"Do You Have Any Empties?"

Bottle Collectors’ Interactions in Public Spaces in Zagreb

Author(s): Dino Vukušic,Stephanie Stelko / Language(s): English / Issue: 39/2016

This paper describes the practices of people who collect discarded bottles and cans during public events in Zagreb, Croatia, which they return to recycling centers in order to receive a bottle deposit needed to supplement their low incomes. In addition to an ethnographic section in which we briefly describe this underrepresented aspect of everyday life in Zagreb, we address the symbolics at play in bottle collectors’ interactions among themselves and with "bottle providers" – people who gather in public spaces and consume drinks from bottles and cans. In so doing, we describe how the presence of a marginalized social group becomes visible in public spaces.

"Dr House" - gra i semiologia

Author(s): Zbigniew Kloch / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 19/2012

The paper describes how the characters of House, M.D. interact and relate to each other; it also discusses the role played by specific, semantically charged means of constructing narration. On one hand, the show largely maintains the model of a conventional medical drama, on the other, it deconstructs many of the characteristics inherent in the genre. The paper also attempts to explain the show’s huge popularity (for a certain time in the United States alone it reached 27 million viewers) achieved in spite of going beyond what an average viewer would expect, primarily by the show’s construction and by evoking ideas outside a classic medical drama.

"PROJEKT LADY" TELEVISION REALITY SHOW AS A TOOL FOR RESAPING PERSONAL BRANDING

Author(s): Jerzy Goluchowski,Irena Kaminska-Radomska,Anna Losa-Jonczyk / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2/2016

Creating a personal brand is an important tool for professional development and success in life. The practical and research problem is the selection of the most effective methods of creating a personal brand. The aim of the article is an analysis of the innovative use of the reality show (The "Project Lady" in Polish Television TVN) as a method of shaping the personal brand using gamification. The paper deals with review of the process and the transformation of the personal image and with results of this program.

90-letni Zygmunt Bauman: Schopferkraft i jego dwoistość

Author(s): Tony Blackshaw / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

A Critical Analysis of Two Audience Prototypes and Their Participatory Dimensions

Author(s): Miroljub Radojkovic,Ana Milojevic / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2011

This article discusses how the concept of audience theory has been developed within two basic intellectual traditions, resulting in two basic prototypes. On one side, there is the trajectory of the “mass audience” that was created and developed parallel with the emergence of the media of mass communication. The mass audience is regarded as a multilayer collectivity, residing at the end of a successive linear communication process – sender, channel, message, receiver and effects. In this one-way communication model, the audience is primarily the receiving structure, with little or no opportunity for feedback and participation in the communication process. The other prototype is linked to the development of new digital media and the internet; here the public is theoretically considered as “cross media” and active. The audience of new media is seen as a heterogeneous and structural collective in the communication model that characterizes the thow of information “many to many”. This prototype attributes to the new, active audiences or users unlimited power to participate and shape the communication processes. We discuss features of the two prototypes, including media usage, media access, information resources, time engagement and functions derived from media use. The most important feature we take up, however, is participation. We point out the problems and limitations of both prototypes in this regard. On the one hand the study of audiences has long been rooted in the concept of mass audience and limited with its primal orientation towards the effects of mass communication, while on the other hand, the emerging prototype 2 is all too easily granted participatory capacities, especially concerning the public sphere. therefore, the theorists of new and old media must step outside the prevailing postulates and consider the audience beyond the two prevailing prototypes in order to further deepen our knowledge and understanding of contemporary audiences and their participation.

A depresszió kialakulását valószínűsítő hálózatok

Author(s): Domonkos Sik / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2016

The paper aims at reinterpreting the psychological insights on the formation of depression from the perspective of critical theories and tests the resulting model. In the first part of the paper based on Bourdieu’s, Giddens’, Habermas’, Honneth’s and Lash’s theories of social integration, an attempt is made to identify those network constellations, which simultaneously block goal attainment and veil the social components of the blocking. These distorted networks are considered to be contributing factors of the emergence of depression. In the second part of the paper based on the database of ESS 2012 the correspondence of such network distortions and depression is analyzed along with the causes of the adding up of various distortions.

A rétegzett modernitás integrációelmélete

Author(s): Dániel Havrancsik / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2016

Review of the book "A modernitás rétegei" by Domonkos Sik (Budapest, 2015)

A SEMIOTIC READING OF DIGITAL AVATARS AND THEIR ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Sercan Sengün / Language(s): English / Issue: Special/2014

This study tries to explain the role of digital avatars for communication in two distinct ways. In the first part it debates what kinds of meanings avatars have for their users. To answer this question based on semiotic theories of Saussure and Lacan, a new approach will be proposed. Saussure’s theory of signs and Lacan’s theory of chain of signifiers as an entry for self, will be merged to form a new viewpoint. In the second part, the role of avatars in the digital communication for the receivers will be approached by Berger’s uncertainty reduction theory.

