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(Im)mobility Subcontracted: Nesting Hierarchies, Uneven Distributions and the ‘Roma Inclusion’ Projects in Europe

Author(s): Jan Grill / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

This paper explores social mobilities and trajectories in relation to particular mechanisms of subcontracting and of unequal distribution of capitals in the emerging field of EU funded projects for poor and socially excluded populations in Europe. It discusses some of the struggles for possible mobilities and its limits amidst continuing production and reproduction of privileges, disadvantages and structural orders in these project-cum-policy worlds constraints. By examining a particular case of a large-scale and multi-sited project and other similar project schemes, described by some of its proponents as one of the most ‘participatory’ projects for Roma in Europe, the article illustrates particular mechanisms of power and knowledge reproduction that facilitates some kinds of mobilities while also reproducing certain constraints and limits on these possibilities (for some subjects and some social trajectories). It develops an ethnographic critique of situated and nesting hierarchies of management and brokerage leading to reproduction of particular setups, privileges, unequal economic distribution and (mis)recognitions of capitals, which allows for particular emergence of particular kinds of contested ‘expertise’ in the uneven field of so-called ‘Roma inclusion’.

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A Competitive Analysis of East African Cement Companies using the High Performance Organisation Framework

Author(s): André de Waal,Evans Makini Osano / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

Sub-standard infrastructure is one of the most significant challenges for economic development in East Africa. Specifically, the availability of affordable, locally produced cement is critical to infrastructural and economic development and job creation in the region. Thus, it is critical for cement companies to achieve better operational and financial results so they can satisfy the need for higher-quality cement for infrastructure projects and to deal with increasing environmental issues. In this article we evaluate, using de Waal’s high performance organisations (HPO) framework, the quality of three cement companies in Kenya and Tanzania to identify improvements these companies can make to their internal organisation and operations so they can achieve better financial and operational results. The research results indicate that whilst all three companies were yet to achieve HPO status, the best performing company with the highest HPO score also had the best financial performance over the past 10 years. The research also resulted in a series of recommendations on the basis of the weaknesses identified in the cement companies.

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A Glimpse into a True Democracy. An Interview with Luce Irigaray

Author(s): Luce Irigaray ,Aleksander Kopka / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

An Interview with Luce Irigaray. Interview conducted by Aleksander Kopka

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A Miscellaneous Perspective on the Issue of Modernity

Author(s): Oana Tătaru / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The assessment of a concept had constantly been a challenging phase in respect of the precise moment of appearance, all the more as the postulation – modernity- was considered controversial and complex along its entire history. An aspect that had to be mentioned was the fact according to which the idea of modernity could not be conceived but within the parameters of a particular awareness of the time, namely the historic, linear and irreversible one. Modernity would be purposeless if a society had not regarded the temporal-sequential concept of history as representative and organized temporal categories in accordance with a mythical and recurrent pattern. Although the notion of modernity was assimilated almost automatically to secularism, the main corresponding constitutive element had been the sense of unrepeatable time, not compatible with a religious Weltanschauung. The premodern societies highly considered the religious doctrines in contrast to actual realities the public opinion of which did not appear as the prerogative of an educated minority, but a constantly enhanced forum of social communication.

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A model of integrated community development

Author(s): Ana Maria Nițu,Costin Adrian Cace / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The study aims to present and analyse a model of good practices in community development, based on an integrated approach and bring a better understanding of the advantages of such an approach. The study is based on a project implemented in 12 communities, throughout 46 months, which aimed to improve access to educational and health services as well as build strong communities and inter-ethnic relations. Following the implementation of the project, an evaluating research has been carried out in order to determine the changes and development the project has achieved. The current case study focuses its analyses on data gathered from the particular research, namely on 2 communities and the actions implemented as well as the results they produced. Therefore, analyzing the outcome of the intervention, augmenting the need and benefits of the integrated approach in development projects.

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A NYUGATI TÜRKÖK TÍZ TÖRZSÉNEK KIALAKULÁSA

Author(s): Mihály Dobrovits / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1(2)/2004

The Western Turks had ten tribes. These ten tribes, called the Then Arrows (on oq) were not their original tribal system. According to Menandros Protector Turxanthos, the leader who threatened Valentinos with execution was the leader of one of the eight branches of the Turks. Our paper deals with the process how the ten tribes came to exist of these original eight ones.

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A Predictive Model of Youth Bystanders’ Helping Attitudes

Author(s): Dana Rad,Evelina Balas,Sonia Ignat,Gavril Rad,Daniel Dixon / Language(s): English / Issue: 1 Sup2/2020

One of the direct effect of current COVID-19 pandemic’ social distancing on an unspecified period of time urges us to compensate our lack of physical connection with our readiness in the online environments, especially social media platforms. Present research investigates to which extent the internet content awareness construct, difficulties in emotional regulation and online duality have an impact on predicting future helping attitudes of bystanders. In order to investigate the eligibility of this prediction model, our team has advanced the Erasmus+ funded project Hate’s Journey. In 2019, our research team has designed a multiple specific sections online questionnaire addressing 206 youth from Latvia, Turkey, Spain and Romania. We have used a multiple linear regression analysis. The obtained results validate our hypothesis, confirming that if an individual is characterized by a decreased internet content awareness, a high level of difficulties in emotional regulation and increased online duality, then there is a 37% probability that the youth bystanders will develop a lack of helping attitudes towards the victims when facing a digital hate speech context. Conclusions and implications regarding to the current pandemic social distancing and digital closeness effects over the prosocial behaviour are discussed.

