Keywords: informants; anonymity; anthropology; fieldwork; Lake Prespa region.
Jonathan Schwartz is dealing with the problem of anonymity in anthropological research asking: why is the falsification imperative so important in anthropological “ethics”? Anonymity is considered as a norm in the contemporary anthropological research when disguising the true identity of informants is practiced even when there is no obvious reason for it.
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Postsocialism is over. There is a generation in the former state socialist countries which does not have memories of state socialism and does not compare their current experience to their lives under socialism. The usefulness of postsocialism as an analytical category has also faded. The time has come to not compartmentalize the experience of eastern Europe as socialist, not separate state socialism from capitalism, and post-socialism from the rest of the world.
More...Keywords: questions; questioning; sentence type; interviewer turns
The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which news interview questions can be applied to teaching/learning English for Environmental Engineering in tertiary education. The point of departure is the assumption that questions, due to their complexity and variation, both at the syntactic and interactional (i.e., pragmatic) levels, offer appropriate language samples for reflection and practice in language learning. The data for this investigation has been selected from news interviews on environmental topics. This allows the learners to explore an authentic context in which questions occur. By using the theoretical framework of Conversational Analysis, the analysis reported in this paper identifies syntactic and interactional features of news interview questions which are thought to be relevant to language learning.
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Scholarly journals are by definition facilitators of and vehicles for advances in academic research. Of late, however, a significant shift in their function is becoming evident as institutionally the stress is increasingly on ways in which articles in peer reviewed journals can be used as a means of assessing professors in view of promotion or tenure and higher education institutions in view of ranking.
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Keywords: brenneis; slovenia; austria
Alexander Brenneis, 2009, Das parlamentarische System in Slowenien und Österreich im Vergleich (The Parliamentary System in Slovenia and Austria in Comparative Perspective), Leykam, Graz, 207 pages.
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Keywords: submission; self-government; morals, politics; religion; church; behavior.
Although we may agree that remarkable scientific advances have been made in virtually every area, nothing and nobody has yet managed to perfect the human nature and the moral relations within society. The moral order is mandatory for any rational being. Religion and morality, faith and politics are indispensable and inseparable parts of a whole. Christians who sin repent for fear of divine punishment. Others deliberately perform many good deeds in expectation of a divine reward. Thus, moral principles appear as commandments of God in pursuit of „The supreme Good”.
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Keywords: Business ethics; ECR
The ECR is a happy mixture between management, marketing and ethics. The relationship between ethical conduct an law sometime is confusing. Some would rationalize that actions within the law are therefore ethical and perfectly justifiable. But an “if it’s legal, it’s ethical” attitude disregards the fact that the law “codifies only that part of ethics which society feels so strongly about that it is willing to support it with physical force”.
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Our brief contrastive analysis of the infinitive with predicative value in Italian and Romanian has revealed several similarities, but mostly several differences. On the one hand, in both languages, the infinitive can have predicative function in sentences marked by intonation, with the value of an imperative. On the other hand, only in Italian, the infinitive can have predicative function in declarative, conditional, exclamatory, and dubitative sentences.
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An important aspect of business to client communication, with the ultimate goal of a business to drive sales or retain them as returning clients, is to set the potential clients’ mood appropriately for closing the deal. This paper focuses on real examples taken form the Internet. Typical banners and text-ads are analyzed in order to demonstrate their role as metadiscursive element for the main online text. (metadiscourse and discourse is extended to metameaning and meaning).
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Keywords: partible inheritance; legal heirs; disposable portion; imperative character; individual character;
Partible inheritance is that part of the inheritance which, according to the law, corresponds to partible heirs and of which he who bequeaths cannot dispose of through inter vivos generosities (donations) or through clauses (inheritance or disinheritance). The institution of partible inheritance was established on moral, but also social grounds, ensuring certain equilibrium among partible heirs. Partible inheritance has an imperative and collective character. At the same time, the right to partible inheritance of partible heirs has an individual character and they have the right to receive the goods that are part of the deceased’s patrimony in nature.
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Keywords: politics; power; communism; social order; human being;
The present articles argues about the balance between power and knowledge identifing as a linking element for the two meanings of the order the knowledge order and the political order, the impartiality.
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Review of: Anca Parmena OLIMID - Alexandra Petrescu, Tăcerea în politică. Eseuri (Silence in politics. Essays), Cluj-Napoca, EIKON Publishing House, 2011 ISBN 978-973-757-539-5, 123 pages.
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Keywords: University ethics; deviations; sanctions; principles;
Starting from the significance of the notion of “ethics”, which has been consecrated since antiquity, we will present in this article some aspects developed in the current legislation on rules of ethics and deontology in the Romanian contemporary academic environment. The law on national education contains detailed provisions on university ethics and enshrines the obligation to adopt the Code of University Ethics and Deontology. An example in this respect is the Code of University Ethics and Deontology of the “Athenaeum” University in Bucharest, which provides a set of acknowledged values and principles that underlie the rules of academic conduct. At the level of higher education institutions, Ethics and Deontology Committees are established, which draw up Annual Ethics Reports, but no centralized analysis of cases and causes of violation of university ethics has not been identified at national level to mitigate the negative impact on the quality of the educational act. In the application of the provisions of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy, 2016 - 2020, university and postgraduate training programs on ethics and integrity were set up, with an optional and mandatory character, but we cannot yet speak of a centralized comparative evaluation of the results of these programs. Current approaches to the development of academic ethics promoted by academic community members should be seen as good practices that require support and sustained efforts, including from civil society, to effectively contribute to the general public welfare.
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Keywords: rule of law; justice; society; state; church; holiness; sinfulness;
In recent times, the Romanian society has indicated a growing concern for the concept of the rule of law which should define all aspects of the state dealings and the society as a whole. While this need is obvious in what regards Romania, the imperative to pursue justice in all aspects of the life of a society and a state is an important theme in the Bible. To achieve this goal, the society can draw on the way in which the church is considered holy despite of the sinfulness of its members.
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Keywords: abuse of rights; defrauding the law; paulian action; civil offense;
Whereas defrauding the law implies, in fact, the official, but artificial and illegitimate usage of rights to cover the real intention of the subject, which is to circumvent legal provisions, and the abuse of rights implies exceeding the reasonable limits of exercising a legally recognized right, the subject thus violating the purpose for which the law recognizes and defends that right, sometimes the two notions seem to overlap or create confusion as to the correct legal framing and contextualization of the legal situation. The present article therefore aims to present the conceptual delimitations between the abuse of rights and the defrauding the law, grafted on examples, in order to clarify a series of debates and controversies in the literature and the legal practice regarding the interference between the two concepts.
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