Act on Prevention and Control of Infections and Infect-ious Diseases in People and Covid Disease—19

Author(s): Krzysztof Chochowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, and its subsequent spread throughout the world, including Poland, revealed that many countries are not prepared for such negative occurrence. Deficiencies and shortcomings could be observed in practically every sphere of the stateʼs functioning, which also applied to our country. Deficits were also observed in the scope of the applicable legal regulations, which underwent a certain petrification and did not sufficiently take into account the possibility of a new infectious disease, such as COVID-19.This text presents considerations on the Act of 5 December 2008 on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious human diseases in the context of COVID-19. The purpose of those deliberations was to present the latest changes to the above-mentioned act and to assess their validity.

Activities to Ensure the Moral and Ethical Well-Being of the Elderly

Author(s): Dumitru MICUȘA / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2020

Elders psychologically require to act in an entourage of production and consumption of spiritual, intellectual and materials goods in society. Demand for the well-being of the elderly requires research innovative technologies into social, economic, intellectual, spiritual and psychological problems of the well-being of the elderly in the conditions of accelerated ageing of society.In order to ensure the well-being of the elderly, it is psychologically necessary for the elderly to continuously activate in the process of producing and consuming spiritual, intellectual and material goods. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to survey and to analyze a broad spectrum of the needs of the elderly to carry out activities without interruption at the 'parent' enterprise, which would ensure the production and consumption of goods in and for society.The idea of the present research consists in measurement, maintenance and improvement of psychological well-being of retired seniors. The aim is to gather information accumulated in an international environment (Moldova-Netherlands) by questioning elderly people, processing the data obtained, in order to define, maintain and improve the level of their psychological, intellectual and emotional well-being.It is analyzed the use of the labor force of the elderly in modern society. It is investigated, and discussed (a) the process of continuity of the elderly activity, (b) the improving the social, spiritual, and psychological situation of the elderly, (c) the development of the moral spirituality and intelligence of the elders, and (4) the necessity of creating for elderly the intergenerational amicable environment, first of all, at the education, culture and research types of institutions, enterprises and organizations.Based on the data obtained during the research, it comes after the development and implementation of innovative solutions that logically conclude the research carried out, and which in turn will create a more productive, healthier, more comfortable society for the elderly.

Adapting the principles of biomedical ethics to Islamic principles and values in the context of public health policy

Author(s): Forouzan Akrami,Abbas Karimi,Abbasi Mahmoud,Shahrivari Akbar / Language(s): English / Issue: 49/2018

Public health ethics is a subfield of bioethics that focuses on population health. This study aims to conform the principles of biomedical ethics to Islamic values in the context of public health. It culturally helps to optimize health care delivery. The approach is based on the method of immanent critique. The principle of the common good in Islam has a rational justification to draw public interests and ward off harms. The rule of no harm, with an emphasis on the preferability of preventing harm to increase benefits, is consistent with the principle of utility, intending to produce a maximum balance of benefit over harm in the context of public health. Thus, on the one hand, the government is obliged to prevent harm and improve public benefits and, on the other hand, as a steward of health and with reference to the article limitation of the ownership dominance, it has the right to protect public health with the least justifiable harm. Islam attention to human dignity, individual justice and good will in the rule of goodness implies that Islam, beyond distributive justice, knows that human flourishing and the cultivation of moral virtues are a requisite for the realization of social justice. The present study discusses about the adjustment of the principles of PHE to the principles of the Islamic jurisprudence and, at the same time, it explains why the optimal PH in Muslim societies requires research in order to define accurate indicators of benefit and harm based on the teachings of revelation and reason.

ADMINISTRATIVE FAIRNESS AS GOOD GOVERNANCE. THEORY OF JUSTICE IN GREEK HEALTH SYSTEM

Author(s): Emmanouil Bempekidis / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

The present paper aims to present the concept of justice focusing on the theory of John Rawls to cover health and social determinants of health in Greece. The administrative Justice is also analyzed with an emphasis on employees’ perceptions of Organizational Justice, employee performance and organizational justice and finally in the relationship between organizational justice and citizen satisfaction.

