ACTION AREAS OF THE LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Author(s): Aleksandra Lozanoska,Elizabeta Djambaska,Natasha Daniloska,Diana Boshkovska / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

The contemporary challenges of the socio-economic development are imposing more or less the same essence of the labour market policy areas and instruments in the developed countries, as well as in the developing countries. They are directly dependent on the implementation of structural reforms aimed at stabilizing the economies and fostering economic development. Concerning this, the paper is analyzing the areas for implementation of the labour market policy and activities in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in the European Union, regarding the challenges of the contemporary society. They relate to the work of the institutions responsible for creating and implementing the labour market policy, the legislation relating to its functioning, labour force statistics and information system. The analysis is determining the target groups of the labour market and is giving certain recommendations and guidelines for possible future actions and measures that can ensure employment growth, reduction of the unemployment, and provide more efficient functioning of the overall labour market.

Afryka – perspektywy współpracy dla polskich samorządów

Author(s): Jędrzej Czerep,Adriana Skorupska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

Międzynarodowa aktywność samorządów może być jednym z istotniejszych narzędzi zaangażowania Polski w państwach Afryki Subsaharyjskiej. Poprzez organizację misji gospodarczych oraz działania informacyjne jednostki samorządowe wspierają lokalne przedsiębiorstwa na rynkach afrykańskich. Innym obszarem zaangażowania miast i regionów jest pomoc rozwojowa oraz humanitarna w biedniejszych regionach kontynentu. Z uwagi na szybką urbanizację w państwach afrykańskich współpraca z władzami lokalnymi może też stać się ważnym elementem wymiany doświadczeń i promocji polskich miast.

Attitudes of the student population and the Serbian intellectual diaspora members about the causes and consequences of the Serbian “brain drain” phenomenon

An Overview of the Results of the Empirical Research

Author(s): Dragana Lj. Mitrović / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 1/2020

Currently unfolding before us is the process of globalization, which has led to the networking of the global society and the intensification of transnational mobility of human educational capital. In the conditions of regional and class division, the process of asymmetrical globalization is also reflected in the unequal labour exchange in the gray matter market between countries belonging to different areas of the global world system. Of course, Serbia today is also under the effect of the aforementioned process. The subjects of this paper are the global, regional and national causes and consequences of the brain drain from Serbia and the innovative-creative potential of the Serbian intellectual diaspora for the development of Serbia and the protection of its interests in the contemporary world. This research is of a multidisciplinary character – sociological-demographical, ethno-culturological and communicological. Following the dictates of the so-called integral paradigm, efforts have been made to obtain valid results for scientific conclusions through a unity of theoretical problematization and synthesis of the results derived from empirical research. The paper consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results of empirical research done on the topic of causes and consequences of the brain drain, as well as the potential of the Serbian intellectual diaspora, conducted on a two-fold sample: one part consisting of the student population of Serbia and the other of the Serbian intellectual diaspora. The focus of the research was on the beliefs of the respondents regarding the motives, causes and consequences of the brain drain happening in Serbia, as well as the motives and the possibilities for the return to the native country. The sample consists of more than 950 respondents (545 students from Serbia and 413 diaspora members). The results of the research have shown that students and members of the Serbian intellectual diaspora hold identical beliefs regarding the perception of the main cause behind the brain drain in Serbia, with both groups citing the economic underdevelopment of the country and low levels of the quality of life, with both of the aforementioned factors influencing the ability to keep cadres within the country or to encourage their return. Of course, this fact is also conditioned by, among other things, the level of Serbia’s involvement in the processes of globalization, as well as by its position in the contemporary division of labour. The very end of the paper also highlights the program of possible measures and recommendations which have an action-oriented character, for the purpose of resolving this problem and creating a new policy regarding diaspora.

Based on Environmental Management to Discuss the Effect of Food Service Businesses’ Social Responsibility on Environmental Performance

Author(s): Chih-Hung PAI,Wen-Cheng WANG,Ching-Hwa YU,Hongwei XU / Language(s): English / Issue: 68/2020

When the public gets busy at work, a lot of people are used to eating out to solve the trouble with having meals. It therefore booms food service. Food service presents the responsibility to provide people with healthy food and environment and is the most important and the best place to promote food safety and hygiene. Food hygiene is an important part in nutrition education and reveals close relationship with people’s physical and mental health. Aiming at food service employees in Fujian Province, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed, with random sampling, in this study. 348 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 70%. The retrieved questionnaire data are analyzed with statistical software. The research results show remarkable correlations between environmental management and social responsibility, social responsibility and environmental performance, and environmental management and environmental performance. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to help food service businesses present correct food hygiene cognition, attitude, and behavior, deliver correct information to food service employees, and become the learning model of food service employees. It would improve the public food hygiene and promote national health.

Belarusian Millennials: A Generation Gap?

