Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology

Author(s): Dmitry Leontiev / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The article discusses the dynamics of psychological viewsof A.F. Lazursky (1874-1917), author of one of the first theoriesof personality in the world of psychology. There aretwo stages in Lazursky’s work: the first is associated withthe concept of nature as an internal individually-typologicalbasis of personality, and the second one is determinedby introduction and more intensive development of ideasabout an attitude towards the world as an important componentof the personality structure. The primary aim of thearticle is to highlight the role of Lazursky in internationalpsychology.

Alena Křížková, Romana Marková Volejníčková, Marta Vohlídalová: Genderové nerovnosti v odměňování: problém nás všech

Author(s): Dan Ryšavý / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2020

ALKOHOLIZM ZAGROŻENIEM DLA ŻYCIA RODZINNEGO. STUDIUM NA PODSTAWIE ŚWIADECTW SŁUCHACZY RADIOWEJ „GODZINY RÓŻAŃCOWEJ” O. JUSTYNA FIGASA

Author(s): Józef Bożek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 26/2019

The article was based on letters written by listeners, Polish immigrants, to“The Rosary Hour” – the world’s oldest Catholic radio program in Polish in theUnited States and Canada. The publication shows the dire influence of alcoholon the mental, moral and material life of families.The listeners wrote, among others, about the problem of alcohol abuse byfathers, mothers or both parents. On the basis of correspondence, one canimagine their homes being miserable places where insults, curses and childabuse reign supreme. Drunkenness is the cause of aggression towards wives,husbands and children and can further cause anxiety, uncertainty, hatred, mental breakdown, divorce and material poverty.Fr. Justin Figas, in his instructions, indicated how to overcome the addiction ofdrunkenness. He called for prayer, fasting and the vow of sobriety. He advised toseek help from the parish priest, report alcoholism to the police and to refer the compulsive drunkard for compulsory treatment. The priest’s indications and catechesiswere effective: they changed the alcoholic and motivated them to live in sobriety.

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.

Alternatyvioji tėvystė: „auginimo“ ir „globos“ reiškinių tarpusavio sąveika

Author(s): Dalia Stražinskaitė,Irena Zaleskienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 4/2017

The changes of education paradigms and new tendencies of education allow to expand the content and expression of the educational function of child care having in mind all periods of child development and social reality situations. Foster care and parenting have been developed into individual theories over the past few decades, and the possibilities of potential combination of theories have not been realized. The research question raised by the authors: what kinds of interaction exist between concepts of “parenting” and “care”? The analyses of research works and empirical data discloses that an alternative parenthood is the creation of a particular communicative relationship between the child and the caregiver. Thus the relationship becomes a social phenomenon which embraces the concord between child-oriented educational activities and the creation of the caregiver’s identity. The educational function of foster care is manifested in the article: under specific education conditions; via the mutual dialogue between the child and his/her caregiver; at the stages of preparation, acquaintance, crisis and adaptation; through the caregiver’s skills and values. On the basis of the narrative analysis of caregivers’ interviews the model of the dialogic-procedural expression and conditions of the educational function of alternative care are devised. The axis of relationships underlined in the narratives of caregivers supplement the model of dialogical self-education described in the literature review and the classification of parenting skills. The axis of context is a constitutent part of external environment conditions, whereas the time axis gives prerequisites for dividing the process of foster care into stages. The model has a potential to reduce the number of unsuccessful cases of care, enables the specialists to identify the insufficiency of care conditions as well as to model the behavior of both participants of the care process. The process of care is expressed through dialogic self-education that enables both participants of interaction to express own needs and expectations, as well as change own thinking, behaviour and values. The participants of interaction participants exchange information through own behaviour, refusal to behave in the way asked, protest, silence, tears and other non-verbal expressions; however, language is especially significant in a dialogue both as a medium and as an educational means. In the model, skills are divided into child-centered, i.e. basic skills that manifest the functions of care as a mission, and adult-centred that are referred to as enhanced. The third distinguished aspect is the expression of caregivers’ values at different stages of care. At the end some conclusions are developed by the authors in the sense that care as an educational conception is used to define the educational function addressed at both biological and foster children: identification of the educational needs of a child, representation of the child, creation of positive environment and its application for specific needs of a child, as well as the influence of an adult on a child’s development up to adulthood. From the educational point of view, apart from the usual family activities, non-kinship foster parenting should be directed towards the establishment of affective relationships, overcoming developmental disorders and traumatic experiences, prevention of harmful habits and maintenance of relationships with biological families.

