Hasan Hanefî. İslâm Kültüründe İnsan ve Tarih. İstanbul: Ayışığı kitapları Yayınları, 2000.
Review of: Hasan Hanefî. İslâm Kültüründe İnsan ve Tarih. İstanbul: Ayışığı kitapları Yayınları, 2000.
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Review of: Hasan Hanefî. İslâm Kültüründe İnsan ve Tarih. İstanbul: Ayışığı kitapları Yayınları, 2000.
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Review of: Nizamettin PARLAK, Lisânüddîn İbnü’l-Hatîb’in Siyâsî Kişiliği ve Tarihçiliği, Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2012, Birinci Basım, 205 sayfa, ISBN 978-975-16-2475-8.
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E-waste research on South Africa cities is modest compared to the much larger research output on other African cities (e.g., Accra, Ghana, and Lagos, Nigeria). Synthesizing gray reports, academic literature, and findings from 25 interviews with key Cape Town stakeholders (from informal and formal firms and industry, civil society, and governmental organizations), this paper assesses the current e-waste landscape in Cape Town, bifurcated between numerous informal individuals/firms and a handful of large formal operators. E-waste activities focus on collection (with little value added), dismantling, preprocessing, and refurbishment without final processing, the latter being performed in Johannesburg and overseas. After a decade of e-waste deliberation, government, businesses, industries, consultants, and civil society organizations are coalescing around approaching e-waste as a strategic green economic opportunity, a tilt coinciding with the designation of Africa’s first designated green special economic zone at Atlantis. The green economy tilt, however, is by no means guaranteed: deficiencies in data, e-waste infrastructure, capacity building, and major differences of opinion about the role of informal operators persist.
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This paper critically considers the conceptualization of the ‘region’ in regional economic development. It utilizes the Durban Aerotropolis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa as a case of reference through which the conceptualization and underpinnings of ‘region’ associated with economic development are understood. This exercise is prompted by the nomenclatural shifts in local government from local economic development to regional economic development which is causing shifts in approaches to the implementation of economic development projects. The findings presented in this paper show that in the conceptualisation of the region in the instance of the Durban Aerotropolis, understanding the function, form and scale of a regional economic development project becomes pertinent to the social construction of the region with consequences for the project focus and implementation. In the discussion, function is examined as the purpose of a regional economic development project, form refers to the kind of economic development mechanism or strategy which could assist in fulfilling that purpose and scale speaks to the extent, reach and magnitude of the project, without which the implications are challenging practical enactment or implementation of regional economic development projects. The social constructions of region outlined in this paper thereby attest to the multiplicity of definitions which are typically based on the context in which the concept is being used and thus shows the ‘region’ inherent in regional economic development as produced through, and for, an assemblage of economic activity in space. From this we understand the region in regional economic development to be a social construct which presents itself as an assemblage of economic activity in space. Although we understand regions as spatially contingent, the theoretical and empirical conceptualisation of regions within regional economic development planning, policy–making and practice must draw on the specifics of contextuality to ensure its utility to economic development.
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The nexus of climate change and cities is acknowledged as of growing importance for inter-disciplinary research. In this article the focus is upon the perceptions of climate change and responses by tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa’s leading city and major tourism destination. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews with 30 tourism stakeholders an analysis is undertaken of the risk perceptions of climate change. Overall the results suggest a major disconnect between the climate change threats as openly recognised by Johannesburg city authorities and of the risk perceptions as revealed by local tourism stakeholders. The predominant view articulated by tourism industry stakeholders is that climate change responses and associated sustainability initiatives are something of a ‘nice to have’ rather than a necessity given current the current state of awareness and of climate change risk perceptions by businesses.
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Facing the challenge of saying and writing what you feel and think with the responsibility of the accuracy and objectivity is not anymore a dilemma for most of people. With the new era of technology the hate speech is more and more challenging the freedom of speech. The hate speech is not a recent phenomenon that has been discovered lately with the popularity of social media and technology development. These developments only helped the hate speech to be distributed easier and faster than ever. On the other hand exist a fundamental right for freedom of expression and information that guaranties to everybody the freedom to write offline and online what he or she thinks and believes. That doesn’t mean that freedom of expression is an absolute right, but it is associated with obligation and should be used in a very responsible way. Those rights and responsibilities are more and more relevant among populist tendencies that make especially women a target of the hate speech. In online networks or even on newspaper online, the civic journalism when is not edited and controlled most of the times makes more harm than good. Who is controlling that, if there is control over it? Does the newspaper take any responsibility or this remains in the hands of lunatics that hate everybody normal in this world? The economical crisis that faces the world today is not an excuse for making compromise with human rights.
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The aim of this article is to present a model of health care, its configuration during People’s Poland and the III Republic of Poland. In the years 1945–2009 Polish health care system underwent profound changes and was affected by country’s social, economic and political situation. In Poland the model of health care proceeded from universal health care in the years of 1948–1991 to public health care which was based on the act on health care public services of 1991.
