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Social Representations of Human Rights Amongst Czech University Students

✍ Scribed by PETR MACEK; LÍDA OSECKÁ; LUBOMÍR KOSTROŇ

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
465 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1052-9284

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✦ Synopsis

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a general legislative framework for democratic societies. Studying the social representations of these basic human rights helps to explain how people understand and assess the basic rights and how these rights relate to everyday life. Over 400 Czech university students rated the 30 articles of the Declaration of Human Rights on various scales (degree of understanding, personal relevance, consequences for individual responsibility, for government, political parties, etc.). A semantic space was identified in which concepts (i.e. the Articles of the Declaration) could be located. A typology (clusters) of articles was then established within that semantic space. A factor analysis of the scales resulted in a two-dimensional solution (positive attitude' and personal influence'). Five clusters of assessed articles were identified within this semantic space. (# 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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