Крахът на неолибералните утопии

Author(s): Vihren Bouzov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

The ongoing process of globalization has entailed growth of inequalities and injustice worldwide. Neoliberalism cannot be an adequate strategy in this process. As a development strategy it is unable to ensure normal functioning of a social system and just relationships between people. The neoliberal values claim to be an universal therapy for all economic and social diseases. But they are utopia that were scattered because of the mismatch between the social interests of the elites and the underprivileged people around the world. The outliving of the nation states, the free media, the neoliberal economic slogans and the global democracy are utopian projects that collapsed in the world today. Formulation and acceptance of new social values on the basis of communitarianism is a road leading to the finding of a way out of permanent crises and regional conflicts, to boosting up economic and social development.

20 години специалност Философия във ВТУ „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Author(s): Vihren Bouzov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

The course of training in philosophy has been opened in 1992–93 year. Now it has full term accreditation for 6 years and it is on the 2th place in the national ranking of specialties. 14 young doctors in Philosophy graduated in Veliko Turnovo. Our Faculty has been accepted as national and international center of philosophical researches and education.

За необходимостта от социология на българската философска мисъл

Author(s): Dimitar Tsatsov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

Sociology of Philosophy is a new branch of Sociology of Science. It is necessary to use sociological instruments to understand some ideological clashes in the contemporary history of the Bulgarian philosophical thougt.

The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma: Trauma and the African American Veteran

Author(s): Sharon D. Raynor / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

Daniel Morrison and Monica Casper contend that disability studies and its cultural locations have been remarkably silent on matters of the traumatic origins of many disabilities, on the ongoing relationship between shocking events, their abrupt and chronic impact, and experiences of disability. This article explores how critical disability studies must intersect with critical trauma studies to address how the African American Vietnam war veterans who, traumatized and disabled by war and conflict, are further marginalized by societal constraints of race, class and gender. This essay focus on an understanding of W.E.B. DuBois’s ideology of double-consciousness, critical race theory and cultural studies and how they can emphasize the intersection of war injury and disability with a tremendous regard for the lived racial, class and socio-economic oppressions that contributed to what military service and disabilities of the African American Vietnam veteran reveal about masculine identity.

Imperium tekstu kontratakuje. Refleksje socjologa. Recenzja książki Marcina Matczaka Imperium tekstu. Prawo jako postulowanie i urzeczywistnianie świata możliwego

Author(s): Lech M. Nijakowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Акултурация и идентичност на юноши имигранти. Анализ на случай от Франция

Author(s): Aleksandra Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

This paper draws on the author’s ethnographic research with 11 – 15 years old adolescents conducted in a “prioriy” middle school in Normandy, France (2014 – 2017) and aims to explore these immigrant students’ experiences of acculturation, sociocultural adaptation and identity formation. In particular, I present the case study of a Moroccan boy in an attempt to uncover more profound aspects of these phenomena. I use the theoretical framework of Berry et al. (2006) regarding strategies for acculturation and identity processes in adolescence in order to analyse data gathered through ethnographic methods. Then, I illustrate how methodological pluralism can produce a nuanced picture and allow for alternative interpretations. In addition, followingPollock and Van Reken’s example of a third-culture kid, I use the concept of a third culture adolescent (Pollock and Van Reken 1999) to demonstrate how a migrant student with a diffuse profile, that defines him as marginal and confused, viewed through an ethnographic lens, can be thought of as someone creating “third culture”.

В НОВИТЕ БРОЕВЕ НА СПИСАНИЯТА НА ,,АЗ-БУКИ“ ЧЕТЕТЕ

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Între viață și cărți. Despre neajunsurile și beneficiile ratării