ADMINISTRATIVE FAIRNESS, JUSTICE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP?

Author(s): Polya Katsamunska,Allan Rosenbaum / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

The paper explores the relationship between administrative fairness and justice in conjunction with the modern concept of good governance. The analysis is based on reviewing the literature, research studies and practical experience of public organizations to explain and promote good governance and to identify different strategies dealing with it. As a result of the review two basic approaches for stimulating and encouraging good governance were identified. The “values approach” attempts to increase institutional integrity by promoting moral values and ethical principles in order to motivate public servants to behave in an ethically appropriate manner, while the “legalistic approach” is generally a top‐down legislative process that establishes laws and administrative procedures and attempts to obtain compliance with them through legal sanctions. The conclusion drawn is that coordinated use of both approaches is required to have a significant impact on improving good governance, because if used alone neither approach is sufficient.

ADMINISTRATIVE UNFAIRNESS: THE CASE OF ROMA IN BULGARIA

Author(s): Krassimir Stanchev / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

The study makes an attempt to trace on the example of Roma in Bulgaria Gery Becker’s (and other Nobel Prize laureates) regularities of discrimination as a phenomenon that is often caused by social prejudices and believes. The first section reviews what is currently known about the public sentiment towards Roma and summarizes the role of the political parties in fueling those sentiments. The second section describes the implementation of policies dealing with Roma issues, and in particular of the National Roma Integration Strategy for 2012-2020 period. This strategy is selected because this is the lead government document that, presumably, shall be the key instruction for policies applied by the public administration on central and local levels. The third section deals with immediate and long term consequences from social and political believes on Roma property rights, health and life expectancy, income and social status. There two annexes: one gives a list of relevant policy documents and analytical material that guide Roma policies in the EU; the second explains the historic background of property rights situation highlighting the period between 1992 and 2010.

Agenda-setting i reverse agenda-setting w środowisku nowych mediów. Podstawy teoretyczne i wyniki badań empirycznych (2013–2017)

Author(s): Ewa Nowak-Teter / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4 (240)/2019

The development of new media environment requires adequate verification of the results of previously known media effects research. Agenda-setting theory is one of these classic approaches that should be discussed using new types of (public and media) agendas in order to determine their dependencies. Thus the goal of this article is to verify the basic assump-tion of agenda-setting theory and its modification, that is the reverse agenda-setting concept in an online media environment. The results of empirical data showed that the agenda-set-ting theory is still a relevant approach when observing the dependencies between the public agenda and media agenda, which means that media agenda (measured by the frequency of publications of online opinion forming dailies devoted to the selected issues) is statistically significantly dependent on public agenda (measured by public opinion surveys concerning the same issues). The reverse agenda-setting dependency has been observed for the new type of public agenda, that is search agenda (measured using Google Trends application), which proved to be statistically significantly dependent on online news media (opinion forming dailies) agenda.

Alternatif Politika

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Turkey

Alternatif Politika is an interdisciplinary international journal committed to publishing high-quality research papers in all areas of politics and international relations, as well as papers that cut across other disciplines such as cultural studies, geopolitics, and political economy. The journal's editorial philosophy is to support a pluralistic approach to the political science discipline and debate. The editor particularly welcomes submissions that are inventive in their approach, cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, evaluate the relationship between domestic and international politics, or offer comparative perspectives.

