„– if we twirl too much will our panties be seen?” – the social construction of intimacy and bodily privacy among girls in a kindergarten

Author(s): Manuela Ferreira / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (21)/2013

Drawing on the Sociology of Childhood, this paper aims to show how children during their play in kindergarten ascribe symbolic meanings to their own actions and to certain objects reproducing interpretatively certain taboos. Ethnographic descriptive analysis about the uses around a pleated skirt by a group of girls aims to show the emerging tensions between its playful use and the moral events generated. The ways girls coped with them, allows one to identify i) the social construction of their identity as both children and girls in the kinder-garten; ii) the interpretation of reproductive taboos concerning the behaviour and morality of the female gender, and iii) the importance of taboos for a consciousness of the intimacy and privacy of the infant body.

„… az nem civil feladat volt!” A kortárs debreceni önkéntesség empirikus vizsgálata

Author(s): Nelli Ujhelyi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 02/2018

The largest population movement in the history of Europe since the Second World War has been the migration processes of recent years, which reached its peak in Hungary in 2015. The significant demographic movement has generated noteworthy social reactions and has developed different narratives in the civil sector and also in the field of political power. In Hungary, the refugee issue has become a decisive topic of political discourse since 2015, and the ruling party coalition was among the first in Europe to represent the security policy. As a result, the refugees appeared as a source of danger, so the government has communicated a position of their rejection. In spite of this context, grassroots volunteer groups were organised in the civil sphere, who helped the refugee masses passing through Hungary in 2015.In my paper I analyse a very brief but very intense manifestation of Hungarian civil society involvement as a social response to current conflicts. I am looking at how the grassroots crisis management of the 2015 migration wave unfolded in Debrecen. My cultural anthropological research is based on online and offline participatory observations, semi-structured interviews and informal conversations with volunteers who helped refugees in Debrecen.In my study I focus on the motivations, attitudes, social responsibility of volunteers and their voluntary activity embedded in a broader socio-political set of conditions. The goal is to create a complex, multivocal illumination of the phenomenon. In the first part of my writing, I analyse the formation and operational peculiarities of philanthropic organizations showing solidarity with refugees in Debrecen. Then I focus on the individual aspects of volunteering. Finally, I am examining the socio-political context of the civil voluntary movement, also presenting the political interpretations of refugee assistance and its impact on volunteering. My aim is to outline a segment of the contemporary volunteering phenomenon in order to provide a framework for understanding the events recently affecting the civil sphere.

„…i niech świat dla Ciebie zatańczy…” Wspieranie rozwoju ucznia poprzez stwarzanie mu drugiej szansy

Author(s): Krzysztof Polak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2 (40)/2016

The Author presents the idea of a second chance as a fundamental dimension of respect by the teacher for the student’s right to make mistakes. He stresses the importance of time necessary for the realization of a second chance and indicates its metaphorical character. He sees it as an idea that should permeate all levels of education. After the second chance, the student should receive the third, fourth, and another chance. The Author associates it with the understanding of student failure, which cannot be treated by the teacher as the end of student achievement, but the impulse to initiate support activities. He combines this with the necessity of overcoming the cultural pattern widespread in educational practice, the dominant feature of which is time treated as the main criterion of assessment. This pattern is anchored in the system of school tests which predominates in student evaluation. For this reason, the Author claims it is not only a methodical but first and foremost an ethical issue connected with the teacher’s responsibility for the results of his students work.

„…nem a kortárs családi lét múló aberrációja” Családdefiníciók és családelméletek az angolszász szociológiai irodalomban

Author(s): Ibolya Czibere,Éva Molnár / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2015

„Удигруди“ – бразилският ъндърграунд от края на 60-те като радикализация и отхвърляне на Синема ново

Author(s): Boryana Mateeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

The paper deals with the historical and political origins, the thematic characteristics and stylistic specifics, etc., of Udigrudi or the Brazilian film Underground of the late 1960s in its complex relations with Brazil’s Cinema Novo. Analysing several significant films, their structure, and visual messages and providing some of the keynote statements of major representatives of the movement, the study projects the movement on to the panorama of Brazilian film between the 1960s and the arrival of postmodernity.

„Умения за успех“ чрез различни форми и извънкласни дейности [„Skills for Success“ through Various Forms and Extra-curricular Activities

Author(s): Mariana Boshnakova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2019

The contemporary fast-changing life requires development of various skills. Young people ought to be motivated towards participation in programs and implying their ideas in competitive environment. Carrying out activities and projects aids personal advancement of the youth. Such enterprise aims at creating a sense for innovation, teamwork, creativity and responsibility as well as strive for success, all of which are essential capabilities. This contributes to class activities, brings positive feelings and plays a key role in the success of the youth.

