SOCIALIST MARKET ECONOMY - CHINA IN THE FACE OF HISTORY: IDEOLOGICAL STEREOTYPES, PRAXEOLOGICAL CLICHES, HISTORICAL INERTIA

Author(s): Liliana Gabriela Ilie,Ştefan Buzărnescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The present article presents the elements that give originality to the Chinese model of sustainable development by solving the "enigma" of the complementarity between Chinese socialism and the Western market economy. Thus, while Western neo-liberalism devised its managerial profile according to "as slight as possible State" principles, the communist authorities in China has legitimately held the authority of the Communist Party, but have liberalized the property. If the 20th century was American, will the 21st century be Chinese? However, this point of view belonging to the sociological approach should not be ignored; a democratic world must ensure the legitimate free flow of all views. This text is a part of a large study “The Chinese Model of durable and sustainable development - a successful social experiment”, finalized in the zonal laboratories belong the Sociologists Association, Timis county, The University of the West of Timisoara. As a sociological level, is the first sociological modelling of the Chinese social space focus on socialist market economy? The socialist market economy is an original model of development starting in China since Deng Xiaoping (1978) becoming leader of Communist Party (PCC). Today, China is the second economic power of the World. As the scientist, we have obligation to study all social evolutions, behind ideological reasons.

FROM IRREDENTISM TO STATE DISINTEGRATION: GREATER SOMALIA DURING SIAD BARRE REGIME (1969-1991)

Author(s): Pablo Arconada Ledesma / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

‘Greater Somalia’ refers to the union of the five regions inhabited by Somali people under the same state. For decades, and especially since colonization, this idea has tried to unify the different Somali peoples in the Horn of Africa: Italian Somalia, British Somalia, the small enclave of Djibouti, the Ogaden and Haud (under Ethiopian rule) and the Northeast border of Kenya. The pansomalist objective has never been fulfilled despite Mogadishu's repeated attempts to integrate all these territories. The last attempt was the so-called war of the Ogaden (1977-1978) driven by the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre, who was defeated. Despite the disaster, the dream of Greater Somalia has remained active for several years. However, the fall of Siad Barre in 1991 and the disintegration of the state of Somalia erased at one stroke the pansomalist aspirations. Finally, the purpose of this article is to analyze the unifying aspirations of Somalia from the Ogaden War to its total disintegration and the strategies promoted by this government until its fall in 1991. The Research methods includes the analysis of historic resources, such as the Constitutions of Somalia and different previous articles and books related to this topic.

BOOK REVIEW. DUMITRU OTOVESCU, CRISTINA OTOVESCU (COORD.), THE CRAIOVA CITY: A MONOGRAPHY, BELADI: SITECH, CRAIOVA 2018

Author(s): Vlad Ovidiu Cioacă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

THE HYPOTHESIS OF “DIMINISHED MAN” UNDERSTANDING HUMAN EXPERIENCE. THE SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE1

Author(s): Ilie Bădescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Human distinguishes himself from other beings by its nucleic duality. He is also body and soul, “faulty breather” and “gifted being”. As such, he is threatened by his own identity concomitantly by a spiritual falling (a top-down dynamism) and a spiritual raising (a bottom-up dynamism). This type of analysis involves revisiting the issue of man’s identity itself and consequently requests a new theoretical system. Noological Sociology gives us the adequate categories for such a purpose. The present paper focuses on these issues and proposes a comprehensive paradigm for the upward becoming of human being within the postmodern society. This paradigm gives intelligence also for a new approach of Socio-Bioethics.

EXPRESSIONS OF MAGIC IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Author(s): Nicu Gavriluţă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This text starts from Ioan Petru Culianu's theses on the survival of magic, understood as a pre-modern spiritual discipline, in today's society. The emphasis is placed on magical (as described by Giordano Bruno) fantasies that can be found nowadays in public relations and communication, on the political scene, in the new media and in the cutting-edge technologies of today. The originality of the text consists in the interpretation of the Romanian presidential elections of 2014 as being, among other things, the perverse effect of a manipulation scenario that used fantasies of the "magical" kind. Another original element is the identification within state-of-the-art automotive technologies of certain human dreams and nostalgias that used to belong to the fabulous world of magic. The reference is to the GINA concept from the German group BMW and to two concepts (one from Mercedes and one from BMW) that allow "seeing" into the future and operation using only the owner's vocal commands. These are present-day "magical" actions: voice-based remote control, changing the appearance of the car and enhancing human sight by using automotive technology.

