NON-PARTICIPATION OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS: SEXUAL AND BODILY OTHERNESS ON THE MARGIN OF PUBLIC INTEREST (Nazorova neparticipacia: sexualna a telesna inakost na okraji zaujmu)

• Authors: Bianchi Gabriel , Luha Jan
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a non-conventional approach to non-participation in survey-respondents' behaviour. The topic of the analysis is the attitudes to certain minorities in the population - sexual minorities, people with body and mental handicap. These sexual and bodily forms of otherness are being discussed in the conceptual framework of cultural and intimate citizenship. Empirical data indicate a significantly higher incidence of respondents' refusal to answer questions concerning conditions, chances and needs of citizens with above mentioned otherness - as compared to assessing conditions of other minorities; simultaneously, claims for help from the society are significantly less acknowledged for these groups. A demographic profile of the most frequently 'refusing' respondents is characteristic by certain education, age and residence size. Results are discussed in the context of the overall value-background in Slovakia, its political development, and current discourses on sexual and bodily otherness.

Keywords

EN

CITIZENSHIP; HANDICAP; OTHERNESS; PARTICIPATION; SEXUALITY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 548-563
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bianchi Gabriel

author

Luha Jan

• doc. PhDr. Gabriel Bianchi, CSc., Ustav vyskumu socialnej komunikacie a Centrum excelentnosti pre vyskum obcianstva a participacie SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA094444