GIVING ETHNIC DIVERSITY ITS SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MEANING – EXAMPLES FROM SLOVAKIA

• Authors: Majo Juraj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Ethnic diversity represents one of the most accurate ways of exploring regional identity, with its temporal and spatial variations. In the methodological framework of emerging diversity studies, this paper approached the elementary forms of ethnic diversity change in regions of Slovakia in 1880 – 2011 using census data and simple, yet expressive and exact, diversification indices and intercensal change. The regions of Slovakia are shown in a broad time-space analysis, with data adapted to one regional structure. Although ethnic diversity is only a minor part of a superdiversity approach and, as such, is insufficient to express the identity of a region and its population, historical and spatial data can work to provide a useful overview for the broader social analysis of a region.

Keywords

EN

ETHNICITY; DIVERSITY; SLOVAKIA; CENSUS DATA; REGIONAL STRUCTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 672 – 696

Contributors

author

Majo Juraj

• Faculty of Sciences, Department of Human Geography and Demography, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2018.50.6.25