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This paper motivates the necessity of the dynamics qualitative methods methodological backgrounds development. These methods have to face to the complexity of the social processes nature. A concept of a stochastic object is introduced. Taking in to account the typical research objectives a stochastic differential equation is selected as a dynamics model of a stochastic object.
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This publication presents the results of a comparative monitoring study of the integration policies and outcomes for third-country-national (TCN) women, TCN children and TCN victims of trafficking in ten EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Spain. The study produced findings at two levels of analysis: an in-depth assessment of how migrant integration policies and programmes meet the needs of vulnerable migrant groups, and an assessment of their integration outcomes. Drawing on the analysis of these findings, the publication provides recommendations for improving monitoring mechanisms for migrant integration at the national and EU levels and for elaborating policy approaches for better integration of vulnerable migrants.
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The book analyzes the Romanian public administration in 2001, a few months after its inauguration following the elections, and measures the tools of sociology and psychology (opinion polls among citizens, mayors and counselors, focus groups, psychological tests, interviews in depth) personality traits, values, behaviors and attitudes that exist and are desirable. In 2001 the book offered the first major psycho-sociological diagnosis of the administrative phenomenon in Romania.
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This research is an attempt to examine the developmental relationship between democracy and the socioeconomic conditions in Bulgaria. The assumption is that one of the factors contributing to the negative attitude towards democracy in Bulgaria is the high level of social inequality. After discussing the relevance of studying democracy and socioeconomic conditions from a developmental perspective, the paper traces the socioeconomic development of Bulgaria from 1989 to date and examines public perceptions of social inequality in the country. The research has not revealed any overall negative public attitude towards democracy in Bulgaria. However, the findings have demonstrated a clear tendency for the public support for democracy to decline reflecting the growth of social inequality.
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The theoretical and empirical approaches showing that authenticity are the crucial concept of existentialism, postmodernism and humanistic psychology (be free, autonomic, unique, self-defining, self-creating and integrated, transcend enculturation, invent our own patterns, rise above circumstances, gather the past, present and future into the wholeness of our resolute selves, create our own meanings and goals). This article discuses especially the role of authenticity on religious maturity (Allport’s intrinsic orientation, Batson’s quest and Sandage’s dwelling and seeking). In this paper projection method were used to examine the functioning authenticity among artistically gifted young people and its role on religious maturity. Ss (N=296 aged 15–20 yrs) had to : 1) I’m sadly …, 2) I treasure, I like …, 3) Rational analysis…. The results of qualitative analysis revealed that the authenticity have two aspects: 1) autonomy (the freedom and loneliness, spontaneity, sensuality and creativity, 2) empathy (kindness, sensibility, emotional self-reflection, the acceptance of the imperfection,love and friendship). The findings confirmed validity of the authenticity on religious maturity as well as usefulness of considerations based on new theoretical suggestions in psychology (developmental framework of new concepts of the authenticity and religious maturity). Implications are considered for future research on dialectical understandings of religious maturity (a Wuthnow, Sandage, Shults dialectical model of spiritual development based on dwelling and seeking offers an interesting theoretical base for research)
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This article is a reflection of the ethical, practical and methodological issues which I experienced whilst conducting my own field research in 2013 and 2014 in four small towns in the lodzkie voivodeship. Although the choice of research method, the case study, made it possible for me to apply various research techniques and to gather rich material, it also left a wide area of flexibility for me to use my intuition rather than methodological knowledge or ethical consciousness. An additional factor that raised many doubts was the fact that the phenomena under investigation were sensitive and controversial (unclear links between political, business and journalistic circles in a local context, conflict of interest, etc.). This influenced my decision to keep the towns’ names confidential in order to protect informants’ confidentiality. This and other problematic situations and decisions are more widely described in this article.
