Value orientations, political orientations and attitudes of non-believers in Slovakia (online vs offline ethnography)

The project aims to analyze value orientations, political orientations, and attitudes towards religion, the church, and human rights issues among non-believers in Slovakia, with a focus on narratives propagated in the online environment.

The main goal of the entire PhD project is to examine the extent to which non-believers in Slovakia can be considered a homogeneous community and to determine how the obtained data will differ depending on the chosen research methods. These methods will include the analysis of online content from selected Facebook pages that gather non-believers, online surveys, and ethnographic interviews. With the progression of the research phases, a higher variability in the obtained data is expected, and the causes of this variability can be identified through interviews. It can be anticipated that these differences will primarily be due to individual subjective experiences related to socialization processes and identity formation.

This research may thus provide a deeper understanding of the identities of Slovak non-believers, their value and political orientations, and help identify the mechanisms of attitude formation in society. As part of the Doktogrant project, the research over the next year will focus on the analysis, evaluation, and comparison of data obtained from the online environment (module 1 has been already completed) and the interviews.