Toward Studies of Giftedness

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Author(s): Bronislava Grigaitė,Jurga Misiūnienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: protinis brandumas mokyklai; dėmesio intensyvumas; koncentracija ir perkėlimas; mental maturity for learning at school; intensity; concentration and displacement of attentions

Problema. Mokyklinės veiklos sėkmė priklauso nuo kognityvinių procesų išsivystymo lygio. Sėkmingas perėjimas nuo ikimokyklinės veiklos prie kokybiškai kitokios mokyklinės veiklos priklauso nuo protinio pradedančių lankyti mokyklą vaikų brandumo. Pradinėse klasėse mokymosi veiklos sėkmei svarbūs dėmesio raidos ypatumai. Tikslai. 1) Protinio brandumo mokyklai tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti vaikų protinio brandumo mokyklai lygį skirtingose ugdymo sąlygose; 2) dėmesio ypatumų tyrimo tikslas – analizuoti dėmesio ypatumus pradiniame mokykliniame amžiuje. Metodika. 1) Kontroliuojamo piešimo stebėjimo metodika; 2) juodų-raudonų skaičių lentelės metodika bei mokytojų apklausa. Tyrimuose dalyvavo 221 tiriamasis (60 parengiamojo mokyklai ir 161 pradinio mokyklinio amžiaus vaikų). Rezultatai. Protinis brandumo lygis priklausomai nuo ugdymo turinio nesiskiria. Ugdymo turinys yra susijęs su vaikų sugebėjimu susikaupti ir dirbti savarankiškai, o šios tiriamųjų elgesio ypatybės su jų protinio brandumo lygiu. Protinio brandumo lygis nepriklauso nuo tiriamųjų lyties ar motyvacijos lankyti mokyklą, tačiau mergaičių ir berniukų motyvacija skiriasi. Parengiamojo amžiaus vaikams daugiausiai sunkumų kelia instrukcijos įsiminimas ir vykdymas. Dėmesio intensyvumas, koncentracija ir perkėlimas, sugebėjimas atsiriboti nuo pašalinių stimulų bei išklausyti ir laikytis žodinės instrukcijos pradiniame mokykliniame amžiuje patikimai priklauso nuo amžiaus. Background. This article presents the results of two studies related to successful learning at school. Successful passing from pre-school to school activities depends on the mental maturity of children. Peculiarity of the development of the attention is important to successful learning at primary school. Aims and methods. The first study was aimed for evaluation of differences of learning different educational contents, and the Control Drawing Observation method was used. The second study had the aim to investigate the characteristics of attention of primary schoolchildren using the Black-Red Numbers Table method and interview with teachers. Results. Pupils learning different educational contents had the same mental maturity levels. But higher mental maturity level was related to concentration ability and work self-sustaining. There were found no gender or school motivation relationship with mental maturity, but girls and boys differed in school motivation. The main problems for pre-schoolaged children were related to the memorization and carrying out of instructions. It was found that intensity, concentration and displacement of attention and both ability to stand from the outside stimulus and the ability to listen and follow verbal instructions were significantly related to respondents’ age. The intensity and concentration was also related to the level of progressiveness at school. The results didn’t confirm the hypothesis that concentration of attention is related to the educational content.

Personal and Situational Factors as The Predictors of Risk Taking Propensity in the Sample of Lithuanian Students

Personal and Situational Factors as The Predictors of Risk Taking Propensity in the Sample of Lithuanian Students

Author(s): Auksė Endriulaitienė,Vaclovas Martišius / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: dispositional and behavioral risk-taking propensity; personality traits; risk type; polinkis rizikuoti; asmenybės bruožai; rizikos rūšis

