„Átmeneti” kategóriák erősödése az ifjúság vallásos önjellemzésekor

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Bögre / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2017

My study is about changes of self-qualification of the religiosity of the youth. The situation ofthe youth changed in the 21st century and this drew with itself changes in the ways they see theworld. These changes influenced religiosity, too. I have analysed the meanings of the notionsused in creating categories of religious self-qualification. I have focused on the meaning ofthe expression of being “religious in my own way”. What do those using this category of selfqualificationexactly mean by that and what are other groups they compare themselves to then?I suspect the existence of a growing rate of transitional categories of self-qualification togetherwith a decline of more exact categories—even though the category of those “not religious” grew and became second biggest behind those of being “religious in my own way”. I hypothesizedthat the meanings of the notions used in religious self-qualification became blurred as thesecategories grew in quantity. To see more clearly, I used qualitative research and analysedthe meaning of these notions in more detail in the group of those who self-qualified as being“religious in my own way”. The results have shown that youth in transitional categories tendto see themselves as “seekers”. They explained that their aim is to find the meaning of life. Theysubordinate their quest and their self-qualification to this aim.

„Člověk se musí ponořit do komplexity“

Author(s): Petr Kupka / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2019

„Šedá zóna“ v éře tzv. normalizace: Dům techniky ČSVTS Pardubice v dějinách české sociologie

Author(s): Zdeněk R. Nešpor / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 01/2014

The Marxist-Leninist ‘ideological supervision’ of Czech sociology in the 1970s and 1980s led to the de facto academic impotence of ‘official’ institutions at universities and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. However, sociological inquiry and discussion found a home, at least temporarily, in various less regulated departmental, regional and technical institutes, which came to represent the ‘grey zone’ of contemporary Czech sociology, i.e. the space between official, state-sanctioned sociological work and prohibited, dissident sociology (and where a significant number of persecuted sociologists were able to retain their jobs). One such institute, the House of Technology in Pardubice, played a particularly significant role in the 1970s and, to a lesser extent, in the 1980s. For a decade after 1969 it hosted the dissolved academic Department of the Sociology of Industry (V. Herstus, O. Sedláček, D. Slejška) and its research activities, the former Institute for Social Analysis (from Hradec Králové), and a further 20–30 external (part-time) workers. The House of Technology conducted around 150 empirical surveys, especially in the fields of the sociology of work and the sociology of organisation and published a number of books in the field of sociology and its own journal, Analýza (Analysis), which in the first few years presented theoretical discussions and later the results of empirical research. In this article the author provides a broad analysis of the organisational background and results of the various activities of the House of Technology, which, whilst significant in terms of Czech sociology at the time, were, the author concludes, unable to serve as an effective substitute for real academic work. Indeed, it was more a research than an academic institution and the main contribution it made to Czech sociology was the professional ‘life jacket’ it offered persecuted scholars.

„Šeimos kazusas“, egalitarizmas ir žmogiškosios vertybės

Author(s): Saulius Kanišauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 2/2012

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania issued an Act which significantly extends the family notion and which is considered as an example of “family casus”. The concept “casus” is comprehended here in terms of Civil Law, i.e. as a precedent acquiring normative character. The paper focuses on the fact that the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania does not define the term family and it only relates it to a woman and man’s marriage which determines all family ties and psychological, economic and legal relations. This understanding of family concept is being argued by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania in attempt to appeal to single precedents of several Courts in different European countries and these precedents acquiring normative character. It is argued that the issued Act implies the liberty of family members without any commitment to the society rather than prioritising marriage which ensures family stability. Not discussing the legitimacy problem of the Act of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, the paper raises two questions: a) On what philosophical premises are taken for adoption of the Act which significantly extended the interpretation of the family concept? b) What are the possible outcomes in the context of retaining family and nation’s identity? It is assumed that the family understanding interpretation by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was determined by the ideology of new liberalism in which egalitarian ideas prevail. The source of this tendency can be traced back to the development and maturation of T. Hobbes conception of natural law and W.G. Hegel’s conception of history as an unfolding human freedom. Apparently, the new liberalism placed a high priority on the development of human freedom and emancipation; as a result, the progressive and requisite idea of human freedom development was transformed into the idea of exceptional freedom of marginal groups. On the one hand, it might endanger the identity of the family and the nation, on the other, if we confer the status of ontological value upon freedom, we distort the notion of value.

„Święta wojna” klasy średniej. „Industrialna kultura” kibicowania klubom piłki ręcznej wobec wolnorynkowej nostalgii

Author(s): Mateusz Grodecki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

The paper aims to explore the social phenomena of Polish handball fandom. The main hypothesis was that handball fandom provides middle-class supporters an opportunity to release the tensions of daily life, which can take the form of nostalgia. In order to verify this hypothesis an on-line survey was devised and conducted among a sample of 608 active handball fans in Poland. The survey was supplemented by observations at several matches. The fi ndings confirm that (a) handball fans are dominated by members of the middle class; (b) participating in active support during handball games helps them to cope with a variety of tensions and the challenges of working life and c) handball fans are experiencing nostalgia, especially nostalgia for ‘being part of a community’. However there is no direct link between nostalgia and motivations for attending handball matches.

