Възможности на работодателите за подготовка на персонала

Author(s): Vyara Gyurova,Lubov Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The article presents opportunities for employers to organize the staff teaching by using legislation in support of employability and staff’s qualification, out-of firms teaching organizations, as well as in-service on the work place training. The experience of the State enterprise “German-Bulgarian VET Center” is presented as one of the best teaching organization in Bulgaria, with high quality of the offered educational services. The conditions and technologies of the construction of one internal Center for in-firm staff teaching are outlined as a factor for keeping the human resources quality and competitiveness of the firm.

THE HYPOTHESIS OF “DIMINISHED MAN” UNDERSTANDING HUMAN EXPERIENCE. THE SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE1

Author(s): Ilie Bădescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Human distinguishes himself from other beings by its nucleic duality. He is also body and soul, “faulty breather” and “gifted being”. As such, he is threatened by his own identity concomitantly by a spiritual falling (a top-down dynamism) and a spiritual raising (a bottom-up dynamism). This type of analysis involves revisiting the issue of man’s identity itself and consequently requests a new theoretical system. Noological Sociology gives us the adequate categories for such a purpose. The present paper focuses on these issues and proposes a comprehensive paradigm for the upward becoming of human being within the postmodern society. This paradigm gives intelligence also for a new approach of Socio-Bioethics.

Корпоративна Коледа: „партито ми е много по-добро от партито ти“

Author(s): Rossitsa Boulgurova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Christmas is often cited as one of the most global and most commercialized holidays. In the social imaginary it is also one of the most family-oriented holidays. Recently Christmas celebrations have become more and more common outside of the family milieu. In the second half of December, numerous Christmas parties are organized and they have become an invariable part of end-of-year celebrations. It is exactly such types of non-family Christmas celebrations that are the object of interest for this text. The article analyses the “Christmas party” phenomenon, based on a series of interviews and on participant observation. These holiday manifestations are freely imbued with various content, with the purpose of affirming group and organizational identities; they are influenced by global tendencies, including the search for an ever more exciting experience and, last but not least, their media reflection in social networks is no less important than what is happening offline.

Memory, Interpretation, Identity

Author(s): Wojciech Kalaga / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article investigates complex relations between memory, interpretation and identity, with special emphasis on the role of memory as a building material and of interpretation as a constructor of human identity. Construed as an ontological condition of subjectivity interpretation seems to be inevitably involved in the workings of memory, both individual and collective. However, the archival model of memory dominant in the Western culture effectively excludes interpretation as a mechanism of (re)constructing memory because it depicts the latter as a stable and unchangeable imprint of an experience. Likewise, the Bergsonian model, which portrays memory as a virtual space, leaves little room for interpretation. It is only when Bergson’s model is supplemented with the pansemiotic vision of C.S. Peirce – or, in other words, when the virtual space is filled with an infinite network of interpretive sign relations – that the inextricable connection between interpretation and memory in shaping human identity becomes theoretically validated.

Медийната власт като основен проблем на Конституцията на Република България

Author(s): Hristina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The “Fourth power” is associated more with the media, which explain to people what is happening in the respective country. In the modern society this is turning into a problem, because it appears to be a governors tool and in the same time – tool for control over the governors. The only possible solution is to reconsider and describe properly the communication rights in the Bulgarian Constitution. There have to be precisely described the rights for freely expressing personal opinion; for freely browsing, gathering and sharing information; for protecting personal data; for independence of self and for intellectual ownership.

INTRODUCTION GENERALE

Author(s): Dominique Glaymann,Yves Palau / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2018

Ce dossier coordonné par Dominique Glaymann, Yves Palau, Xavier Pons et David Smadja constitue une sélection de communications prononcées lors du colloque fondateur du Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique-Hannah Arendt (LIPHA) organisé les 4 et 5 juin 2015. Comme il se devait, son premier colloque portait sur l’interdisciplinarité dans l’étude du politique. L’interdisciplinarité et la science politique constitue un objet de recherche déjà bien balisé. Pour se limiter au point de vue de la science politique francophone, plusieurs ouvrages abordent cette dimension, parmi lesquels La fabrique interdisciplinaire sous la direction de Michel Offerlé et Henry Rousso , Science politique et interdisciplinarité sous la direction de Lucien Sfez et Faire de la science politique, sous la direction d’Yves Déloye et Bernard Voutat .

