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View article: The climate gluing protests: analyzing their development and framing in media since 1986 using sentiment analyses and frame detection models
The climate gluing protests: analyzing their development and framing in media since 1986 using sentiment analyses and frame detection models Open
Recent climate-related protests by social movements such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil , and others have included actions like defacing artwork and gluing oneself to objects and streets. Using sentiment analysis and frame detectio…
View article: Generalized trust as a foundation for online trust: findings from Austria, Greece, Poland, the Philippines, and South Africa
Generalized trust as a foundation for online trust: findings from Austria, Greece, Poland, the Philippines, and South Africa Open
In this paper, we examine the relationship between generalized trust and online trust to assess whether the latter is a distinct phenomenon or an extension of the former. For this purpose, we provide an overview of different approaches dev…
View article: Trust, social movements, and the state
Trust, social movements, and the state Open
A large literature has developed around the concept of political trust, but what exactly political trust is remains ambiguous. Some studies present it as a narrower evaluation of the current government’s performance, while others treat it …
View article: FrameFinder: Explorative Multi-Perspective Framing Extraction from News Headlines
FrameFinder: Explorative Multi-Perspective Framing Extraction from News Headlines Open
Revealing the framing of news articles is an important yet neglected task in\ninformation seeking and retrieval. In the present work, we present FrameFinder,\nan open tool for extracting and analyzing frames in textual data. FrameFinder\nv…
View article: Framing Analysis of Health-Related Narratives: Conspiracy versus Mainstream Media
Framing Analysis of Health-Related Narratives: Conspiracy versus Mainstream Media Open
Understanding how online media frame issues is crucial due to their impact on public opinion. Research on framing using natural language processing techniques mainly focuses on specific content features in messages and neglects their narra…
View article: The Social Impact of the Steel Industry in Belgium, China, and the United States: A Social Lifecycle Assessment (s-LCA)-Based Assessment of the Replacement of Fossil Coal with Waste Wood
The Social Impact of the Steel Industry in Belgium, China, and the United States: A Social Lifecycle Assessment (s-LCA)-Based Assessment of the Replacement of Fossil Coal with Waste Wood Open
This paper compares the social impact of the steel industry in Belgium, China, and the United States as well as the effects of substituting fossil coal with waste wood following the social Lifecycle Assessment (s-LCA) principles defined by…
View article: The Perception of Social Inequality Around the Globe. Editorial Introduction to the 2019 ISSP Social Inequality Module and Selected Country-Level Findings
The Perception of Social Inequality Around the Globe. Editorial Introduction to the 2019 ISSP Social Inequality Module and Selected Country-Level Findings Open
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) recently released the 5th survey on the perception of social inequalities. The data was collected in more than 30 countries around the globe. This introduction offers an overview of the subs…
View article: Dynamics and landscape of academic discourse on environmental attitudes and behaviors since the 1970s
Dynamics and landscape of academic discourse on environmental attitudes and behaviors since the 1970s Open
Introduction This study addresses the lack of systematic review and analysis of the academic discourse on environmental attitudes and behaviors. Despite the wealth of knowledge published in academic journals, there is a need to understand …
View article: Changes in attitudes toward inequality and social justice in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia: historical legacies, social pasts and recent developments
Changes in attitudes toward inequality and social justice in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia: historical legacies, social pasts and recent developments Open
This article presents new findings on the perception of social justice in a country comparison of Austria with its three post-socialist neighboring countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The analysis considers both, changes …
View article: The Centrality of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Work Commitment and Work Orientation in Present-Day Societies
The Centrality of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Work Commitment and Work Orientation in Present-Day Societies Open
This paper aims to comprehensively examine the effects of societal and individual characteristics on work-related attitudes, specifically work commitment and work orientations, using a single dataset and comparable models. It also seeks to…
View article: Polarized opinions on Covid-19 and environmental policy measures. The role of social media use and personal concerns in German-speaking countries.
