Author(s): Simona Coşerea / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 01 Supp/2022
Keywords: social responsibility; refugees; intercultural interventions; deployment; asylum;
WE LOOK AT FORCED MIGRATION--TODAY A MAJOR GLOBAL PHENOMENON--WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE STATUS OF REFUGEES. SHE HIGHLIGHTS CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THIS POTENTIALLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE AND CONSIDERS IT A KIND OF DEPLOYMENT TO RELOCATE TO A NEW COUNTRY. THE ARTICLE PRESENTS REFLECTIONS ON THE PROCESSES OF TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE, COMBINING GENERAL THEORETICAL IDEAS WITH THOSE OF TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS.
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE VISION OF DR. VICTOR GOMOIU
Author(s): Radu Făiniși / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 01 Supp/2022
Keywords: medicine; religion; society;
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IS AN AREA OF STUDY THAT TURNS ITS ATTENTION BOTH TO THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE AS A SCIENCE AND TO THE VARIOUS PERSONALITIES WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO ITS DEVELOPMENT. THE MAIN ARGUMENT OF THIS WORK IS THE NECESSITY OF ESTABLISHING A DIALOGIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH, WITH IMPORTANT PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES, NAMELY THE STRENGTHENING AND TOGETHER THE WORK BETWEEN MEDICINE AND RELIGION. MEDICINE, EVEN IF IT IS A SCIENCE THAT HAS BEEN LEFT TO US BY GOD, NEVERTHELESS, IT HAS ITS LIMITS, LIKE THE HUMAN BEING. THE MEDICAL ACT, BASED ON FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH, LEADS TO OVERCOMING THE SITUATIONS OF CRISIS CAUSED BY BOTH BODILY AND SPIRITUAL DISEASES. FALSE KNOWLEDGE AND FALSE FAITH INCREASE CRISIS SITUATIONS, ALIENATING AND ISOLATING THE PERSON SUFFERING FROM THE TRENCH OF RECEIVING RECOVERY AID.
Keywords: education; collectivization; modernization; cultural revolution;
THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN ROMANIA DID NOT APPEAR SUDDENLY, BUT THROUGH AN EVENTFUL EVOLUTION OF HISTORY. THE END OF ROMANIAN DEMOCRACY IN AN UNFAVORABLE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT HASTENED THE SEIZURE OF POWER BY A POLITICAL PARTY THAT UNTIL THEN HAD NO TRACTION AMONG THE MASSES. THE COMMUNIST PARTY MADE THE ASSAULT ON POWER IN THE PERIOD 1945-1947. THE SOVIETIZATION OF THE COUNTRY WAS ACHIEVED IN ALL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY THROUGH THE MOST VIOLENT MEANS, AND FOR HALF A CENTURY, FORCEFUL MEASURES WERE TAKEN, THE COUNTRY'S EVOLUTION BEING DIVERTED FROM THE INTERNATIONAL TRAJECTORY. REGARDING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM OF THIS PERIOD, IT CAN BE SAID THAT IT EXPERIENCED A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE AFTER 1948, CHANGES THAT HAPPENED IN PARALLEL WITH THE PROCESS OF COLLECTIVIZATION, WHICH AFFECTED THE ENTIRE RURAL POPULATION OF ROMANIA. THIS PAPER AIMS TO STUDY RURAL EDUCATION AND THE CONSEQUENCES THAT COLLECTIVIZATION HAD ON EDUCATION, FROM THE BEGINNING OF SOVIETIZATION TO THE END OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN ROMANIA.
GOVERNMENT WAYS TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH PARENTS GONE TO WORK ABROAD
Author(s): Elena Daju / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: social act; special protection; parentless children; school; social responsibility;
THIS ARTICLE APPROACHES THE ISSUE OF MINORS WITH PARENTS GONE TO WORK ABROAD AND TO WHAT EXTENT THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS RESPONSIBLE WITH MONITORING AND PROTECTION OF THIS CATEGORY OF CHILDREN, HAVE PROPORTIONALLY DEVELOPED AND ACTED RECENTLY.