Author(s): Antonio Patraş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

This study analyses the relationship between failure and success from two perspectives: creative psychology and sociology of creation. By starting from Angelo Mitchievici’s recent book, “Farmecul vieților distruse. Câteva reflecții despre ratare” [The Charm of Failed Lives] (2022), which explores one of the favorite themes of decadent literature and art (failure), I aim to highlight the most relevant existential postures in a writer’s life: the anti-bourgeois aristocratic posture (the dandy) and the proletarian-democratic posture (the bohemian). It is not by chance that Mitchievici dwells on the works the Romanian-French writer Emil Cioran, who tried to build an image of a secluded writer, close to anonymity, avoiding to cultivate both the bohemian and the dandy style, by adopting a lifestyle shaped by the cult of work and discipline, in the spirit of the Protestant ethics theorized by Max Weber. Mitchievici explains very convincingly how, once he emigrated to Paris, Cioran completely abandoned the Romanian language, in which he was convinced he was failing as a writer, in order to devote himself exclusively to writing in French, with the idea of conquering global glory. In addition to Cioran, the authors in focus are Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Flaubert, Dino Buzzatti, Mihail Sadoveanu, Mircea Cărtărescu, etc., which provides the critic with the opportunity to reconnect with his former books (e.g. “Decadență și decadentism în contextul modernității românești și europene”, 2011) and to show a refined and mature essayist’s vein.

Пета конференция на Националните асоциации в Международната социологическа асоциация „Социални трансформации и социология: лишености и овластявания“, 21‒24.11.2022 г., Нова Горица

Author(s): Mila Mineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

THE PROBLEM OF SOCIALIZATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Author(s): Victoria Maximciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

The article considers the issue of research on the socialization of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The socialization of people with ASD is a very difficult issue, this is confirmed by studies in the West that only 15% of this category can be independent, but still the presence of support is needed. There is insufficient research on this issue in the specialized literature. The results of the own research are presented and the main directions of psychopedagogical interventions are included, containing the activity with children, parents and teachers.

INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES INTO THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY

Author(s): Răzvan Moroșanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

Humans have been migrating from ancient times. The first migrators were the tribal peoples in search of food, land and resources. They were not considered refugees or asylum seekers, but gatherers or hunters who explored new lands. Therefore, it is a fact that refugees have always existed but the formalization of international community's responsibility to provide protection and to find solutions for refugees only dates back to the founding of the League of Nations. This organization defines refugees in categories, mainly according to their country of origin. The refugee crisis has represented a topic of great interest to the international community since the creation of the United Nations. Through the asylum process, refugees and other people who needed protection were offered access to assistance offered by other states. But, in some cases, the national asylum system proved to be ineffective and offered asylum seekers unequal access. In order to solve this problem, the European Union developed a common European asylum system designed to harmonize the national asylum systems and procedures of the member states and to facilitate the examination of the asylum seeker requests. In order to do this, the European Union relied on the existing international legal framework, regulated by the provisions of the 1951 Convention and the principle of non-refoulement.

PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATIONS ON THE PSYCHOSOCIAL REALITIES OF THE DEPORTATIONS FROM THE MOLDAVIAN SSR: THE ISSUE OF ENVY

Author(s): Zinaida Bolea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

The deportations from the Moldavian SSR took place during the first decade of the Sovietization of Bessarabia and represent a traumatic event in the contemporary history of the Republic of Moldova. Given the collective silence during the Soviet period on this phenomenon, the last two decades have been marked by efforts to create scientific and cultural representations of this historical event. Being part of the category of anthropogenic historical traumas, in which the traumatic factor is individually human, the subject of transformations of human relations in a totalitarian context is a central one for research projects dedicated to deportations. This article deals with deportees' representations of the causes and conditions of deportations and highlights hypotheses formulated by deportees. One of the deportees' hypotheses refers to local social animosities, and the issue of envy is invoked. The article presents the deportees' arguments, followed by psychoanalytic theorizations of this hypothesis.