Polarized opinions on Covid-19 and environmental policy measures. The role of social media use and personal concerns in German-speaking countries. Open
The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis are polarizing people's opinions worldwide, particularly with regard to restrictive policy measures. We examine the effects of social media use and personal concerns on opinions toward selected …
View article: Combining Survey and Social Media Data: Respondents' Opinions on COVID-19 Measures and Their Willingness to Provide Their Social Media Account Information
Combining Survey and Social Media Data: Respondents' Opinions on COVID-19 Measures and Their Willingness to Provide Their Social Media Account Information Open
Research on combining social survey responses and social media posts has shown that the willingness to share social media accounts in surveys depends on the mode of the survey and certain socio-demographics of the respondents. We add new i…
View article: Social Desirability and the Willingness to Provide Social Media Accounts in Surveys. The Case of Environmental Attitudes
Social Desirability and the Willingness to Provide Social Media Accounts in Surveys. The Case of Environmental Attitudes Open
This paper contributes to the research on combining public opinion surveys and social media data by a) analyzing the effects of social desirability on the willingness to provide social media account information in surveys, and b) evaluatin…
View article: Sustainability trade-offs in the steel industry – A MRIO-based social impact assessment of bio-economy innovations in a belgian steel mill
Sustainability trade-offs in the steel industry – A MRIO-based social impact assessment of bio-economy innovations in a belgian steel mill Open
Current developments show that the true magnitude of global sustainability problems is often underestimated. In order to tackle these global problems, fundamental changes in consumption and production processes are needed. The steel indust…
View article: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the willingness to sacrifice for the environment: The Austrian case
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the willingness to sacrifice for the environment: The Austrian case Open
Previous analyses of environmentally conscious intentions showed that the willingness to sacrifice for the environment decreased during the COVID-19 crisis in Austria. There is a large body of empirical research and theoretical models deal…
View article: Measuring Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
Measuring Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors Open
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical approaches to environmental attitudes and behaviors. It includes a discussion of different scales and surveys used in other programs with a focus on this topic. Scales measuring general …
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This introduction offers an overview of our research approach, discusses the connection between sociology and climate research, and presents our two research aims. In substantive terms, we address the question of which behaviors are of cli…
View article: The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles
The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles Open
This chapter enhances the previous understanding of Energy Lifestyles by identifying groups with distinct patterns of energy behavior across six areas of life. In contrast to most previous studies, the identification of groups is exclusive…
View article: Life-Areas and How to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints
Life-Areas and How to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints Open
To enjoy a fulfilling life, a person needs six fundamental life requirements to be met. These six requirements or “life-areas” are housing, mobility, consumption of goods (e.g., clothing), diet, other activities (entertainment), and inform…
View article: Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior
Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior Open
This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do …
View article: Obstacles to Lower Environmental Impact in Low-Cost Behaviors
Obstacles to Lower Environmental Impact in Low-Cost Behaviors Open
This chapter focuses on the question of why environmentally conscious individuals find it difficult to behave in a correspondingly eco-friendly way. This phenomenon is referred to in the literature as the “value-action gap.” In this study,…
View article: Estimating and Explaining the Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Estimating and Explaining the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Open
This chapter starts with an overview of the current national emission figures for Austria. Subsequently, the emissions of our respondents are presented in detail and contrasted with the number of national emissions. Since one goal of the s…
View article: The Development of the Questionnaire
The Development of the Questionnaire Open
This chapter presents the development of the survey in the underlying study in this book, a description of our sample, and the results of the validation efforts. Our survey includes variations of existing scales which have been used to mea…
View article: International Outlook and Conclusions
International Outlook and Conclusions Open
The final chapter of this book summarizes the main insights from previous chapters and tests whether our approach is also applicable at an international level. Our international outlook shows that the five survey items, which capture more …
View article: Values in Crisis Austria – Wave 1 and Wave 2 combined (SUF edition)
Values in Crisis Austria – Wave 1 and Wave 2 combined (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to various Online-Panel studies to study the social effects of the crisis. The Values in Crisis study stands out in three central aspects. First, it offers a differentiated per…
View article: Polarization in public opinion: Combining social surveys and big data analyses of Twitter (SUF Edition)
Polarization in public opinion: Combining social surveys and big data analyses of Twitter (SUF Edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. Our research aims to measure polarization in public opinion, combining two state-of-the-art approaches in measuring opinion - survey research and big data analytics of social media. We focus on the topic of…
View article: Values in Crisis International (SUF edition)
Values in Crisis International (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 crisis is manifold and poses major health, economic and social challenges for current societies. Long-term monitoring of central values and attitudes of citizens in times of crises help to gras…
View article: CO2-relevant environmental behaviour (SUF edition)
CO2-relevant environmental behaviour (SUF edition) Open
Full edition for scientific use. In the Paris Climate Agreement, Austria committed itself to dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the upcoming decades. Currently, in research, such emissions are mainly recorded on a national l…