Keywords: Country image; Eastern Europe; Central Europe; content analysis; British online dailies;
EASTERN EUROPE IS NOT ONLY A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION. IT IS MORE FREQUENTLY VIEWED AS A CULTURAL ZONE, DEFINED BY A COMMON COMMUNIST HISTORY. DESPITE THE FAST ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, ITS IMAGE ABROAD, ESPECIALLY IN POPULAR CULTURE, IS STILL PREDOMINANTLY NEGATIVE. SLOVAKIA – A SMALL AND YOUNG CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRY IS OFTEN PLACED VAGUELY ON THE IMAGERY MAP OF EUROPE. THE PAPER PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF CONTENT ANALYSIS DETERMINING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF EXPLICIT PLACEMENT (LOCALISATION) OF SLOVAKIA IN THE REGIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE, EASTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (CEE), IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES IN FIVE ONLINE BRITISH DAILIES IN 2010-2014. ITS THEORETICAL PART SPECIFIES VARIOUS FACTORS INFLUENCING AN IMAGE OF A COUNTRY ABROAD. THE EXAMINED PERIODICALS INCLUDED POPULAR ELITE (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES) AND TABLOID (DAILY MIRROR, DAILY STAR) DAILIES. THE MAIN FOCUS IS THE POSSIBLE CORRELATION OF THE EXPLICIT LOCALISATION OF SLOVAKIA WITH THE TONE OF THE ARTICLE (POSITIVE, NEGATIVE OR NEUTRAL). TO CONFIRM THE RESULT VALIDITY, THE CHI-SQUARE STATISTICAL TEST WAS APPLIED HERE. MOREOVER, THE PAPER FOCUSED ON THE PRESENCE OF EASTERN EUROPEAN STEREOTYPES IN THE RESEARCH SAMPLE, AS IDENTIFIED BY N. KANEVA (2012) AND R. SAUNDERS (2012).
THE PAPER AIMS TO ANALYZE AND PRESENT THE SECURITY IMPACT OF THE MIGRATION PHENOMENON, REFERRING TO ITS TWO MAIN REASONS, THE NEED FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THE NEED FOR FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY. IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MIGRATION PHENOMENON, THE ANALYSIS WILL FOCUS ON ITS IMPLICATIONS IN TWO DIFFERENT CONTINENTS AND COUNTRIES WITH STRONG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH NOT ONLY HAVE A DIFFERENT CULTURE AND SYSTEM OF VALUES AND BELIEFS BUT ALSO A DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SYSTEM. THE MODELS OF NOMAD INTEGRATION IN THE UNITE ARABS EMIRATES AND GERMANY WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE CURRENT ANALYSIS AND WILL REVEAL THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND UNDERTAKEN MEASURES ON REFUGEES AND THE PRESERVATION OF INTERNAL SECURITY. MOREOVER, THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO MODELS WILL HIGHLIGHT BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE READER A CLEAR AND CONCISE IMAGE OF THE MIGRATION PHENOMENON. THE EMPIRICAL DATA USE TO ANALYZE THE IMPLICATION OF THE MIGRATION PHENOMENON WILL INCLUDE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, SPECIALIZED PAPERS AND PRESS ARTICLES THAT PROVIDES RECENT AND RELEVANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS ISSUE. AS WE NOTICED THE INCREASING LEVEL OF COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF ASYMMETRIC THREATS HAVE PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE RECENT DYNAMICS OF PEOPLE MOVEMENTS, LEADING TO MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT OF POPULATION FROM WAR THEATERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO SAFE AND DEVELOP COUNTRIES.
THE STUDY AIMS TO PRESENT THE ACTIONS CARRIED OUT BY ROMANIA, ASA STATE ACTOR IN THE BLACK SEA REGION, FROM THE MOMENT OF OFACCESSION WITHIN THE EURO-ATLANTIC STRUCTURES AND UNTIL NOW, REVEALING, AT THE SAME TIME, THE EFFECTS RESULTING FROM THE ACCESSION.THE IMPORTANT OPERATIONS AND EXERCISES IN WHICH THE ROMANIAN MILITARY FORCES PARTICIPATED, THE DEGREE OF INVOLVEMENT, THE ROLE OF ROMANIA AND THE EFFECTS OF ITS PRESENCE IN THE MENTIONED PARTNERSHIP ACTIONS ARE HIGHLIGHTED. ON THE OTHER HAND, SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION INITIATIVES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION ARE PRESENTED, WHICH DEMONSTRATE ROMANIA'S OPENNESS TO THE VALUES OF THE WESTERN WORLD, THE IMPORTANCE IN THE REGIONAL SECURITY EQUATION AND THE DEGREE OF TRUST IT ENJOYS FROM STRATEGIC PARTNERS.