A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF PERSONAL INITIATIVE ON SAFETY PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT MODE TRANSITION: BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY EMBEDDEDNESS THEORY

Author(s): Shi Liping,Teng Yun / Language(s): English / Issue: 50/2015

“How to make safe production management model change into a new model meeting the real needs”, has become the important subject faced by the researchers and practitioners of the current production safety management. From the perspective of individual initiative, this study attempts to use social cognitive theory and anthropology Embeddedness theory to answer the question. This study verifies the influence of personal initiative on safety production management mode transition with 1556 questionnaires from 73 manufacturing enterprises in China. The reliability and validity of all the scales were found acceptable. Path analysis using SPSS-19 and AMOS-17 software showed that there is a significant positive correlation between personal initiative and safety production management mode transition; three dimensions of safety individual behavior (safety passive behavior, safety controlled behavior and safety initiative behavior) play a partial mediating role in personal initiative and safety production management mode transition; three dimensions of on-the-job embeddedness (organization fit, organization link and organization sacrifice) can strengthen the positive correlation between personal initiative and safety production management mode transition. These findings made a new addition to the production management mode transition theory, and had guide significance for enterprises to improve production safety management level.

Adam Smith on migration

Author(s): Daniel Rauhut / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2010

Adam Smith considered poverty and unemployment as push factors for migration and wages high enough to provide for a worker and his family as a pull factor. Migration as a free mobility of labour leads to an optimal allocation of the factor commodity labour as well as changes of employment which necessary to equalise wages between different geographical entities. The consequences are not only promoting economic growth and prosperity, but also reducing poverty. Smith has no contemporary empirical support for his theory.

Aile Ve Kadin Temalarinin Sosyal Bilgiler Ders Kitaplarinda Veriliş Biçimlerinin İncelenmesi: Nitel Bir Araştirma

Author(s): Mustafa Seker / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 78/2014

Social Studies Lesson is a lesson made up of disciplines that belong to Social Sciences. Social Sciences also deals with the social aspect of human life through various disciplines in its own structure. Social Studies, which is made up of disciplines that belong to Social Sciences, acts as a uniting role on the denominator of fundamental citizenship by utilizing these disciplines. Regarding presentation of various disciplines that belong to Social Sciences after being melted in a pot with a sense of fundamental citizenship, Social Studies has to deal with the “family” institute as well which is at the same time an indispensable element of social life, and acts as a fundamental constituent of the society. The reason is, concept of “family”, one of the most basic components of “society”, which also forms the fundamental of Social Sciences, composes one of the most significant building blocks of the society. Social studies handles the values of the society with a sense of fundamental citizenship, and within the historical process, it is not able to ignore the importance of the term “family”within the scope of this concept, which is one of the most important components that forms the society because of both the programmes prepared and the mission undertaken. 4 inseparably linked components, parents, individuals, family and the society also complement each other. Therefore, when the subject of “family” is dealt with in literature, laying stress on the component “woman”, who is one of the most important elements of family, fills an important void. Thus, “Social Studies”, which deals with the components that form the society within the framework of the disciplines they abide by in a formal order, carries out this task from past to present within the scope of programme prepared. And while performing this duty, it needs a number of materials. Textbooks are one of these most important materials. In this study, the way Social Studies textbooks deal with the terms “family” and “woman” are examined. This is a qualitative study, which was conducted with the method of document review. According to this research, it is seen that the themes of “Family” and “Woman”, which are in the textbooks of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades are not given adequate coverage. It is noticeable that these two components which have an extremely important place within historical, cultural and social perspective are not dealt with sufficiently in the schoolbooks that students use most. Hence, lack of coverage of themes of “Family” and “Woman” with a proper and planned concept in the Social Studies textbooks contradicts the purpose of the Social Studies, prepared with a concept passing down historic and cultural inheritance from one generation to the next, and the aim of lesson plans prepared towards this end.

