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Social Representations of Human Rights Amongst Czech University Students
Author(s) -
MACEK PETR,
OSECKÁ LÍDA,
KOSTROŇ LUBOMÍR
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(199702)7:1<65::aid-casp400>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - declaration , human rights , czech , typology , sociology , politics , space (punctuation) , relevance (law) , democracy , government (linguistics) , social psychology , political science , psychology , social science , law , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy
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.)