IN SEARCH FOR PROFIT. BANDWAGONING AND THE INTERVENTION OF ROMANIA IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Author(s): Adrian Eugen Preda / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: Bandwagoning; Profit; World War I;
THE AIM OF THIS PAPER IS TO ADDRESS THE SUBJECT OF THE ROMANIAN INTERVENTION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR BY USING THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ON BANDWAGONING AS DELIVERED BY RANDALL L. SCHWELLER. THE QUESTION THAT THIS PAPER IS TRYING TO ANSWER IS RELATED TO THE MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE ROMANIAN INTERVENTION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN 1916, BY SWITCHING SIDES AND ENTERING INTO AN ALLIANCE WITH THE ENTENTE AGAINST THE FORMER ALLIES FROM THE CENTRAL POWERS. STARTING FROM THE MEANING OF BANDWAGONING PROPOSED BY RANDALL SCHWELLER, THIS PAPER ARGUES THAT THE ROMANIAN INTERVENTION FROM 1916 WAS MOTIVATED BY PROFIT, AS AT THE FINAL OF THE WAR THE ENTENTE PROMISED TERRITORIES FOR ROMANIA, AS WELL AS A BETTER PLACE ON THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA.
THIS PAPER PROVIDES A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY FROM A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN PROMOTING AND MAINTAINING INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE PARTNERSHIP OF COMMITTED STATES. THE STUDY IS BUILT AROUND THE ROLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION AS A BASTION OF UNITY, SOLIDARITY, PEACEKEEPING AND SECURITY BETWEEN NATIONS. THE PURPOSE IS TO ANALYZE THE EVOLUTION OF NATO FROM A COLLECTIVE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION DURING THE PERIOD OF COLD WAR, TO A COLLECTIVE SECURITY ORGANIZATION IN OUR PRESENT DAYS. IN THE LIGHT OF THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE, THE PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY HAS STARTED TO REPLACE THE CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE DEFENSE, BY SHAPING NATO DIMENSION FROM A REGIONAL DEFENSE ORGANIZATION TO AN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC REGION. BY FULFILLING ITS COMMITMENT TO PROTECT AND ENSURE PEACE ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT AGAINST VARIOUS THREATS, SUCH AS COMMUNISM EXPANSION, CIVIL WARS AND TERRORIST ATTACKS, THE ALLIANCE CAN BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST SUITABLE EXAMPLES THAT ILLUSTRATES THE CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY. THE EMPIRICAL DATA USE TO ANALYZE THE ROLE OF NATO REGARDING THE CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY INCLUDES RELEVANT ARTICLES AND REPORTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SECURITY STUDIES AND POLITICAL SCIENCES FIELD. THE FINDINGS REVEALED THAT IMPORTANT EVENTS WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY, SUCH AS THE ENLARGEMENT OF NATO, NEW THREATS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND A CHANGE FROM DIRECT THREATS TO RISK SITUATIONS HAS SHAPED A NEW IDENTITY AND EXTENDED THE ROLE OF THE ALLIANCE TO A MORE GLOBAL ONE. ALSO, WE CAN ARGUE THAT NATO’S MEMBERS HAVE CHANGED THEIR APPROACH FROM A STATIC, REACTIVE AND TERRITORIAL CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE DEFENSE TOWARD A PROACTIVE AND ANTICIPATORY APPROACH
THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR AND THE OVERALL IMPACT ON TERRORISM
Author(s): Augustin Flavius Tarța / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: Terrorism; The Quran; Islam; Manipulation; Jihad;
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ISLAM IS CONSTANTLY ALTERED BY FALSE PREACHERS TO REMOVE ITS ESSENCE (INTERNAL WILL, OR BELIEF SEEN AS THE GUIDE OF THE MUSLIM INDIVIDUAL), WHICH HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE „WARRIOR” SIDE OF TERROR, ACTS DEVOID OF ETHICS AND JUSTIFICATION). THE PURPOSE OF THIS APPROACH OF MANIPULATION THROUGH THE USAGE OF THE SPIRITUAL SPECTRUM, IS IN CONCRETE TERMS THE SPREAD OF THE ISLAMIC CULT, RESPECTIVELY ATTRACTING THE POPULATION OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES AND RELIGIONS TO THE VISION OF VARIOUS JIHADIST GROUPS OR ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS „PUNISHING” THOSE WHO DO NOT OR DO NOT WANT TO BE PART OF THE "GIFT OF AL-ISLAM" (ISLAMIC HOLY TERRITORY/COUNTRY). THROUGH THESE ACTIVITIES, THE CLEAR DEVIATION FROM THE PROPHETIC TEACHINGS IS REVEALED, THUS GIVING RISE TO A FORM OF ISLAMIC TERROR, WHICH IS GETTING WORSE AND REINVENTING ITSELF OVER THE CENTURIES, REACHING IN RECENT DECADES TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST VIRULENT SECURITY THREATS AT GLOBAL LEVEL.
