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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">21094</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2019-19-2-203-211</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Sociology in Serbia</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Социология в Сербии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Ethnic distance among the students of Serbia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Этническая дистанция студентов Сербии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Šuvaković</surname><given-names>U</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шувакович</surname><given-names>Урош</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>-</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор социологии, профессор кафедры философии и социальных наук факультета обучения преподавателей в Белградском университете; член-корреспондент Сербской академии образования</p></bio><email>uros.suvakovic@uf.bg.ac.rs</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Belgrade</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Белградский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2019-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>19</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 19, NO2 (2019)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 19, №2 (2019)</issue-title><fpage>203</fpage><lpage>211</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2019-05-16"><day>16</day><month>05</month><year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2019, Šuvaković U.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2019, Шувакович У.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Šuvaković U.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Шувакович У.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/21094">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/21094</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Аbstract. The paper presents the results of the research aimed at identifying changes in ethnic distance among the students of Serbia. The starting point of the study was the author’s belief that ethnic distance is a good indicator of inter-ethnic relations in multi-nation society and an indicator of conflict potential, and that ethnic distance is more stable provided social stability and open society. Ethnic distance was studied in the longitude project among Serbian students at the University in Kosovska Mitrovica five times in 2009-2016, twice - among the students in Belgrade (2010, 2014), and once among the Albanian students in Priština (December 2016 - January 2017) based on the modified Bogardus scale, a part of the questionnaire in the students’ native language and a number of surveys. The paper presents the results of the measurements of values constituting ethnic distance. The data reveal that the largest ethnic distance among Serbian students in Belgrade and in Kosovska Mitrovica was with the Albanians, while the smallest ethnic distance - with the Russians and Greeks. Among the Albanian students, the largest ethnic distance was with the Serbs, Romani and Russians, while the smallest -with the Americans and English. Certainly, the explanation should take into account the relations of these nations and official policies of their states including the self-proclamation of “Kosovo independence”, and also the positions of these nations in the period of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, wars in the former Yugoslav states and the NATO aggression on Serbia. At the same time, the ethnic distances are extremely large in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, however, with a tendency of decline among the Serbs. During the research in 2016 - the beginning of 2017, the values of ethnic distance of the Serbian students from Kosovska Mitrovica to the Albanians and of the Albanian students from Priština to the Serbs were practically the same, especially the leading values of ethnic distance. When explaining the large ethnic distance with the Romani, it is necessary to remember about their social marginalization.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье представлены результаты исследования, целью которого было выявление и объяснение изменений этнической дистанции у студентов Сербии. Отправной точкой проекта было убеждение автора, что этническая дистанция - хороший индикатор межэтнических отношений в любом многонациональном обществе, а также индикатор накопившегося в нем конфликтного потенциала, потому что этническая дистанция наиболее устойчива в обществах, которые можно уверенно квалифицировать как открытые и социально стабильные. Этническая дистанция была эмпирически изучена в ходе лонгитюдного проекта: было проведено пять ее замеров среди сербских студентов Университета Косовской Митровицы (2009-2016), два замера - среди студентов Белграда (2010, 2014) и один замер - среди албанских студентов Приштины (декабрь 2016 - январь 2017). Все опросы были основаны на шкале социальной дистанции Богардуса, часть опросника предлагалась студентам на их родном языке, и была реализована целая серия опросов. В статье представлены результаты измерения ценностей, задающих этническую дистанцию. Согласно полученным данным, наибольшая этническая дистанция наблюдается у сербских студентов Белграда и Косовской Митровицы по отношению к албанцам, тогда как наименьшая - с русскими и греками. Напротив, албанские студенты демонстрируют наибольшую этническую дистанцию по отношению к сербам, цыганам и русским, а наименьшую - к американцам и англичанам. Безусловно, для объяснения этих данных необходимо учитывать взаимоотношения государств и их официальную политику, особенно оценку ими самопровозглашенной независимости Косово и агрессии НАТО против Сербии, а также их позиции в годы распада Югославии и войн между бывшими югославскими республиками. Следует отметить крайне большую этническую дистанцию в Косово и Метохии, однако с тенденцией ее снижения у сербских студентов. Так, опрос в конце 2016 - начале 2017 года показал, что ценности, задающие этническую дистанцию у сербских студентов Косовской Митровицы по отношению к албанцам, а также у албанских студентов Приштины по отношению к сербам, оказались предельно схожими, особенно наиболее частотные. Когда речь заходит о значительной этнической дистанции по отношению к цыганам в Сербии, то необходимо помнить об их социальной маргинализации.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>ethnic distance</kwd><kwd>Serbia</kwd><kwd>Kosovo and Metohija</kwd><kwd>students</kwd><kwd>surveys</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>этническая дистанция</kwd><kwd>Сербия</kwd><kwd>Косово и Метохия</kwd><kwd>студенты</kwd><kwd>опросы</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The research is a part of the scientific project III 47023 “Kosovo and Metohija Between National Identity and Euro-integrations” financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование является частью научного проекта III 47023 «Косово и Метохия между национальной идентичностью и евроинтеграцией», реализованного при финансовой поддержке Министерства образования, науки и технологического развития Республики Сербия.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Asylum in the EU in the first quarter of 2015: 185,000 first time asylum seekers in the EU in the first quarter of 2015 - half are Kosovars, Syrians or Afghans. http://ec.europa.eu/ eurostat/documents/2995521/6887997/3-18062015-CP-EN.pdf/4457b050-26f9-4cf1-bf27-9ffb73ff8c7b 28.02.2016.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Baćević Lj. 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