Institute of Sociological, Political and Juridical Research

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The Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research was founded in 1965 with the decision of the Council of the University “St. Cyril and Methodius". Since then, the ISPJR is devoted to scientifically examine the sociological, political and legal phenomena in the country, to encourage and to organize appropriate researches for social development, to educate young scientist and to develop scientific staff. Институтот за социолошки и политичко-правни истражувања е основан во 1965 година со одлука на Советот на Универзитетот "Св.Кирил и Методиј" во Скопје. Од тогаш, ИСППИ е посветен на научното истражување на социолошките, политиколошките и правните појави во земата, на поттикнување и организирање соодветни истражувања за развој на општеството, на подготвување на научен подмладок и усовршување на научен кадар.

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Personality Dimensions and Importance of the Social Role of the University Student in Explaining Student Involvement in Student Organization
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> In order to explore the student involvement in the student organization, field research was conducted amongst 669 students. The research instrument contained a questionnaire on students’ perception and satisfaction of the student organization; two scales of IPIP NEO (short form): Agreeableness (A) and Conscientiousness (C), and one dimension of the Laponce’s questionnaire: the importance of the social role of the university student. The analysis of the overall obtained data showed a very low level of involvement in student organization and a weak expression of the importance of the social role of the university student. A relatively weak connection between two personality dimensions and the involvement of students in the student organization has been found. A student’s involvement is determined more by the importance of the role, than by personality dimensions.</jats:p>
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Motive for Social Justice and Students Activism at University Level
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Student organizations exist to protect the rights and interests of their members. Therefore, if they are organized into representative student governments, students can be a very influential agent who shapes the policy of higher education, and build themselves as democratic force in the society. The purpose of this study conducted by Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research (ISPJR), Skopje was to consider student activism at university level in light of social justice motive. The data show that components of social justice motive influence the activism in Student Organization but also certainly proved that educational system of the country has serious omissions and errors in developing responsible and active youth and the country has to invest in its students because good student organization, in addition to exercising rights, freedoms and needs, and engaging in improving students’ standard and their well-being, means investing in an active, efficient, motivated and democratic youth.</jats:p>
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Student’s Social Justice Motivation and Attitude toward Students’ organization
(INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY “Ss. CIRYL AND METHODIUS” - SKOPJE, 2018)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
Student organizations exist and should exist to protect the rights and interests of their members. If certain research is correct and say that more than 80% of students in Macedonia are not members of any student organization, then the situation is worrying and of course it is necessary to find suitable ways to change it. Therefore, a research team at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research conducted a research on student organization, in particular about the ways in which students work, their attitudes and opinions about student organization, and their motivation to behave in accordance with the concepts of social justice. In the period of May 2017, 669 students from different faculties at the University “Ss.Cyril and Methodius” were examined about their views and opinions for student organization, as well as their moral motivation, or whether they are morally motivated to behave in accordance with the principles of social justice in society. The results show that students do not understand the concept of social justice and are very little aware that with their behavior they contribute to the fight for social justice. This also means that if they are not fully aware about their potential contribution in society they will not be active in the processes of student’s life and their future.
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The Role of Macedonian Folk Songs Featured in Macedonian Films in Amplifying the Emotions
(Musicologist, 2019)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
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Ganka Cvetanova
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Velika Serafimovska Stojkova
Macedonian folk songs, as a part of Macedonian traditions and culture, represent an integral part of Macedonian history marked by resistance, military feats, and tendencies for maintaining the Macedonian national identity. This paper is focused on the issue of whether two Macedonian folk songs With Torments I was Born and Listen Patriots created in the course of the 19th century – a period marked with active struggle for liberation and independence of the Macedonian nation – additionally intensify the emotions provoked by the storyline and action of the films, in which they have been incorporated. During the research process, the authors of the paper used the mechanism of cognitive appraisal as a model for content analysis, as well as psychological and ethnomusicological analysis of the resulting data. The units of content analysis were the sequences of scenes of the film, in which the two Macedonian folk songs were used. The selected songs and films, as well as the interaction between the sound and visual senses, clearly present the deep relationship between music and emotions in a specific, identity-related context. The findings of the study are in favor of the thesis that Macedonian folk songs, created as a result of the centuries-old struggle of the Macedonian people, when used in Macedonian films, intensify the patriotic emotions of the viewers and strengthen the concept of uniqueness in the Macedonian identity, due to the processes of repetition and revitalization of collective memories.