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Alternative History: Creation, Use and Interpretation of Buryat Genealogies

Author(s): Ayur Zhanaev / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Group identities are often built on genealogies. Buryat culture appears to conform to this general rule. Elaborate Buryat historical genealogies have been written and preserved. Today, scholars regard them as a key source of insight into the structure and character of Buryat society. Most scholars treat Buryat genealogies exclusively as descriptions of kinship systems. In keeping with a rich anthropological literature, Buryat culture appears to fit into the paradigm of kinship as the “irreducible principle,” “atom” or an “elementary structure,” which, as the complexity of society grew, ceased to be the central organizational principle in favor of the state, politics, economy, etc. However, this interpretation occludes the meaning of Buryat genealogies as carriers of historical memory and understanding of the world. By insisting on treating it in ethnographic categories, the academic view of Buryat culture reduces the Buryat society to the level of a primordial one. In this article, I will use the findings of my fieldwork to briefly introduce the historical context of the Buryat genealogies in the broadly defined pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. I am interested in the motives of those who created these genealogies, and the place these documents occupy in the contemporary Buryat society and culture. I will also note the coincidence of a revival of interest among Buryats in their genealogies in the 1970s and 1980s with the rise of Soviet modernization’s power to suppress local cultures.

Alternatywna trasa postkolonializmu: Max Weber o sprawie polskiej

Author(s): Marta Bucholc / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2017

The article analyses Max Weber’s position regarding the so-called Polish question fromthe point of view of post-colonial theory. The author discusses the circumstances of Weber’sscientific interest in the Polish question and offers an interpretation of his statements in thisregard. Then, she moves on to explore the relationship between this early inspiration and thesubsequent development of Weber’s comparative historical sociology, whereupon followsan outline of its post-colonial criticism. The article concludes with a suggestion of applyingthe author’s approach to studying the post-communist transformation and transitologicaldebates in Poland.

Amikor Freud találkozott Istennel

Author(s): Mark Vernon / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 03/2015

An Austrian in Hollywood:

the representation of foreigners in the films of Billy Wilder

Author(s): Delia Chiaro,Giuseppe De Bonis / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

This paper examines the work of Billy Wilder whose rich cinematic production frequentlyinvolves the collision of different languages as well as the clash of dissimilar cultures. As anAustrian living in the USA, the director had the privilege of gaining insight into his adoptedculture from the point of view of an outsider – a bilingual “other” who made 25 films inalmost 40 years of working in Hollywood. His films recurrently depict foreign characters atwhich Wilder pokes fun whether they are English, French, German, Italian, Russian or eventhe Americans of his adopted country. More precisely, the paper offers an overview of themulti-modal portrayals of diverse “foreigners,” with examples taken from a small butsignificant sample of Wilder’s films. The subtitling of dialogue in the secondary language forthe target English-speaking audience and the specific translation solutions are not within thescope of this discussion, instead we focus on the comic collision of two languages and moreimportantly, on the way Wilder implements humour to highlight the absurdity of culturaldifference. In other words, our main goal is to explore two or more languages in contrastwhen they become a humorous trope.

An Examination of the Nature and Necessity of Feminist Interpretation of the Holy Quran

Author(s): Muhammad Hussein Sharifi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The Holy Quran, as the greatest source of Islam, has always been the origin for multiple interpretive attitudes throughout the history of Islam. The existence of Mūtashābīh (multivalent or ambiguous) verses in the Holy Quran has opened new room for the introduction of various approaches in the interpretation including social approach and Feminist interpretation as one of its examples. After a brief introduction of Islamic feminism, this essay elaborates on the most important principles of feminist interpretation in contrast to traditional or classic ones such as gender equality, equality of rights, avoiding patriarchalism, complete freedom of intellect in understanding the Quran, the principle of non-contradiction among various sections of the Quran, and etc. Finally, the above principles are evaluated and criticized upon different elements including non-patriarchal nature of traditional interpretations, true viewpoints of the Quran regarding the equality of rights and gender equality, invalidity of eisegesis or subjective interpretation and matriarchally oriented approaches of feminist thinkers in exegesis of the Quran.

