Крахът на неолибералните утопии

Author(s): Vihren Bouzov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

The ongoing process of globalization has entailed growth of inequalities and injustice worldwide. Neoliberalism cannot be an adequate strategy in this process. As a development strategy it is unable to ensure normal functioning of a social system and just relationships between people. The neoliberal values claim to be an universal therapy for all economic and social diseases. But they are utopia that were scattered because of the mismatch between the social interests of the elites and the underprivileged people around the world. The outliving of the nation states, the free media, the neoliberal economic slogans and the global democracy are utopian projects that collapsed in the world today. Formulation and acceptance of new social values on the basis of communitarianism is a road leading to the finding of a way out of permanent crises and regional conflicts, to boosting up economic and social development.

20 години специалност Философия във ВТУ „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Author(s): Vihren Bouzov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

The course of training in philosophy has been opened in 1992–93 year. Now it has full term accreditation for 6 years and it is on the 2th place in the national ranking of specialties. 14 young doctors in Philosophy graduated in Veliko Turnovo. Our Faculty has been accepted as national and international center of philosophical researches and education.

За необходимостта от социология на българската философска мисъл

Author(s): Dimitar Tsatsov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

Sociology of Philosophy is a new branch of Sociology of Science. It is necessary to use sociological instruments to understand some ideological clashes in the contemporary history of the Bulgarian philosophical thougt.

The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma: Trauma and the African American Veteran

Author(s): Sharon D. Raynor / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

Daniel Morrison and Monica Casper contend that disability studies and its cultural locations have been remarkably silent on matters of the traumatic origins of many disabilities, on the ongoing relationship between shocking events, their abrupt and chronic impact, and experiences of disability. This article explores how critical disability studies must intersect with critical trauma studies to address how the African American Vietnam war veterans who, traumatized and disabled by war and conflict, are further marginalized by societal constraints of race, class and gender. This essay focus on an understanding of W.E.B. DuBois’s ideology of double-consciousness, critical race theory and cultural studies and how they can emphasize the intersection of war injury and disability with a tremendous regard for the lived racial, class and socio-economic oppressions that contributed to what military service and disabilities of the African American Vietnam veteran reveal about masculine identity.

Imperium tekstu kontratakuje. Refleksje socjologa. Recenzja książki Marcina Matczaka Imperium tekstu. Prawo jako postulowanie i urzeczywistnianie świata możliwego

Author(s): Lech M. Nijakowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Współczesne spojrzenie na teorię totalitaryzmu

Author(s): Damian Winczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The aim of this article was to examine the cohesion and political connotations of the term „totalitarianism”, which is often used in the public debate in Poland. On the basis of a contemporary critical research, the content of the most popular concepts of totalitarianism has been analyzed, paying particular attention to the so-called „Cold Ward efinition of totalitarianism”, as it seems to be the most popular in a public debate. The author claims that the concept of „totalitarianism” was created in specific historical conditions and was frequently used as a tool to sanction the rule of liberal ideology. Thus, although „totalitarian model” is generally recognized in social sciences, it should be used with caution in assessing entire political or ideological currents.

Акултурация и идентичност на юноши имигранти. Анализ на случай от Франция

Author(s): Aleksandra Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

This paper draws on the author’s ethnographic research with 11 – 15 years old adolescents conducted in a “prioriy” middle school in Normandy, France (2014 – 2017) and aims to explore these immigrant students’ experiences of acculturation, sociocultural adaptation and identity formation. In particular, I present the case study of a Moroccan boy in an attempt to uncover more profound aspects of these phenomena. I use the theoretical framework of Berry et al. (2006) regarding strategies for acculturation and identity processes in adolescence in order to analyse data gathered through ethnographic methods. Then, I illustrate how methodological pluralism can produce a nuanced picture and allow for alternative interpretations. In addition, followingPollock and Van Reken’s example of a third-culture kid, I use the concept of a third culture adolescent (Pollock and Van Reken 1999) to demonstrate how a migrant student with a diffuse profile, that defines him as marginal and confused, viewed through an ethnographic lens, can be thought of as someone creating “third culture”.