American war movies. David Ayer’s Fury as mythologisation of war and soldiers

Author(s): Marcin Kępiński / Language(s): English / Issue: 73/2020

Both pop culture and modern Hollywood cinema are mainly intended for entertainment. American war films are not free from this vice. A researcher of culture should shun attempts to find hidden symbols, myths and flashes of meanings from distant traditional culture in such films. Contemporary popular mythologies do not represent the same mythical pattern that Eliade wrote about. Popular culture consists of ideas on various topics, borrowings, quotations and fragments of meanings, all patched together. In my view, however, Fury goes beyond pop culture and entertainment. After all, there is also good American war cinema and films that are not mindless borrowings or calques of carelessly patchworked pieces of pop culture. One can look at them and find certain cultural tropes and motifs known to specialists in humanities, such as an initiation journey, the symbolic language of eternal myths or archetypal figures of cultural heroes, all in a version transformed by popular culture, of course. The aim of my article is therefore to analyse David Ayer’s film from the perspective of a culture researcher who seeks cultural tropes and sources of the war hero myth in this cinematic work.

An Analysis on the Trust in Media Politics

Author(s): Ibrahim FEVZIOGLU,Fevzi KASAP / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2020

Debates over trust in media politics have constantly engaged developed or developing countries over the years. As a result of misleading and/or biased attitude of most of the media politics organisations, audience trust in media politics is affected negatively. This study investigates the trust in media politics according to the educational level of adults living in Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The scope of the study focuses on several questions such as which mass communication media politics or what type of news in addition to remarks on audience trust in Northern Cyprus based media politics news. The study discusses the degree of audience trust depending on the media politics organisations and type of news they follow.

An Empirical Study of Teacher-Student Interaction in College English Classroom from the Perspective of Educational Equality

Author(s): Feifei CHEN / Language(s): English / Issue: 71/2020

Educational equality is seen as the cornerstone of social justice. Likewise, ensuring the equality of teacher-student interaction in the classroom plays a crucial part in meeting the requirements of social justice. In college English classroom, teachers are expected to provide students with equal opportunities to interact with one another through communicative and collaborative activities so as to give the full play of students’ potential. However, it is worth noting that the unequal status in current teacher-student interaction may pose serious threat to the implementation of educational equality in higher education system. Therefore, taking the 85 students of Zhejiang Yuexiu University as research participants, the study, spanning from September 2019 to January 2020, is designed to investigate the factors that influence teachers’ educational equality mindset and to assess whether the significant difference between these variables and inequality in classroom interaction exists by adopting the research instruments of classroom observation, interview and questionnaire. The data collected reveal that the inequality can be discerned in teacher-student interaction in college English classroom, for the teacher’s questioning times, question types, and feedback types are closely associated with the differences of genders, personalities, regions and English levels of students. In addition, the root causes for the inequality are also examined discreetly from multi-perspectives through interviews on both teachers and students for better proposing some effective strategies to minimize educational inequality and facilitate students’ development in positive directions in college English education.

An Overview of Major Microsociological Contributions in the Field of Sociology of Communication

Author(s): Kire Sharlamanov,Ana Tomicic / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Communication as a basic and ubiquitous phenomenon for social life is part of the researcher’s interest in almost every field of social science and especially in sociology, psychology and communication studies. In doing so, each scientific discipline apprehends communication from the perspective of the method it employs and from the researchers’ imagination and theoretical preferences, which is mainly based on locally acquired knowledge and experiences. In this article we will focus our attention on the most important aspects and perspectives set forth by sociological theorization and analysis.

