Certain Tendencies in the Development of the Method to Assess Group Political Attitudes

Abstract

The results obtained by evaluating socio-political tension are used for the practical optimization of the life spheres of today’s society. That is why it seems very topical to carry out research aimed at the development of methods how to analyze and evaluate various aspects of socio-political tension including those formed by integrating methods from different scientific fields. This paper is aimed at a theoretical test of method, a practical test of measuring model and their concerted integration with the mathematical methods and models for the interpretation of research results concerning socio-political tension. The theoretical and practical tests of the suggested method confirm the principal possibility of quantitative assessment of socio-political tension. The research included the test of an integral analysis of tendencies in group political attitude on the basis of the developed method. This method studies emotional, cognitive and behavioral components. This became possible thanks to the concerted integration of socio-psychological research principles, projective techniques and mathematical modeling. The authors propose to call this method a psycho-semantic phenomenological modeling of group political tension.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p73