DE LA MUSIQUE EN POLITIQUE : L’IMPERATIF DE L’INTERDISCIPLINARITE AU SECOURS D’UN OBJET DELAISSE

Author(s): Thibault Jeandemange / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2018

The introduction of marketing in political party strategies has considerably altered the uses and place of music in the way election campaigns are designed and conducted. This publication attempts to revisit the epistemological and methodological issues of political marketing raised by the use and role of music. Why is the interdisciplinary approach to music a relevant tool to revisit the analysis of political marketing by political science?

Чувството за принадлежност към Родината като аспект от националната идентичност на учениците от началното училище

Author(s): Mariana Koseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2019

This article presents the results of a qualitative empirical study. The theme of national identity is approached with the idea that in the period of “middle childhood” the cognitive and emotional foundations of its further development are laid. An attempt was made to explore in a comparative sense the sense of belonging to the homeland of children of Bulgarian and Roma ethnicity at the end of the period. Special attention is also paid to their self-determination towards the national group as a basis for forming a sense of belonging.

Академичната автономия в контекста на съвременната университетска идея – философски и правни аспекти

Author(s): Veselina Slavova,Andriyana Andreeva,Darina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The subject of the present paper is academic autonomy as one of the fundamental principles for the functioning of the higher education institutions. The need to examine it is necessitated by changes in public attitudes and the resulting new requirements for higher education institutions. This demands the implementation of a multi-disciplinary (philosophical and legal) approach, through which both the notion of academic autonomy and its relationship with the idea of the university are to be explored. The changed attitudes towards the notion of knowledge, motivated by a number of factors (scientific, political, economic), have an impact on the idea of its free distribution and acquisition. This calls for the creation of new models of higher education and the necessary legal regulation of the relations between the higher education institutions and the state, based on a balance between the freedom and autonomy of the academic community and the state control.

Индустрията и музейното пространство (поглед към съвременния музей)

Author(s): Mira Markova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article presents Industry Museum in Gabrovo as an example for innovations in contemporary museum space and museum conceptions. The historical perspective in town development is presented through the focus of industry. The author searches for wider conclusions about society development during different periods in the XX century. A new way for forming historical point of view was presented. The author stays on the conception that the contemporary museum must be cultural institution which creates cultural tendencies and cultural policies.

Рокерската субкултура в малкия град

Author(s): Zlatina Bogdanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The paper presents a review of the rocker subculture in Bulgaria, describing and interpreting its elements from the perspective of subcultural studies. The research is focused on the development of a local subculture in the context of a small town(Asenovgrad), where an influential community of rockers has been formed since the mid-1990s. Starting with the premise that the youth subculture is both a supranational and local phenomenon, the local subcultural identity of rockers is reviewed and analyzed in reference to their narratives, practices, club membership rules and ethics. The museum of the rockers in Asenovgrad “The people with bikes“ (2011 – 2017)is considered as a special case of the public representation of the subculture through artefacts and settings symbolic of the ideas behind the rockers’ world brotherhood.

Клуб LAZARUS: идентичност и динамика в групата

Author(s): Elena Petkova-Antonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Fans and their (sub)culture represent significant research field since the 1990s. This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of the Horror Writers ClubLAZARUS, conducted in Sofia. The club is an example of a fandom, united by specific fan practices and making its own fans and followers. The study presents the context of the club culture and style through the eyes of the club participants, thus widening the scope of fandom research in Bulgaria. The main research questions are related to the group dynamics and identity of the club.

Субкултурата на бегачите на дълги разстояния

Author(s): Boryana Angelova-Igova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Ultramarathons are very popular among active citizens in Bulgaria, and this popularity cannot be understood as just fashion. I believe that there is a deeper social cause behind this phenomenon, namely the presence of a subculture. The present study aims to describe the significance of this subculture, and how it is functioning in Bulgaria in the XXI century. Of particular interest is the way in which the subculture occurs, the values and worldviews of the participants as well as their class belonging. This subculture is a micromodel in which we can see more clearly social changes and attitudes in the dominant culture. I have paid special attention to gender relations within the group, with the idea of finding out whether it exhibits the same sexist attitudes toward women that are observed in the dominant culture of contemporaryBulgaria.

