Zur Konstruktion von Einstellungsskalen im internationalen Vergleich

Der Bericht ist Teil einer interkulturell vergleichenden Studie, die sich mit der Konstruktion von Meßinstrumenten zur interkulturellen Anwendung befaßt. Dabei handelt es sich um Skalen zur Messung des allgemeinen sozialen Lebensgebühls (Social Life Feeling = SLF-Skalen). Aus einer Vielzahl von ad-hoc-Skalen der über 30jährigen Forschungstradition wurden auf der Basis unterschiedlicher Analysen in der amerikanischen Stichprobe 120 Items, verteilt auf 12 SLF-Skalen und zwei Skalen zur Messung von Antworttendenzen, sowie in der deutschen Studie 80 Items, verteilt auf neun SLF-Strahlen, gewonnen. Die Entwicklung und Kombination dieser Skalen zur Messung der Beziehungen zwischen dem allgemeinen sozialen Lebensgefühl und sozialen Ausgangsbedingungen ist Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie. In mehreren Schritten wurden die Skalen aus beiden Stichproben so verändert, daß eine Kombination der an der amerikanischen und der deutschen Stichprobe entwickelten Skalen zustande kam (COMB-Skalen), die die statistischen Kriterien der Eindimensionalität in beiden Stichproben erfüllen. (AG

Friedrich Hayek and his visits to Chile

F. A. Hayek took two trips to Chile, the first in 1977, the second in 1981. The visits were controversial. On the first trip he met with General Augusto Pinochet, who had led a coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973. During his 1981 visit, Hayek gave interviews that were published in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and in which he discussed authoritarian regimes and the problem of unlimited democracy. After each trip, he complained that the western press had painted an unfair picture of the economic situation under the Pinochet regime. Drawing on archival material, interviews, and past research, we provide a full account of this controversial episode in Hayek’s life

Felony Murder and Capital Punishment: an Examination of the Deterrence Question

A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides. However, the criterion variable in most investigations has been total homicides—most of which bear no legal or theoretical relationship to capital punishment. To address this fundamental data problem, this investigation used Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 1976–1987 to examine the relationship between capital punishment and felony murder, the most common type of capital homicide. We conducted time series analyses of monthly felony murder rates, the frequency of executions, and the amount and type of television coverage of executions over the period. The analyses revealed occasional departures (for vehicle theft and narcotics killings) from the null hypotheses. However, on balance, and in line with the vast majority of capital punishment studies, this investigation found no consistent evidence that executions and the television coverage they receive are associated significantly with rates for total, index, or different types of felony murder

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Sociological methodology 1979

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Sociological methodology 1978

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Garcilaso escribe "como indio'': El concepto y la función de la escritura incaica en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

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