Author(s): Răzvan Vintilescu / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: peaceful transition; violent transition; civil society; political regime type; popular democracy;
THIS ARTICLE INTENDS TO PRESENT AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSITION IN POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES. THE PERSPECTIVE USED IS ALSO A "POSTCOMMUNIST" ONE IN THAT IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN TAKEN AS IMPORTANT OR RELEVANT IN DISCUSSIONS OF THE ISSUE - NAMELY, EACH POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRY IS DIFFERENT EVEN THOUGH THEY ALL HAD THE SAME SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. THUS, IT IS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY TO SEE WHY SIMILAR COUNTRIES HAVE DIFFERENT FORMS OF TRANSITION, BUT ALSO HOW WE CAN UNDERSTAND THESE DIFFERENCES.ACCORDING TO THIS ANALYSIS, AN ADEQUATE ANSWER COULD ONLY BE OBTAINED BY STUDYING TRANSITION FROM THE EVENTS THAT BRING ALL THESE COUNTRIES TOGETHER, BUT ALSO FROM THOSE THAT SEPARATE THEM. THIS KIND OF SEPARATION IS INTERESTING FOR CURRENT ANALYSES, BECAUSE IT INVOLVES A NUMBER OF VARIABLES THAT OPERATE DIFFERENTLY IN EACH POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND BRING SPECIFIC OBSTACLES TO THE TRANSITION THAT FOLLOWS
GLOBALIZATION SEEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FIVE DIMENSIONS WITH SOCIAL IMPACT
Author(s): Bogdan Nicolae Mucea / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: globalization; the dimensions of globalization; social impact; glocalization;
THE CONCEPT OF GLOBALIZATION IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR, ANALYZED AND DEBATED CONCEPTS IN VARIOUS FIELDS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY. AT EACH LEVEL OF ANALYSIS, THIS CONCEPT IS PRESENTED DIFFERENTLY FROM A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE AND IS EMPHASIZED AND ANALYZED FROM VARIOUS ANGLES OF APPROACH DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS REPORTED. THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE CONCEPT OF GLOBALIZATION COMPLEMENTS THE OTHER PERSPECTIVES OF ANALYSIS, BRINGING, IN ADDITION TO SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS, SPECIFIC THEORETICAL ELEMENTS. THE MULTITUDE OF DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES TO THE CONCEPT OF GLOBALIZATION IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS ARTICLE, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT FIVE DIMENSIONS WITH STRONG SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS CONCEPT.