Българските футболни фенове в чужбина. Случаят Vienna boys

Author(s): Kremena Iordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

This paper is dedicated to the football fans of Bulgarian clubs abroad. The research is a result of ethnographic field study among the community of Bulgarian supporters of CSKA Sofia in Vienna, which is organized in the small fan club Vienna boys. Thestudy of such informal institutions, formed on the basis of common interests andfunctioning among the Bulgarian communities abroad, allows us to enter into thespecific environment and culture of the studied group with its specific characteristics,on the one hand, and on the other – to seek for the place of its participants as a partof another larger community, such as the national one.

Macedonian Affective Rhizome: Fear and Shame in the Case of the Macedonian “Name Issue”

Author(s): Ana Blazheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2019

The text examines two core emotions - fear and shame - and how they shape the affective and social dynamic in relation to the Macedonian “name issue.” Both fear and shame are analyzed through phenomenological approach and in relation to other affects and as core affects that also enable social polarization. Polarization is explained through two Gestalt concepts: polarities and fixed gestalts that serve to analyze the phenomenon that results in exclusionary and divisionary types of thinking and behavior into two blocs - “us” vs “them.” The intersubjectivity is taken to be one of the core conditions of the social field that shape its dynamic as a crucial argument towards the need for overcoming polarized and dichotomized logic of understanding social and political polarization. The analysis shows that fear and shame create a rhizomatic pattern that connects different affects binding together and creating complex structures of behavioral responses and intersubjective space. Enacted through discourse, those affects shape the Macedonian social body as wounded by fear, anxiety, shame, hate, anger and trauma, all of which constitute experience of parlous precarity. Those experiences could not be reduced to binary positions, but they create multiplicity.

On the Way North and Finding a Home

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article discusses the migratory movements from Bulgaria towards Norway, based on a field ethnographic research. The journey to the north and the accommodation in an almost unknown and cold country are analysed on the basis of oral history methods. The personal stories of the Bulgarian migrants present their view of the journey, their notions of Norway and the settling in afresh as a personal experience in the context of the complex migratory situation there. The specifics of the Bulgarian settlement in Norway predetermine the manner in which home and journey are perceived. The successful and relatively rapid advancement, the high living standard, the social model and the ability to quickly unite separated families, transform the migration north from a plain movement into a stationary lifestyle. For the Bulgarians, the newly established home in Norway acquires different aspects – it is the centre of the family, of comfort and security. For those immigrants the journey north also involves certain return to the ‘native Bulgarian’ expressed through the creation of a ‘Bulgarian Home’ via different immigrant institutions and organizations. The new transnational and cross-cultural home of the Bulgarians in Norway is becoming their ‘zone of comfort’.

The Public Baths as a Factor in Local Identity Construction, 20th–Early 21st Century (The Case of Gorna Banya Quarter in Sofia)

Author(s): Stamen Kanev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This article is part of ethnological research on the role and function of the public baths in the urban space. Fieldwork was done in 2017 in the Gorna Banya quarter of Sofia. In this publication, the public baths are seen as one of the markers that construct local identity. At the beginning of the 20th century, the old Ottoman baths in the centre of Gorna Banya are destroyed and new ones are built, which are preserved to the present day. The baths are part of the everyday life of the local people, who use their resources for drinking, cooking, washing, but also for trade and medicinal purposes. Furthermore, the inhabitants continue to observe some traditional family and calendar customs around the public baths. Although the baths are closed, the square in front of them continues to playa central role in public life. This is evident, on the one hand, from the annual celebrations, and on the other hand, from the gatherings in front of the public baths summoned via Facebook. The public baths continue to be a central place around which life in the quarter is organized. The local authorities are looking for different ways to fund the restoration of the old building.

Veneta Yankova. Bulgarians in Hungary: Cultural Memory and Heritage. Budapest: Bulgarian Republican Self-Government, 2014

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Mila Maeva. Bulgarian Emigrants in England – Past and Present. Sofia: Paradigma Publishing House, 2017

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Превенция на агресивните прояви в училище

Author(s): Svetlana Hambarska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The article examines pedagogical experience built upon the non-violent communication method for avoiding aggressive behavior in school. The author shares experience in solving situations showing aggression and proposes steps for managing and avoiding such attitude.