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EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP

Author(s): Valeriu Dumitru / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This paper addresses the purpose of citizenship education and its role in educational setting. Citizenship is the core concept that provides the learning focus for social studies at all grades. To identify the skills, knowledge, and values that students will need as active democratic citizens, social studies must take into account the society in which students live, and anticipate the challenges they will face in the future. Citizenship is a fluid concept that changes over time: its meaning is often contested, and it is subject to interpretation and continuing debate. Citizenship education is fundamental to living in a democratic society. The concept of citizenship takes on meaning in specific contexts and is determined by time and place. Diverse notions of citizenship have been used in the past and are being used in the present, for both good and ill. The purpose of this study is, surveying the nature of citizenship and its implication for education. This paper explores the ways in which citizenship education is used in an effort to create particular kinds of citizens as part of a larger effort in education systems.

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DAVID HUME AND THE CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM WESTERN RATIONALITY

Author(s): Adrian-Paul Iliescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Hume has offered a substantive critique of classic rationalism and his objections to the mainstream principles of rationality are often very convincing. But do they amount to a set of sufficient reasons for abandoning the mainstream ideal of rationality for a new, empiricist and conservative, one? I shall argue that Hume’s approach, as defended by Donald Livingston in his famous book Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium, appears to be both promising and (still) much too tentative, insufficiently articulated and vague. On one hand, Hume’s arguments detect correctly many intellectualist errors, but, on the other hand, the suggestions made for replacing the mainstream ideal of rationality with something new are not developed and clarified enough to be convincing.

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ÉMILE DURKHEIM AND ZYGMUNT BAUMAN ON MORALITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Author(s): Andreea Bobb / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

We are experiencing a moral crisis and there are no obvious signs that we are approaching its end. In this context, maybe it would not be without interest to take a look at the concepts of morality of two great social thinkers: Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman. The comparative analysis will be centered on three aspects: 1) the definition of morality; 2) the source of morality (individual/society) and 3) the role of morality in society. The analysis will reveal the opposite views of the two sociologists. At the end of the article, Bauman’s solution to the moral crisis is presented.

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ORGANIZED CRIME IN ALGERIA: TYPOLOGIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Author(s): Hatem Benazouz / Language(s): French Issue: 39/2017

This essay tries to analyse the phenomenon of national and transnational organized crime, which focuses the attention of several countries, governments, security and judicial apparatus throughout the world, on its threat to world stability and its destructive impact on the economic, social and security plans. The various aspects of this phenomenon are described through the follow-up of the various stages in which organized crime in Algeria developed. Its impact on the stability of neighbour countries is also worth mentioning, because is increasing in intensity and diversifying national and transnational criminal activities.

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RESEARCHES RELATED TO THE REDUCTION OF PREMATURITY THROUGH PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES IN 2017

Author(s): Gabriela Simionescu,Maria Bolota,Bogdan Doroftei,Delia Nicolaiciuc,Carmen Rodica Anton,Iulia Diaconu,Dumitru Filipeanu,Emil Anton / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 38/2017

Data from literature, especially from the US, has provided data on prediction, prevention and treatment of premature membrane rupture (RPM). RPM is a significant cause of premature birth and can cause complications of a term task. Considerable research on RPM has led to a better understanding of the mechanism of spontaneous breakage of membranes, risk factors, and good results for newborns resulting from such obstetrical events. Spontaneous rupture of the membranes increases the risk of intrauterine infection and umbilical cord compression as well as the risk of premature detachment of placenta. Newborn babies resulting from RPM have an increased risk of morbidity compared to gestational age, and the risk of infection is increased compared with other premature babies due to ancillary causes. If RPM occurs in the second trimester, there is an additional risk of pulmonary hypoplasia and hip dysplasia. Pre-term conservative treatment prolongs latency to birth. Antibiotics reduce the risk of infection while corticosteroid treatment (dexamethasone) reduces respiratory complications and interventricular haemorrhage without increasing the risk of infection. Birth is necessary or unavoidable in many cases by RPMs and because conservative treatment often results in no results; That is why studies are needed to identify all risk factors and the need to treat pregnant women at risk of RPM; 17-hydroxy-progesterone is a specific treatment for preventing recurrent membrane rupture.

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FORMATIVE AND REFLECTIVE MODELS IN MARKETING RESEARCH

Author(s): Magdalena Danilet,Claudia Ioana Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 38/2017

Compliance with the construct validity criteria is necessary for the correct assessment of the research in terms of quality and for further development of the marketing models. The identification of formative and reflective constructs as well as the correct testing of their validity and reliability are important methodological steps for marketing research as described in this article. The first part defines the reflective and the formative constructs and highlighst their particularities by analysing the theoretical criteria that differentiate them. In the second part of the study aspects of validity and trust for the formative and reflective constructs are presented as well as some empirical considerations from research literature regarding their measurement.

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THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION: A CASE STUDY FROM PAKISTAN

Author(s): Syed Zaheer Abbas Kazmi,Ishtiaq Ahmad,Samiuddin Khan / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2017

Probably, the healthcare industry has relatively greater occupational hazards, as individuals are faced with injuries, traumas, and life-death situations. Emotional intelligence (EI) is expected to make a significant difference between successful and un-successful health care employees. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the supposition that whether EI has any significant contribution to the performance of employees in the health care industry or not? For this purpose, a random sample of 265 individuals was selected from hospitals situated in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. EI inventory was used to assess individual’s emotional intelligence, while a performance questionnaire was used to measure performance of the individuals. Results after the regression analysis indicated that all five subscales of emotional intelligence i.e. interpersonal, intrapersonal, adaptability, stress management and general moods had significant contributions in predicting the performance of healthcare employees.