„Учене през целия живот“ – водеща ценност за съвременния учител

Author(s): Nadie Karagyozova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 8/2015

This article examines the challenges facing the modern teacher imposing dynamic changes and European values and rearranged priorities in education.

„Ученическа космическа агенция“ – образователна програма по астрономия и космонавтика

Author(s): V. Radeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2018

“Student Space Agency” was established and many students were educated in its different forms and programs. This initiative can be considered as successful for the students, as well for the teachers. The activity of this Agency during the years was listed and commented.

„Футболен град“: футбол и памет в Павликени

Author(s): Iva Kyurkchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

When interpreted through the memory prism, football offers rich information about the attitudes and the processes in the socium and thus offers fruitful grounds for an ethnological and anthropological study. This study is based on interviews and autobiographical narratives which are an important source for the personal and the family histories of the heirs of the footballers and the fans of the Pavlikeni team.The football memory which was formed reveals a state of desired timelessness which unites past and present. The leading version, which is exhibited in the museum on the occasion of every celebration of a particular event from the history of the team, helps to form the cultural memory of the local population. Thus there is a coherent narrative that remains in the memory of the local people and allows to construct the cultural memory of the community as a one which corresponds to the identity sought by the group.

„Химерната група“ в училище и загуба на „биографичното illusio“

Author(s): Nikolay Tsankov,Veska Gyuviyska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2017

The paper applies the biographical method to explore the concept of chimerical groups at school as a type of potentially criminogenic gangs. To this purpose, the concepts biographical illusio and biographical illusion as introduced by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu are employed and the process of their loss is delineated. The problem of “deviant norm” is indirectly related to the one of human identity inasmuch as a deviant personality implies social repudiation due to lack of adaptability. In the context of Bourdieu’s ideas, deviant behaviour is not associated with loss of identity, but rather with attribution of identity. With the very act of its naming, the negative identity of the chimerical group at school predetermines the lot of these students. Thus, the research exposes the in-depth mechanisms of the formation of the social identity of deviant communities as well as the relation of that identity with the biographical illusion and the biographical illusio.

„Химерните групи“ в училище и практики на наследяването: „загубата на бащата“

Author(s): Nikolay Tsankov,Veska Gyuviyska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017

The study explores the problem of chimera groups emulating criminal groups as a new sociopedagogical reality. Regardless of the diversity of scientific suggestions on signifying these criminal groups, we use chimera group as a main concept. The reason for that is the evaluative neutrality of the concept, which is associated with deviant behavior of children and adolescents at school and with the impossibility for this group to be detected. The concept deviance is interpreted in the context of the ideas of French sociological studies as presented by Pierre Bordieu and, more specifically, through the mechanisms of “sociogenesis”, which is conceived as a duality of the biographical and the social in the life of adolescents and the formation of their identity. The “sociogenesis” of inheritance uncovers the birth of the father as a mechanism of production and reproduction of violence in the chimera group. The analysis of chimera groups at schools is strongly dependent on teachers’ social sensitivity and the expansion of pedagogical discourse.

„ЦИКЪЛ НА ТАЛАНТА В УСЛУГИТЕ“ – ПРИЛОЖИМОСТ В ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ЗА ТЕХНОЛОГИЧНО БАЗИРАНИ УСЛУГИ

Author(s): Yulia Yorgova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: X/2019

This paper aims to study the relevance of the Lovelock & Wirtz „The Service Talent Cycle“ model in organizations providing Technology-Enabled Services. To achieve the goal, the principles of the model are presented and analyzed, the main distinctive features of this type of services and the resulting specificities in the HRM practices are clarified. Conclusions are made on the feasibility of the model in Technology-Enabled Services organizations.

„Шарли ебдо“ извън ограниченията на отразяването и политическото обсебване

Author(s): Maria Neykova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2015

The article explores some aspects that ensue from the case with the massacre of cartoonists from the French satirical magazine „Charlie Hebdo“ on January 7th, 2015. Three main lines are followed. The first line is the coverage of the case itself and the parallel interpretations.The second looks into the relations between media and politics and how politics uses „Charlie Hebdo“ to show unity or to introduce new security measures. The third line poses questions concerning the possibility to reach equilibrium between freedom of expression and security. The conclusion suggests that the global debate on how freedom of expression can coexist with the realities of the nations security in a context of different religions is in its beginning nevertheless that it started more than 10 years ago

„Ще си затворя очите и ще опитам“ (бедността като фактор за въвличането в трафик на хора)

Author(s): Alexey Pamporov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2019

The current article discusses the research outcomes of series case studies on pre-identification of trafficking in human beings in segregated ethnic quarters in seven settlements in Bulgaria. The research methodology bases on mixed methods approach of randomized samples among households with extensive migratory experience abroad and focused group discussions with such a migrants, grounded on gender-sensitive vignette questions. Based on the quantitative dimension the economic deprivation and poverty are illustrated. Base on the quantitative finding a typology of involvement is build, considering sham marriages of single mothers (after child marriage); commercial sex services of married women forced by their husbands or within the extended family; informal commercial sex services of male heads of households; and baby-trade in the large families.