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In this study, it was tried to investigate the reasons why women supporters do not watch football matches in stadiums. To serve the aim, a 36- item questionnaire with five poit Likert- type questions was prepared. Some of the items in the questionnaire were later excluded from the survey, and remaining 24 items were used. Participants were chosen using a simple random sampling method, and randomly selected 300 women aged 15 and over and living in Eskişehir in May 10- 25, 2013 participated in the study. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was found to be 0.832. This result indicates that the survey was reliable. It was applied to the obtained data with the factor analysis. As a result of factor analysis, 24 items were collected at the rate of 7 factors, and variance explanations were determined as 66.1%. According to the Kaiser- Meyer- Olkin value criteria used to evaluate sample adequacy, KMO value was calculated as 0.792. For Barlett sphericity test employed to study the suitability of data for factor analysis, the value of the test statistic was defined as 2670.220 (p <0.01).
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Proposal for a Handbook Research; its necessity and development
My intention is to improve the receiving of the idea of ‘interfaith dialogue and mutual acceptance’ for Romanian people in general and foremost on their teachers, by writing a handbook for teaching it to the students and future public opinion formatters. It is a requirement nowadays firstly to make people understand the benefits of interfaith, then to make them believe it is the only solution of the social common living in such a religiously diverse society, and finally provide methodological and technical support for those who want to become the voices of interfaith in their own environment. I need to lift my training to that level that I can improve myself, maturing from a religious pluralism embracer to a trainer, professionally prepared and systematic instructed. For that matter, this paper is not an unassisted research presentation, but a proposal from which I would like to evolve to a fully developed result that I will share with our Dialogo readers when published (e.g., ask for a review on a possible, future book on the topic).
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Study to Identify Best Practices on the Cooperation between Border Guards and Customs Administrations Working at the External Borders of the EU
The study Better Management of EU Borders through Cooperation was commissioned by Directorate General ‘Home Affairs’ of the European Commission. CSD led a team of international experts to examine and identify the best practices of cooperation between Border Guards and Customs administrations working at the external borders of the European Union. During the yearlong effort, the CSD team interviewed representatives of all customs and border guard agencies of EU Member States. In twelve Member States the CSD team visited 25 land border crossings, ports, and airports to discuss with Customs and Border Guard officers how the cooperation between them takes place in practice. The study examines eleven particular areas of cooperation including: strategic planning, information exchange, workflow coordination at Border Crossing Points (BCP), risk analysis, criminal investigations, joint operations, control over ‘green’ and ‘blue’ borders, emergency situations, infrastructure and equipment sharing, and training and human resource management.
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The article examines transnational migrations of Albanians from the Republic of Macedonia to Swiss Confederation, seen in the light of ongoing processes of their exclusion and inclusion in different social contexts at the both ends of the migratory chain – the places of origin and destination. It focuses on the social and cultural challenges that individuals and groups face, as well as on everyday strategies of coping with live in-between different localities. The analysis, in the article, proceeds from the assumption that the migratory experience in a transnational space can be analysed by taking into account that it is constituted within historically and geographically specific localities of origin and migration, and it depends on social, cultural, economical, political and legal opportunities and constraints, and this at the both ends of the chain. In the light of this conceptualization, the strategies of managing with the live in-between are seen as everyday practices, relations and interactions within localized transnational (trans local) social spaces.
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A Fordulat aktuális a digitális forradalom tágabb kontextusát vizsgálja. Az itt megjelenő szövegek megpróbálják bemutatni, miként változtak a számítástechnikát és az internetet övező ideológiák a hidegháború kezdetétől napjainkig, valamint hogy az elmúlt két-három évtizedben milyen gazdasági-politikai folyamatokba ágyazódott az internet és a digitális ipar robbanásszerű terjedése.
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Książka "Bezdomność w Łodzi" jest w przeważającej mierze efektem konferencji pod tym samym tytułem, która odbyła się w tymże mieście w lutym 2016 roku za sprawą Łódzkiego Partnerstwa Pomocy w sytuacji Wykluczenia i Bezdomności. Składają się na nią teksty prezentowane podczas konferencji oraz kilka innych. Dobrze się stało, że książka nie odcina się od tego spotkania, jak to nieraz bywa z "tomami pokonferencyjnymi". Owszem, w różnoraki sposób do niej nawiązuje. We wstępie jest zamieszczony program konferencji, są też zdjęcia z obrad. W ten sposób redaktorkom publikacji udało się zachować coś z dialogu, który się toczył przecież tamtej zimy na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. [...] Przedstawiony materiał [...] o bezdomności w Łodzi jest bardzo wartościowy. [z recenzji dr hab. Grzegorza Pełczyńskiego, prof. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego]
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Long-term unemployment is considered one of the most serious problems of the contemporary labor market. Economists see it as a source of serious depreciation of human resources in the labor market and the pauperization of the affected families. Changing the age structure of labor resources and the projected reduction of their size in Poland, have resulted in increased interest in working activity of older people. The analysis of data from recent years points to an increasing level of professional involvement of this group, but also reveals that older people are more likely to experience long-term unemployment. The article aims to describe the size and structure of long-term unemployment of older people in Lubuskie labor market and identify the factors determining the risk of this type of unemployment. Also analyzed are solutions directed at supporting the employment of this social group.