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From a psychological standpoint, communicating a severe diagnosis entails more than just naming a disease, it is a complex process with a number of stages: finding out what the patient already knows about the illness (some of which might be wrong, and thus psychologically detrimental), informing the patient while answering any questions (about the illness itself, the treatment, prognosis, recovery period, etc.) and last but not least, providing a minimum of psychological support depending on the patient’s reaction. Romanian law regarding doctor-patient relationship and communication is modeled on the Anglo-Saxon model centered on patient autonomy and direct communication with the latter if the patient desires to know the truth about his condition. If this is not the case, the patient can name a proxy for doctor-patient communication. There are three legal documents that clarify these aspects: Law of Patient Rights, Medical Association’s Ethics Code and the Health Reform Law. The first two are conflicting on several aspects that we will discuss in this paper. The few studies on doctor-patient communication published in Romania reveal that there is no unitary methodology in this field. The doctors attest that often times the patient’s family, when faced with severe illness turn to the traditional model of communication, i.e. they desire to know the severe diagnosis first and pressure the physician to hide the truth form the patient, contrary to the letter of the law. The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of communicating severe diagnosis in nowadays Romania in a very complex context: 1. The model of doctor-patient relationship and communication has changed after communist era (from paternalistic to partenerial); 2. Conflicting and missing issues in laws; 3. Laws based on patient’s autonomy principle in a traditional society based on another model of taking care (the patient is part of a family nucleus and the family wants to interfere into the medical communication process). Communication has only recently entered the curriculum of some medical schools in Romania. The doctors questioned as part of a study reveal that they‘ve learned to communicate a severe diagnosis by trial and error. This being said we recommend the inception of practical doctor-patient communication courses that could lead to improving doctor-patient relationships, communication of the diagnosis being their foundations.
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The pechalbarstvo as a typical complementary economic branch of Stara planina region (the District of Pirot, Republic of Serbia) occurred around the late 18th century. The poor mountain population practiced various forms of pechalbarstvo among which the masonry was the most widespread. Each year, thousands of people used to set off on gurbet for Sofia, Zagora, Wallachia or Serbia. This led to significant changes in the social and economic development of these regions. The process continued until the 1930s, although after World War I some of the activities of the pechalbars were practiced only within the region of Visok. In the late 19th and the early 20th century, those people had already created a significant part of the national building heritage. The specimens of the activity of the pechalbar-masons preserved on both sides of the border bear record of the routes of this transfer as well as of the transformations in the life of the Stara planina villages caused by this phenomenon.
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The research is dedicated to the development of Slavic idea in the Ukrainian romantic circles of adherents, namely in the secret circle, called Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which existed in Kyiv during 1846–1847 years. That comradeship represented its own original understanding of Slavic problems. After it was eliminated by the regime of the Russian Empire, all Slavophil movements were stopped and theirs participants were persecuted and arrested. That is why the author of the article treats 1847 as a year of arresting Kyiv’s conspirators and as a time of change in the development of Slavic ideology.
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The purpose of the current study was to examine interdependence among mother tongue or Amharic language (L1) reading ability, English as foreign language (L2) proficiency and reading ability of grade eleven students at Damot Preparatory Secondary School for Higher Education, West Gojjam Administrative Zone, Ethiopia. Researcher randomly selected a sample of fifty grade eleven students. Mixed-method approach was employed for data gathering and analyses. To make the tests contextualized, one Amharic language and one English language school teachers prepared the tests to measure students’ L1 reading ability and L2 reading ability respectively. For students’ L2 proficiency, their first semester English language (L2 proficiency) final examination result was used. Then, the reading ability tests and L2 proficiency examination were analyzed through quantitative data. Correlations and regression were used to analyze the quantitative data. Researcher used unstructured-interview questions to collect qualitative data and analyzed in descriptions. It was found that learners’ (L2) reading ability score is influenced both by their first language (L1) reading ability and English as foreign language (L2) proficiency, with differences in effect. Students’ L2 reading ability is influenced both by their L1 reading ability and their L2 proficiency. This might imply both the interdependence and threshold level hypotheses contribute to L2 reading ability of learners. Thus, it is recommended that students’ L1 reading ability and L2 proficiency be promoted to help them improve their L2 reading ability. Besides, students need to be trained on L1 reading strategies so that they can transfer and employ them while they read their L2. In doing so, students could develop both their L1 reading ability and L2 reading proficiency and use them as facilitator in learning reading in their L1 and L2 language skills, promote their reading ability, acquaint them with academic reading, and in their day-to-day activities. Further research could be made to check interdependence among L1 reading ability, L2 proficiency, L2 reading ability and reading strategies in different contexts and grade levels. Studies might also be conducted on reverse effects of transfer from students’ L2 reading ability and L2 proficiency to students’ L1 reading ability at universities and colleges of Ethiopia and other multilingual countries.
