Belgrade – The Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Belgrade-based Center for Ethnic Studies, conducts an on-line research that aims to determine the extent of social or ethnic distance between different ethnic and national groups in Serbia.
Belgrade – The Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Belgrade-based Center for Ethnic Studies, conducts an on-line research that aims to determine the extent of social or ethnic distance between different ethnic and national groups in Serbia.
“The research seeks to determine how the measures taken in the field of minority policy have contributed to the social integration of national minorities in the Republic of Serbia. The basic idea of the research, in addition to getting an idea of the extent of interethnic distance, is to identify and explain the causes of this phenomenon, "says Goran Basic, the Director of the Institute.
He also says that the research is different from the previous ones because it will try to gather as many respondents as possible in order to construct a representative sample for the majority and minority population, and will include standard socio-demographic variables, such as gender, age, degree of education and the level of urbanization of the place.
Particular attention has been paid to socio-psychological factors, primarily to the factors such as authoritarianism and orientation towards social dominance.
Through a wide range of questions, the researchers want to determine the distance between the majority and minority populations, as well as between the minorities themselves.
According to the Institute, the research focuses on the Serbs as the dominant nation and "indigenous" national minorities, namely: the Albanians, the Bosniaks, the Croats, the Hungarians, the Roma, the Romanians and the Slovaks.
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The organizers repeat that the Republic of Serbia has been developing a policy for the protection of national minorities based on institutional recognition and developed constitutional legal protection of their identities since 2002.
"The research seeks to determine how the measures taken in the field of minority policy have contributed to the social integration of national minorities in the Republic of Serbia," the Institute stated.
The research is conducted with the support of the Open Society Foundation.
Source: “Danas” daily and Coordination Body