Background, purpose. The current study is based on the combination of situational and individual approaches to risk propensity through consideration of individual responses to different risk domains. The main goal of the investigation is to find out the interaction between several personality and situation factors as the predictors of students’ risk-taking propensity, measured as a complex phenomenon – dispositional and behavioural. Material and methods. In order to investigate the relationship between gender, extraversion, emotional stability, social desirability, rigidity, and risk-taking propensity we sampled 253 students from two Lithuanian universities. Each participant was asked to complete a questionnaire, which consisted of socio-demographic information, Eysenck’s personality questionnaire, two risk-taking propensity measures (dispositional and behavioural) – Kogan and Wallach’s Choice Dilemma Questionnaire and behavioural risk-taking scale. Results. Results revealed that dispositional risk-taking propensity was higher among the students with higher extraversion and higher rigidity, but neuroticism, as well as social desirability, was not associated with dispositional risk-taking propensity. Students with higher levels of extraversion and rigidity and with lower levels of social desirability were more prone to behavioural risk-taking. Gender differences as well as the differences in health, monetary, ethical and social risk areas were discussed. Mokslinė problema, tikslas. Šiame tyrime buvo remiamasi teoriniu požiūriu, kad situaciniai ir asmeniniai veiksniai sąveikauja nulemdami asmens polinkį rizikuoti ir kad žmonės vienoje rizikos srityje gali būti linkę rizikuoti, tuo tarpu kitoje rizikos srityje jie gali vengti rizikos. Pagrindinis tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti sąveiką tarp keleto asmenybės bei situacijos veiksnių, kurie padeda numatyti studentų polinkį rizikuoti, vertinamą kompleksiškai – kaip asmenybės vidinę dispoziciją bei tam tikrą elgesio būdą. Metodai. Tyrime dalyvavo 253 studentai iš dviejų Lietuvos universitetų, kurie pildė klausimyną, susidedantį iš sociodemografinių klausimų, Aizenko asmenybės klausimyno, Kogan ir Wallach (1964) Pasirinkimo dilemų klausimyno bei polinkio rizikingai elgtis skalės. Rezultatai. Rezultatai atskleidė, kad didesniu polinkiu rizikuoti (kaip asmenybės dispozicija) pasižymi studentai, kuriems būdinga labiau išreikšta ekstraversija bei rigidiškumas, tuo tarpu neurotiškumas ir socialinis patrauklumas nebuvo susiję su polinkiu rizikuoti. Studentai, kurie pasižymėjo labiau išreikšta ekstraversija ir frigidiškumu bei mažiau išreikštu socialiniu patrauklumu, buvo labiau linkę rizikuoti, kai polinkis rizikuoti buvo matuojamas kaip išoriškai stebima elgesio charakteristika. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė lyčių skirtumus bei polinkio rizikuoti skirtumus sveikatos, piniginės, etinės bei socialinės rizikos srityse.

The Influence of Transitive Relation Specific Characteristics on Inferences Made by 4 To 6 Year-Old Children

Tranzityvių santykių ypatybių įtaka 4–6 amžiaus vaikų išvadoms

Author(s): Indrė Vaidelienė,Vaclovas Martišius / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: tranzityvios išvados; vizualiniai-erdviniai ir neerdviniai santykiai; ketverių– šešerių metų vaikai; transitive inferences; visual-spatial and non-spatial relations; 4 to 6-year-old children