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The article deals with the primary factors of the Southern Ukraine mentality formation. Mentality is a national type of world attitude based on linguistic images and symbols (often subconscious) that determine stereotypes of behavior, psychological reactions, the evaluation of certain events or individuals, and the attitude towards the surrounding reality. One of the most significant factors influencing the mentality formation of the Sou-thern Ukraine population is the linguistic factor. The distinction of languages me-ans, first of all, the difference between worldviews. National mentality fulfills the functions of historical memory and allows the people preserving identity and ethnic self-consciousness. The rural population that kept the ancient agricultural traditions, the outlook of ancestors-rebels and defenders of the Fatherland had chances to rebuild the independent Ukrainian state based on its social ideal (land, freedom, individual economy, and cultural traditions). For that case, the peasantry of the South of Ukraine, which has accumulated in itself the most characteristic features of the ancient Ukrainian (life in the steppe, love for religion, and rejection of any power except its own), is indicative. / V tekstu se piše o osnovnyh faktorah formovanja južnoukrajinskogo mentaliteta. Jedin iz najvažnějših faktorov jest faktor jezyka. Narodna mentalnost imaje funkciju historičnoj paměti i davaje narodu jegovy identitet i etničnu svědomost. ukrajinsku državu formovalo sělsko nasěljenje i jegova starodavna zemjeděljska kultura.
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The article deals with economic and social effects of the Reformation. One of them was secularisation, i.e. the transformation of the ecclesiastical estates into new latifundia (German: Territorien), and similarly enlarging rulers’ domains and landed estates of the gentry. In towns the ideas of the Reformation were well received and provoked social revolts and demands for the right to vote. Migrations, especially of the Dutch Mennonites and Calvinists, brought about an innovation jump in the sphere of agriculture, crafts, trade and art. The supranational culture that started to flourish may be called ‘Netherlandisation of the Baltic Sea Region’.
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The article contains a reflection on the psychological value of the film, general comments are made on selected examples of films created in 2017 in the Euramerican circle: Lady Bird, I, Tonya, Estiu 1993, Call me by your name. Although the analyzed examples do not strictly follow the genre formula of psychological cinema, they can be treated as a source of knowledge about the human psyche, and also as a tool for a clear impact on the psyche of the recipient. Artykuł zawiera refleksję nad psychologiczną wartością filmu, uwagi ogólne odniesione zostają do wybranych przykładów filmów powstałych w 2017 roku w kręgu euroamerykańskim: Lady Bird, Jestem najlepsza. Ja, Tonya, Lato 1993, Tamte dni, tamte noce. Choć analizowane przykłady nie realizują ściśle gatunkowej formuły kina psychologicznego, można je potraktować jako źródło wiedzy na temat ludzkiej psychiki, a również jako narzędzie wyraźnego oddziaływania na psychikę odbiorcy.
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The text is a memory of Professor Maria Dudzikowa, who was longtime head of the Department of School Pedagogy of the Faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, written by the employees of the Unit. The key words that organize the statements are the categories present in Professor’s scientific inquiries: experience, self-development, social capital, metaphor.
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The text commemorates Professor Maria Dudzikowa. It is a self-reflective view on author’s own scientific path, as well as on some groundbreaking moments which constituted a foundation and delineated the directions of her scientific interests and her involvement for the sake of academic communities.
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The emergence of law in society and the role that it occupies are fundamental to any account of liberal theory. As difficult as it is to secure agreement as to the ontological nature and epistemic requirements of law on a liberal view, the challenges that confront the liberal idea of law increase exponentially when considered as an international phenomenon. It is when justice is conceived of beyond the territorial borders of the modern sovereign state that problems emerge with the greatest acuity for liberals, as there is no international tribunal to genuinely and definitively adjudicate claims. Contrary to the ideals of many liberals, power still essentially reigns supreme among nations, a reality that sits uncomfortably with legalistic liberalism itself.
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This article discusses worldwide experiences in testing and acceptance of vehicles without drivers, highlights the importance of legal regulation of autonomous vehicles in particular through the analysis of legal regulation in the country that has achieved the most in the development of this technology and its present-day use, it provides a sociological dimension of the use of these vehicles, and then discusses the relationship of the Republic of Serbia towards the vehicles of the future and the advantages and disadvantages that they bring. Legal requirements are only one, but significant obstacle for the vehicles without drivers, though the circumstances in this area are gradually changing.
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The text is a critical review of the book by Srđan and Marica Šljukić, authors who point out that the contribution of sociology and sociologists in conflict resolution is rather underestimated and reduced only to the notion of Marx’s class struggle. It is this neglect of sociological insights into conflicts that has led the authors to devote part of their scientific activity to this topic. In their study, the authors presented the ideas of a significant part of thinkers, most of which do not belong to the mainstream of sociology, but also investigated certain social conflicts in ways that were available to them in the given circumstances.
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