Za ścianą. O kobiecie, zwierzętach i (nie)codzienności w powieści „Ściana” Marlen Haushofer

Author(s): Estera Głuszko-Boczoń / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2023

Marlen Haushofer’s novel, The Wall (Die Wand), published in 1963, elevated the author to fame, winning the admiration of readers and critics beyond the German-speaking world. As a result of a twist of fate she can neither grasp let alone understand, the heroine is cut off from the external world by an invisible obstacle – the titular wall. Behind it, human and animal life dies away, literally. She is the sole survivor of the catastrophe. From then on, she has to live in complete seclusion, left to her own devices and to fend for herself. Her only companions are a small group of animals giving sense to her existence. The sense of responsibility she feels for those living beings, her care for them, and the total isolation and sense of hopelessness become the determinants of her everyday life. This paper aims to present the main character’s uncommonness of daily living conveyed by the title and caused by an unexpected disaster. It seems important to investigate the protagonist’s attempts to reconstruct her own social space, where human interactions are replaced by interactions with animals. It is no less important to investigate her survival strategies, which are based on the strategies she had known before the disaster. The character has to take on a new role in a new reality that turns out to be a kind of reflection of her previous social role. This paper attempts to review the established social rules which had to become devalued to a certain extent when the character was faced with a radical change. Haushofer’s work can also be interpreted as a parable of the present time, in which fear of what is unknown (a disaster, a war, a pandemic) determines the way that the individual lives day by day. This paper is based primarily on the source text, namely M. Haushofer’s The Wall, and the analysis in this paper refers to feminist discourse, ecocriticism and animal studies.

THE CONTEMPORARY FASHION CONSUMER: PROFILE, FEATURES, TYPOLOGIES

Author(s): Sandra Celia Chira / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

Fashion as a contemporary socio-cultural phenomenon is not only a problem related to clothing trends but also one related to the social behaviors of consumers and producers. Thus, the psychology of the fashion consumer is one of the central elements on which the evolution of fashion towards one direction or another is based, and at the same time it is one of the main concerns of designers, stylists, fashion journalists and marketing specialists. On the one hand, they analyze the different needs and typologies of fashion consumers, and on the other hand, they try to identify the necessary ideas to determine their interest in consumer goods and new trends. Along with the establishment of the main identity features that lead to the formation of the clothing identity, respectively the main features that the individual will have in the role of fashion consumer, relating the image to the individual, clothing is defined in accordance with all the components of the self, including self-awareness that stands out as the main influencing factor of the clothing image. In the process of self-knowledge and in interpersonal communication, the clothing identity of one person is defined through a conscious process of choices, being configured and reconfigured permanently in relation to social trends, standards and collective models.” People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.” Cristian Lacroix

METHODS OF RESEARCH OF THE PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE APPLIED IN SOCIAL CRISIS SITUATIONS

Author(s): Viorica Lifari,Stella Grama / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

The present paper explores the cognitive side of persuasive discourse and the role of power in it. The main purpose of the article is to put into discussion various models of Critical Discourse Analysis which were formulated by linguists from the domain and to present a general picture of methods that refer to discourse analysis. We focus on the inter-disciplinary aspect of the discourse analysis which covers different perspectives: linguistic, cognitive and socio-linguistic. Also, we emphasize the similarities and the differences between different branches of discourse analysis such as critical linguistics, the historical approach of discourse analysis and the cognitive one. By synthesising and comparing these methods we aim at developing a comprehensive and integrate model of discourse analysis, which will reflect the interaction between discourse, cognition and the social context.

SCHOOL DROPOUT AMONG ROMA STUDENTS. CAUSES AND METHODS OF PREVENTION

Author(s): Claudia Florina Pop / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2023

Family involvement in children's education is fundamental for success in education. Given the even more important role of the family and the community in the Roma context, it is essential to identify the consequences of early school leaving on Roma children, in terms of personal development, as well as on their future socio-economic integration. It is extremely important that there is a collaboration of Roma families in terms of staying in the educational system of Roma girls, who are the most affected by the high rates of early school leaving. Therefore, a widespread phenomenon that should be treated with greater attention and that has become a serious problem of Romanian education is school dropout. School dropout is found among all students, but especially among those of Roma ethnicity, students who adapt with difficulty both in society and in the education system, who face the difficult acceptance in communities (more and more parents are reluctant to enrol their children in classes where there are also children of Roma ethnicity). (The Gentle, 2021) Roma cultivate, especially in children, a sense of reality as well as the ability to conceive survival strategies and less concern for school, they, in turn, receive the same education.