Problema. Straipsnis nagrinėja mažai tirtą problemą, kaip vaikų tranzityvumo supratimas priklauso nuo tranzityvių santykių ypatybių. Metodika. Pagrindinė tyrimo dalis buvo atlikta pagal P. E. Bryanto ir T. Trabasso (1971) naudotą metodiką. Papildomai vaikų buvo prašoma paaiškinti savo išvadas. Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti tranzityvių santykių pobūdžio įtaką jaunų vaikų (4–6 metų) daromoms išvadoms. Kelta pagrindinė hipotezė, kad 4–6 metų vaikai dažniau teisingai įvertina vizualinio-erdvinio pobūdžio santykius tarp objektų, palyginti su neerdviniais santykiais. Rezultatai. Nustatyta, kad 4–6 metų vaikai daro mažiau klaidų, spręsdami vizualinio-erdvinio pobūdžio užduotis. Neerdvinių santykių užduotys vaikams yra daug sudėtingesnės. Spręsdami neerdvines užduotis, penkerių–šešerių metų vaikai nustato pagal nurodytas savybes objektų hierarchiją, t. y. geba sudaryti rangų skales, Inkaro efektu vaikų sprendimų paaiškinti negalima. Kebliau įvertinti, kas sąlygoja 4 metų vaikų išvadas. Jie dažniau spėja nei penkerių– šešerių metų vaikai.Tačiau teisingų–neteisingų atsakymų proporcijos 4–6 metų grupėse mažai skiriasi. Penkerių–šešerių metų vaikai dažniau nei ketverių aiškina savo atsakymus prasmingais argumentais. Background. The article focuses on an understudied problem regarding the influence of transitive relation specific characteristics on inferences made by 4 to 6 year-old children. Material and methods. The major part of the research has been conducted in accordance with the methodology employed by P. E. Bryant and T. Trabasso (1971). In addition, the children have been asked to explain their inferences. The aim of the study – to establish the influence of transitive relation character on inferences made by young children (aged from 4 to 6 years). The main hypothesis has been stated that 4 to 6 year-old children more frequently response properly when they are given for assessment the relations of visual-spatial character between the targets rather than those of non-spatial character. Results. It has been found that 4 to 6 year-old children make fewer mistakes when solving tasks of visual-spatial character. The tasks of non-spatial character appear to be much more complicated for children. When solving non-spatial tasks, children aged from 5 to 6 determine a hierarchy of targets according to the indicated characteristics, i.e., they manage to compose rankorder scales. Children’s inferences should not be explained by anchoring effect. It is more complicated to evaluate what causes the inferences drawn by 4-year-olds. They guess more frequently than children aged from 5 to 6 years. Still, the proportions of true-false responses in the groups of 4–6 years differ slightly. Children aged from 5 to 6 years explain their inferences making meaningful arguments more frequently than 4-year-olds.

The Review of Effectiveness Factors of Parenting Skills‘ Improving Programs Information

Tėvystės įgūdžių lavinimo programų efektyvumo veiksnių apžvalga

Author(s): Jolita Jonynienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: efektyvumo veiksniai; šeima; tėvystės įgūdžių lavinimo programa; vaikas; effectiveness factors; family; parenting skills‘ improving program; child

Kadangi tėvai susiduria su sunkumais bendraudami su vaiku ir jį auklėdami, jiems reikalingos tėvystės įgūdžių stiprinimo ir lavinimo programos. Mokslinėje ir praktinėje literatūroje galima aptikti įvairių programų, kurios skiriasi teoriniu pagrindu, siekiamais tikslais, tikslinėmis grupėmis, mokymo(si) modeliais ir / ar turiniu. Tai, kuri iš jų susijusi su ryškiausiais pageidaujamais pokyčiais (t. y. kuri efektyviausia), yra vienas dažniausių klausimų, iškylančių tėvams ir pagalbą jiems teikiantiems specialistams. Taigi šio straipsnio tikslas yra apžvelgti svarbiausius tėvystės įgūdžių lavinimo programų efektyvumui įtaką darančius veiksnius. Tyrimo metodu pasirinkta mokslinės literatūros apžvalga ir analizė. Rezultatai ir išvados. Apžvelgus užsienio literatūrą, galima išskirti tris svarbiausias tėvams skirtų programų efektyvumo veiksnių grupes: tai (1) pačios programos ypatumai, (2) dalyvio, jo šeimos charakteristikos ir (3) programą organizuojančio asmens ypatumai. When nowadays‘ parents are confronted with varying difficulties related to communication with children and their nurture, a big need for parenting skills‘ improving programs emerges. Various programs, which differ in theoretical background, purposes, purposive groups, teaching or learning models and / or contents, can be found in scientific and practical literature. One of the most frequent questions for parents and professionals is that which program is related with the most vivid changes in parents, i. e., which is the most effective one. The aim of this paper is to review the most important factors for the effectiveness of parenting skills‘ improving programs. The review and analysis of scientific literature were chosen as a method for this paper. Results and conclusions. Following the foreign scientific literature, three major groups of factors for the effectiveness of parenting skills‘ improving programs were indicated: (1) the peculiarities of the program itself, (2) the characteristics of participant or his family, and (3) the peculiarities of person who organizes meetings for parents.

