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Too Afraid to Learn: Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to Acquiring Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Quantitative skills are important for studying and understanding social reality. Political science students, however, experience difficulties in acquiring and retaining such skills. Fear of statistics has often been listed among the major causes for this problem. This study aims at understanding the underlying factors for this anxiety and proposes a potential remedy. More specifically, we advocate the integration of quantitative material into ...
Cultural Capital and Attitudes toward Homosexuals: Exploring the Relation between Lifestyles and Homonegativity KU Leuven Ghent University
This article explores the potential of cultural capital as explanatory factor in understanding homonegativity. Building on recent findings suggesting the need for a cultural component in understanding homonegativity, this article explores the relation between lifestyles (the measurable expression of cultural capital) and homonegativity. Using the "Social-Cultural Changes in Flanders 2006" survey (a population-wide survey in Flanders, the ...
Too Afraid to Learn?! Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to the Acquiring of Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Why are social science students afraid of statistics? In society numbers are omnipresent. Media, corporations and politicians overwhelm people with quantitative information. Numeric skills are important to avoid deception and to function in society. By consequence, these skills are also important for social science students to grasp and understand social reality. We see, however, that these students tend to avoid quantitative methods and even ...
Too Afraid to Learn?! Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to the Acquiring of Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Why are social science students afraid of statistics? In society numbers are omnipresent. Media, corporations and politicians overwhelm people with quantitative information. Numeric skills are important to avoid deception and to function in society. By consequence, these skills are also important for social science students to grasp and understand social reality. We see, however, that these students tend to avoid quantitative methods and even ...
The Republika Srpska as a strong nationalizing state and the consequences for postethnic activism KU Leuven
Escaping ethnopolis: postethnic mobilization in Bosnia-Herzegovina KU Leuven
This thesis investigates how and to what extent it is possible to mobilize citizens across ethnic boundaries in a deeply divided society. It focuses on one case in point, that of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The thesis first develops the analytical concept of postethnic mobilization as an alternative to similar but less precise terms such as multicultural, civic mobilization or anti-nationalist mobilization. Bosnia-Herzegovina is a crucial case with ...
Multi-ethnic Parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Naša Stranka and the Paradoxes of Postethnic Politics KU Leuven
To what extent is political mobilisation across ethnic boundaries possible in states with highly ethnicised state structures? This article explores the opportunities and obstacles that activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina meet when they seek to develop integrative discourses as a basis for political action. The first part of the article focuses on the role of multi-ethnic parties in deeply divided societies. The second part develops alternative ideas ...