„Útvesztő”

Az iskolából lemorzsolódó 15–19 évesek mindennapjai

Author(s): Judit Csoba,Nóra Barta,Lilla Hegyi,Katalin Harmati / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2016

One of the most important challenges of today’s society is to fight early school dropout, and integrate the socially disadvantaged youth to the labour market. Research programs investigate the reasons, causes and solutions for the phenomena. Current statistics and analytical attempts, however, provide very few insights into the family ties, friend relations, financials, thoughts, goals and everyday life of the targeted youth. Our research aims to explore these areas through structured exploratory interviews with participants aged 15 to 19 who have already experienced or are in danger of early school dropout from a second chance provider secondary school.

„Základní kameny“ bretonského regionalismu. Jeho vznik a vývoj do roku 1914

Author(s): Martina Reiterová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2018

This study deals with the circumstances of the emergence and development of the regionalist movement in Brittany before 1914. It focuses on the ancient and recent causes of breton regionalism and tries to briefly characterize it. We devote the first part to the older history of Brittany from which the Breton regionalists adopted the main arguments for their movement. The second part of the study describes the processes in the 19th century that led directly to the foundation of Union régionaliste bretonne in 1898 considered to be the beginning of the Breton regionalist activities. The study provides an introduction to the topic and offers an explanation of the growth and later on the failure of the Breton regionalism. The study’s aim is to introduce this topic to the Czech scholars and to contribute to the study of nationalism and regionalism in the Czech historiography.

„Zázemí“ a „bojiště” v usilování o spravedlnost: textová analýza odborářské, feministické a lidskoprávní mediální komunikace

Author(s): Jiří Kabele,Kateřina Vojtíšková,Martin Hájek / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 02/2006

The study is a computer-assisted text analysis of corpora obtained from the web pages of nine volunteer, non-governmental organisations and interest groups. The analysis encompasses three areas of justice claims: trade unions (the relationship between employers and employees), feminism (the relationship between men and women), and human rights (the relationship between citizens, foreign nationals, and the state). The aim of the study, based on Foucaultian concepts, is to determine whether media communications are structured by the formative impact of the discourse of claim-making or justice. The main findings relate both to the content and the structure of textual production. First, the organisations examined do not make frequent use of normatively loaded words in their statements. The matter of justice is implicit in their texts. Second, the structure of the statements, represented by the thirty most frequently used words, exhibits a common pattern in all three areas studied. At the one end of the ‘statement spectrum’, there are words referring to the social situation of the contesting actors (‘background’), while at the opposite end, words used in reference to their ‘battlefield’ (claim-making, bargaining and decision making) appear. This polar structure supports the hypothesis that the media communications of selected activist groups are influenced by the discourse of claim-making or justice.

„Znak” pyta: relacje państwo-Kościół A.D. 2015

Aleksander Hall, Halina Bortnowska, Jerzy Sosnowski, Adam Szostkiewicz, Cezary Michalski, Ewa Łętowska, Henryk Woźniakowski

Author(s): Henryk Woźniakowski,Aleksander Hall,Halina Bortnowska,Jerzy Sosnowski,Cezary Michalski,Ewa Łętowska,Adam Szostkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 727/2015

„Żółwik” i inne gesty. O fotografii ze Smoleńska

Author(s): Agata Sierbińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2018

On 10 April 2010 Donald Tusk and Vladimir Putin met on the site of the catastrophic crash of the Polish presidential plane. One of the photographs documenting this event appeared (three years later) on the cover of the “W Sieci” weekly. Its publication gave rise to an intense public debate concerning the gesture made by the Polish Prime Minister. The presented text is an analysis of the manner it functions in the social game taking place in the visual field; it is also an attempt at perceiving the stake of the exchange set into motion by this image.

„Zone Europa” – promocja kina europejskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Wochowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2008

The article focuses on a television channel called Zone Europa as an interesting media and aesthetic phenomena. It poses some questions regarding Zone Europa: What is the educational value of the cinema? What is the main characteristic of European cinematography? What kind of tool is the cinema in creating common myths? Most of questions seen above are linked to the program policy of Zone Europa channel. The channel was introduced to the Eastern-European market; including Poland in 1999 under the name Wizja Le Cinema. Consequently, for three years from 2003 to 2006 it was called Europa Europa. Creators of this private television declared fulfilling an educational mission by enriching movie awareness to their viewers. As it was stated by them, the Zone Europa’s program policy is to correspond to the most demanding movie fans. The channel’s authors wrote a manifest which presents their own vision of cinema, and an aim of creating the channel. An aim which is not typical for a private station. The willingness of promoting “European film aesthetic” was underlined. The questions regarding the Zone Europa channel became a staring point for me to reflect upon European myths and culture, including the institutional approach. i.e. European cultural and audiovisual policy.