Editorial Note

Redaktorių žodis

Author(s): Laura Šeibokaitė,Aistė Pranckevičienė / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: redaktorių žodis; editorial

Redaktorių žodis / Editorial Note

The Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents – Primary Psychometric Evaluation of the Lithuanian Version

Priežasčių gyventi klausimynas paaugliams – preliminarus lietuviškosios versijos psichometrinių charakteristikų įvertinimas

Author(s): Aistė Pranckevičienė,Loreta Gustainienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: paauglystė; savižudybė; priežastys gyventi; priežasčių gyventi klausimynas paaugliams; adolescence; suicide; reasons for living; reasons for Living inventory for adolescents

Priežasčių gyventi klausimynas paaugliams (RFL-A, Osman et al., 1998) yra psichologinio įvertinimo instrumentas, skirtas nuo savižudybės saugančių įsitikinimų ir nuostatų tyrimams. Daugelis tyrimų patvirtina RFL-A informatyvumą įvertinant savižudybės riziką, planuojant intervencijas ar prevencinį darbą paauglystėje. Tikslas. Pristatyti RFL-A vertimą į lietuvių kalbą, aptarti pirmines lietuviškosios versijos psichometrines charakteristikas, lyties ir amžiaus skirtumus vertinant priežastis gyventi bei RFL-A sąsajas su paauglių suicidiniais polinkiais ir subjektyviu laimingumu. Metodika. Tyrime analizuojami 348 9–12 klasės mokinių (172 (49 proc.) vaikinai, 176 (51 proc.) merginos) duomenys. Tyrime taikytas RFL-A (Osman et al., 1998), subjektyvi laimės skalė (SHS, Lyubomirski, Lepper, 1999) ir papildomi klausimai apie suicidines mintis ir bandymus žudytis. Rezultatai. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė, kad lietuviškoji RFL-A versija pasižymi dideliu vidiniu suderinamumu. Atskirų RFL-A skalių tarpusavio koreliacijos buvo vidutinės, o su bendruoju RFL-A įverčiu – stiprios. Lietuviškosios RFL-A versijos faktorinė struktūra buvo artima originaliai klausimyno autorių nurodytai struktūrai. RFL-A skalių įverčiai buvo reikšmingai susiję su mintimis apie savižudybę bei laukiama kryptimi koreliavo su subjektyviais paauglių laimingumo vertinimais. Suicidal behavior is one of the leading causes of death during adolescence. Although significant amount of research addresses issues of suicide risk factors, the role of adaptive beliefs and attitudes against suicide is not given adequate attention. The Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (RFL-A) is one of the measures of adaptive attributes that buffer suicidal Behaviour. The aim of this study is to evaluate primary psychometric properties, age and gender trends of Lithuanian RFL-A version. Method. 348 9–12 grade schoolchildren (172 (49 %) males, 176 (51 %) females), completed RFL-A (Osman et al., 1998), Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirski, Lepper, 1999) and answered questions about their suicidal Behaviours. Results. Results of the study revealed that Lithuanian version of RFL-A had high internal consistency. Cronbach’s α of the scales ranged from 0.86 to 0.95. The intercorrelations between the scales were moderate, ranging from 0.53 to 0.70, and correlations between the scales and total RFL-A score were high, ranging form 0.79 to 0.85. The factor structure of the inventory showed great similarities with the original version of RFL-A. The scores of RFL-A correlated significantly in expected direction with suicidal Behaviour and suicidal thoughts, as well as with reported happiness. Some gender differences were detected. Females scored higher on total RFL-A, Future Optimism, Suicide-Related Concerns, Family Alliance, and Peer Acceptance and Support. The utility of Reasons for Living concept for suicide prevention in adolescence is discussed.

