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{"title":"Longitudinal qualitative research in practice: Advantages, problems and solutions","authors":"S. Tomanović","doi":"10.2298/soc2001008t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2001008t","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with several most significant issues concerning advantages and problems of applying longitudinal qualitative research in practice. Following the introductory part that presents basic features and particularities of longitudinal qualitative research, there are three sections presenting research dilemmas and solutions related to research design, research implementation, and analysis and interpretation of findings. Discussion refers to recent methodological literature, as well as the author’s own research practice of doing longitudinal qualitative research in four waves from 1993 to 2014. The topics that are highlighted include: flexibility of research design, adaptation of concepts and interpretation to changes during the research, research ethics and respondents’ and researcher’s reflexivity, analyzing and interpreting change within social biography approach. The concluding discussion summarizes heuristic and methodological advantages of longitudinal qualitative research for social biography approach, such as contextualization and biographization of findings, but also its limits and possibilities of overcoming them based on the author’s research experience.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68777293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performing qualitative content analysis","authors":"Željka Manić","doi":"10.2298/soc2001105m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2001105m","url":null,"abstract":"Although content analysis has traditionally been considered a quantitative method, it has been advocated in the methodological literature for its use in qualitative form as early as the middle of the 20th century. Nevertheless, much less methodological knowledge is available on the characteristics of qualitative content analysis and its application than on quantitative content analysis. The subject of this paper is a presentation of performing qualitative content analysis. First, different views of the qualitative form of the method are given, since there is no unique definition. Then, the basic steps of qualitative content analysis are presented, that is, the stages of application of the procedure, on which there is also no agreement, but no essential differences. Particular attention has been paid to the deductive and inductive approach of determining the categories of classification. The application of qualitative content analysis is illustrated by a survey of nostalgia of Serbian immigrants living in the Nordic countries. Finally, concluding considerations on performing a qualitative content analysis are summarized and the challenges ahead.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68777607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The implications of nostalgia in German modern sociology","authors":"A. Petrov","doi":"10.2298/soc2002217p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2002217p","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I deal with nostalgia as an implicit category in the 19th-century German sociological discourses. I draw on the approaches that argue that sociology can be seen as a nostalgic social science since the sociologists’ discourses were focused on the issues of causes, characteristics, and consequences of the modern age for individuals and society. Trying to explicate modern society, usually by comparing it to the premodern forms of social order, modern sociologists shaped dichotomous categories that were used for the definition of basic sociological concepts, one of the typical ones being the dichotomy between modern society and traditional communities. I here argue that modern sociologists constructed their theories in relation to the idea of a lack or loss, i.e. in relation to the question of what the modern society left behind during its growth: community, spirit or freedom. An alternative, a solution, or simply a utopian object for making comparison are found exactly in the object that is lost - in the nostalgic reflection on those aspects of humanity that were no longer possible in the modern age. Hence, I argue that modern sociology can be defined as a certain discourse on social loss. This will be elaborated on the examples of theories of Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68777885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecumenism in the perspective of globalization and postmodernism","authors":"D. Pavlica","doi":"10.2298/soc2003397p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2003397p","url":null,"abstract":"This article views ecumenism both from the perspective of globalization and postmodernism. Introduction defines Christian ecumenism. The first segment of this article deals with the relationship between ecumenism and globalization, primarily with the help of essential categories like identity and strangeness (xenosociology). The second segment questions this: if postmodernism fosters and produces differences and ecumenism wants to achieve the unity of all Christians, is it possible that they have similarities. This work shed lights on the relationship between ecumenism and religious fundamentalism.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68778030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who volunteers in Serbia? Motives and value orientations of Serbian volunteers","authors":"B. Radovanović, I. Simeunović","doi":"10.2298/soc2002269r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2002269r","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we focus on individual factors that influence on people t o engage in formal volunteering, providing empirical evidence from Serbia. We discussed Batson?s four-motive theory of communal actions. The majority of Serbian volunteers reportedly dedicated their time in order to contribute to the community and to help people in need. Thus, they were driven by collectivism and altruism. The lack of time, lack of solicitation for volunteering and being unable to make long-term commitments were reported as the main barriers to volunteering. Serbian volunteers rarely obtain material and non-material benefits from volunteering, and they do not perceive volunteering as a valuable tool for job success. Then, we focused on Schwartz value theory and its potential to explain pro-social behaviour. Our findings based on descriptive statistics and the independent samples t test show that self-transcendence values are more important for Serbian volunteers than self-enhancement values, and that self-transcendence values are more emphasized among volunteers than among non-volunteers. However, we also found that on average volunteers score higher on self-enhancement value orientation than nonvolunteers. Our findings, based on multiple regression models, cannot confirm that, controlled for other factors, volunteers and non-volunteers have different value orientations. Finally, according to the logistic regression models, Serbian volunteers are more likely to be found among younger, better-educated population, with higher scores on the scale of self-transcendence value orientations.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68778176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 in everyday life: Contextualizing the pandemic","authors":"Dušan Ristić, Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, J. Čikić","doi":"10.2298/SOC2004524R","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2004524R","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an overview and findings of the research on the social aspects of COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. We aimed to investigate the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyday life. The general hypothesis was that it contributed to changes in common rituals and routines, especially in the areas we focused on: family and housework, trust, the Internet use, and food practices. The study involved an online survey on the sample of 685 respondents, adult citizens of the Republic of Serbia. The main criterion for the selection of respondents was their legal age. The research was conducted during April 2020. We present and discuss the findings, give preliminary conclusions, and contextualize them within the current studies on the COVID-19 outbreak. The general research hypothesis has only been partially confirmed. Our findings suggest that the pandemic outbreak has disrupted people?s habitual established practices and strategies for managing daily life in the sense of either intensification or the absence of certain routines.