„Życie w ramach” wyznaczonych chorobą nowotworową – rola socjologii medycyny

Author(s): Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2012

Following the development of the sociology of illness and observed changes in relation to used theoretical frameworks and paradigms, special attention has been paid to cancer due to psychosocial consequences of cancer diagnostics, medical treatment and “living with cancer”. Based on empirical experiences coming from performed sociomedical studies, the role of illness behaviors in cancer patients and subjective assessment of health-related quality of life by survivals have been presented in the increasing “society of remission”.

„Аудио-визията. Производство, разпространение, показване“ на гл. ас. д-р Стойко Петков

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

„Бесове“: психиатрия, антропология, метафизика

Author(s): Nina Ivanova Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

The proposed text discusses the adequacy of the psychiatric interpretation of Dostoevsky’s works, and especially of his novel “The Devils”. The author analyses the views of the most popular literary critics insisting on the psychopathological characters as an expression of the inner life of Dostoevsky himself, as well as some Russian psychiatric texts on the same topic. The main idea of the article is that the pathology of Dostoevsky’s fictional characters is rooted in the spiritual – and not in the psychological – sphere and despite the close resemblance between some clinical cases and the behavior of these characters, the latter is due to the conception of the demonic mangodhood and its different incarnations.

„Брезичка“ диша

Author(s): Ivanka Harbalieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2016

„Българин по професия. Българин по потекло” (Записки върху идентичността)

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

The aim of the article is to provide a possible interpretation of identity in one of the contested border regions on the Balkans well known for the competing politics and interests by the two bordering countries – Bulgaria and Serbia, for the past century. This region is known as „Western Outlands” in the social and political life. The communal memory of the Bulgarian minority in Bosilegrad, Serbia, leads the narration through different historical periods and their respective politics to uncover an identity which has become a survival strategy at the intricate periods. This will reveal a complex picture of the multiple identity levels where the individual and social identity are tightly related and are further shaped by the existing number of internal and external „others.“

„Български имена в Слънчевата система“ – обучение по астрономия с прилагане на иновационни методи, емоционално въздействие и ангажираност

Author(s): V. Radeva,Diana Kjurkchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2017

The article presents an innovative extracurricular education inastronomy. The topic of the training “The Bulgarian names in the Solar system”is being studied for the first time in the Bulgarian astronomy education. Thecombination of research methods for learning and the strong emotional impact onstudents resulting from the choice of topic results in high motivation in studentsand high effectiveness in the learning process. The students’ personal attitudeand commitment towards the investigated topic contributes to a high extend tothe acquisition of lasting and profound astronomical knowledge. The result of theeducation is the creation of a richly illustrated informative database of regionswith Bulgarian names on objects from the Solar system.

„Българският етимологичен речник“ в интернет – източник на всестранно знание за българския език

Author(s): Hristina Deykova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

The article presents the multi-volume Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary as one of the main academic works of the Institute for Bulgarian Language which can serve as a valuable practical aid in Bulgarian language teaching. In brief the character and the conception of the dictionary are clarified, and on specific examples the possibilities for wider use of the dictionary as a source of comprehensive knowledge of the Bulgarian language and the Bulgarian people are shown.

„Българско” за вечеря

Author(s): Rayna Gavrilova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 12/2015

The paper is an attempt to study the production of cultural identity in the hospitality industry, based on materials from a specific archive: the online self-presentation of the restaurants offering national cuisine. The questions driving the investigation are: is there an established new standard, new consensus among the caterers what is the national cuisine and culinary heritage. And if the answer is affirmative, how does it relate to past standards and how are they communicated to the consuming audience. The analysis of the advertised meals or the units (of R. Barthes) and the menus or the syntactic systems (ibidem) makes possible to offer a few observations: 'the past', 'the authentic', 'the Bulgarian' quality is modelled on the pre-World War II Bulgarian peasant home. We witness an ongoing and dynamic process of constructing and naming the structures of the national cuisine and this process is, essentially, a bricolage, which leaves ample space for individual contributions. In contrast to popular nationalistic rhetorics, the national cuisine incorporates freely Turkish names and products, identified and accepted as "Bulgarian". The vocabulary of the national style is open, flexible, inventive and benignly contradictory (a restaurant offers "chorbadzhi saladlet with balsamic dressing") as with any living language.

„БЯХМЕ ЖЕРТВА НА ГЪРЦИЗМА“ ИЛИ ЗА ЕМИГРАЦИЯТА НА ЕДНА СОЛУНСКА ФАМИЛИЯ

Author(s): Raia Zaimova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017

The emigration from Thessaloniki and the consequences of the Second Balkan War for the separate members of the Bulgarian family Tapkov is in the focus of the paper. The study is based on unpublished family documents only, property of members of the aforementioned family. It is examined briefly the professional and social activities of the brothers Dragan and Kiril, posing the issue of the religious and national identity before and after emigration.