An Interview with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Author(s): Ludmilla Kostova / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

An Irishman in America: Irishness and Belonging in Roddy Doyle’s Oh, Play That Thing

Author(s): Genoveffa Giambona / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

The purpose of this article is to analyse Roddy Doyle’s representations of Irishness and Ireland in Oh, Play That Thing (2004). The novel is the second instalment in Doyle’s The Last Roundup Trilogy, a historical fiction describing the making of the Irish nation through the adventures and misadventures of Henry Smart, its protagonist. In the novel, constructions of Irishness are projected onto the outside world through Henry’s picaresque travels in the United States. The article examines how Irishness is construct¬ed in the book and how it becomes intertwined with identity construction in other minority groups.

Analiza položaja osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Katarina Marjanović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 16/2020

Demokracija i ljudska prava su utemeljeni na načelu kako je pravo na život svakog čovjeka neotuđivo i nepovredivo, te kako su sve osobe rođene jednake i imaju neotuđiva prava, kao što su pravo na život, slobodu i pravo na sreću. Osobe sa invaliditetom imaju apsolutno pravo i odgovornost u potpunosti i jednako sudjelovati u društvu i poboljšati kvalitetu svoga života onako kako oni to odaberu. Vlade, privatni sektor, nevladine organizacije i svi pojedinci trebaju sudjelovati u realiziranju obećanja utkanih u temeljna načela demokracije, jednakosti i ljudskih prava - kako bi se svim osobama sa invaliditetom omogućio neovisan život, produktivnost i uključenost u sve oblike privatnog i javnog života.

Analiza porównawcza rozwoju regionalnego krajów Grupy Wyszehradzkiej

Author(s): Marcin Salamaga / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 12/2012

The article contains the comparative analysis of the quality of regional development in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The quality index of social and economic development has been proposed for this purpose which has been calculated on the basis of a certain aggregation of the results of Principal Component Analysis made on the correlation matrix of standardised variables being the components of the index. The calculated values of the index have allowed for ordering the regions of the Visegrad Group Countries in various aspects of regional development and the evaluation of changes in the development level from the dynamic perspective. Eurostat’s Data has been used in calculations.

Analiza supervizării în Asistența Socială și Psihoterapie

Author(s): Adriana Florentina Călăuz / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2010

The supervision is a process of controlled self-reflection towards our own efforts, activities and consequences, that implies a cognitive process. Its formative valences appear in the development of mental elaboration of processed information, of emotional development, of the hierarchical system of purposes. Because of these valences, the supervision is applied to all the activities which implies the human factor. The given study suggests to realize a comparison between the possibilities of realizing a supervision and its potential benefits for social assistance and psychotherapy. The obtained results point out the realized progresses on supervision, but also the vulnerabilities, the possible and necessary directions in the development of supervision in Romania.

Anomia

Author(s): Michał Kaczmarczyk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The first world encyclopaedic guidebook to the most important problems of the sociology of law. It contains nearly one hundred and fifty entries written by eminent Polish and foreign scholars. It is an excellent source of knowledge of the role and importance of law in social life. It sketches portraits of the most distinguished authors of legal sociology and presents their scientific achievements. It also discusses law subcultures, punitive justice, anthropology and atrophy of law, the destruction of norms, the iuridisation of social life, law nihilism, praxeology and feminist sociology of law.

Anonimizacja w dobie wielkich danych – sytuacja biobanków w kontekście RODO

Author(s): Błażej Marciniak,Piotr Topolski,Dominik Strapagiel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 73/2018

Technological development increased abilities of data analysis collecting gatheringand obtaining from wide range of sources including national health registries. Aimof, entering into force on May 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is toregulate analysis of wide range of personal data from profiling to healthy issues. Newregulations may hamper the implementation of research, or realization of projects underHorizon 2020 or Digital Poland, that based on data sharing. In order not to waste theopportunities and benefits for humanity that modern technology and „open data” canbring, appropriate measures must be taken to protect the privacy of individuals. But thenthere is next trap. The more data is protected in the context of privacy protection, the lessuseful they are for scientific purposes. The key point is to find right balance betweensecurity and usability.