„Энциклопедия замечательных плоских кривых“ – международный сетевой исследовательский проект в рамках MITE

Author(s): Roza Atamuratova,Mikhail Alferov,Marina Belorukova,Veselin Nenkov,Valeriy Mayer,Gennady Klekovkin,Raisa Ovchinnikova,Maria Shabanova,Alexander Yastrebov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 6/2018

Creation of conditions to motivate students, teachers and scientists from different countries by including them in a network is one of the goals of the International project “Methods and Information technologies in educations” (MITE). Crowd sourcing for a research project is an interesting form for the purpose. The project began in 2018 and was directed to the elaboration of an open electronic encyclopedia of plane curves. A website “We write by ourselves” was created to support the project. Scientists were the moderators of the encyclopedia topics. They formulated problems in articles-matrices. The participants in the project tried to solve the problems and wrote articles too. They were grouped in teams consisted of students from three countries – Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Russia. Their mentors were school teachers. The present article describes the technical and methodological work of those who helped students to obtain results.

…jak dorożkarz, …jak szewc, …na czym świat stoi – kląć. O wulgaryzacji polszczyzny i jej antypedagogicznej obecności w mediach

Author(s): Jarosław Pacuła / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2018

The article refers to the vulgarization of the Polish language. The author presents the results of statistical surveys while referring to the linguistic and pedagogic issues. It was also suggested that the constant growth of vulgarisms, insults and curses was proportional to an universal access and use of media (particularly in the electronic communication).

♫ Градил Дионис килия…♫♫ или за Брад Пит и Трифон Зарезан

Author(s): Vyara Kalfina / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 12/2015

The text explores the way ancient literary and mythological stories and personages are being used in modernity. The first part of it focuses on the cinematographic representations of ancient stories explaining some differences between the literary sources and their modern interpretations. Then, it explores local Bulgarian festivals that include some ancient divine or heroic personage, e. g. Dionysos, Sabasius, Roman warriors, etc. The practice of “reconstructing” i. e. composing the past is interpreted in terms of gaining prestige and in terms of the attempt to fabricate a coherent religious, cultural and even political history of Bulgaria.

№133: Border and Migration Management in the East: The Cases of Norway and Poland

Author(s): Kinga Dudzińska,Jakub M. Godzimirski,Roderick Parkes / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015

The migration and refugee situation in Eastern Europe receives comparatively little attention in the EUfor a simple reason: the people displaced by the fighting in eastern Ukraine have tended to stay closeto home or travel to Russia rather than head to the European Union. But eastern migration deservesattention. Migration issues, including questions of population loss, diaspora loyalty and bordermanagement, are gaining real geopolitical significance across Eastern Europe. Moreover, the EU’stechnocratic efforts to leverage access to its labour markets in return for political reform in Ukraine,Moldova and Georgia are becoming increasingly politicised there. This paper therefore sets out somebasic data on the issue. It takes as its case studies the receiving countries Norway and Poland, bothlocated at the external border of the EU, EEA and Schengen zone and next to Russia, and pays specialattention to the question of border management, including small border traffic and migration control,looking particularly at the gender dimension of migration.

№135: AKP Snap Election Tactics: Turmoil in Turkey

Author(s): Dylan O’Driscoll / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015

Following the 2015 national election in Turkey the AKP, for the first time since coming to power in2002, failed to win enough votes to form a majority government. Since the election the AKP has giventhe impression that it is attempting to form a coalition government, but in reality the party has beenemploying a number of tactics in order to increase its share of the vote in preparation for a snapelection. These tactics have mainly revolved around increasing the nationalist vote and damaging themain Kurdish party. However, these manoeuvres have increased polarisation in Turkey and haveresulted in an escalation of the conflict with the Kurds. Worryingly, it has become evident that the AKPaims to win power in the next election at all costs.

№142: Australia’s Asylum and Migration Policy: Lessons to Apply to the European Refugee Crisis

Author(s): Damian Wnukowski / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2016

Australia has a long history of immigration, including accepting refugees. Over the years, it has developed mechanisms and instruments that aim not only to help people in need but also to provide for the country’s stability and prosperity. However, in recent years some elements of Australia’s refugee policy, especially its approach towards the so-called boat people, have come under fire. Nevertheless, the solutions implemented by Australia should be part of the EU’s efforts to find ones useful for dealing with its current migration crisis.