Keywords: Efe; Gẹlẹdẹ; spectacles; social and sustaining value; Yorùbá;
CONSTANT CELEBRATION OF EFE AND GELẸDẸ FESTIVAL REMINDS AND TEACHES THE YORÙBÁ PEOPLE OF THEIR RICH PAST AND DEEP CONNECTION. THE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS PACKAGED INTO THE FESTIVAL EXPLAIN THE MAGICO-RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE IT AS A FESTIVAL. THE FESTIVAL IS A DEMONSTRATION THAT THE YORÙBÁ PEOPLE DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPORTANCE OF FEMALE GENDER. THE BASIS OF THIS FESTIVAL IS PRIMARILY TO PLACATE AND VENERATE WOMANHOOD FOR THE WELL BEING OF THE SOCIETY. IT EQUALLY SHOWED THE PARAMOUNT POSITION THE FEMALE GENDER IS PLACED WITHIN THE SOCIETY. ASIDE THIS, IT SERVES MANY OTHER PURPOSES SUCH AS SOCIAL CONTROL AND MASS MEDIA MECHANISMS AMONG OTHERS. IT IS WORTHY OF NOTE THAT THIS CELEBRATION OF MOTHERHOOD STILL SURVIVES TILL TODAY IN THE FACE OF THE PREVAILING ALL-CONQUERING EUROCENTRIC SOCIAL VALUES. THE CONTINUOUS HOSTING OF THIS FESTIVAL BEYOND AREAS WHERE IT IS TRADITIONALLY KNOWN SPEAKS VOLUME ABOUT ITS RELEVANCE. THE NEED FOR A FULL APPRECIATION OF ITS SOCIAL RELEVANCE AS WELL AS THE FACTORS THAT SUSTAIN EFE AND GẸLẸDẸ FESTIVAL IN CONTEMPORARY YORÙBÁ COMMUNITIES INFORM CONSTANT CELEBRATION OF EFE AND GELẸDẸ FESTIVAL REMINDS AND THE PRESENT EFFORT. THE STUDY THEREFORE ADOPTED A COMBINATION OF ARCHIVAL AND SURVEY METHODS TO SOURCE FOR DATA TO BUTTRESS ITS FINDINGS. THE SURVEY METHOD RELIED ON QUALITATIVE METHOD WHERE 24 PARTICIPANTS WERE ENGAGED IN INTERACTIVE/INTERVIEW SESSIONS. THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY REVEALED THAT EFE AND GELEDE FESTIVAL PROVIDES ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ACTUALIZATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS BY SERVING AS AGENT OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND SOCIAL COHESION, EXUDE TOURISTIC VALUES AS WELL AS SOURCE OF HEALING.
PURPOSE: THE STUDY HIGHLIGHTS THE DYNAMICS OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN GORJ COUNTY, BETWEEN 15.09.2021-01.12.2021, PERIOD CORRESPONDING TO THE FOURTH WAVE OF THE PANDEMIC, MANIFESTED AT NATIONAL LEVEL. THE STUDY FOCUSED, ON THE ONE HAND, ON REVEALING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PANDEMIC EVOLUTION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF GORJ COUNTY, AND ON THE OTHER HAND ON HIGHLIGHTING THE DEGREE OF SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH HIGHER EDUCATION IN COMBATING THE SPREAD OF THE PANDEMIC, BY ACCEPTING / REJECTING VACCINATION AGAINST COVID-19. THIS LED TO CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE REASONS BEHIND THE HESITATION OR REFUSAL OF VACCINATION AGAINST THE SARS-COV-2 CORONAVIRUS. METHODS: THE STUDY WAS BUILT ON THE BASIS OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AVAILABLE OFFICIAL DATA AND A QUESTIONNAIRE APPLIED ONLINE TO PEOPLE WITH A MINIMUM AGE OF 21, GRADUATES OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND WITH PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN GORJ COUNTY. RESULTS: THE STUDY SHOWS A LOWER ACCEPTANCE OF COVID-19 VACCINES, COMPARED TO THE MANDATORY AND OPTIONAL VACCINES FOUND IN THE NATIONAL VACCINATION SCHEDULE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IT HIGHLIGHTS THE LOW LEVEL OF TRUST IN THE ROMANIAN MEDICAL SYSTEM COMPARED TO THE LEVEL OF TRUST IN DOCTORS. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, IT REVEALS HIGHER PERCENTAGES OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE COVID19 VACCINATION OF PEOPLE FROM URBAN AREAS IN GORJ COUNTY AND THOSE WITH HIGHER EDUCATION. CONCLUSIONS: THE STUDY CONFIRMS THE INITIAL HYPOTHESIS REGARDING THE HIGHER DEGREE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN URBAN AREAS AND THOSE WHO HAVE GRADUATED HIGHER EDUCATION.
