The author makes an impartial report on the achievements and fails of the government lead by Adrian Nastase over the first year of administration as well as a keen survey on the present difficulties in the Romanian society.
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Keywords: life expectancy; age structure; Moesia Superior
The purpose of this study is to calculate the main demographic parameters (life expectancy and age structure) for the female population of Moesia Superior. These results have been compared to those obtained for the female populations of the Roman Egypt, of Moesia Inferior, of Pannonia Inferior, and of Pannonia Superior. Life expectancy at birth for the female population of Moesia Superior is around 30 years old, similarly with the Danubian provinces, but different from that of Egypt. Young ages are underrepresented, while older ages are overrepresented. It is worth mentioning a preference for rounded ages, present in all the samples made of funerary inscriptions. „Very exact” ages are encountered only in the case of female citizens, except for one female (the daughter of an imperial slave). The attention paid to exact ages appears to have been specific to those with high financial status.
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Keywords: International News Reporting; Foreign Correspondents; Online Journalism; Citizen Media; News Culture
The overall framework of International News Reporting is changing. If, on one hand, the financial contraction inside media companies is encouraging the erosion of basic structural elements – the number of overseas delegations, correspondents and special assignments – on the other, the flourishing of digital networks is not only reconfiguring the socio-professional basis of foreign correspondence, but also having impact on a «morphology of global governance». Departing from this hypothesis, based on a comprehensive literature review, this essay attempts a typology for the modern foreign reporter’s function and culture, confronting it with the contemporary transnational actors in game.
More...Keywords: ecclesiastical patrimony; ecclesiastical goods; canon law; Church property; Constantine the Great
This study adds to the research devoted to the ecclesiastical patrimonial law. In the first part, the study aims to make a few terminology clarifications, relating to the expression “ecclesiastical patrimony”, thereafter continuing with the rationale behind the necessity of the Church to have a patrimony. The second part of the study is about the historical evolution of the patrimony’s acquisitions during the apostolic and post-apostolic periods, when the duty of the Church to consolidate and administer its own patrimony was a rather difficult one because, firstly, of the lack of specific rules, and, secondly, because of persecution against Christians. The edict of Constantine the Great would begin a new era in the life of the Church, allowing it to free itself from the fictitious cover of funereal associations and consolidate its own patrimony, enhanced and protected, in the subsequent years, even through the interventions of Roman emperors.
More...Keywords: epistemological status of pedagogy; phases in pedagogy’s evolution; trends in pedagogical research
Through this study, we propose to analyze the evolution in the field of educational sciences within the academic community of Iaşi, during the communist period and after fall of this regime in 1990. We try to capture the difficulties encountered in pedagogy as a research area and academic discipline, changes in its epistemological status, resulted from political interferences in academic life. We also analyse the attempts and efforts to keep the existing traditions in research, in conjunction with the openness for other directions and trends that reflect the evolution of education and research in this field worldwide. Through these efforts, educational sciences could enter after 1990 a process of reconstruction and questioning of scientific language, of recovering certain traditions abandoned, and diversifying its research directions.
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Keywords: focus group;pastoral approach;migrant crisis
The article gives an opportunity to look at the application of the method of focus groups in the formation of pastoral approach. It highlights progress and development of research through focus groups. Further, it aims at clarifying the approaches of pastoral workers and finally points out the challenges for future pastoral work. The article is divided to five parts – introduction, description of the methodology of work, examples of work with two groups, assessments and conclusions of the challenges.
More...Keywords: translator; technique; risks; opportunities; market
In a world in which the informational technology develops faster and faster, offering the user viable solutions for most of the problems, no matter the domain of interest, the issue of the systems of translation assisted by the computer is more and more complex, underlining both advantages and disadvantages. If in the favour of the process of translation assisted by the computer we have the rapidity of obtaining a result, at the other pole we have the lack of reliability of such a translation. This is why, we still have to weigh the risks and opportunities that the modern technique of translation assisted by the computer underlines and the effects that it has on the profile of the professional translator, of his practices and on the translation market.
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Keywords: style; political discourse; inclusiveness; exclusiveness; vagueness
A politician’s discourse is shaped by both the ideological position of his party as well as his views of the world and his style interpreted as a way of being. Styles reveal identities and, in their turn, identities influence the political discourse, making it more accessible, more in tune with the position of the general public or more abstract, more remote. As a politician, Tony Blair has carved a particular style, an interesting mix of features that aims to, and often seems to reveal both the public individual and the private person. Unlike Margaret Thatcher who, in her own words, was a conviction politician, Blair claimed to be a consensus politician, able to bring together both Left Wing and RightWing values in a discourse of reconciling themes.