Comparison of Various Cartoons’ Impact on Children’s Death Concept

Įvairių animacinių filmukų poveikio vaikų mirties sampratai palyginimas

Author(s): Bronislava Grigaitė,Saulė Raižienė,Agnė Banaitienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 5/2010

Keywords: mirties samprata; japonų animaciniai filmukai; senoji rusų animacija; death concept; Japanese cartoons; old Russian cartoons

Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti animacinių filmukų poveikį šešerių–aštuonerių metų vaikų mirties sampratai. Daroma prielaida, kad skirtingi animaciniai filmukai turi skirtingą poveikį vaikų mirties sampratai. Šiame tyrime vertinamas dviejų skirtingų žanrų animacinių filmukų – rusų senosios animacijos, kurioje pateikiama adekvati informacija apie mirtį, ir japonų anime filmukų, kuriuose daug smurto scenų ir akcentuojamas nemirtingumas – poveikis vaikų mirties sampratai. Metodika. Tyrimo dalyviai (101, vaikų amžius – nuo 6 m. 3 mėn. iki 8 m. 11 mėn.) suskirstyti į dvi grupes, kuriose jie tris savaites, kasdien po 15–30 minučių, stebėjo atitinkamo žanro animacinius filmukus. Rezultatai, išvados. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė, kad skirtingi animaciniai filmukai daro skirtingą poveikį vaikų mirties sampratai. Rusų senieji animaciniai filmukai jai daro teigiamą poveikį. Japonų anime animaciniai filmukai nedaro reikšmingo poveikio vaikų mirties sampratai, tačiau pablogina negrįžtamumo mirties sampratos komponento supratimą. Purpose. The aim of this study was to reveal animation impact on six–eight-yearold children development of the concept of death. It is assumed that the different animated movies have a different impact on children’s perceptions of death. This study evaluated effect on children’s perceptions of death of two different genres of animation – the old Russian animation, which provides adequate information about death, and the Japanese anime cartoons, which show many scenes of violence and the emphasis on immortality. Method. The study participants (101 children aged 6 years and 3 months up to 8 years 11 months) were divided into two groups, where for three weeks, every day 15–30 minutes they watched the animated genre movies. Results, conclusions. The results revealed that different animated movies have a different impact on children’s perceptions of death. Old Russian animated movies have a positive impact on children’s perceptions of death. Japanese anime cartoons haven‘t a significant impact on children’s perceptions of death, but degrades understanding component of concept of death – irreversibility.

Twenty years of unsolved conflicts

Conflicte nesoluţionate de aproape 20 de ani

Author(s): István Haller / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Roma; collective violence; European Court of Human Rights; Hădăreni; Plăieşii de Sus; Bolintin Deal

Between December 1989 and 1997 Romania faced more than 30 violent clashes against Roma communities, all resulting in burning down houses and the killing of those who were not able to hide on time. Although 4 of these cases were in the meantime solved out by the European Court of Human Rights, eventually Romania did not apply all the end decisions, hence delaying the final resolution of these conflicts. Meanwhile new similar clashes arose, but the authorities seem to be standing idly.

How should America act in a post-American world?

Cum trebuie America să acţioneze într-o lume post americană?

Author(s): George Vişan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Review of: Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, New York, London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2008, 292 pp.

From integrating practices to a philosophy of Roma integration

De la practici de integrare la o filozofie a integrării romilor

Author(s): László Fosztó / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Romanian Roma elite; Gypsy kings; integration; political ritual; Romanian Orthodox Church

This article deals with the tensions between observable integrative practices and the philosophies of integration. Philosophical concepts of the ‘integration’ have their internal ambiguities and inconsistencies. It is not always clear wheatear the subjects of integrative attempts (the Roma) are the individuals or the community as a whole. Moreover the imagined passivity of the subjects who need to be “integrated” and “mobilized” can stand in sharp contrast with the active “integrative practices” observable among some Roma groups. Through a media case study about the emergence of a Roma leader the author seeks to address the questions: How Roma actively behave in order to be seen as better integrated? And if they do so how their attempts are perceived by the majority?

The red terrorists

Teroriştii Roşii

Author(s): Sabin Drăgulin / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Review of: Pino Casamassina, Il libro nero delle brigate rose: Gli episodi e le azioni della piu nota organizzazione armata dagli „Anni di piombo” fino ai giorni nostri, Newton Compton Editori, Roma, 2007

Islam, identity and integration regarding the Muslims in Romania

Islam, identitate şi integrare la musulmanii din România

Author(s): Gyula Kozák / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Islam; Romania; ethnic identity; symbolic and corporative identity; integration

The paper looks on the discursive struggle between different proponents of Islamic religious practice and their distinctive model of integration put forward. When associated with the ‘indigenous’, the presence of the immigrants and their specific understanding of religious practice can bring to the fore internal tensions of an ethnic community and force its members to redefine their ethnic allegiances, or establish different degrees or kinds of ethnic, regional or religious ‘cultural content’. The paper describes two models of integration and identities prescribed by these models.