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATIONAL REPORTS IN SCHOOLS WITH GYPSY STUDENTS

Author(s): Maria Pescaru / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The intercultural education aims at developing an education for all in the spirit of recognizing the differences that exist within the same society. We can say that a large part of the gypsy population, so their children too, suffers from the process of marginalization and therefore requires a sustained intervention strategy, addressing both the marginalized and the majority, to form an intercultural society, by different but equal individuals, connected to the general values of humanity and respecting a common set of norms, but at the same time being in a permanent cultural and spiritual exchange. The education of gypsy children requires a special approach in which the initial data of this ethnic group can be a starting point for finding a solution to the issue of integration. In order to better understand the essence and the role of the intercultural education, we must accept that each of us is born in a particular culture, and in order to survive and grow in that culture, we must basically learn how to learn the basics, the norms, the values and the rules that make it possible to integrate into that culture.

PRIMARY SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS SPECIALIZED SOCIAL SERVICES IN CHILD PROTECTION

Author(s): Violeta Manea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

In child protection, the primary focus in the development of social services must be on primary social services that must respond to the needs of children in difficulty, so as to avoid family separation. If preventive services are not developed within the community, the specialized services, which have faced a growing number of beneficiaries in recent years, are used. Social services must primarily be provided by local professionals who can receive technical and methodological support from professionals providing specialized social services.

YOUNG PEOPLE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION. A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON CRAIOVEN STUDENTS

Author(s): Vlad Ovidiu Cioacă,Stefan Laurentiu Scuipici / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The involvement of young people in politics is a recurrent topic in local public debates. Protestant movements in the last period come to confirm and enhance the interest of researchers and public figures for this issue. Through this research, without any exhaustive claims, we intend to investigate the degree of interest and participation of the students in Craiova in the political life, the perceived quality of life among them, the trust in the political institutions, their ideological positioning.The conclusions we have reached show an increased interest and active political participation of young people, satisfaction and optimism regarding the political direction in which Romania is heading, but also a notable contradiction between the self-positioning and the real ideological positioning.

THE PROTECTION OF THE AUTOCHTONES’ URBAN AREAS “COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP”: THE CASE OF THE ALLADJAN OF ABROGUAMAN IN THE TOWN OF ABIDJAN

Author(s): Kémonthé Marius-Jonas Gallon / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This study sets oneself goal of focusing the attention of the authorities on the respect and the protection of the rights of autochthones of the urban areas. Indeed, the urbanization of the many countries, such as Ivory Coast, was made by infringing on the rights, especially on the right to collective ownership, on the rights of the natives of the chosen geographical areas. With regard to this historical injustice put the United Nations in 2007 an instrument of the protection of the human rights of the indigenous communities. In spite of this progress of the international law, some people are victim of abuse of power. The example of the Alladjan, natives of Abrogouaman in Abidjan is evocative. The investigations held at the headmen of this locality and at the population, as well as the documentary retrievals revealed that the right to the collective ownership of this people is denied by the authorities of the Ivory Coast. This state of affairs is a break on the improvement of theirs social conditions and a threat to their survival, things which it is important to repair.

THE ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS OF THE LANGUAGE AMAZIGH FACE TO THE LANGUAGES LEARNERS

Author(s): Hassiba Kherbouche / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This work, which addresses the problem of the mix of language in the field of the teaching of the Amazigh language including the oral, it is planned to show that this language used by learners in the classroom is caused by several reasons: lack of mastery of their native language, the influence of the family and/or social environment in which he learns this language, the lack of concentration of learners when they speak. For this study, we've pressed two socio-linguistic and didactic approaches. The analysis we conducted our survey data has allowed us to show that teachers are not satisfied with the mixed language learners use besides they consider errors and each of them uses a method to remedy this.