THE ”SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE” OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO INTERACT WITH DISABLED CHILDREN IN KATHRYN ERSKINE’S MOCKINGBIRD, R.J. PALACIO’S WONDER, MARK HADDON'S THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Author(s): Alina Lucia GRAPINI / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

Our innate characteristics influence our interactions with the world. It is well acknowledged that individuals possess varying degrees of shyness and outgoingness, which stem from their unique personalities and influence their perceptions and interactions with others. For such cognitive and social issues to be properly comprehended we have chosen some parental models and also a social model identified through police officers' and interdisciplinary approached via Daniel Goleman's book "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships"(2006)

ALTERNATIVE MEASURES RELATING TO THE DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS DURING THE CRIMINAL TRIAL

Author(s): Ștefan - Tiberiu Ciurea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

The present article addresses the importance of alternative measures to deprivation of liberty in the context of the evolution of the criminal phenomenon in terms of the offences or crimes committed by minors, so that the impact on the personality and development of the young people in question are not disproportionate to the purpose pursued by taking the measure, namely ensuring the smooth conduct of the criminal process, preventing the commission of other crimes, child rehabilitation and his/her reintegration in society.

Genealogy of civil society: contemporary reinterpretation of the concept

Author(s): Đorđe S. Stojanović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2024

Starting from the exceptional importance of civil society for political/democratic theory, the paper critically analyzes its position in various theoretical discourses, trying to detect the most current changes in its understanding. Along these lines, the paper examines the premodern, modern and postmodern paradigms of civil society. The most important findings are that its interpretation must include: (1) cultural procedurality and diversity against the abstract and repressive given of the Western matrix; (2) the fact that externally controlled non-genuine non-governmental organizations of neoliberal civil society have weak support from citizens and a low level of responsibility; (3) dialogue with neo-traditional associations; and (4) the idea that civil society cannot be freed in a utopian manner from the redistribution of power, which implies its politicization, hierarchization and civil society elites.

60 години Медицински университет Варна. III. Обществено признание за 25 годишен принос към медицинската наука, практика и образование.

Author(s): Georgi Rusev Marinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

This article is the third part of the series “60 years of the Medical University of Varna”. The period under review begins in 1977 with the inauguration of the new leadership of the Medical Faculty of Varna, with Dean Prof. Dr Garabed Husebikyan Kaprelyan. From 10.01.1979, the Medical Faculty of Varna was reorganized into a Higher Medical Institute, within the Medical Academy (MA) of Sofia, and prof. Dr Garabed Kaprelian was elected Rector (1979 - 1983). During his terms of ofice, the construction of a series of new units was completed: the first modern hospital complex in Bulgaria, built specifically for the treatment of mentally ill patients, with five wards and 350 beds, new diagnostic-treatment and hygiene-epidemiological structures, with their own buildings. New laboratories and sectors were opened as well. The joint work between the Varna Мedical Institute and the Varna Primary District Hospital was expanded. An afiliated faculty of the Varna Medical Institute was opened in the town of Tolbukhin (today Dobrich), for the training of medical students from the third to the sixth year, thus increasing the contribution of Varna Medical Institute (VMI) to raising the level of health care in North-Eastern Bulgaria. From 20.VI.1983 to 27.IV.1987 the Rector of VMI was Prof. Dr. Vanko Nachev Vankov. During his term of ofice the construction of the surgical corpus in Dobrich town was completed which were the structures of the surgical departments of the afiliated faculty, thus increasing the level of surgical care in the Dobrudja region and improving the conditions for students education. On 29.X.1986, the most modern of its time hospital structure of the Varna Medical Institute was oficially opened with 733 beds and a training campus, adjacent to the previously built hospital complex for the treatment of mentally ill. This created a powerful treatment and diagnostic complex with 1290 beds and 103 places for short hospital stay. VMI Varna established itself as an authoritative center of medical education, with a decisive impact on the improvement of healthcare in North-Eastern Bulgaria, receiving public recognition for its 25 years contribution to medical science, practice and education.