TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Actual View of Russian and German Students on Innovations, Economic Growth and Welfare
AU - Alekseeva, Ekaterina Mikhailovna AU - Abdulganeeva, Irina Igorevna 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 15
SP  - 3707
EP  - 3711
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.3707.3711
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.3707.3711
KW  - Association
KW  -representation
KW  -innovation
KW  -economic growth
KW  -welfare
AB  - The relevance of the investigated problem lies in the increasing role of innovation as a factor of welfare growth and sustainability of socio-economic development in each country. The purpose of the study is to describe the current state of significant economic and social concepts in the associative respect. The leading method used in the study of this problem was an associative experiment in order to reveal free associations to the concepts of “innovation”, “growth” and “welfare”of Russian and German students. This article introduces and discusses the results of the conducted cross-cultural associative experiment. The “innovation”, “economic growth” and “welfare” concepts have a wide range of associations given by the respondents. Within the associative field there are core associations, typical for 22.5-56.5% of the respondents and the side associations (from 64-70 of lexical units). The study makes a contribution to studying language and mental representations of economic and social concepts and can be useful for teaching sociology, cultural science and concept studies.
ER  -