AN ATTEMPT TO INTERPRET POETRY FROM THE PSALTER. THE WALL COMPOSITION OF THE VAULT BUILT IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CHURCH OF DOLNA VERENITSA

Author(s): Katerina Dyulgerova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The report examines and analyses the unique and specific in nature wall decoration in the additionally constructed 19th-century narthex of the church in the village of Dolna Verenitsa. The emphasis in this study is placed on the allegorical rosette created on verses from The Psalter with calendar and cosmogonic interpretations which, in the form they are written/painted, are not found in churches constructed at the same time in the region; and which are of particular interest for iconographic studying due to their singular nature. Emphatic is also the choice of the psalm, and composite references to other churches displaying similar images.

FORMS OF SCHOOL DEVIANCE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD

Author(s): Maria Pescaru / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Man is an active human being evolving through his relationships with the world. School is one of the main factors influencing, through its specific attributions, the achievement of the human education. The purpose of the school is to contribute to its physical development, to teach it, to develop skills and appropriate behaviour in society. It has well-trained teachers, creates a suitable environment for optimal physical and intellectual development of students and has the specific endowments for learning to be as effective as possible. The difficult problem currently facing the general education is that of ensuring school success for all students. Thus, school must ensure and prepare students’ school success, ensure optimal learning conditions, form future adult society, prevent and combat forms of school deviance. Of course, school success or failure depends on the requirements of school rules. Students with difficulties in adapting to school requirements and curricula - difficulties arising from school outcomes and inability to adapt to school rules - require increased attention from the school.Key

THE NEED TO ADRESS WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT FROM AN INCLUSIVE LABOR MARKET PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Livia Pogan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

We intend to emphasyze in this paper the importance of studying ways of harmonizing the relationship between work and private life when labor market inclusion is desired.The Lisbon Strategy, The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU or the development strategy Europe 2020, promote as major priorities for sustainable economic development, research, innovation and education, developing an inclusive labor market (such as the inactive, in social risk situations, hard engageable to find jobs).These recommendations come as a result of current demographic context that characterizes the continent with growing imbalance between the working population and social assisted (aging populations, falling birth rate, migration, introduction of new technologies that replace human resource, etc.), which determines the necessity of allocating significant proportion of national budgets to social support systems, an expense which is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.Before mentioned factors led the European Union to consider creating an inclusive labor market as an objective of its policies, noting frequently as barriers in achieving this established goal: access to employment for certain categories, return to work after an interruption caused by pregnancy, maternity , caring for a family member, cases of disease, and others.From this follows the need to address work-family conflict, in order to harmonize the two major spheres of our existence when we intend to realize the wish of an inclusive labor market.

THE POWER OF SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION. SIMMEL’S THEORY OF CONFLICT APPLIED TO JUDAISM

Author(s): Mădălina Măndiţă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The study analyses the way in which the spiritual manifestation - the Judaism - forms in a very profound way the identity of a community. In this view we discover those key elements that become essential in the sociological understanding of a very troubled history, and we can reach this objective using the conflict theory of Georg Simmel. For this sociology of Judaism through what we can call creative conflict (with positive outcomes) we use the impressive studies of Max Weber and Antonin Causse concerning the ancient Judaism. The research of Judaism by the founding fathers of sociology permits us to read this unique people, contributing also to a right framing to understand present social realities, but also to the discovery of those decisive points that forms the immutable character of Jewish identity.

IN THE WAKE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY. EVER-CHANGING FACES OF FEMININITY IN TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING. FROM CHARLES PERRAULT TO WALT DISNEY

Author(s): Ana-Maria Niculescu-Mizil / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Within the broader discussion about remediation (Bolter and Grusin, 1996), transmedial storytelling (Jenkins, 2006; Ryan, 2013) and transfictionality (Ryan, 2013), the present paper advances the proposal of a comparative intersectional qualitative analysis of femininity in Charles Perrault's version of the story La Belle au bois dormant (1697), Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Walt Disney and Roth Films' Maleficient (2014) based upon associations between body representations, age groups and types of character. What would Evil look like if it were a woman? Would she be slender or voluptuous? What about the Good? Would she be wrinkled or sappy? This is a series of topics the current inquiry will put to the issue adjusting the intersectionality theory. However, it is not the experience of oppression that is central to the present analysis, but rather the pattern of intersection between gender, age and good or evil nature and how body representations coagulate at such intersections.

