The Image of Serbia in Russian Society: Results of a Survey of Moscow Students

Abstract

The article presents the results of an evaluating sociological study aimed to identify the main social stereotypes that young Russian people have concerning the Serbs and Serbia - a country that historically has long-standing friendly relations with Russia. In the past decades, Serbia has been often mentioned in the Russian press, mostly in the context of several key discourses (the Orthodox religion as a common foundation of the culture of our two countries, the unsolved ethnic and territorial conflicts, the confrontation of pro- and anti-Western views in the political sphere), which allow us to assume that Russian students have mature social ideas of Serbia, though not of high importance.

Keywords

• социальные стереотипы
• опросный инструментарий
• собирательный образ страны-соседа
• образ типичного представителя другой страны