„Символният“ капитал на българското училище

Author(s): Nikolay Tsankov,Veska Gyuviyska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2017

This study is influenced by the ideas of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The assumption is that the external differentiation of the school system conceals a social selection of students, teachers and parents. On an empirical level, the answer to the question of the existence of symbolic capital at school and the students’ explicit or implicit awareness of it is sought.

„Сирийската криза“ в България или как Facebook конституира граждански обединения

Author(s): Kalina Ganeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2014

The article discusses the potential of Facebook to mobilize various groups of citizens around important public causes. The first part of the article is focused on the basic characteristics of the social network, the principles of the establishment of ties between participants in the network and the strength of these ties. In the second part, the author analyzes attitudes in two Facebook groups created after the Syrian refugee wave in 2013.

„Скривена незапосленост“ у Републици Србији – обесхрабрени за тражење посла

Author(s): Natalija Mirić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 10/2013

In conditions of difficult economic situation in our country, discouraged persons, the category of inactive population, are gaining in significance. Because the job seekers are convinced that the jobs are not available, not all the discouraged job seekers do meet the definition of unemployment. But they want to work and are able to work when the job is offered, and an unused portion of labor resources can appear in the context of "hidden unemployment".

„Словото на омразата“ в процесите на изграждане и утвърждаване на етническата идентичност

Author(s): Genka Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

Ethnic identity is an object of analysis of many academic disciplines, and the term itself refers to the link of the individual person to a certain group. Identity formation and confirmation are closely linked to two parallel processes – of constructing the collective „Self“ and of its distinction from the „Others“. The article reviews the main schools of thought with regard to the phenomenon of ethnic identity – primordialism, instrumentalism, constructionism and interactionism, and identifies the role hate speech plays in the identity construction process both vis-à-vis individual and collective identity, its significance for the interaction and the identity of the „others“ as well as the main mechanism used in these processes. It concludes that identity serves as a mediator and moderator of the effects hate speech produces in society.

„Случаят Светлозар Игов“ и други „недостоверни“ случаи…

Author(s): Evelina Belcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

Talks with Svetozar Igov mirror the innermost spiritual autobiography of a scientist, his experience in/with literature. But “Svetozar Igov case” is not only a personal biografema. In it – differently – looking and spiritual biography of a generation in Bulgarian literature. This is a sign, symptomatic episode, it must be meaningful as such. Fraying will shed light on many other “improbable” cases. Although every fate is unique in its own way ... But in his case be removed fate of many of this generation whose personal destinies will remain “listed” and will sink into the darkness as “implausible” ... In the second, interpretive part of Antonia Velkova Igovs personality is a mirror in “high waters” of humanitarian thought, social psychology, cultural anthropology.

„Социалистическият начин на живот": идеология, общество, семейство и политика в България (1944-1989)

Author(s): Daniela Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2008

Reviews and Comments

„Социалният свят през двадесет и първия век: противоречиво наследство и надигащи се предизвикателства“. ХV световен конгрес по социология 2002

Author(s): Siyka Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2002

„Социологически снимки“ на общества в движение. Разсъждения за „арабската пролет“

Author(s): Rahma Bourqia / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: Special/2015

In these past two years, Arab societies have witnessed uprisings that represent a challenge to sociologists trying to understand the social processes underlying the dynamics of these events. These societies are now on the forefront of the media without always being the subject of sound sociological reflection that might make a consistent contribution to sociological theory. Here lies a project that yet remains to be undertaken. It should be noted that classical sociology has focused its analysis either on the structural factors or on the function of social factors animating societies. During the past few years, a new sociology has started dealing with singularity, unpredictability of phenomena, with uncertainty and risk, within Western societies, which remain the focus of research. Without renouncing such a hegemonic sociology and its conceptual tools, sociology should be reoriented so as to grasp the movement that Arab societies are going through, within the framework of a complex sociological reality where political, socio-cultural and religious factors and strategies of actors interlace. This article raises some of the issues related to the production of sociology of societies in movement.

„Социологията в обществото“: професионални реализации на дипломираните по социология от Софийски университет (1990–2006)

Author(s): Petya Slavova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2011

BULGARIAN SOCIOLOGY: INSTITUTIONAL AND EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS (DEBATES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF BSA)

„Социологията на религията 1945–1989“ и по-нататък: теми, теории, издания (James Beckford. 1990. „The Sociology of Religion 1945–1989“. In: Social Compass 37 (1). 45–64)

Author(s): Nonka Bogomilova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2017

„Социологията на социалното“ се е изчерпала познавателно

Author(s): Ivan Tchalakov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2011

BULGARIAN SOCIOLOGY: INSTITUTIONAL AND EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS (DEBATES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF BSA)

„Социологията“ на Макс Вебер: поглед откъм историята на неговото творчество

Author(s): Klaus Lichtblau / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2015

The article considers Weber’s move from history to sociology and from cultural science to verstehende sociology. While these issues are not new, this article scrutinizes them in terms of the complete history of the works of Max Weber, which are now available through the publications of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe. Also considered is the relation between Weber’s early use of stages theory of historical development and the individualism imputed to him. At root is the changing relation of methodology to his substantive studies in social economics, law, domination, religion and universal history.