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A preliminary analysis of the results in the project 'Typologies of underdevelopment and marginalization in rural localities and small towns in Romania'

Author(s): Mihnea Preotesi,Cristina Tomescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The project begins from the coordinates provided by the sociological literature which show that local underdevelopment is the result of structural factors as lack of employment and the predominance of employment in (subsistence) agriculture, lack of infrastructure (access to public utilities such as gas, drinking water or paved roads) but also the distance to the nearest city that could be a pole of development or human capital (the education stock of the local population) and it tries to refine the analysis by overlapping the typology looking at local contexts and by deciphering the factors and mechanisms of underdevelopment at local level. The proposed approach has an exploratory character. The article explain this approach in the first part, and in the second part presents a synthesis of the results of the analysis of the data collected in Alba county (as an exploratory case study) for testing the research tools in the first phase of the project.

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A Step to Pluralism and a Step Back

Author(s): Vera Marković / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1-4/1993

Judging by results of public opinion research, acceptability of idea of political pluralism is gradually increasing, first reaching social layers which status favorableness Ables the painless adaptation to anticipated consequences of changes. By instrumentalization of wide fear of changes, which is not rare demonstrated as fear of politics, public opinion is being directed to new, national homogenization, while getting distant from reached level of pluralism.

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A Study on the Correlation among Social Interaction, Career Self-Efficacy and Well-Being of Employees in Rural Tourism

Author(s): Xia YU,Yunjian ZHENG,Xiaofeng SU,Qiujin ZHENG / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2020

Rural areas gradually become modern people in cities taking good care mentally and physically due to the pressure in life or the memory of past life in rural areas. Rural tourism and vacation in rural areas are therefore gradually preferred by city people. With the effect of financial crises in past years, a lot of people become dissatisfied with the life. Well-being would have a person present joy, content, and rich psychological feelings. Countries in the world expect to create well-being cities for the people’s well-being. Aiming at rural tourism employees in Fujian Province, total 380 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 287 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 76%. The research results are expected to provide reference for the development of sustainable rural tourism of governmental departments and businesses to achieve the sustainable development of life, production, and ecology in rural areas.

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A Study on the Effect of Hotel Staff’s Burnout on Retention Intention - Based on Social Support

Author(s): Hui ZHANG,Ming TANG / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2020

With changing social environment and fiercely distinct job competition, competitors in global hotel industry still increase in the bad overall economic conditions, fighting in existing red sea. However, it is gradually rejuvenating in past years. In the fierce industry competition, the retention and accumulation of human capital is an important indicator for the sustainable operation of enterprises as well as the winning key in future market competition. Effective promotion of employees’ retention intention, especially the retention intention of talents, is the primary issue for enterprises and human resource departments. Aiming at employees in hotel industry in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 362 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 72%. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to help hotel industry effectively release employees’ burnout, retain talents in hotel industry, strengthen hotel industry, and reinforce the organizational competitiveness of hotel industry.

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AB ÜYELİĞİNİN REFAH DÜZEYİNE ETKİSİNİN EKONOMETRİK ANALİZİ: BEŞİNCİ GENİŞLEME ÜLKELERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Author(s): Cabir Çelik,Sinan YILDIRIM,Sinem ÇELİK / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 51/2021

Welfare measurement, which is unquestionable the most significant member of the political economy indicator family, is routinely used to form economic and social policies and to evaluate the success of societies. In this study, it is aimed to determine the change in the welfare levels of the countries which got involved in the EU with the fifth enlargement process by using pooled panel data and random effects models endowed with robust standard errors purged from heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation problems. According to the results obtained; It has been determined that the foreign trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow of the fifth enlargement countries significantly increase their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, resulting in more welfare for their citizens.

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About Adoption and People Who Can Adopt in Romania

Author(s): Ciprian Raul Romiţan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Although, in principle, any person can adopt and become an adoptive parent, regardless of their marital status (married or single), sex, race, nationality, etc., the Romanian legislation in this area establishes a series of requirements for this. For this purpose, the law on the legal regime of adoption stipulates that the persons or families wishing to adopt must fulfill the moral guarantees, as well as the material conditions necessary for the child’s raising, education and harmonious development. The fulfillment of the guarantees and conditions provided by law, as well as the existence of the parental skills, is certified by the general directorate of social assistance and child protection within the territorial area of which the adoptee or the adoptive family resides, by issuing a certificate following the evaluation performed according to the provisions of the adoption law. This study will analyze the requirements to be met by the persons or families wishing to adopt, namely: the age of the adopter, the full exercise capacity, the moral and material ability to adopt, the consent of the adopter and the consent of the adopter’s spouse.