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Political crisis, media and emotions
(Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
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Trajkov Ivan
Macedonia will remember 2015 as a year of long-term political crisis. It was a year of intensive activity against the Government. There were “opposition bombs”, disclosed incriminating phone calls, strikes in education, mass protests, camping in front of the Government and the Assembly, a police action against the terrorists in Kumanovo, migrant crisis... The understanding of the start and the end points of the crisis largely depends on the individual perception created as a result of the personal experience and the experience mediated through offiine networks, online networks and media. Apart from the diversity of the events in the surroundings there is also a difference in the style of processing or living one's own emotions (feeling them, expressing them, understanding them). This research focuses on how students process emotions provoked by news/media stories on the events connected to the abovementioned critical political events. Students from the Faculty of Philosophy, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" voluntarily accepted to take part in this research. Two research instruments were used: questionnaire for the evaluation of the media content and their influence on the emotions of the respondent and the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) regarding the nature of processing emotions. The research design provides quantitative and qualitative analysis. This study showed that anger, fear and rage are dominantly provoked by negative emotions which are unprocessed or there is avoidance of coping with them (the two unhealthy ways of emotional processing).
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Personality dimensions and student’s participatory behavior in student organization
(Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical research, University SS. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 2018)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
This text is based on the analysis of the data obtained from the wider research about the student’s participation in Student organization. During May, 2017 the field research among students at University of “Ss Cyril and Methodius” (UKIM) in Skopje was conducted. The total number of respondents was 669. Respondents were students from 1 till 5 year from almost all faculties which constitute UKIM. For the purpose of this research, two scales (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) from the short version of IPIP NEO, (Five Factorial personality test) and Questionnaire were used. Agreeableness (A) personality dimension is a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic toward others, and dimension Conscientiousness (C), is a tendency to be self-disciplined, to act dutifully. Both dimensions are relevant in institutionalized forms of participation (as student organization is). Questionnaire contains set of questions which were indicators for student’s participatory behavior. In this research participatory behavior has been defined as involvement and influence that students have in decision- making processes in student organization. The overall findings of this research pointed out that independent variables - personality dimensions (Agreeableness and Consciousness) cannot predict student’s participatory behavior in their student organization.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCING OF THE MACEDONIAN EPIC FOLK SONGS
(INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY “Ss. CIRYL AND METHODIUS” - SKOPJE, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
In the course of the past centuries, the Macedonian folk song embraced all significant moments of the lives of the Macedonian people. These songs pay tribute to the years of servitude, resistance, military feats, whether individual or group, spontaneous or organized. Throughout the conducted research, the question we focused on was whether these Macedonian songs created in the course of the 19th century -period of active struggle for liberation and independence of the Macedonian nation; evoke feelings of patriotism among the young in contemporary time when the Republic of Macedonia has acquired its sovereignty and independence. For the purpose of determining the influence of music on the emotions, and identifying the emotions, thoughts, ideas and behavior ‘touched upon’ and evoked by the Macedonian epic folk song, experimental research was conducted. The experiment was realized in a time period of 2 hours with a group of 18 students that participated on a voluntary basis. The findings from the analysis of the emotions experienced by the respondents in the experiment indicate that the respondents can identify the different emotions, thoughts and ideas embodied in two popular Macedonian epic folk songs. Hence, these epic songs (especially when listened with lyrics) not only evoke negative emotions but cause negative thoughts and ideas as well. In this sense, the main conclusion is that the Macedonian epic folk songs created in 19th century still “‘touch upon” the present generations.