Author(s): Larissa Titarenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

The authors focus on the generation of young Belarusian Millennials represented in this research by the students born in 1995–2000. Their main features include political indifference, everyday use of IT technologies, individualism and rational life attitudes. Taking into account both objective and subjective characteristics of this generation, the authors argue that it demonstrates a significant shift in societal development of Belarus. Under the social and cultural conditions of stability and political conservatism, the ‘silent revolution’ took place: Millennials transcoded the traditional values of the previous Soviet generations. The conceptualization of this phenomenon cannot be made only on the basis of quantitative data not capturing the new tendencies in youth development. The authors combine qualitative and quantitative methods that enhance a possibility to measure new meanings the youth puts into the basic values. This approach made it possible to discover the new youth features that may affect Belarusian development in the near future: its ambivalent self-identification, dominance of pragmatism and individualism. This phenomenon can be considered as a spontaneous reflection to the challenges that Belarus was facing during the post-Soviet transformation.

Car-sharing – krok w stronę elektromobilności

Author(s): Adriana Skorupska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

Car-sharing (wynajem aut na minuty), zyskujący coraz większą popularność w Polsce, staje się innowacyjnym elementem transportu miejskiego. Miasta powinny jednak stawiać na car- -sharing elektryczny, co może stanowić ważny krok w rozwoju elektromobilności w Polsce oraz skuteczny sposób na poprawę jakości powietrza. Wsparcie samorządów dla tego środka komunikacji miejskiej to także okazja do promocji polskich miast na forum międzynarodowym jako liderów w transporcie niskoemisyjnym, sięgających po nowoczesne rozwiązania.

Car-sharing: A Step towards Electromobility

Author(s): Adriana Skorupska / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

Car-sharing, more and more popular in Poland, is becoming an innovative element of public transport in cities. However, to make the expansion of car-sharing (rentals by the minute) an important step towards the development of electromobility in Poland and an effective way to improve air quality, cities should focus on electric car-sharing. Local government support for this initiative would be a promotional opportunity for Polish cities in international forums as leaders in low-emission transport and focused on innovative solutions.

Challenges for the German Greens

Author(s): Lidia Gibadło / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2019

The German Greens managed to strengthen their position in Bavaria and Hesse in 2018. At the federal level, they achieved the second-most support in the polls. These successes were fostered by the weakening of the CDU, the CSU and the SPD and, at the same, preserving the image of the party as an alternative for centre-left voters. For it to strengthen further requires the acquisition of new groups of voters and the expansion of its structures, especially in the east of Germany.

Conferinţa de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului. Rezumate ale lucrărilor

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian / Publication Year: 2019

Includes abstracts of the papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development

Dlaczego autentycznie społeczny ruch ekologiczny powstał w Krakowie

Author(s): Andrzej Delorme / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2007

DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY AS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF JUVENILE DELIQUENCY

Author(s): Valentyna Davidyvna Vodnik / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

The essence of the family’s upbringing potential, its peculiarities, the influence on the development of the child’s personality are highlighted, the problems of the impact of a dis-functional family on juvenile delinquency in the conditions of building civil society in Ukraine are analyzed.

Education in the Social Context

Author(s): Tatjana T. Kostić / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 1/2020

Education and textbooks are always connected with the social context. The social context that has influenced education and textbooks in Serbia ever since the end of the World War Two is based on the socialist and post-socialist cultural pattern. The informatics society has inevitably affected culture and education. The work analyzes the changes that have led to the modifications in education and textbooks. The result is that education and textbooks suffer the influences of the society, but that the society also suffers their influence. The conclusion is that without raising the level of education Serbian culture and the society embodied in it cannot be preserved and there can be no social progress; the most efficient way of attaining improvement is to create textbooks which, regardless of frequent changes in cultural patterns, must be guardians of the patterns of culture.

Education is the Key for the Future of Syria

Author(s): İbrahim Özdemir / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

History of civilizations teaches that migration and its positive and negative results for humanity is old as humanity itself. There are many reasons, famines, droughts, natural disasters, economic, as well as political one. The migration of Syrians since 2011 is a result of domestic political conflicts and instability. The Syrian conflict with a brutal military crackdown on anti-government civil and peaceful protestors in Daraa, a small town southwestern Syria, began in March 2011. This conflict eventually has displaced more than 12 million people by Feb., 2016. Majority of Syrians have fled to neighboring countries in the region, such Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Therefore, the Syrian conflict is one of the biggest humanitarian, peace, and security crisis facing the world and humanity today. Intensified fighting and a deteriorating humanitarian situation continue to cause massive people flows within Syria and into the region. The UN estimates 13.5 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance while 4.6 million have fled to neighboring countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

Evaluation Index System and Measurement of High-quality Development in China

Author(s): Xinhuan HUANG,Binqing CAI,Yalin LI / Language(s): English / Issue: 68/2020

There are lack of indicator system and method to measure high-quality development. According to the new development concept and the system theory, we put forward that high-quality development system should be a system that not only realizes the development of subsystems at a high level but also achieves coordinated development among subsystems. Evaluation index system of China’s high-quality development is established from the five aspects such as innovation development, urban-rural coordination, ecological environment, opening to the outside world and people's livelihood. The improved G1 method based on grey correlation degree and coordination degree model based on bull's-eye distance are applied to analyze high-quality development level of China's 30 provinces in 2016. The results show that the high-quality development among provinces is imbalanced, and presents the obviously spatial pattern of east high and west low. Parts of provinces are in the high development but low coordination state, or in low development but high coordination state. Opening to the outside world and ecological environment subsystem are the weak spot of high-quality development system. Opening to the outside world subsystem is with the most imbalanced development, followed by innovation development subsystem.