DOES IT HAVE TO BE HUMAN TO BE CREDIBLE? PERCEPTION OF DIGITAL AVATARS COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE SECTOR
Author(s): Adina Ionescu / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: health communication; COVID-19; digital avatars; technology; message credibility;
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR HAS BECOME CRUCIAL, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF INCREASED HEALTH EXPENDITURES AND MEDICAL STAFF SHORTAGES. DIGITAL INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE CONTINUE TO GROW IN POPULARITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VIRTUAL REALITY, AND AVATAR TECHNOLOGIES ARE TRANSFORMING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATIENTS AND DOCTORS. IN THIS ARTICLE, WE WANT TO ADDRESS THE RELATIVE SCARCITY IN THE RESEARCH ON THE PERCEPTION OF DIGITAL AVATARS USED IN TRANSMISSION OF HEALTH MESSAGES AND THEIR USE IN HEALTHCARE SECTOR. ONE OF THE CONCERNS FOR EMERGING MEDIA STUDIES REMAINS TO ESTABLISH THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH AVATARS COULD IMPROVE THE HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND MESSAGE DELIVERY IN ORDER TO ENSURE A GREATER COMPLIANCE FROM THE PUBLIC. TO DISCOVER THESE CONDITIONS, THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXPLORE THE USE OF AVATARS IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, HOW THEY ARE PERCIEVED AS STAND-ALONE COMMUNICATORS AND IN COMPARISON WITH THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS AND IF THEY ARE A RELIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGES TRANSMISSION IN THIS PANDEMIC PERIOD.. AS PEOPLE TEND TO NEED ORDER, CONTROL, AND STRUCTURE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES, THE PERCEPTION OF DIGITAL AVATARS COULD CHANGE THE WAY OF HOW PATIENTS UNDERSTAND AND INTERNALIZE MEDICAL INFORMATION AND TREATMENTS AND ALSO HOW THEY ACCEPT THE INFORMATION IN MEDICAL CRISIS.
IN RECENT TIME THE NEED FOR SHELTER AND PRESENT ECONOMIC SITUATION HAS INFLUENCE INNOVATION IN PATTERN OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES. TYPICAL OF SUCH CASES ARE FOUND IN NIGERIA. WHILE MANY PEOPLE PLAYED BY THE RULES IN THE COURSE OF HAVING AN ABODE TO LAY THEIR HEADS IN ORDER TO AVOID POSSIBLE HOSTILITIES AND/OR EVICTIONS THAT ARE COMMON OCCURRENCE BETWEEN THE LANDLORDS AND THE TENANTS, REVERSE WAS THE CASE AMONG SOME PEOPLE. SITUATION OF THIS NATURE THAT WAS FOUND WITHIN THE INDIGENE-POPULATED AREAS OF IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA WAS THE FOCUS OF THIS STUDY. CURIOUS MODE OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION WHERE ONE-STOREY BUILDINGS WITH MUD STRUCTURE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND CONCRETE BLOCKS ON THE FIRST FLOOR WERE FOUND SCATTERED WITHIN THE STUDY SETTINGS. THE ASSISTANCE OF CONTACT PERSONS WAS UTILIZED TO LOCATE SOME OF THESE THESE STRUCTURES. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WAS ADOPTED TO ELICIT INFORMATION FROM 16 RESPONDENTS IN THE IDENTIFIED STUDY SITES. THE DATA COLLECTED IN THE PROCESS WERE ANALYSED THROUGH CONTENT ANALYSIS AND THE RESULTS WERE ILLUSTRATED IN VERBATIM QUOTATIONS TO SUPPORT THE ISSUES BEING DISCUSSED. INEXPERIENCE, MISPLACEMENT OF VALUES SYSTEM, LACK OF AVAILABLE SPACE TO PUT A STRUCTURE THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE THE EXPANDING FAMILY STRUCTURE AND THAT ABANDONING THE EXISTING SPACE FOR NEW ONE ELSEWHERE WILL LEAD TO LOSS OF THE FAMILY LAND IN THE INDIGENOUS AREAS TO OTHER SIBLINGS FROM EXTENDED FAMILY ARE THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED THIS TYPE OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. AT THE SAME IN RECENT TIME THE NEED FOR SHELTER AND PRESENT ECONOMIC SITUATION HAS INFLUENCE INNOVATION IN PATTERN OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES. TYPICAL OF SUCH CASES ARE FOUND IN NIGERIA. WHILE MANY PEOPLE PLAYED BY THE RULES IN THE COURSE OF HAVING AN ABODE TO LAY THEIR HEADS IN ORDER TO AVOID POSSIBLE HOSTILITIES AND/OR EVICTIONS THAT ARE COMMON OCCURRENCE BETWEEN THE LANDLORDS AND THE TENANTS, REVERSE WAS THE CASE AMONG SOME PEOPLE. SITUATION OF THIS NATURE THAT WAS FOUND WITHIN THE INDIGENE-POPULATED AREAS OF IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA WAS THE FOCUS OF THIS STUDY. CURIOUS MODE OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION WHERE ONE-STOREY BUILDINGS WITH MUD STRUCTURE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND CONCRETE BLOCKS ON THE FIRST FLOOR WERE FOUND SCATTERED WITHIN THE STUDY SETTINGS. THE ASSISTANCE OF CONTACT PERSONS WAS UTILIZED TO LOCATE SOME OF THESE THESE STRUCTURES. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WAS ADOPTED TO ELICIT INFORMATION FROM 16 RESPONDENTS IN THE IDENTIFIED STUDY SITES. THE DATA COLLECTED IN THE PROCESS WERE ANALYSED THROUGH CONTENT ANALYSIS AND THE RESULTS WERE ILLUSTRATED IN VERBATIM QUOTATIONS TO SUPPORT THE ISSUES BEING DISCUSSED. INEXPERIENCE, MISPLACEMENT OF VALUES SYSTEM, LACK OF AVAILABLE SPACE TO PUT A STRUCTURE THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE THE EXPANDING FAMILY STRUCTURE AND THAT ABANDONING THE EXISTING SPACE FOR NEW ONE ELSEWHERE WILL LEAD TO LOSS OF THE FAMILY LAND IN THE INDIGENOUS AREAS TO OTHER SIBLINGS FROM EXTENDED FAMILY ARE THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED THIS TYPE OF HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. AT THE SAME
STUDY ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF STUDENTS FROM “CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI” UNIVERSITY OF TÂRGU JIU DURING THE FOURTH WAVE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Author(s): Flavius Cristian Mărcău,Cătălin Peptan / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 02/2021
Keywords: quality of life; pandemic; COVID-19; students; "Constantin Brâncuși" University of Târgu Jiu;
AIM: THE STUDY REFLECTS THE WAY IN WHICH THE STUDENTS OF THE “CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI” UNIVERSITY OF TÂRGU JIU PERCEIVE THE EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, BOTH REGARDING THE DECISIONS ADOPTED BY THE INSTITUTION'S MANAGEMENT REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING ACTIVITIES IN THE ONLINE VERSION AND REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THEIR LIVES. METHODS: THE STUDY TARGETED A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF STUDENTS FROM THE “CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI” UNIVERSITY OF TÂRGU JIU, BUILT ON THE BASIS OF A RANDOM STATISTICAL STEP OF 3, THE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS BEING 674. THE QUESTIONNAIRE ADDRESSED TO THE RESPONDENTS INCLUDED A NUMBER OF 39 QUESTIONS, 26 OF WHICH ALLOWED US TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF LIFE, THROUGH THE WHOQOLBREF INSTRUMENT OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. RESULTS: THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY REVEAL THE HIGH DEGREE OF TRUST GIVEN BY THE RESPONDENTS TO THE TEACHING STAFF OF THE “CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI” UNIVERSITY OF TÂRGU JIU. ALTHOUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAD SERIOUS INFLUENCES ON STUDENTS' LIVES AND THEIR INCOME LEVELS, THE PARAMETERS THAT CHARACTERIZE STUDENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE, ASSESSED IN THE FOUR MAJOR AREAS: PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL, ARE HIGHER. ALTHOUGH THE DEGREE OF ACCEPTANCE OF COVID-19 VACCINES IS HIGH, WHICH CONFERS AN INCREASED DEGREE OF IMMUNITY AND A MINIMAL RISK OF CONTAMINATION WITH THE SARS-COV-2 VIRUS, STUDENTS PREFER THAT THE TEACHING ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IN THE ONLINE VERSION. CONCLUSIONS: THERE ARE FAVORABLE PREMISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE "CONSTANTIN BRÂNCUȘI" UNIVERSITY OF TÂRGU JIU AT HIGH QUALITY STANDARDS, GIVEN THE HIGH DEGREE OF TRUST OF STUDENTS IN THE TEACHING STAFF, THEIR APPRECIATION OF THE TECHNICAL PLATFORM OF THE INSTITUTION PROVIDED STUDENTS AND THE HIGH LEVEL OF PARAMETERS THAT CHARACTERIZE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. WE RECOMMEND DEEPENING THE CAUSES FOR WHICH ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF THE RESPONDENTS THINK ABOUT THE CONTINUATION OF ONLINE TEACHING ACTIVITIES, ALTHOUGH THE OPINIONS OF SPECIALISTS REVEAL MULTIPLE SHORTCOMINGS THAT LED TO THE WIDENING OF THE EDUCATION DEFICIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE PANDEMIC.