Aktér mezi dispozicemi a kontexty jednání: jak promýšlet jednotu humanitních a společenských věd

Author(s): Bernard Lahire / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 01/2017

Analiza mitu piękna kobiecego ciała na podstawie wybranych reklam i sztuki krytycznej

Author(s): Malgorzata Karczmarzyk,Agnieszka Bzymek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2015

The definition of beauty in the 21st century, which comes from advertising and art, has become a critical contribution to the attempt to analyse some artistic actions and events which make use of popular culture reconstructing the social reality as well as building a different semantic perspective. The postmodern body has been commodified, offered for sale, or has become an icon presenting current cultural, medical or aesthetic trends and canons. In our speech we would like to study the critical art discourse centered around a disagreement with the universally applicable carnality image of a woman whose body is subjected to aesthetic restrictions and repressed by a beauty myth of victimization. The body becomes a tool serving the interests of large marketing corporations which, by creating an artificial myth of the beauty of a female body, shape it according to their own preferred framework. Starting from the philosophical and emancipatory reflection, we aim to show in this article that the body in culture is presented according to the prevailing discourse of power. Finally, we will try to mention the importance of corporeality in the world media, where it often becomes objectified.

Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe, eds. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Author(s): Jeanne Kormina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2016

Review of: Jeanne Kormina - Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe, eds. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2013. 238 pp. ISBN 978- 0-415-65947-5.

Ansambl aktorski

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 28/2016

This article analyses how actors’ ensembles function as an alternative to the star system of actors’ participation in film.

ANTROPOLOGIJA (,) ŽENE I FEMINIZAM

Author(s): Jana Bacevic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Antropologija se kao zasebna disciplina u zapadnoevropskom i severnoameričkom kontekstu razvila tek krajem XIX i početkom XX veka, tako da je u određenom smislu vršnjakinja s feminizmom. U ovom tekstu pokušaću da – u kratkoj i preglednoj formi – pokažem neke od međusobnih uticaja, dodirnih tačaka, ali i sukoba i razilaženja ove dve oblasti. Širli Ardener (Shirley Ardener) razlikuje antropologiju žena od feminističke antropologije; prva se odnosi na oblast istraživanja, dok druga podrazumeva specifičan pristup, metodologiju, a često i etičko i političko opredeljenje.

Antropotehnika i filozofski smijeh

Author(s): Željko Senkovic,Darija Prahin / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1-2/2016

Da bismo govorili o ≫kraju povijesti≪ potrebno je biti u hegelijanskoj dispoziciji, primjerice razrađenoj od Alexandrea Kojevea. Teorija kraja povijesti ima u sebi mnogo toga sugestivnog, kakve su već sve megalomanske teme. U osno vi, riječ je o tezi da su moderna društva došla na takvu razinu da više ne ma bitnih inovacija, nego je još samo moguće perfektuiranje u za danim gabaritima.

Applying Genre Theory to Citizen Participation in Public Policy Making: Theoretical Perspectives on Participatory Genres

Author(s): Marie Dufrasne,Geoffroy Patriarche / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2011

This research is aimed at constructing a theoretical framework for the study of citizen participation in public policy making, based on genre theory. Drawing on various approaches to genre (rhetorical analysis, literary analysis, sociolinguistics, media studies, organisational communication, user interface design, and computer mediated communication), this paper suggests a series of theoretical perspectives on participatory genres, a notion freely borrowed from Erickson (1997) and applied to the methods, activities or applications of citizen participation in public policy making (e.g. consultations, petitions, citizens panels, opinion polls). The proposed theoretical framework takes into account the contexts of participation (conceived as both situations and communities) as well as the interrelationships between participatory genres, and focuses on the repertoires of elements (Lacey, 2000) that characterize participatory genres in terms of ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘what’, ‘who/m’, when’ and ‘where’ (Orlikowski & Yates, 1998). It is argued that approaching citizen participation in public policy making through the lens of participatory genres is valuable to both researchers and practitioners.

Approaches to Food Safety Hazard Control and Risk Management: A Case Study of Preston City Council’s Food Safety Compliance Strategy

Author(s): Richard Bradford-Knox,Kevin Kane,Simon Neighbour / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

This case study aims to demonstrate that an approach based on cooperation and collaboration can improve the rapport and trust between food businesses and enforcement officers leading to improvement in levels of compliance and reduce costs. The study integrates a desk research literature review with a qualitative case study approach supported by quantitative data. Case interviews with food industry professionals were performed to identify opinions and barriers to successful legal compliance plus in depth interviews with the Preston City Council whose approach is the focus of this case study. The barriers and challenges facing all parties involved implementing risk based food safety management systems and achieving an acceptable level of compliance with the various public regulations and industry regulations have been the subject of much research. These include factors of motivation, commerce, training, hazard control, analysis and management. This case study shows that the cooperative approach, and techniques used by Preston City Council demonstrates a trend towards improvement in the levels of food hygiene compliance among food businesses as well as economic benefits in the use of resources.

Around the Bloc: Ancient Forest Axed in Poland

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English / Issue: 05/31/2016

Officials say the operation aims to prevent “forest degradation,” while activists counter with charges of violating EU law for ulterior motives.