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In the light of the social doctrine of the Church, local government is the source of dynamism of local community. It achieves the goal making the community more personal, autonomous and active. Creating this kind of vision of the community, the local government makes the people forming the community, more dynamic, active, autonomous, and conscious of their civil rights and duties.
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This article presents the problem of politics of di erence realized within the American educational system, with a special emphasis on higher education. This politics is according to the author based on putting in the center of all educational actions the idea of diversity, as well in creating academic institutions. This key idea becomes in the American context a special significance, regarding the fact that the American society is based on ideology that celebrates multiculturalism and diversity as such. This article presents also an important for the contemporary situation in the United States problem of combining cultural and ethnic diversity on the economical category of di erence between various classes. Furthermore, it seems to be more significant in the light of the economic crisis in recent years that affected also American education in the same extent.
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One point of similarity between education and pedagogy is that both have this same subject of interest: danger deal with social live, perceptible challenges and experiences, prospective chances for next generations. Furthermore, pedagogy should term the existing challenges of contemporary times. In that point of view, the main functions of education include the adapting of social changes and the passing of achievements and results of human knowledge. The configuration of human model, according to difficult challenges of contemporary times, depends on educations which have been reached a large number of social group. During the development of the informative society education should make a possibilities getting, accumulating, using, tiding the information. The most important assignment of educations is to permit a human being provide its own live. Education, accepting as a ground values of social development the responsible participation the member of society, should let a human being improve standard of living. This responsible Development depend on one condition: education have to give an ability to take part in social live to understand the other people, to give the hope that one change the world by capability and knowledge.
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The aim of the project "Bridging three generations: Timeless Games And Toys", was to gather three generations (Grandparents – Parents and Kids), through games and toys of the oldest generation to help pre-school children learning and playing games and toys of his/her grandparents. In this digitized world, one of the most challenging problems is to establish ties, bonds and bridges between the oldest living generation and post-millennium generation.
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This article undertakes a reciprocally informed analysis of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia and the temporary exhibition Aufgehobene Dinge: Ein Frauenleben in Ost-Berlin (Kept Things: A Woman's Life in East Berlin), on display in Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany, from March 28, 2010, until May 5, 2011.
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Le discours public roumain d’après la Révolution de '89 a gardé des anciennes habitudes langagières communistes dont "la langue de bois". D’autre côté, il a emprunté, comme une conséquence de la synchronisation trop rapide à la modernité, des clichés langagiers qui continuent les tendances agressives et autoritaires héritées du totalitarisme communiste. Notre analyse imbrique la sémantique du discours, la sémiotique, la pragmatique linguistique et la psycholinguistique, se concentrant sur des corpus tirés des discours publics des dernières dix années.
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The article presents the postcards as a source of knowledge about the social reality for a sociologist. The first part contains a description of postcards, the discussion of visual studies and the theoretical justification of postcards’ status as a data. The analyzed object consists of two parties: the iconic recto and verbal verso. What we see on the postcards and then read – explains the second part of the article in which I empirically examine the usefulness of this type of sources, analyzing the photographic presentation of the city on one hand, and contents appearing on greeting postcards on the other. Keywords: Postcards; Visual data; Verbal data; Photography; Old center; New center; Image of the city.
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The paper presents a case study of visits to World War I battlefield sites (monuments, sacred zones, cemeteries) on the Soča/Isonzo front. The focus is on acknowledging the motivations related to the construction of monuments and the role and interest of the Italian authorities when influencing and encouraging these visits. The paper will also attempt to determine the importance of this practice in the case of memorial sites at the Soča/Isonzo front. Additional issues addressed in the paper include how common visits to these sites were in the interwar period, who the primary visitors were and if and how this activity resonated in the tourism sector, and how tourism reflected the Italian national narrative in the contested border region.
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This article is an attempt to link the attributes of "Solidarity" with the movement's place in the theory of social movements. The evolutionary paradigm has left a gap with respect to selection and systematisation of these movements. The historical approach must be adopted in order to fill in this gap. It is therefore necessary to focus on "Solidarity" as a special case in the context of the history of nation, within the framework of the totalitarian macro-formation produced by the solutions adopted after World War II. "Solidarity's" contribution was not limited to one country only. It also helped to trigger more general transformation and globalisation processes. The rationality of "Solidarity" is rooted in systemic contingencies which required the development of an effectivemethod-sit-in strikes-but also negotiations with the regime. However, the democratic culture rooted in national tradition was the decisive factor. In the West, the state was already being viewed as an obsolete form, whereas the lesson which was learned from the Polish experience was that the sovereign state is essential for reform and modernisation. The validity of this lesson was confirmed in practice. The author argues that "Solidarity" did not fit into the schematic distinction between "old" and "new" movements. Class interests were not a priority, neither were the interests of minorities, as they are in the West.
