Logical and practical difficulties of multidimensional scaling of religiosity
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Babich N.S., Khomenko V.I. Logical and practical difficulties of multidimensional scaling of religiosity. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 2013. No. 2. P. С. 89-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2013.2.384 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article is dedicated to analysis of difficulties arising from applying multidimensional approach to religiosity. Those difficulties are divided into logical and practical ones. Logical difficulties are connected with the absence of clear base (self-evident, theoretical or empirical) prescribing the usage of one set of scales or another and the framework of such usage. Practical difficulties are explained in context of social research practice where multidimensional scaling of religiosity is eventually non-applicable nowadays. Conclusion made regards the advantage of unidimensional measurement.
Keywords:
religiosity, scaling, measurement
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Folkner D., De Iong G. Religioznost' v pyati izmereniyakh: empiricheskii analiz. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya. 2011. No. 12. P. 69–76. (In Russ.)
Bishop A.J., Martin P., Courtenay B., Poon L., Johnson M.A. Evaluation of the religiosity in 5-D Scale. Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging. 2007. No. 2. P. 87–105.
Clayton R.R. 5-D or 1?. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 1971. Vol. 10. No. 1. P. 37–40.
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Fetzer Institute & National Institute on Aging Working Group. Multidimensional measurement of religiousness/spirituality for use in health research. Kalamazoo, MI: Fetzer Institute, 2003.
Glock C. On the study of religious commitment. Religious Education. 1962. Supplement 4. P. 98–110.
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Idler E.L., Musick M.A., Ellison C.G., George L.K., Krause N., Ory M.G., Pargament K.I., Powell L.H., Underwood L.G., Williams D.R. Measuring multiple dimensions of religion and spirituality for health research conceptual background and findings from the 1998 general social survey. Research on Aging. 2003. No. 4. P. 327–365.
Stark R., Bainbridge W.S. A theory of religion. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Stark R., Glock C.Y. American piety: The nature of religious commitment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
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Babich, N.S. and Khomenko, V.I. 2013. Logical and practical difficulties of multidimensional scaling of religiosity. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 2 (Jan. 2013), С. 89-96. DOI:https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2013.2.384.
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