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Access to justice - Trust and perceptions of the Roma minority

Author(s): Gabriela PETRE / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

Discrimination and inequality for various reasons continue to be a reality of everyday life throughout the European Union, as confirmed by the results of surveys and various national studies and research published in recent years. At the level of vulnerable groups (including people in poverty, ethnic minorities, young people, the elderly or women) discrimination and inequality are more pronounced. Access to justice for these disadvantaged groups should contribute to increasing inclusion, increasing socio-economic integration, but barriers (lack of education, information, lack of identity documents, lack of material resources, etc.) in the way of access to justice are sometimes too extended for these people. Thus, the inability of disadvantaged people to access legal services is both a result and a cause of the low degree of inclusion and development, as well as the high degree of vulnerability. This article highlights the trust and perceptions of Roma minority in Romania in the justice system in the context in which justice is still far from meeting the expectations of citizens, access to justice being unequal especially due to geographical, economic, cultural, social, psychological / temporal barriers. The article makes an important contribution to a broader understanding of the size and nature of the legal needs of members of the Roma minority and the obstacles they face in seeking legal protection in general, but especially for guiding public policies in the field of justice based on reality perceived by those involved in this complex phenomenon.

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Acting Local, Thinking Global: Globalizing Resilience through 100 Resilient Cities

Author(s): Chris Zebrowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This article investigates the globalization of resilience by examining a particular and prominent vehicle for the dissemination of resilience ideas: the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative. As a philanthropic initiative organized through a network of international cities, 100RC demonstrates how the spread of resilience thinking has been facilitated by exploiting changes in the structures and processes of global governance afforded by neoliberal globalization. The analysis focuses on explicating100RC’s animating logic of governance, which is committed to the cultivation of network connectivity. Rather than directly fostering resilience, connectivity is established as a condition under which resilience solutions can be immanently surfaced from the interactions of a diverse selection of stakeholders brought together through these networks. The article situates this governmental logic within broader changes associated with neoliberal globalization, namely the emergence of multi-scalar governance networks, the rise of philanthrocapitalism and the inception of platform capitalism. The conclusion discusses the implications of this analysis for further study of the relation between connectivity, danger, knowledge and value contained within resilience discourses.

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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.

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Adolescenta in timpul pandemiei

Author(s): Noemi-Ștefania Bejenaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9/2020

The present paper is about pandemic seen through the eyes of a teenager. Every word reveals her emotions, especially the fear, lived in this period and her need to be closed by her family. But it also shows the power of move on, the desire to fight and her belief that people are stronger than a disease.

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Adoption of Affordability and Sustainability Issues in Slum Rehabilitation through PPP in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Author(s): Fawzia Farzana / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

More and more slum dwellers are left homeless as their shacks are being either bulldozed in broad daylight or burnt to ashes by hooligans in the dead of night to clear up the settlements, leaving them in the wobble in and around the capital city, Dhaka. Slum evictions and attempts of rehabilitation are quite old phenomena here that started since the mid-70s. A number of resettlement camps located far to the periphery of the city were selected for the rehabilitation. The squatters, however, re-infiltrated the city soon after as the camps had no job or commuting facilities. The outcome of the most recent rehabilitation project in Bhashantek, Mirpur through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is not different from the previous ones because it too ignored the need for an environment conducive to work and live in, and fixed the price at a level that will rule out the so called target group. It is essential to include both affordability and sustainability issues in a housing project to make it successful. However, housing affordability is frequently defned and assessed only in terms of economic viability. Other important issues, such as sustainability, housing location and quality are sometimes overlooked which are the reasons behind the failure of slum rehabilitation initiatives by the government in Bangladesh. This paper has explored the affordability and sustainability issues in low income housing with reference to experiences of slum rehabilitations initiated both by the state and NGOs or development partners. Analysing the taken rehabilitation schemes the paper has identified the way forward to provide affordable and sustainable housing for slum dwellers and low income people of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Algorithm-driven Sensing Devices and Connected Vehicle Data in Smart Transportation Networks

Author(s): Ella Campbell,Andrej Novák,Alena Novák Sedláčková / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Despite the relevance of algorithm-driven sensing devices and connected vehicle data in smart transportation networks, only limited research has been conducted on this topic. Using and replicating data from APA, INRIX, Ipsos, Jones Day, Management Events, Nvidia, and Reuters, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding autonomous vehicle performance and intelligent sensor systems. The results of a study based on data collected from 6,800 respondents provide support for our research model. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate.

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Ali je sociologija sposobna proizvesti utopije - alternative?

Author(s): Drago Kos,Tanja Rener / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 36/2001

Članek podaja aktualno in kritično razmišljanje o sociologiji na prehodu iz moderne v postmoderno družbo. Temeljni poudarek je razprava o smiselnosti, sposobnosti in nujnosti ukvarjanja z vprašanjem, ali je sodobna sociologija zmožna reafirmirati substancialno racionalnost in konstruirati alternative obstoječemu družbenemu razvoju, ali je torej sociologija sposobna proizvesti konstruktivne in produktivne “utopije”.

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