Methodology of Safety and Quality of Life on the Basis of Noospheric Education System Formation

Author(s): Nataliia Bakhmat,Natalia Ridei,NATALIIA TYTOVA,Vladyslava Liubarets,OKSANA KATSERO / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Scientific (scientific and technical) multidisciplinary project activities for the formation of methodology of security and quality of life through the development of the noospheric education system require studying, developing, implementing and testing multivariate models and characteristics of modernized training system for specialists and professionals of a new kind, which are able to confront the global environmental challenges. Such training system provides the implementation of the system administration methodology of multivariate noosphere-oriented training models (based on the principles of safety and quality of life), retraining, advanced training and training of kindergarten teacher –school teacher – university teacher – mentor – scientist – person engaged in study process. The study takes into account the next principles and approaches:1) noospheric, futuristic, constructive-problematic, situational innovative, energetic and goal-oriented, normative-axiological, culturological, system approach, information approach, synergetic, integrated, problem scenario approach, structural-functional, genetic and morphological, socio-cultural approach etc. as the scientific knowledge of the system state and development; 2) integrated methodology functions (critical and expert, criteria and indicative orientation(targeted), analytically relevant such as heuristic, instrumental, technological, predictive, philosophical, creative etc.) aimed at the prediction, remediation and prevention of environmental risks and civilizational development dangers. These functions include educational and research modules of noospherology, the system administration methodology, equal choice (safety and quality of life), forecasting and modeling positive psycho-emotional development; 3) development of online workshop network to prepare job seekers (holders of educational and academic degrees) out of all stakeholder categories; 4) integration of the multivariate semantics of the higher education institutions and scientific institutions in the fields of ecology, environmental protection and balanced nature management, governance and public administration, pedagogy, contributing to the institutional modernization of cross-border collaboration at the global, regional, national and institutional levels, as well as administrative management of the portability of scientific methodical and information-analytical network of logistics, based on the system of noospheric education on the principles of autonomy, accessibility, continuity, academic mobility, ethics and integrity, health of the nation in the consortium of universities for the sake of security guarantees and the quality of life in biosocial dimension. The modern methodological directions of safety and quality of life research are formulated in the global dimension. The current state of the problem is also characterized in the research. The target component of the actualized scientific problem is concretized due to contradictions, methods and means of research. The novelty and structure of the sphere of scientific research are determined. The author's interpretation presents the definition of “methodology of safety and quality of life on the basis of noosphere education”, highlights the stages of research, proposes a hypothesis of scientific direction, its novelty and provides the conclusions to achieve the benefits of its relevance.

Influence of Social Networks on the Supporters Communities in Bulgaria in the 2020/2021 Season

Author(s): Hristina Yordanova,Minko Pondev / Language(s): English Issue: 4s/2021

The development of technology and the transformation of the Internet into a dominant channel of communication have led to intense and diverse changes in the behavior of moderate and extreme supporters of sports teams. The report presents a brief overview of the characteristics of the communities of supporters in Bulgaria: profile, structure and dynamics of formal and informal fan organizations throughout the country and abroad. The global pandemic and the closure of sports facilities have led to an intensification of the importance of cyberspace as a substitute for real events and phenomena. This report focuses on the features and dynamics of open and closed fan groups on social networks. For this purpose,150 pages of organizations and groups of supporters of the most active communities in Bulgaria were studied through the method of content analysis. The report presents a brief overview of the socio-psychological characteristics of fan communities and makes a typology of groups and pages in the Bulgarian virtual space by deriving four main types with their basic characteristics: common pages, national groups, regional factions and leaders' pages. The analysis focuses on their mechanisms of influencing the attitudes and behavior of both extreme and moderate supporters, through identified behavioral patterns online and live in the relatively short period of attending sporting events.

The scientific value of the twin researches conducted by Gheorghe Oancea-Ursu

Author(s): Mariana Marinescu,Mihai Botea,Dragos Botea,Georgeta Groza / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

Romanian contributions of the twin method between theory and practice. The twins method allows us, more than the other methods, to approach the forms of interaction between heredity and the environment:– identical heredity (monozygotic twins) – identical environment;– identical heredity (monozygotic twins) – different environment; – different heredity (dizygotic twins) – identical environment. In the education of pupils, an important contribution is represented by the interaction between genetic factors and environmental factors, so that the controlled addition of influences from the proximal environment(family, group of friends, everyday situations) and influences from the distal environment (Internet, media) leads to: – improving school performance and daily driving; – the development of skill.