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Perception of Personal Characteristic and Importance of the Identity of Students in the Republic of Macedonia: Factors and Consequences
(MI-AN Publishing, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
This paper comes out from more extensive research named “Real and virtual identities” realized by Institute for sociological, political and juridical research during year 2013. Its tendency was to explore how young people see themselves, which attributes they use in process of self definition, as well as to find out what are the factors and outcomes of self definition process. This part of the research is actually in the field of psychology of personality and identity and it is based on the circumflex model of interpersonal behavior. The main hypothesis in this segment of the study assumed that certain socio-demographic factors influenced the identity perception of young people and that it has an impact in several segments of their socio-political life. Research sample size was 707 respondents, male 256 and 451 female students from Skopje, Tetovo and Bitola. When the factors are in focus, the data show that male, with a greater intensity than women perceive themselves as dominant, calculating, cold-blooded and introverted, while women with more intensity than men perceive themselves as cooperative; Albanians, in comparison with the Macedonians, in the description of self stress more: dominance, accountability, coldblooded, introvert, while the Macedonians, stress more: cooperation and sociability; respondents living in the village to a greater extent describe themselves as introverted, less dominant, compared to those living in the city. Those who live in the city, compared with those who live in the village over perceived themselves as social. Speaking about the outcomes, openness to different social events is usually connected positively with dimensions as gregariousness, willingness to cooperate and domination, and negatively to introversion and inferiority.
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THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND PARTICIPATORY BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENTS IN STUDENT ORGANIZATION
(Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, 2017-11-17)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
During May 2017 year the field research among students at University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” (UKIM) in Skopje was conducted. The main goal of this research was to explore the perception of student participation (as an indicator for citizenship participative behavior) in student organization at the University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” and the image of this organization among students. The total number of respondents was 669. Respondents were students from 1 till 4 year from almost all faculties which constitute UKIM. Questioner has been prepared for the purpose of this research and also Five Factorial personality test was used - short version of IPIP NEO, which is constructed according to McCrae and Costa’s personality theory. Regarding to this theory five basic dimensions, which are biologically given, interact with external influences including culture, in shaping the skills, habits, tastes, and values which construct the characteristic adaptation of the individual. Beside IPIP NEO, two dimensions of the Laponce questionnaire (concerning minority effect), one on the significance of the social role of the students, and the second on their treatment by the state were applied. The findings of this research pointed that dimensions: agreeableness (A) as the tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic toward others, and conscientiousness (C), the tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, are relevant dimensions which influenced students participative behavior in some aspects and affect citizenship participative behavior, but only if the social role of student is important.
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associate proffesor
(Institute for Sociological, Poltical and Juridical Research, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
This research was focused on the association between aspects of identity orientation and collective identity among students in Macedonia and Austria. The survey in Macedonia was conducted among Macedonian and Albanian state university students, and in Austria, it was conducted among students from the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Salzburg. The same methodological procedure was applied: orientation towards two aspects of identity - Personal aspect of Identity (PI) and Social aspect of Identity (SI), measured with the AIQ (Aspect of Identity Orientation) Scale. The collective identity was run through a grid of one scale (according to Laponce): importance was given to each of 13 social groups, such as: family, friends, gender, age, profession, religion, preferred political party, place of birth, residence, university, ethnicity, class, and citizenship. According to the results on the PI and the SI scales, four groups of respondents were obtained. The first group, termed “Integrated”, was the group with high scores on both scales; the second group, termed, “Ego-oriented”, had high scores on the PI scale and low scores on the SI scale; the third group, “Pre-defined”, presented individuals with low scores on both scales, and the last group, “Over-socialized”, was the group that had high scores on the SI scale and low scores on the PI scale. The main topic of research was the importance that each of these four groups (in a Macedonian and Austrian context) assigned to the collective identity. The comparative study underlined some important issues: family and friends are the first and second most important social groups for the four groups in both samples; in both samples, the “Integrated” group places the highest importance to the collective identity; the collective identity is mostly predominant among the Macedonian students, and, no matter how much personality is integrated, the least important group for the Austrian sample of students is religion, while for the Macedonian sample of students - political party.

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