Minorities in post-communist Romania

Minorităţile în România postdecembristă

Author(s): Francine Jaomiasa Handy / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: minorities; Hungarian; democracy; U.D.M.R. (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania); F.S.N. (National Salvation Front); Târgu Mureş

This article examines the events that took place in Targu Mures in March 1990. All the information provided highlights the politics carried on by FSN in order to misinform the citizens, more precisely by using mass media and especially the television.

Table of Contents

Cuprins

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Party Regulation in Central and Eastern Europe

Party Regulation in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Johanna Kristin Birnir / Language(s): English / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Democracies; party system; political life

Parties are at the centre of political life for voters in diverse democracies as the venues for the expression of group concerns in the legislative game. According to some of the more influential political scientists, party system stability is essential to the proper functioning of a democracy. High levels of party system fragmentation are also considered detrimental to the proper functioning of democratic regimes. Fragmentation complicates coalition-building in the legislature and inhibits compromise on policy issues.

Sfera Politicii’s Archives - How did Brezhnev inform Ceauşescu about the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968

Arhivele Sfera Politicii: Cum l-a înştiinţat Brejnev pe Ceauşescu de invazia Cehoslovaciei în august 1968

Author(s): Lavinia Betea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Minority representation in local councils

Reprezentarea minorităţilor în consiliile locale

Author(s): István Gergő Székely / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: minorities; political representation; electoral system; reserved seats; lowered thresholds

The article offers an analysis of the special electoral procedures applied in Romania to ensure a better representation of national minorities in the local councils. Although this special mechanism has been introduced into the electoral law in order to compensate for the negative consequences of the increased electoral thresholds, it is unable to provide real help for the minorities. The domain of applicability of the rule is very limited, moreover, it may even take away seats from the minorities which they would have obtained, had they been treated just like the political parties. After the analysis of the current legislation, the article explores several alternatives for improving the system: a draft bill submitted by the minorities themselves, and certain other possibilities sketched by the author.

Well-tempered minorities: some features for the theory of democracy

Minorităţile bine temperate: Repere pentru teoria democraţiei

Author(s): Dan Pavel / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Madonna; Roma people; Hungarians; hate; wrath

The present article aims to highlight the existing interethnic relations and their nature at 20 years since the breakdown of Communism, in December 1989. In Romania, as being proved by the very recent concert of Madonna and by the football game between Steaua Bucuresti and Ujpest Budapest, this sort of conflicts still stand firm. And despite all the efforts made towards putting an end to these frictions, they still hold on, being based on feelings of hate and wrath.

The Catholics in Moldavia: civic identity and oral history

Catolicii din Moldova,Identitate civică şi istorie orală

Author(s): Stelu Şerban / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: civic identity; oral history; land property; war participation; political rights

The aim of the article is to outline few peculiar sources that intervene in the process of building up the civic identity of the Roman Catholics believers from Moldova. The author delineates these sources on the basis of the ethnological fieldwork he made in 2002.

Beyond any critical theory: a possible insertion of Habermas’s political philosophy in the theory of international relations

Dincolo de teoria critică: o posibilă inserare a filosofiei politice habermasiene în teoria relaţiilor internaţionale

Author(s): Emanuel  COPILAȘ / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 138/2009

Keywords: Marxist theories of international relations; social-constructivism; political communities; ‘cosmopolitan right’; ‘radical democracy’

As one can observe from his latest works, Jürgen Habermas is becoming more and more interested by international relations. The globalized world, despite its inherent dangers, entailed the need to rethink classical `political communities` (states) in order to adapt them to the multiculturality and social dynamics present in the contemporary societies. However, for Habermas, this provocation is no longer shifted within critical theory, although it remains emancipatory and of universal proportion. In this paper, I tried to prove that social-constructivism represents now, in the field of international relations, the most suited theory to cope with the German philosopher’s universal project.