В НОВИТЕ БРОЕВЕ НА СПИСАНИЯТА НА ,,АЗ-БУКИ“ ЧЕТЕТЕ

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

ХОМИ БАБА: ОД ПОСТКОЛОНИЈАЛНИХ ТЕОРИЈА КА ТРАНСКУЛТУРНИМ ПОЛИТИКАМА

Author(s): Igor Perišić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

Homi Baba, American-Indian literary theorist and philosopher of cul- ture, is one of the key figures in postcolonial theory. His original contribution is in the introduction of the terms „hybridization“, „mimicry“, „cultural difference“,„ambivalence of colonial discourse“ and „third space“, which enriches the repertoire of postcolonial theories and problematizes these theories in the key of poststructur- alist philosophies, especially those of Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. As a postcolonial literary and cultural theorist, Baba opposes binary divi- sions of theories / policies in The Location of Culture (1994) to try to show the true meaning of postcolonial theories. Of course, in order to arrive at this new practice, it was necessary to discuss some aporia into which his thought often falls, especially to develop a complicated dialectic of the ambivalence of post/colonial discourse. In parallel with postcolonial thought, Baba develops philosophy of culture, which is thematized in the second part of the text. In the essay „DissemiNation“ (1990), as a poststructuralist-inspired thinker he does not derive a systematic transcultural theory, but only deconstructively points to the „splitting points“ of the unison-understood Culture as a monolithic and monopolistic Western narrative.

Od krytyki do postkrytyki. Nowe możliwości interwencji społecznych literatury w „Limits of Critique” Rity Felski

Author(s): Tomasz Mizerkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (20)/2022

The article discusses a groundbreaking post-critical project in Anglo-Saxon literary studies formulated in Rita Felski’s book The Limits of Critique. Tomasz Mizerkiewicz offers a comprehensive analysis of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” carried out by Felski, showing its numerous limitations. Felski argues that criticism – understood as an emotionally uninvolved reading of literature being part of the panoptic system of power that subjugates individuals – should be modified to embrace an affective quality and a new vision of the ontology of a literary work. Felski believes that thanks to Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, it is possible to begin to perceive the literary work as a causative non-human actor. The work then avoids participating in the sterile dispute between the idea of the autonomy of art and radical pragmatism, which assumes the full dependence of the meanings of this work on the context. Theorized in new phenomenological analyses, literature demonstrates a capacity to exert influence. At the same time, it does not do anything by itself, but in cooperation with other important human and non-human actors (readers, schools, reading family customs and others). The type of critique described in The Limits of Critique becomes a conscious participant in the social interventions of literature consisting in the joint discovery of the possibility of the emergence of new types of connections, networks and communities. Thus, critique and literature contribute to the development of particularly effective varieties of aesthetic, economic and political agency.

Între viață și cărți. Despre neajunsurile și beneficiile ratării

Author(s): Antonio Patraş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

This study analyses the relationship between failure and success from two perspectives: creative psychology and sociology of creation. By starting from Angelo Mitchievici’s recent book, “Farmecul vieților distruse. Câteva reflecții despre ratare” [The Charm of Failed Lives] (2022), which explores one of the favorite themes of decadent literature and art (failure), I aim to highlight the most relevant existential postures in a writer’s life: the anti-bourgeois aristocratic posture (the dandy) and the proletarian-democratic posture (the bohemian). It is not by chance that Mitchievici dwells on the works the Romanian-French writer Emil Cioran, who tried to build an image of a secluded writer, close to anonymity, avoiding to cultivate both the bohemian and the dandy style, by adopting a lifestyle shaped by the cult of work and discipline, in the spirit of the Protestant ethics theorized by Max Weber. Mitchievici explains very convincingly how, once he emigrated to Paris, Cioran completely abandoned the Romanian language, in which he was convinced he was failing as a writer, in order to devote himself exclusively to writing in French, with the idea of conquering global glory. In addition to Cioran, the authors in focus are Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Flaubert, Dino Buzzatti, Mihail Sadoveanu, Mircea Cărtărescu, etc., which provides the critic with the opportunity to reconnect with his former books (e.g. “Decadență și decadentism în contextul modernității românești și europene”, 2011) and to show a refined and mature essayist’s vein.

Пета конференция на Националните асоциации в Международната социологическа асоциация „Социални трансформации и социология: лишености и овластявания“, 21‒24.11.2022 г., Нова Горица

Author(s): Mila Mineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

THE PROBLEM OF SOCIALIZATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Author(s): Victoria Maximciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

The article considers the issue of research on the socialization of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The socialization of people with ASD is a very difficult issue, this is confirmed by studies in the West that only 15% of this category can be independent, but still the presence of support is needed. There is insufficient research on this issue in the specialized literature. The results of the own research are presented and the main directions of psychopedagogical interventions are included, containing the activity with children, parents and teachers.

INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES INTO THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY

Author(s): Răzvan Moroșanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

Humans have been migrating from ancient times. The first migrators were the tribal peoples in search of food, land and resources. They were not considered refugees or asylum seekers, but gatherers or hunters who explored new lands. Therefore, it is a fact that refugees have always existed but the formalization of international community's responsibility to provide protection and to find solutions for refugees only dates back to the founding of the League of Nations. This organization defines refugees in categories, mainly according to their country of origin. The refugee crisis has represented a topic of great interest to the international community since the creation of the United Nations. Through the asylum process, refugees and other people who needed protection were offered access to assistance offered by other states. But, in some cases, the national asylum system proved to be ineffective and offered asylum seekers unequal access. In order to solve this problem, the European Union developed a common European asylum system designed to harmonize the national asylum systems and procedures of the member states and to facilitate the examination of the asylum seeker requests. In order to do this, the European Union relied on the existing international legal framework, regulated by the provisions of the 1951 Convention and the principle of non-refoulement.

PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATIONS ON THE PSYCHOSOCIAL REALITIES OF THE DEPORTATIONS FROM THE MOLDAVIAN SSR: THE ISSUE OF ENVY

Author(s): Zinaida Bolea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

The deportations from the Moldavian SSR took place during the first decade of the Sovietization of Bessarabia and represent a traumatic event in the contemporary history of the Republic of Moldova. Given the collective silence during the Soviet period on this phenomenon, the last two decades have been marked by efforts to create scientific and cultural representations of this historical event. Being part of the category of anthropogenic historical traumas, in which the traumatic factor is individually human, the subject of transformations of human relations in a totalitarian context is a central one for research projects dedicated to deportations. This article deals with deportees' representations of the causes and conditions of deportations and highlights hypotheses formulated by deportees. One of the deportees' hypotheses refers to local social animosities, and the issue of envy is invoked. The article presents the deportees' arguments, followed by psychoanalytic theorizations of this hypothesis.

Za ścianą. O kobiecie, zwierzętach i (nie)codzienności w powieści „Ściana” Marlen Haushofer

Author(s): Estera Głuszko-Boczoń / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2023

Marlen Haushofer’s novel, The Wall (Die Wand), published in 1963, elevated the author to fame, winning the admiration of readers and critics beyond the German-speaking world. As a result of a twist of fate she can neither grasp let alone understand, the heroine is cut off from the external world by an invisible obstacle – the titular wall. Behind it, human and animal life dies away, literally. She is the sole survivor of the catastrophe. From then on, she has to live in complete seclusion, left to her own devices and to fend for herself. Her only companions are a small group of animals giving sense to her existence. The sense of responsibility she feels for those living beings, her care for them, and the total isolation and sense of hopelessness become the determinants of her everyday life. This paper aims to present the main character’s uncommonness of daily living conveyed by the title and caused by an unexpected disaster. It seems important to investigate the protagonist’s attempts to reconstruct her own social space, where human interactions are replaced by interactions with animals. It is no less important to investigate her survival strategies, which are based on the strategies she had known before the disaster. The character has to take on a new role in a new reality that turns out to be a kind of reflection of her previous social role. This paper attempts to review the established social rules which had to become devalued to a certain extent when the character was faced with a radical change. Haushofer’s work can also be interpreted as a parable of the present time, in which fear of what is unknown (a disaster, a war, a pandemic) determines the way that the individual lives day by day. This paper is based primarily on the source text, namely M. Haushofer’s The Wall, and the analysis in this paper refers to feminist discourse, ecocriticism and animal studies.

THE CONTEMPORARY FASHION CONSUMER: PROFILE, FEATURES, TYPOLOGIES

Author(s): Sandra Celia Chira / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

Fashion as a contemporary socio-cultural phenomenon is not only a problem related to clothing trends but also one related to the social behaviors of consumers and producers. Thus, the psychology of the fashion consumer is one of the central elements on which the evolution of fashion towards one direction or another is based, and at the same time it is one of the main concerns of designers, stylists, fashion journalists and marketing specialists. On the one hand, they analyze the different needs and typologies of fashion consumers, and on the other hand, they try to identify the necessary ideas to determine their interest in consumer goods and new trends. Along with the establishment of the main identity features that lead to the formation of the clothing identity, respectively the main features that the individual will have in the role of fashion consumer, relating the image to the individual, clothing is defined in accordance with all the components of the self, including self-awareness that stands out as the main influencing factor of the clothing image. In the process of self-knowledge and in interpersonal communication, the clothing identity of one person is defined through a conscious process of choices, being configured and reconfigured permanently in relation to social trends, standards and collective models.” People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.” Cristian Lacroix