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68778684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educational outcomes and aspirations of upper secondary school students: The cultural capital and relative risk aversion perspectives","authors":"Saša Puzić, Iva Odak, Josip Šabić","doi":"10.2298/soc1903368p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1903368p","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article was to address the relevance of cultural capital and\u0000 relative risk aversion theories for educational outcomes and aspirations of\u0000 upper secondary school students in Croatia, and to examine whether these\u0000 approaches are compatible in explaining educational inequalities. Linear and\u0000 logistic regressions were used to analyze data from 2106 students in their\u0000 last year of upper secondary school (16-18 years old). Both constructs,\u0000 cultural capital and relative risk aversion, had positive effects on school\u0000 performance, enrolment of gymnasium instead of vocational school and\u0000 aspirations for higher education. The analyses indicated that cultural\u0000 factors frequently associated with school performance should not be\u0000 separated from more direct status concerns shaping educational decisions.\u0000 Rather than seeing them as unrelated, these mechanisms may both be seen as\u0000 constitutive of students? educational dispositions.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41827517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate social responsibility in Islamic banking: Theory and practice","authors":"Lekpek Ahmedin","doi":"10.2298/soc1901032a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1901032a","url":null,"abstract":"Democratization of the society and the strengthening of civic awareness in many countries have brought the corporate social responsibility into the focus of attention of the scientific, investment and general public, as well as regulatory bodies. This has created a significant pressure on the corporate sector to adapt its business to the interests of numerous stakeholders. The issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of particular importance to Islamic banking, as the fastest growing sector of the global financial market. Social responsibility is an integral element of the doctrine of Islamic banking and economics. The Islamic model of social responsibility is as old as Islam itself, so it is for centuries present in Sharia-compliant business. The institutionalization of Islamic banking, which began far later, raised the question of the role of social responsibility in the Islamic banks? business practice. The strong pressure from the competition, the business model insufficiently adapted to the modern market environment and the desire to achieve business success and strengthen the market position, have forced Islamic banks to face numerous challenges and partly deviate from some of their stated goals. In this article, we analyze the theoretical model of Islamic banking and the model of man adapted to its principles - homo islamicus, as the carrier of that system, the business practice of Islamic banks, the gap between expectations and realities in the relationship of Islamic banks towards CSR, and potential solutions for removing this gap. The aim is to examine the potential of Islamic banking as socially responsible and ethical alternative to, often criticized and, according to many, morally problematic conventional banking.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender differences in the choice of studies of Hungarian, Slovak and Romanian ethnic minority high school graduates in Serbia","authors":"Karolina Lendák-Kabók, S. Popov","doi":"10.2298/soc1901075l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1901075l","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this research were the gender differences in the choice of studies of Hungarian, Slovak and Romanian ethnic minority members in the AP of Vojvodina. The aim of the paper is to analyze the status and career choices of ethnic minority students, who finish their secondary school in AP Vojvodina in their mother tongue. In order to achieve the aforementioned goal, 2192 students, both male and female, were asked to fill in a formal questionnaire in 16 municipalities in Vojvodina in 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 school years. The results show that around one third of the secondary school students migrates and studies in the nearby EU countries. The research has also shown that gender stereotypes significantly influence the career choices of female students, who usually opt for social sciences, although technical sciences would provide them with a wider range of opportunities in career development.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Successful society and applied sociology","authors":"Silvano Bolcic","doi":"10.2298/soc19s1758b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc19s1758b","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary Serbian society, as well as other post-Yugoslav societies (excluding Slovenia) could not be classified as successful societies. For three decades, incapacity to achieve the level of the GDP per capita comparable to their situation in the 1989. is the persisting feature of these societies. These societies are characterized by a considerable and persisting emigration of their population, especially, of the emigration of their most valuable segments of their labor force. These are societies in which dominate unsuccessful political, economic and cultural elites, incapable of providing appropriate public policies which would lead these societies closer to the modern successful societies. Essential features of successful societies are being discussed. Outstanding identification of the great majority of citizens with the institutionally established society is considered as the essential feature of a successful society. Several other important features of societal successfulness are also considered. There are given some empirical findings supporting the presented assessments of the societal successfulness of the post-Yugoslav societies. Social circumstances contributing to the formation and persistence of successful public policies are being considered, with some reference to the situation in nowadays Serbia. Particular relevance for the societal successfulness is being attributed to the system of ownership relations, and to the system of social promotion. Also, it is claimed that existing problems with the persisting inefficiencies of public policies in the post-Yugoslav societies stem from the formation of these societies as ?ethno-nationalized? societies. Ignorance on the side of creators of policy measures of relevant scientific findings provided by social sciences, and sociology in particular, seem to be one of the contributing factors of the unsuccessful developments of the former Yugoslav, as well as of the existing post-Yugoslav societies. Some cases of the neglect of sociological proposals to the creators of the public policy have been described and assessed. Observations on the trends in applied sociology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav societies have been mentioned. The need for the improved role of the applied sociology is being suggested.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68777457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}