THE COMMUNITY OF THE ROMANIANS WHO WORK IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Author(s): Cristina-Maria Pescaru / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The 1990s experienced the real emerging of the first wave of Romanians in the world of the European Brussels. How many Romanians are presently working in Brussels? Is there a request of the specific market on addressing the Romanians? What qualities and skills do we need to have, in order to succeed in our attempts to work in the community capital? There are two labour markets in Brussels, Brussels-Belgium and Brussels-The European Union that, due to geographical superposition, create confusion. There is a Brussels-Belgium, with all the specific features of an occidental capital, and there is also a Brussels-The European Union, with totally different opportunities and approaches. It is hard to imagine the multi-cultural mosaic formed around Schuman Market, but it is very important to decipher it, in order to find personal opportunities for working here. The quality of the Romanian presence in the European Union is mostly given by the quality of the Romanian administration presence, in the relation with the European administration. The administration is the first interface with the European institutions.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMSTERDAM TREATY AND LISBON STRATEGY FOR INCREASING EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE

Author(s): Gabriela Motoi,Gabriel Nicolae Pricină / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

This article if focusing othe the role of the Amsterdam Treaty and Lisbon Strategy for incresing employment in Europe. The first document can be considered as a significant milestone in the evolution of coordinated European approach to employment policy work. The Lisbon Strategy was focused on full employment and increasing economic and social cohesion by 2010. Achieving these goals required the formulation of an overall strategy based on: preparation and transition to a knowledge-based society by formulating viable policies in informational technology, research and development, as well as intensifying the structural reform process for competitiveness and innovation and the development of the internal market. In the same time, the Lisbon Strategy has promoted an European social model, strengthening the concept of investing in people and combating of social exclusion.

VATICAN RADIO STATION IN ROMANIAN (SOCIAL MESSAGES)-1968-1971

Author(s): Carmen Ionela Banța / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

This study brings into focus some thematic and social programs in Romanian of Radio Vatican between the years 1968-1971. Much of the lectures are supported by Monsignor Octavian Barlea. The approach of the social programs is due to the reorientation of the Catholic Church to the modern world determined by the the Vatican Council (II). The themes are actual, meditative and full of social meanings.

The semiotics of the face in digital dating: A research direction

Author(s): Massimo Leone / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article investigates the socio-cultural meaning of the face in relation to its natural and biological features, focusing on the particular domain of mating habits. After surveying the role of the ‘face’ in the sexual behaviors of several non-human animals, and especially of primates, the article ponders on the crucial role that the face plays in the seductive discourse which precedes and accompany mating in all human cultures and also in many primates’ behaviors. It, then, deals with the transformation that these seductive patterns of signification and communication undergo in the passage from face-to-face intercourse to digital dating. Here, the gap between the necessarily realistic representation of one’s bodily face and the idealized version of it allowed by digital picture editing widens, to the point that new epistemic parameters start to circulate throughout the digital semiosphere.

Овладяване на четенето за социални цели – българско и английско начално училище

Author(s): Mariana Mandeva,Penka Kaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2019

The idea of learning to read for social purposes from the first stage of school is maintained in the article in exact agreement with contemporary educational policies at European and national level. The importance of language literacy in the modern civilization of knowledge and the phenomenon of reading as a base of acquiring language literacy are discussed. On this background the problems of beginning reading instructions in Bulgarian and in English are interpreted and a classification of literacy technologies for teaching primary students that is based on the specific character of the corresponding writing system is presented. Theoretical statements are illustrated with some technological instructions for “entering” reading in Bulgarian and in English.