Empirická přístupnost levo-pravé politické orientace

• Authors: Vinopal J.

Title variants

EN

THE EMPIRICAL ACCESSIBILITY OF LEFT-RIGHT POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The 'left' and the 'right' are two terms that often appear and tend to be used in everyday conversation, the media, and scientific discourse. In most theories on political orientation the terms left and right are used as theoretical concepts that facilitate the description and classification of social reality. This usage of the concepts is justified and can be very useful. However, at the empirical level they are often used with the aim of detecting and examining them in connection with what people think. In this article the author describes a series of analyses that indicate that when the left-right concept of political orientation is tested and assessed such usage proves misguided. The author employs 'immediate validation' in the article's analysis, an original method still under development that is part of the broader stream of cognitive approaches applied in survey methodology.

Keywords

EN

IMMEDIATE VALIDATION; LEFT-RIGHT CONCEPT; POLITICAL ORIENTATION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 129-147
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vinopal J.

• J. Vinopal, Sociologicky ustav AV CR, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06CZAAAA01312965