More...Keywords: Serbia; King Alexander of Yugoslavia; King Peter II of Yugoslavia; Princess Maria of Romania; Princess Mignon; Queen Maria of Yugoslavia
A modest and apparently unassuming personality, Mignon faced with great dignity both personal tragedy and the misfortunes of her native and adoptive countries during the two world conflagrations of the twentieth century. Today old Yugoslavia does not exist anymore, it has been replaced by several independent states, but the admiration for Mignon still continues among many people.
More...Keywords: age rounding;Moesia Inferior;legal status;
The study overall concerns the age-rounding process in the Latin inscriptions, which has triggered the interest of the researchers starting with the 19th century. The first part of this study deals with the age-rounding process in the province of Moesia Inferior, by comparing the data with those provided for other Lower Danube provinces, differentiated on gender. The second part of this study presents the age-rounding process depending on the legal status of the deceased by using Whipple’s Index. The values of age rounding are close to those obtained for the other Lower Danube provinces. It is worth mentioning that there are more ages ending in 0 and 5 than in other digits. Concerning the legal status, the age-rounding process is less accentuated in the case of citizens and militaries.
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Keywords: politeness; face management; motivation; intercultural communication; managerial communication.
This report summarizes the main ideas of the four papers presented at the first section of the conference “Politeness in the public sphere”, Cluj-Napoca, 2017.
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Keywords: culture; intercultural communication; education; inequalities; cultural code; diversity;
As the main means of reflecting national identity, the cultural capital of a society encompasses that cumulus of values, symbols behavioral and thinking norms and aspirations as they have been accumulated and assimilated by individuals through the educational processes. Circumscribed to the so-called “cultural code”, these features can have both positive and negative effects on intercultural communication and this is precisely what we will pursue through an analysis based on a sociological inquiry by survey, conducted on a sample of Romanian and foreign students belonging to different cultural and linguistic spaces and enrolled in the preparatory year at the Ştefan cel Mare University. The paper will therefore emphasize the necessity of the thoroughgoing study of the inequalities that are generated by the subjective perception of reality and education’s role in homogenizing them.
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Keywords: Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt; General Psychopathology; Karl Jaspers; Madness; Next to Normal; Psychopathology;
A great number of analyses have already been devoted to the study of the concept of madness but none has ever used Karl Jaspers' psychopathological notion of insanity as a touchstone to examine prominent literary works. The present investigation aims to portray the manifestation of madness in Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal. Applying the eclectic perspective of Karl Jaspers which bridges the gap between empirical and interpretive psychiatry, this research will examine the enigmatic nature of mental illness in postmodern era. Jaspers' book, General Psychopathology includes a tentative classification of mental disorders which will be used to look at this particular work of art from his perspective, offering a standpoint which is equally person-centered and science-based.
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Keywords: anthropocene; waste; waste-plants; Center for Living Things; mosses; lichen; polimers; habitats; post-human;
The Center for the Living Things is a research institute founded in 2016 in order to examine, collect and popularise knowledge concerning new non-human forms: plants, lichen, fungi and insects. All exhibits gathered in the Institute’s collection are abandoned objects, used commodities and those no longer needed – the debris of human overproduction, which has become the natural environment for many living organisms. Specimens were found in an illegal waste dumping site, where man-derived objects and plant tissues mix. These hybrids of plants and artificial objects are difficult to classify, as they are simultaneously animate and inanimate. Exhibits collected in the Center for the Living Things cannot be classified conventionally. Recently, waste has taken over behaviours from living matter. In the process of overproduction, the incessant need to constantly update the goods we possess is the reason why most of these unnecessary products seem to be out of our control. The Center for the Living Things aims to describe mechanisms appearing in the sphere of rejection and uselessness. In this sphere, products are no longer tools used by people. Products participate in almost every process that occurs in the biosphere, hence we cannot definitively separate economic or social processes from so-called natural processes. The Center aims to draw attention to these processes, seek connections and possible alternatives. Specimens are stored and cultivated in an ever-expanding collection at Poznań’s Botanical Gardens. This institution also organises also houses temporary exhibitions, presentations and workshops. Work is underway on an edition of the ‚Atlas of Waste-plants’ to appear at the end of 2019. More information and a digital version of the Institute’s collection can be found at: www.centerforlivingthings.com.