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Studying effects of culture on goal orientations can provide significant contribution to the dynamics of goal orientation. In this study, the answer to the question whether there is a differentiation on goal orientation depending on individualism-collectivism values is sought for. In this study, aimed to determine the effects of culture on goal orientation; culture is discussed with individualism and collectivism dimensions whereas goal orientation is discussed with learning orientation and performance orientation dimensions. The research sample of this study is composed of students of the Vocational Schools (Erzincan University and Caucasian University). The results of correlation and regression analysis show that culture and the variants of goal orientations are related to each other. The findings of sample strongly support our interpretation which is the sub-dimensions of individualism-collectivism is related to all sub-dimensions of goal orientations. No studies, researching the culture and goal orientation relationship at an individual level, are found in literature. In this aspect, it is aimed to provide a contribution to the literature.
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Reading is an important cultural, social and intellectual activity: it is a self-regulated behaviour carried out by the reader who is also a part of a social system. Reading itself, as well as its performance, is both a processual and a culturally-constructed phenomenon. Reading has become a natural cultural activity, as we read virtually anywhere. Reading has become a complementary activity, filling spare time. Accordingly, the content read has been adapted to the new function of reading. An ever increasing portion of the literary market is occupied by products that do not even pretend to offer any value to the reader any longer. Reduction of the recipient to a consumer is accompanied by the resignation on the perception of complex structures and configurations, the stagnation of the synthetic and analytic abilities, as well as the atrophy of the sense for aesthetic values.
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Bulgaria’s energy sector suffers from deep governance and security challenges, which hold the first pages of the mainstream media in the past year with stories of fraud, nepotism and political corruption. The urge for action to transform the sector’s governance and open up markets for competition has been growing louder in the face of shrinking resources and increasing demands from different lobbies. The EU green policies and funding have been one of the precious few anchors, which the Bulgarian government should use to diversify its energy sources and liberalize its markets. Can the Bulgarian government really deliver for the benefit of its citizens?
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The 1993-1995 period saw the first steps of privatization, the establishment and development of its institutional foundations and in 1995, the phasing-in of actual privatization. Over 24,000 entities had been privatized by December 31, 1995. Most units (about 22,000 shops, restaurants, hotels, warehouses, small production enterprises, etc.) passed into private hands through restitution. The specific nature of the recent development of Bulgaria's private sector is determined largely by this restoration of ownership rights to small urban properties. Restitution helped create favorable conditions for the establishment of a real estate market and for the promotion of entrepreneurship, mainly in trade and services. However, there are still many unsettled restitution claims, as well as some unresolved problems concerning how some former owners may be indemnified by giving them the opportunity to participate in other forms of privatization.
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The radical transformation of the nation's economic system requires that a new financial system facilitating the functioning of today's market economy to the utmost degree should be created. The consolidation of the banking system through the enlargement of existing commercial banks aiming at a higher degree of their stability is now under way.
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The first changes (after the most important political change on November 10, 1989) toward a pluralistic society and market economy appeared in 1990. In that year for the first time Bulgaria began its fiscal year (which coincided with the calendar year) without a budget prepared and approved by Parliament - due to the complicated economic and political situation. In 1990 alone. Parliament voted the state budget twice (the second budget was an updated version of the earlier one and its basic indicators were even worse). The actual implementation, in turn, was a less successful version of the second budget. This tradition was followed throughout 1991 and will obviously prevail as well in 1992.
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