"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.

12 Eylül’ün Gençlik Restorasyonu: Atatürk Ve Gençlik Isimli Kitabin Bir Değerlendirmesi

Author(s): Cihan Erdal / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2013

Since 19th century, during the nation-state establishment periods and through 20th century, political roles were attributed to the youth, which were the result and the representation of the modernity. These roles have differed in different periods of the nations depending on the socio-economic and cultural changes, while the concept of youth is affected by such changes. There is a common discourse in Turkey which supports that after the military coup on September 12 and neoliberal policies applied by Turgut Özal’s government in Turkey, the youth became apolitical and a generation that stayed out of the politics was created. Did the September 12 regime really meant to have youth stay out of the politics? In this article, the effort of September 12 restorations towards rebuilding the youth will be analyzed through a collective work titled “Ataturk and Youth” published by National Education, Youth and Sports Ministry Youth Services General Administration.

90-letni Zygmunt Bauman: Schopferkraft i jego dwoistość

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

A Conceptual History of Political Regimes: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Authoritarianism

Author(s): Adam Przeworski / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

The labels we attach today to distinguish political regimes have histories. Applying them without understanding these histories is sometimes anachronistic and ethnocentric. I have little new to say about “democracy” and “dictatorship”, so that the discussion of these concepts is just a reminder. “Authoritarianism”, however, is a dubious neologism. I advance two claims: (1) In all regimes the power to command and be obeyed entails some dose of reason-giving, (2) What distinguishes regimes is the form and the extent to which the authority of rulers is monopolised by physical force. I conclude that the concept of “authoritarianism” adds little to the distinction between democracy and dictatorship.

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 House Ready to Crumble? Putting Back the Building Blocks of Macedonia’s Parliamentary Democracy

Author(s): Katerina Kolozova,Gordan Georgiev / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

A normák mint integrációs mechanizmusok a mai magyar társadalomban

Author(s): Vera Szabari / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2015

The study aims to sketch the theoretical and methodological background of former Hungarian norms and values studies, and their relation to the question of social integration. We can identify two, seemingly unrelated research fields in Hungarian sociology: one of them is the sociology of deviance having a collectivist theoretical and methodological background; the other one is the domain of values studies primarily focused on individuals. Between these two main research approaches there is a significant discrepancy. In my study I propose a joint examination of the two areas, interlinking the micro and macro levels. In particular, I model a joint anthropological examination of the different systems of values and the concrete actions.

A régi és új történeti adatok társadalmi természete

Author(s): Péter Tibor Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2015

This study seeks to provide an explanation for three sub-problems. 1. The social determination of creation/the arising of “old-type” new historical data (for example determinative factors for excavations, etc.); 2. the social circumstances of creation/ the arising of “new-type” new historical data (for example, historical medicine) 3. reinterpretation/re-structuring of old data (for example, the digitalisation of sources). There are two topics within this area of sub-problems: 1. how the new “data universe” (the internet) has changed the topics and methods utilized in research; 2. how academic communities have perceived and integrated the new data types and how the face of a community has become altered within this process. The first sub-problem is interpreted from a functionalist perspective, the second from a conflict-theoretical one.

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.

A szociográfia hasznáról

Author(s): Margit Ács / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2009

Margit Ács follows the footsteps of Miklós Zelei’s Separated village (Ister Publishing), and describes how useful sociography can be. The book, dealing with the issues arisen for over half a century ago, can be regarded as a part of the changing of the regime. Miklós Zelei together with his friends and cohorts has accomplished that a border-crossing was established between the villages Kisszelmenc and Nagyszelmenc and has achieved its goal that now everybody knows of these two villages in the Hungarian world.

A tőke örök-sége. Reflexiók Pierre Bourdieu tőkeelméletére

Author(s): László Galántai / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2014

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.

After the Relational Turn: The Problem of Social Identity

Author(s): Irena Szlachcicowa / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2017

Relational sociology rejects substantialism and focuses its attention on the complexity and dynamics of all forms of social life and the subjective nature of action. Relational thinking is an alternative attitude to both functional structuralism and strongly individualistic-oriented theories. Relationality emphasizes the processual and emergent nature of reality. Actions— individual and collective—appear as successive stages of a specific process of events, and result from the configuration of relations and social interactions constituting a particular situation. Different conceptions of identity have been developed within relationally oriented sociology. The aim of the article is to summarize the narrative and realistic approaches, and to present how much they differ in their ontological assumptions. The constructionist concept of narrative identity presented by Margaret R. Somers, and Kenneth J. Gergen’s project of a “relational self,” illustrate the narrative approach. Pierpaolo Donati’s concept of the relational subject and the theory of agency developed by Margaret S. Archer exemplify the position of critical realism.

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.

AIMS OF EDUCATION IN A POST-NEOLIBERAL CONTEXT

Author(s): Nesta Devine / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2017

This article is based on a Foucaultian genealogical approach to a problem of the present. In this case the “problem” is that current official aims for education are inadequate to the needs of students in a rapidly changing world. I discuss briefly the location of educational aims in their historical contexts (to establish that the historical context affects the aims of education), and then focus particularly on the two major theoretical streams of neo-liberalism: “Public Choice Theory” and “Human Capital Theory” and the ways in which they influence contemporary educational aims, in New Zealand as elsewhere in the “Western” world. As recent political developments suggest that neo-liberalism, as a political program, may be losing its popular appeal, I ask what the aims of education might be when both forms of neo-liberal thought have been discredited, and new forms of thought appropriate to a post-neo-liberal world might be developed.