Gender před tabulí: Etnografický výzkum genderové reprodukce v každodennosti školní třídy

Author(s): Lucie Jarkovská / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 2013

This ethnographic study analyses the (re)production of gender in the classroom. It is theoretically grounded in the ethno-methodological approach and inspired by the poststructuralist research of children and gender. This focuses on 11-13 years old children in school environment (music, art, and family education classes). The analysis applies a complex perspective on gender reproduction within the classroom and focuses on gender at distinct levels (the level of everyday interaction, the level of discourse and positioning of individuals within the discourse, and the level of individual identities and the importance of gender for girls and boys).

Genderové aspekty českého školství

Author(s): Lucie Jarkovská,Kateřina Lišková / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

Vzdělávací systém bývá ve vztahu k sociálním nerovnostem vnímán jako nástroj emancipace umožňující vertikální sociální mobilitu. Obecně lze říci, že masové vzdělávání v demokratických společnostech představuje nástroj zvyšování životního standardu a emancipace společnosti jako celku, avšak detailnější analýza struktury školství odhaluje, že toto pravidlo se uplatňuje v některých sociálních skupinách lépe a v jiných jen velmi omezeně. Výzkumy ukazují, že představuje spíše selektivní mechanismus, který prostřednictvím přidělování oprávnění (výuční listy, maturita, VŠ diplom) k výkonu různě prestižních a různě fi nančně ohodnocených povolání třídní rozdíly petrifi kuje (Bourdieu 1998, Bourdieu a Passeron 1977, Shavit a Blossfeld 1993). Tyto výzkumy se však zaměřují na reprodukci třídních nerovností, zkoumání nerovností genderových stojí na okraji jejich zájmu.

GLOBALNE PROMJENE I NOVE PARADIGME SVJETSKOGA RAZVOJA

Author(s): Mislav Kukoč / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 15/1995

The author analyses the new theoretical paradigms attempting to answer the following question: how does the fall of communism affect the future of the world? lt is concluded in the paper that neither approach in itself contains the key to the solution of the riddie of world history, but neither of the approaches could be said to be mistaken or completely wrong. These paradigms indicate, in a way, the possible directions of Croatia's strategic development: will it remain a part of the post-communist turbu lent Balkans and continue to be regarded by authors such as Kaplan and Fukuyama as part of the so-called Third World, or will it choose economic, industrial and political modernization and thus leave the uncertain and chaotic post-communist reality to join the prosperous "caravan" nearing the liberal "end of history"?

Göç ve Erken Çocukluk Gelişimi: Global Bir Bakış

Author(s): Nurper Ülküer / Language(s): Turkish / Publication Year: 0

Göç olgusu, yüzyıllar boyu insanların kendilerine daha uygun yaşam kurabilme isteği ve çabasıyla var olagelmiştir. Hemen hemen her ailenin uzun veya kısa bir göç hikayesi vardır. Ancak son yıllarda, bilhassa iç ve dış toplumsal çatışmaların sonucu olarak, insanların göçe zorlanması yığınlar halinde göç dalgalarının oluşmasına neden olmaktadır. Sayısı bir milyarı bulan, göçmenlerin ve yeni bir “vatan” arayan mültecilerin insan hakları ve insanca yaşama ihtiyaçlarının birçok uluslararası platformda tartışılmakta, Sivil Toplum Örgütleri ve Birleşmiş Milletler nezdine, bilhassa 2030 Dünya Kalkınma Gündemi çerçevesinde çözümler aranmaktadır. Konu acil ve komplekstir.

Humanistic challenges of modern society

Ljubiša Mitrović, In the jaws of transition: Between the Downfall and the Alternative (A Plea for the Transition of Transition and Alternative Society). Niš: Faculty of Philosophy; Novi Sad: Prometej, 2017, 312 pp.

Author(s): Olivera S. Marković Savić / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 4/2019

In the jaws of transition: Between the Downfall and the Alternative (A Plea for the Transition of Transition and Alternative Society), the work of sociologist, professor emeritus of the University in Niš, gives an analytical contribution to the contradictions of social transition. The author bases the social critique of dehumanized neoliberal transition and offers the perspective of the society science in current national and world conditions and challenges. The analysis is focused on the poor condition of economy in the Republic of Serbia, with the emphasis on the problems of dependent modernization, class polarization and destruction of the social state. Apart from analyzing the above-listed problems, the author recommends the role of sociology as the humanistic critique of the modern society.

Hungary’s Science and Cultural Policy

Author(s): Veronika Jóźwiak / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

After the last parliamentary elections in April, the Hungarian government began to reform science financing in the country. The changes consist of limiting the budgetary autonomy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and determining the research areas considered priority. Funding for basic research is to be reduced, which in the long term might negatively affect the quality of science and the Hungarian economy’s competitiveness. At the same time, ideological homogenisation is taking place in the cultural sphere. This may lead to limiting social development.