (N = 481) during 2020 as part of a European Social Fund project. The proposed models were analysed by means of structural equation modelling in order to test the research hypotheses. The results showed that social media use was neither directly connected to substance use (smoking and drinking) nor indirectly connected through financial deprivation, but was indirectly connected through the hedonistic use of leisure time mediation path. Financial deprivation was also directly connected to substance use, while gender was indirectly connected through the hedonistic use of leisure time. Based on the study results, the authors call for a more nuanced research of social media effects.
Understanding vaccine hesitancy is becoming increasingly important, especially after the global outbreak of COVID-19. The main goal of this study was to explore the differences in vaccination ...conspiracy beliefs between people with a university degree coming from different scientific fields—Social Sciences & Humanities (SH) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The study was conducted on an online convenience sample of respondents with college and university degrees in Croatia (N = 577). The results revealed that respondents educated in SH proved to be more prone to vaccination conspiracy beliefs. The indirect effect through science literacy was confirmed, while this was not the case for the indirect effects through health beliefs (natural immunity beliefs) and trust in the healthcare system. However, all three variables were important direct predictors of vaccination conspiracy beliefs. Female gender and religiosity were positively correlated with vaccination conspiracy beliefs, while age was not a statistically significant predictor. The authors concluded by emphasizing the necessity of the more theoretically elaborated approaches to the study of the educational and other socio-demographic differences in vaccine hesitancy.
U ovome se radu aktualna teza o medijatizaciji religije pokušava staviti u kontekst teorija koje pokušavaju objasniti kretanje religioznosti i položaja religije u suvremenim društvima. Današnja se ...situacija stavlja u kontekst transformacije religije te se analizira na koji način medijatizacija religije utječe na taj kontekst. Time se medijatizacija promatra kao proces koji se nalazi pod utjecajem transformacije religije, ali i kao djelomično neovisan proces koji utječe na religijsku transformaciju potičući specifičan duhovni pluralizam i individualizam (post) modernih zapadnih društava u kojemu se pojavljuju nove, eklektične forme religioznosti. U tom se smislu osobito analizira pitanje utjecaja medijatizacije na osporavanje religijskih autoriteta te internet kao nov medij koji svojom decentraliziranošću ima potencijalno jak utjecaj na transformaciju religije i religijskih autoriteta. Zaključuje se da je medijatizacija vrlo složen i dvostran proces čije se značenje i doseg ne bi trebali prenaglašavati jer mnogim situacijama medijsko posredovanje religije služi samo kao pojačavanje postojećih teritorijalnih, licem-u-lice religijskih zajednice te se nalazi pod kontrolom formalnih religijskih vođa.
In this paper the author tries to put the current mediatization thesis into the framework of theories that aim to explain position of religion and religiosity in the contemporary societies. Contemporary situation is explained within the context of religious transformation, and the author has made an attempt to analyze the influence of the mediatization on the aforementioned context. In that way, mediatization is conceptualized as a process that is influenced by the transformation of religion, but also at least partially as a process that advances the religious transformation by encouraging the development of spiritual pluralism and individualism of (post)modern Western societies wherein new and eclectic forms of religiosity begin to appear. In that sense, a particular effort has been made in order to explain the influence of mediatization on the religious authorities and to analyze the Internet as a new media that arguably has a strong effect on the transformation of religion and religious authorities. The author concludes that mediatization is a very complex and two-sided process whose influence and impact should not be over-emphasized since in many situations media-conveyed religion serves only as a magnifier of the existing territorial face-to-face religious communities, controlled by the formal religious authorities.
Understanding vaccine hesitancy is becoming increasingly important, especially after the global outbreak of COVID-19. The main goal of this study was to explore the differences in vaccination ...conspiracy beliefs between people with a university degree coming from different scientific fields-Social Sciences & Humanities (SH) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The study was conducted on an online convenience sample of respondents with college and university degrees in Croatia (N = 577). The results revealed that respondents educated in SH proved to be more prone to vaccination conspiracy beliefs. The indirect effect through science literacy was confirmed, while this was not the case for the indirect effects through health beliefs (natural immunity beliefs) and trust in the healthcare system. However, all three variables were important direct predictors of vaccination conspiracy beliefs. Female gender and religiosity were positively correlated with vaccination conspiracy beliefs, while age was not a statistically significant predictor. The authors concluded by emphasizing the necessity of the more theoretically elaborated approaches to the study of the educational and other socio-demographic differences in vaccine hesitancy.
The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether some dimensions of civic and religious social capital are connected to antisocial attitudes of the youth. Based on the social capital theory and ...previous research, the author assumed that membership of voluntary associations as a dimension of civic social capital and attendance at religious services as a dimension of religious social capital, will be negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes of the youth. The integrated dataset of the last European Values Study and the World Values Survey waves were used as the sources of the research data. The dataset was comprised of 11,411 respondents who were younger than 25 years old from 79 countries. As hypothesized, at the individual level, attendance at religious services was negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes, whereas membership of voluntary associations was positively correlated with antisocial attitudes. At the country level, none of the hypothesized correlations were confirmed. A cross-level interaction between GDP and associational membership was found. The author explains the findings by evoking the special characteristics of religious social capital and its strength in building moral obligations and by suggesting possible differences in incentives for joining voluntary associations in the countries with different levels of economic wealth.
Der Verfasser dieses Beitrags erörtert die philosophische Relevanz und das Innovationspotenzial des Begriffs „Pluriperspektivismus“, der die ideelle und methodologische Grundlage des Phänomens der ...integrativen Bioethik bildet. Im ersten Schritt ermittelt er die Ausbreitung und den europäischen Charakter der integrativen Bioethik, wobei deren Entstehung und geistige Rolle als Antwort auf den bioethischen Szientismus und wissenschaftlichen Monoperspektivismus gedeutet werden. Im zentralen Teil seiner Abhandlung analysiert der Autor die Arbeiten verschiedener Philosophen (P. Barišić, A. Čović, D. Smiljanić, K. W. Zeidler), die am Projekt der Entwicklung der integrativen Bioethik mitgewirkt haben, und untermauert anhand theoretischer Implikationen seine Ausgangsthese von der philosophischen Relevanz und dem Innovationspotenzial der Idee des Pluriperspektivismus. Das auslösende Moment für diese Untersuchung war die Streichung des Stichworts „Pluriperspektivismus“ aus der jüngsten Ausgabe des Philosophischen Lexikons (Filozofski leksikon, Leksikografski zavod „Miroslav Krleža“, Zagreb 2012), die kurz vor der Drucklegung des Werks auf schriftliche Anordnung des Chefredakteurs Stipe Kutleša vorgenommen wurde. Dem Autor, zugleich stellvertretender Chefredakteur des Philosophischen Lexikons, ist es nicht gelungen, eine Erklärung für diesen Eingriff zu erhalten, und er schließt seinen Beitrag mit einem Aufruf an den Chefredakteur, der philosophisch interessierten Öffentlichkeit darzulegen, warum er sich für eine Löschung des bestehenden Eintrags zum Stichwort „Pluriperspektivismus“ aus dem Philosophischen Lexikon entschlossen hat.
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