Keywords: biblical motifs; Croatian children’s literature; Christianity; parable; contemporary approach to Croatian children’s literature; Sonja Tomić; Stjepan Lice
The aim of this paper is to explore some of the ways in which Christian values are present in contemporary Croatian children’s stories. Contemporary Croatian children’s literature is extremely diverse. However, Christianity has been immanent in Croatian children’s literature from the very beginning and has engaged with contemporary children’s stories through various creative processes. One of the contemporary approaches to Christian themes in Croatian children’s literature will be presented, analyzing the works of the Croatian writers Sonja Tomić and Stjepan Lice. Their stories are inspired by biblical themes, motifs, and forms such as parables, the stories of rich symbolic relationships and strong messages in which Jesus Christ speaks in a vivid and understandable way about ordinary things, elevating them to the level of timeless meaning, thus pointing to correlations between the everyday world, spiritual reality, and the Kingdom of God. Sonja Tomić and Stjepan Lice approach these biblical themes through contemporary narrative concepts of children’s literature and bring the original, complex way of Christ’s teaching closer to the children’s world and the potential experience of religiosity as it applies to children.
HAMLET DECENTERED: FILMIC ADAPTATION OF ANJAN DUTT’S HEMANTA
Author(s): Shahanaaz Kowsar K. S.,Sangeeta Mukherjee / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 44/2023
Keywords: Deconstruction; Intertextuality; Film Adaptation; Dramatic Motif; Metadrama
The boundary between the genres of classical literary dramas and films has become obscure. The contemporary Asian film industries regularly adapt storylines and themes from literary works. This shift from one genre/medium to another has ‘glocalized’ Shakespeare all over the world. This film adaptation has led to various vantage points of the literary text being adapted in a diverse cultural, regional and generic shift. The research analyses the major allusions to the themes, dialogue, plot, and setting of the original drama Hamlet (1603) in the adapted film Hemanta (2016). It reviews the process of the deconstruction of the play through deviations from the original plot and its iconic characters. The article also discusses the quality of ‘intertextuality’ in the film Hemanta. Similarly, the article analyses the literary techniques of ‘dramatic motif’ and ‘metadrama’ in the play Hamlet and the adaptation of these techniques in the film Hemanta. The article also emphasizes the anatomizing perspective of the major iconic characters in Hamlet. The research article proffers the deconstruction of the classical play Hamlet, as well as illuminating the differences between the adapted film Hemanta and the original play.
A LEVINASIAN READING OF SHAKESPEARE’S THE WINTER’S TALE AND SARAH KANE’S PHAEDRA’S LOVE
Author(s): Ali Aghaei,Bahee Hadaegh / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 44/2023
Keywords: Responsibility; Being; the Other; Violence
This research aims to compare Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1623) with Kane’s Phaedra’s Love (1996) from the viewpoint of Levinas and his ideas on the relationship between being and the Other expressed in his pivotal work Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1978). The central events of the two plays are analyzed based on the text to flesh out the similarities and differences the two playwrights have with regard to their treatment of the approach of the Other. Of the highest importance in the analysis is how the characters of the plays deal with responsibility for the Other, and also how they react to the wonder of facing the Other. It is concluded that, in Shakespeare’s play, the characters mostly do not carry out their ethical responsibility, and those who do are not treated well; as the play progresses, however, they start to take responsibility for one another which leads to a mostly happy ending. In Kane’s play, by contrast, there is no happy ending because the vast majority of characters do not realize their responsibility, and thus, their wonder at facing the Other turns extremely violent. Additionally, even those characters that come to terms with their responsibility undergo the same gruesome fate as those who do not embody ethical responsibility.
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