„Спасението на българските евреи“ – 70 години война на интерпретациите

Author(s): Stiliyan Yotov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2013

The Past: Interpretations and Rewritings

„СПОМЕНИ ОТ МИНАЛОТО В ЖИВОТА МИ“ – ИЗ ВСЕКИДНЕВНИЯ ЖИВОТ НА БЪЛГАРИТЕ В ЗАПАДНОТРАКИЙСКИТЕ ГРАДОВЕ (1913–1919 Г.)

Author(s): Maria Markova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

In this paper an attempt will be made to describe a part of an ordinary day in the city centres in Western Thrace during the Bulgarian administration of the district between 1913 and 1919. Based on an episode from an unknown and unarchived autobiography, the life of one main actor will be projected. He is a boy from a local Bulgarian family. His parents sent him to become apprentice in Şapçı (Σάπες) and Gümülcine (Κομοτηνή). In the big city the boy built new relationships – with the members of a Jewish family and with the “people from the market” who were connected with it. The biographical episode commented is simultaneously part of an “exotic exception” from the collective memory of the group: the Bulgarians from Western Thrace.

„СТАРБЪКС”: НАРАТИВИ НА КОРПОРАТИВНОТО ГРАЖДАНСТВО

Author(s): Hristina Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The article presents the development of the international chain Starbucks as a projection of the roles and significance of corporate citizenship. It also outlines leading aspects in the company policy, corresponding to the social trends and consumer demands under the conditions of hyper-competition and hyper-consumption. The study is based on Douglas Halt’s conception about brands – icons and Gilles Lipovetsky’s theory about hyper-consumer society.

„Статистика, социология и още нещо ...”

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2018

„Странният случай на Бенджамин Бътън“ – време и пространство в политическия анализ

Author(s): Evgeniya Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2019

The political analysis does not describe; it transforms and rearranges the meaning of the world. The political analysis is a practice of thinking, concerned about the current state and prosperity of communities and their relations. Within the framework of this understanding, the article analyses time and space as political categories since every political system can be completely defined through them. Time and space are variables and can be in a condition of crisis, urgency, importance or necessity. They could be disarranged, and could affect positively or negatively the collective existence and action in the political communities.To interpret time and space as political categories, first, we explore the temporal-spatial frames of political analysis. Second, we study the history of political time and space as ideas and facts. Third, we analyze the metaphorical use of the concepts in a political context, and we draw analogy to the physical notions of time and space. Finally, we present the various manifestations and understandings of the political time and space nowadays.

„Стратегическо мислене – метапознание – рефлексия“в практическото обучение на студенти педагози

Author(s): Nikolay Tsankov,Veska Guviiska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

The paper explores the relation strategic thinking – metacognition –reflection in the context of the professional training programs of education majors.It revisits the idea of strategic thinking championed by an array of philosophersfrom Immanuel Kant through John Dewy to Martin Covington, who foregroundsthe issue from the point of view of education and student success. The latter is feasible only if clear criteria are available to the student as regards his/her capabilities, the complexity of the task and the resources employed in its resolution.In principle, this is a process of metacognition inasmuch as the student evaluates his/her own reasoning and professional reflection developed in the shape of self observation and self-cognition. Our assumption is that the most important condition for the utilization and realization of this relation is the language behavior of the student wherein language and idea, reasoning and questioning, doubt and argument validation coincide. The analysis is developed within the framework of Donald Davidson’s conception of reiterating the relation between language and act and that between language and mental processes as a network of convictions, attitudes and expectations.

„Строителите на съвременна България”: въвеждане извън национализма

Author(s): Ventseslav Sholce / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1 (5)/2017

The aim of this paper is to make an inquiry into the structure of Introduction to Bulgarian author and diplomat Simeon Radev’s book of history Builders of Modern-day Bulgaria (1910). The inquiry conceives a certain problematization of the supposedly self-evident meaning of the text by showing its irreducible ambiguity. The paper tries to propose a new theoretical framework for future analyses on nationalist discourse in Bulgarian context.

„СУРВА“ В ПЕРНИК И СПЕЦИФИКИТЕ НА ПОЛИТИКИТЕ ЗА ОПАЗВАНЕ НА КУЛТУРНОТО НАСЛЕДСТВО В ЕПОХАТА НА НРБ

Author(s): Nikolay Papuchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2019

The article presents the results from the study of one of the most famous festivals of masquerade games in Bulgaria – the International festival of masquerade games – Surva – Pernik. The first edition of the festival was in 1966 and since then (until today), there have been many changes in its organization, conceptions and periodization over the years. The focus of the present article is put on the policies of the ruling communist party of preserving cultural heritage in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria in the period between 1945 and 1989. „People’s culture and the heritage of oppressed people“ was among the main ideological formulas in the official documents, which focussed the party members officials’ efforts in the sphere of culture. Under this ideological phrase there have been implanted a lot of changes in the traditional way of life in the country, which reflected over the cultural customs and rituals. The questions of traditions, heritage, and the old and new forms of inherited rituals are analysed in the light of the new ideology enforced in the social life after 1944. The documents from different administrative centres – both government’s offices, party’s committee and municipality’s bureaus – are studied in order the hidden sides of the decisions, concerning cultural policy in the country, to be shown in their complexity.