An Overview Of The New Media Role
In Original Literature Publishing In Slovakia During The First Decade Of The New Millennium And Shortly After

Author(s): Marián Grupač / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Public publishing space for authors of original contemporary literature in Slovakia has changed and expanded significantly in the last three decades since 1989. Due to the development and use of modern technologies and the existence of digital virtual space, nowadays the authors of Slovak literature can publish their texts in many more media than before 1989, and almost without any limitations. However, the literary, aesthetic, cultural or fundamental artistic relevance of such contributions is in many cases controversial. In the context of the publication space of new media, internet portals and online literary magazines often publish without deeper critical selection and (often even minimal objective literary-critical reflection almost everything delivered to their editorial mailbox as by ambitious writers?), as well by those whose works are lacking basic literary talent and the necessary creativity.
 The paper maps the situation in the area of publishing original literature, especially poetry, in Slovakia at the beginning of the 21st century in the context of the use of new media and modern digital technologies.

Ana je tu: figure zazora, klasne privilegije i premijerka Ana Brnabić

Author(s): Bojan Bilić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2020

This paper employs the notion of abjection to explore how debatessurrounding Ana Brnabić, the first openly lesbian prime minister in Serbia andEastern Europe, stir affectively lined layers of prejudice across the political spectrum.Drawing upon a range of empirical sources, I argue that the actors engaging indebates about Brnabić’s both private and public life are entangled in a loop ofabjection which, while comprising gender, sexuality, ‘race’, and the body, reflectsstrong patriarchal undercurrents as structural features of Serbian politics.

Analiza rozwoju Sieradza na podstawie interpretacji zdjęć lotniczych i waloryzacji przestrzeni z wykorzystaniem elementów teorii zbiorów rozmytych

Author(s): Mariola Matuszewska,Krzysztof Będkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The spread of cities poses a serious urbanisation and natural challenge and significantly affects the quality of life of the inhabitants. The aim of the study was to examine the possibility of analysing the spread of the city of Sieradz based on the interpretation of multi-temporal aerial imagery from the years 1959, 1996 and 2015, and the topographical object database. There are 22 land cover classes that are attributed with coefficients determining their degree of belonging to the urban use of space. The area of the city is divided into hexagonal primary fields (1 ha) and the proportion of different forms of land use is determined and the M indicator calculated, which determines to what extent each primary field belongs to the urban way of space use. The primary fields were than classified into three zones: urban (0.5 < M ≤ 1.0), transitional (0.3 ≤ M ≤ 0.5) or rural (0 ≤ M < 0.3). Maps of the increment of this indicator in the test periods were made also. In the city there were consistently predominant areas with a rural nature of space use, because Sieradz has a large share of farmland, grassy vegetation, woodland and trees, orchards, plantations and gardens. Over time, however, the city area of typical urban use is increasing, which is mainly in the central and eastern part of the city and is clearly approaching its southern border, confirming the expansion of urban development to peripheral areas. By the year 1996 the growth of the M indicator took place mainly in the central part of the city, and in the next period revealed the clear “islands” of this growth quite distant from the centre. During the period 1959–1996 in Sieradz an early stage of the development of urban sprawl is noticeable – mainly progressive construction near the railway. However, in later years, the increase in accessibility to car transport was the cause of a deeping phenomenon of “urban sprawl” into the peripheral areas, causing a lively development of the suburbs. Studies have shown that urban sprawl also applies to mid-sized cities and confirms the suitability of archive aerial imagery and studies made using fuzzy sets theory to analyse the urban sprawl. The method used is relatively simple to use and can be fully automated.

Analysis Models of Pupil Class Collectives Focused on Efficiency of the Educational Process

Author(s): Oana Mariana Ciuchi / Language(s): English / Issue: 71/2020

The paper presents four models, references for analysis, and approaches of the most important social micro-groups in an educational unit, i.e. the groups of pupils’ classes. The micro-research carried out, consisting in the application of a questionnaire with closed and open questions applied on a group of 711 teachers in Romanian pre-university education, identifies the socio-psychological and socio-pedagogical model as the most effective models for approaching the pupil class and the pandemic period that everyone went through as the determining cause of some changes of approach of the social actors of the Romanian pre-university education system. In order to increase the efficiency of the educational process, it is recommended to digitize it by increasing connectivity in schools, the digital literacy of pupils, the training and development of digital skills among teachers, according to the priorities set by the European Commission for the next period.

