| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the social distance score card as a teaching device. Social distance is a term frequently found in modern sociological literature. It has a technical value in that it signifies a distribution or division of attitudes upon matters of social concern. Also, by implication, it suggests a methodology of measuring the range of distribution or the width of diversion of these attitudes. In practice, individuals or groups disagreeing, record the magnitude of their disagreement by the extremities to which they will extend themselves in acts of conflict, such acts may vary all the way from very mild disapproval to the bitterest of warfare or other more subtle forms of conflict. However, when conflict is outwardly visible, the observer may infer rather accurately something of the distance that intervenes between the attitudes of the contestants. Certain modern students of sociology, stimulated by the progress of testing and measurement in the contemporary field of education and desirous of evolving similar quantitative methods of measuring social attitudes, are bringing forward a variety of attitudinal tests. Some of these tests purport to measure individual or group attitudes upon a varying number of items. |