More...Keywords: ethics; morality; social and ethical culture; moral duty; hydraulic fracturing/fracking; corporate conduct; health; life; wisdom;
Undoubtedly, the advancement of technique and technology represents one of the most important paths of human progress. It is not the place to stress the great value technologies have meant throughout the history of civilization on Terra, especially in its 20th century growth, connected with the „Second Industrial Revolution‟ followed by the „digital revolution‟, on which the so-called „Fourth Industrial Revolution‟ is now building. Unfortunately, there are plenty of examples of human using of a good thing not for good purposes, but on the contrary causing major destruction and suffering on long-term. This kind of situations emphasizes a lack of responsibility and of minimal wisdom, care and respect for life in its integrality. Beyond all, at stake there is a serious problem of morality. We refer to the ignorance of ethical problems by some corporate organizations in our globalizing world, having a great negative impact for the planet and its various any life-forms. Part of nowadays multinational companies proves disdain as regards basic moral duties and social responsibilities, even though they display impressive codes of conduct, which remain just emptied formulas of applicability in real life. It is the case of the serious risks and dangers that the technique known as hydraulic fracturing or „fracking‟ produces for the medium to long-term evolution of life in its plenitude on Earth. In this paper we try to highlight the need of a veritable ethical culture to be appropriated and activated by all the social actors and, also, the significance of moral awakeness in making people to act for their own fundamental rights. We focus on the importance of working together on the side of „good and right‟, using the potential of moral philosophy towards an efficient, healthy and secure interference with economics, ecology, social culture, etc., to protecting and developing the wellness and sustainability of life, of natural environment and of human well-being finally.
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Keywords: Orthodox diaspora; mixed marriages; jurisdiction-territory; ethnophyletism; eikonomia, akribeia;
The reasons why a diaspora appears are similar throughout human history. People are ontologically the same, and the social, cultural, and religious context in which these great migrations take place is often similar. We can identify distinct elements and mutual lessons that help us to understand these events much better, to prevent them by noticing the causes in time, and to learn from these lessons of past and present history. The present study focuses, on the one hand, on the effects that the phenomenon of migration has had on the Orthodox diaspora, especially given the religious and social impact of life that today's Orthodox have among foreigners, being far from their national, religious and cultural center. The diaspora is essentially experiencing a revitalization of the faith in a foreign country and among people professing foreign beliefs. Thus, in the Church, all nationalist nostalgia should be overcome, because the Church is a foreshadowing of the Kingdom, where there is neither Greek nor Jew [...] because we are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:28). Thus, wherever we live, we are always in the‟diaspora”, even within the boundaries drawn by our forerunners, in the land they inhabited. On the other hand, the present research also deals with the issue of mixed marriages. The issue urged the Orthodox to look beyond the canonical perspective of impediments to marriage and to focus on more urgent issues that require attention, namely the liturgical, pastoral and ecumenical aspects of mixed marriages. However, given the ethnic and cultural diversity in which the Orthodox Church carries out its mission in the world today, we should not be surprised that each Orthodox Church has applied and continues to apply the principles of canonical eikonomia and akribeia to mixed marriages in a non unitary manner.
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Keywords: Stephen the Great; 15th century; Sima Boldur; high magistrate; genealogical completion;
Sima Boldur was one of Stefan cel Mare’s most famous boyars. In 1486 he was the treasurer of the princely council, and he had held this position until 1491. In the autumn of the same year, he became vornic (the chief of the princely army), a position that he had covered until near the end of Stefan’s reign. The 15th of October is the date when his last presence in the princely council is recorded; most probably, he dies afterwards.
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Keywords: culture; interculturality; intercultural education; Intercultural conflicts;
Promoting an intercultural perspective in education must rely on a certain vision upon society. Given the special significance in educational approaches, the intercultural approach is a new way of designing and implementing the school curriculum and a new relational attitude among teachers, students and parents. The intercultural perspective opens new avenues for the manifestation of diversity and differences. Intercultural positioning is not reduced to a cumulative presentation of knowledge about the values of others, but it means cultivating attitudes of respect and openness to diversity. This attitude is born through a permanent communication with others and through a careful and optimal decentralization towards one’s own cultural norms. Therefore, the management of the intercultural conflicts made in the context of school learning experiences must be related to the dynamic perspective on the changes that characterize the educational reality in terms of educational innovation. As a consequence, a pertinent analysis of this phenomenon is required, in order to bring the necessary restructuring in order to optimize school activity and prevent conflict management between students belonging to different cultures, being known the fact that the more elaborate the interaction, the more effective and productive it becomes.
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