Analysis of the discourse on education and rehabilitation of persons with multiple disabilities in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Tomasz Kasprzak,Tomasz Kasprzak / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

At the core of the Czech education system and rehabilitationfor people with multiple disabilities to the assumptionthat this is a group that requires a specialized approach tothis issue. The main purpose of the text is to present the organizationof education of people with multiple disability inthe Czech Republic. Education and rehabilitation with theparticipation of people with multiple disabilities encouragesto undertake research related to the dynamics of changesas well as their size. This work is an attempt to show howvarious factors have shaped the current form of educationof people with multiple disability in the Czech Republic.

Analysis of the Effect of Social Support on Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Tourism Industry – Based on the Perspective of Living-Ecology-Production Integrated Space

Author(s): Shan-Lin WANG,Yun-Chao LI,Chang-Ping ZHANG / Language(s): English / Issue: 71/2020

A series of problems, such as disordered development of urban production and living space, low land use efficiency, and ecological environment pollution, appear in the rapid industrialization and urbanization process to seriously hinder the sustainable development of human social economy and ecological environment. In this case, scientifically planning national space and coordinating spatial function become the key problems in the construction of sustainably developing ecological civilization under the background of new-style urbanization and new rural development. The establishment of national spatial system living-ecology-production integrated function coevolution mechanism is the current scientific problem for solutions as well as the key in the implementation of future national spatial planning. Aiming at employees in tourism industry in Guilin, Guangxi, total 460 copies of questionnaire are distributed. After deducting invalid and incomplete copies, 362 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 86%. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to help promote the sustainable competitive advantage of industry with the application of living-ecology-production integrated space.

ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF SELECTED GROUPS OF WORKING WOMEN

Author(s): Zdenka Dudić,Branislav Dudić,Branka Agbaba / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Both the 1961 European Social Charter and its revised version of 1996 constitute international social and economic rights treaties ratified by the Member States of the Council of Europe. Together with the European Treaty for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, they are the cornerstones of the contractual system for the protection of human rights in the member countries of the Council of Europe. Moreover, these contracts have contributed significantly to the development of European human rights standards in the areas of personal management, labour law and social security law. Nevertheless, it receives minimal attention from legal theorists. This leads to problems in its interpretation in practice. Through scientific and doctrinal interpretation, authors examine the various provisions of the European Social Charter. They seek answers to practical application problems through scientific literature as well as the case-law of the European Court of Justice. The aim and result of the authors’ work is to examine individual documents, to compare them and analyse the differences. The aim of the authors' work is also to evaluate the impact of the case law of the European Court of Justice in connection with the implementation of the Charter into the legal order as well as application practice. The benefit of this article is also the analysis of the impact of the Charter on the rights of working women.

Andrew J. W eigert: Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment\ Albany: State University o f New York Press, 1997

Author(s): Ljubiša Zlatanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/1999

Andrić and Bašagić in the Yugoslavian Key

Author(s): Šaćir Filandra / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The different views on identity politics in Ottoman Bosnia presented by Ivo Andrić and Safvet-beg Bašagić in their respective doctoral dissertations stem from differences in the historical and socio-economic experiences of each of their respective religious and confessional communities. Andrić, oriented towards the future, perceives Bosnia from the perspective of a newly introduced concept of Yugoslav national unity that does not value diversity. Bašagić, romantically looking into the past, sees Bosnia through rose-coloured glasses. Both Andrić and Bašagić share distinct notions of their historical periods and allow for non-scientific influences to shape their academic discourses.

Andrzej Majer, Mikropolis. Socjologia miasta osobistego

Author(s): Zuzanna Neuve-Eglise / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2019

Book-Review: Andrzej Majer, Mikropolis. Socjologia miasta osobistego Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2015, 180 s. Reviewed by Zuzanna Neuve-Église.

Ani kapitulacja, ani śmierć – odpowiedź na recenzję Michała Warchali

Author(s): Krzysztof Świrek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 14/2018