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townships, Marabadaisy, Union University, South Africa
One apartheid SA township that revolted, the Sharpeville black township, is compared to one that
did not, the Bridgetown Coloureds township, in order to examine the causes of violent resistance.
This structure focused comparative method (Tiedens, 1997) illuminated problems with previous
explanation for revolt and nonrevolt in similar ghettos. Specifically, it appears that these two
townships differed in their perception about their future. The residents of Sharpeville believed they
had no hope of survival and minority whites will never respect them while Bridgetown Coloureds
remained optimistic and embraced whites. These differing perceptions seem to have led to the
different outcomes.
4028.82 Educational advisor in the Ministry of Education, Thaveevat Boonchit, National
Research Council of Thailand, Thailand
Home and school democratic experiences, together with some psychological characteristics were
studied to find their contributions to the development of democratic behaviors of 2,403 high
school students in Thailand. [Three-way Analysis of Variance and Multiple Regression Analysis
were performed on the data.] Social perspective taking, love oriented child-rearing practice and
moral reasoning ability were the 3 most important predicators of democratic behavior, together
with 7 other variables could account for 46.3 % of the variance. Males and students in Bangkok
were at-risk groups and recommendations for interventions were offered.
4028.83 Predictors of electoral abstention in Croatia, Vesna Lamza Posavec, Institute of Social
Sciences "Ivo Pilar", Croatia
Aim of this research was to determine demographic, psychological and social predictors of
abstention during parliamentary elections in Croatia. Data were gathered in pre-election survey in
2003 on Croatian representative sample (N=1225). In comparison to those who vote, abstinents
are mostly older, less educated, less interested in politics, and less satisfied with political and
social situation in the country. According to selected predictors, abstinents are not homogenous
category. Within them, two different groups can be identified: one that generally avoids elections,
and other that is motivated by current electoral offer and evaluation of political and social situation
in the country.
4028.84 Quantitative analysis between neogotiatiors’ backgrounds, Yun Xia 1 , Yuan Shen 2 ,
Yong-Chang Liu 1 , Xiao-Hong Tan 2 , Jia-Li Feng 3 , 1 Experimental Base of United Creation,
Shanghai Maritime University, China; 2 Shanghai Maritime University, China
The benefits from both negotiators are definitely influenced by similar and different backgrounds,
for example, location of geography, economics, politics, culture, etc. We analyze four states of
negotiators’ backgrounds: 1 if some attributions to their background are similar, there will be same
for their benefits; 2 if the conditions like 1, their benefits will be conflicting; 3 if some attributions
are different, their benefits will be not only same, but complementary; 4 if the conditions like 3,
their benefits will be conflicting. The weight of every attribution can be adjusted by the software
and quantitative analysis approaches the reality.
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