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Scheibner Tamás: A magyar irodalomtudomány szovjetizálása. A szocialista realista kritika és intézményei 1945–1953. Ráció Kiadó, Budapest, 2014, p. 316.
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Launched on ‘International Women’s Day’ on 7 March 2008, Wikigender is a project created by the OECD Development Centre that aims to facilitate the exchange and improvement of knowledge on gender-related issues around the world. Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation was an event hosted on 17 April 2014 by the Clinton Foundation ‘No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project’, was designed to foster and advance progress for women and girls worldwide. The two projects are investigated here as new types of communication on the World Wide Web. The analysis tries to ascertain whether and to what extent the generic features and discursive strategies of the two new collaborative platforms contribute to the co-construction of information, the dissemination of knowledge and awareness, and the development of a participatory agenda (Jones 2008; Campagna, Garzone, Ilie and Rowley-Jolivet 2012) on themes related to gender as well as resistance to inequality and otherness. An examination of these two examples of on-line communication will entail a scrutiny of new digital genres (Yates, Orlikowski and Renneker 1997), of the genre-specific features of web communication (Gruber 2008), and of the democratizing impetus embedded in their discourse. Promoting the exchange and creation of information and increasing citizens’ access to it enables readers to simultaneously become users, writers and critics; it seems to be the new trend of new web-mediated forms of communication that is resulting in the ‘democratization’ (Fairclough 1992; 1995a; 1995b; 1998) of several types of discourse.
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Age is a social construct that should be analysed as a flexible, contextual category, while old age is subject to coding and interpreting that create different formal and informal concepts of old age. As a micro-social universe, a home for old and infirm persons functions as socio-cultural framework within which, by analysing the experiences of its beneficiaries, we established the existence of four dominant interpretations of old age: fatalist, affirmative, stoical and relativistic. This work is focused on the authentic voices of old persons and personal experiences of old age and ageing. Contextuality and variability (of the feeling) of age, articulately testified by those experiences, show that perceptions of old age and feeling of getting old decisively depend on a personal vision and interpretation of the experience, that need not be compatible with the actual chronological age.
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This article focuses on the practice of "working for yourself" (rabota na sebia), which was common in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s and entailed manufacturing and repairing household items during work hours, using factory resources.
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The concept of social identity is being reconsidered in the social sciences due to transformations undergone by (post)modern societites, such as globalization, localization, and the intensification of global migration. In the context, the Siberian identity (being "Sibiriak") is an interesting object of research for it reflects the cultural, political, and economic effects of globalization and localization, as well as transformations in individual self-perception. This paper demonstrates that Siberian identity is not only a personal matter but also a new type of social solidarity and political claim. In Russian, extended summary in English.
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Review: P. Sobolczyk Queerowe subwersje: Polska literatura homotekstualna i zmiana społeczna [Queer Subversions: Polish Homotextual Literature and Social Change], Wydawnictwo IBL, Warsaw 2015
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The notion of borders and their unstated others – ‘home’ and ‘identity’ – find a central place in diasporic discourse and serve as a strand that unifies it, a theme that is explored by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in ‘Before We Visit The Goddess’. My paper would engage with the novel-in-stories as an attempt at questioning and crossing these borders, in order to seek a home that may be transitory, in its physical manifestation, but is nevertheless one that seeks to anchor the mind and thereby liberate the individual from the shackles that have ironically moved beyond societal constrictions to becoming personal ones.
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This paper is based on a work done in the seminar Classical and Traditional Religions in the Integrated Master in Theology of the Portuguese Catholic University. It focuses on indirectly exploring the words sung in traditional religious ceremonies of Australian aborigines and in those of three Chinese main ones: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Being difficult the treatment of different cultural contexts and different languages and not being able to handle the original texts, this work is based on documents that have a legitimate translation into a known language. Once verified the existence of these reliable sources that had translated the lyrics, the texts of the three songs treated were translated from English to Portuguese. This work concludes that although the philosophical and linguistic "abyss" between Chinese and Aboriginal culture is clear, one may notice that most of the lyrics sung serve the same purpose: to teach younger generations how to behave in order to have a pleasant life, using language in parables or proverbs causing the message to be scrutinized throughout life. Words seem to resonate in the thoughts of the musicians themselves
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Bilewicz applies notions borrowed from the psychology of emotions to understand collective (im)memory in Poland, with a particular focus on defensive reactions to new historical data on Poles’ negative behaviour. Based on James Gross’ concept of emotion regulation, Bilewicz elaborates a model of downregulating collective moral emotions (such as guilt and shame). He then applies this model to the debate on the Jedwabne pogrom. He also outlines systematic social psychological studies that support his proposed emotion downregulation model. The article concludes with a discussion of alternative ways of presenting negative history – ways that overcome those defensive emotion regulatory processes.
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