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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SECTOR IN QATAR: A PROPOSED THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Author(s): Shaher Alshamari / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2017

Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) in Qatar was operating in 27 primary health care centers distributed across three regions. In 2014 alone, PHCC served 5.2 million visitors. This provides us with an indication of how important the Primary Health Care Sector is to the State of Qatar and demonstrates the necessity for further research into the field of performance in this sector. Different antecedents of organizational performance have been considered in the literature. However, organizational culture has not been studied as an antecedent of organizational performance specifically in the context of Quatar’s primary health care sector. Therefore, a theoretical framework will be beneficial in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between organizational culture and organizational performance.

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STRATEGIC PERSONAL BRANDING FOR STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Author(s): Veronica Ioana Ilieş / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

In a society dominated more than ever by a competitive environment, self-development can play a key role in gaining the wanted job or internship program for students and young professional. Learning how one can develop a personal branding program in a strategic way is, in this context, an important acquisition. The present study leads to the development of a simple model that young adults can use to create a personal branding process. Following some simple steps, young people aspiring to a successful professional life can have more opportunities and a better start in their professional activity. The study will first follow a literature review of relevant works in personal branding theory. The second objective of the study is to present the model developed by the author and that is used in the activity of creating a personal branding plan with students studying communication and public relations in a university of Romania. The study is based on a cross-sectional observation research method, conducted on a sample of 286 students from a faculty of communication, public relations and advertising in Romania, over a five-year period, students who attended a personal branding course.

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UPORABNI LITERARNI OBLICI MEDIJSKOGA IZRAŽAVANJA

Author(s): Srećko Lipovčan / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 68/2003

The history of the media is at the same time the history of forms of media expression. In spite of all the important changes since the first "written messages" whose task was to mediate a particular fact/event, especially through the contemporary culture of "images", the word itself – formed into text – has until this day remained the medium without which a single media transaction cannot occur. The author gives insight into the most relevant textual forms of media, while they (common name: applicable literary forms) differ first and foremost in their (varied) dominant function, therefore we divide them into forms with the informative function and those with the function of evaluation.

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OSNAŽIVANJE GRADSKOG SUSJEDSTVA I LOKALNE ZAJEDNICE KULTURNIM RAZVOJEM

Author(s): Tihomir Žiljak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 68/2003

Neighbourhoods and local communities are places where faith, solidarity and tolerance is built, learning and creative expression developed, but can also be places where people put up fences and separate themselves from others and those who are different. Local cultural centres can help preserve the differences and strengthen internal connections in addition to building bridges towards other communities. Not only are bonds among people sharing space created in these centres but also spiritual alliances made and intellectual support given which cross borough and city boundaries. Transforming cultural into sociocultural capital opens up great possibilities for centres. They were established on the tradition of popularisation of knowledge, cultural accessibility and participation of citizens in different forms of creativity as well as encouragement of intellectual curiosity. Cultural potential with regard to the local or city community can be best realised through activities developed along the lines of cultural and sociocultural animation.

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Evaluacijska istraživanja

Author(s): Branka Mraović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 04/1990

The practical connotations of the social sciences arise from the fact that they are not separated from their object of research as the natural sciences are. This article studies situations in which it is expected that empirical research should help decision-makers to understand reality. Attention is mainly paid to evaluative research as to a specific kind of applied research. The author stresses that the traps of instrumentalisation of the results achieved in the study of social phenomena can be avoided only if cooperation between researchers and political and other decision-makers should be established while the aims and the purpose of intended activities are being formulated and not during the implementation of completed programs.

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KAKVE KATEGORIJE RABIMO U UPITNICIMA I SKALAMA PROCJENA?

Author(s): Josip Burušić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 39/1999

ln the measuring procedures in which evaluation scales, questionnaires and other techniques of evaluation are used and which contain verbal expressions of quantity such as "often", "a little", "never", "a lot" etc, we are confronted with a kind of paradox. This is reflected in the fact that in terms of meaning we use innacurate and elusive verbal expressions in order to describe quantitatively ("accurately") the existence or lack of certain variables among respondents. The aim of this research is to examine the quantitative meaning of the most often used verbal quantifiers of frequency and to propose, based on the results obtained, several evaluation scales which would be statistically most justified for practical usage.

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SOCIOLOŠKI PRISTUPI ZDRAVLJU I BOLESTI

Author(s): Mirko Šifanić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 38/1998

In this work four sociological approaches to health and disease are analysed by means of relevant foreign literature: a) functional, b) marxist, c) phenomenological, and d) radical. The authors conclude that none of these approaches separately give the solution for the research of complex relations to health and disease of an individual and social groups, i. e. society. The socio-medical approaches described help to understand the society itself and make it possible to define health policy in concrete conditions, which directly influences health and social results. The picture of health of a population, obtained by socio-medical researche helps the affirmation of these cultural behavioural patterns that promote health, and the recognition of behavioural patterns that endanger health. It can be useful in carrying out the International Health Organization programme “Health for All by the Year 2000” and preserving the citizens’ mental, social and reproductive health in a complex condition of transition. It can help doctors and other medical professionals find answers to more complex socio/medical, medically/ethical and medically/legal answers in public health in the 21st century.

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JESMO LI STARI KOLIKO IMAMO GODINA ILI KOLIKO SE STARIMA OSJEĆAMO?

Author(s): Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 38/1998

This paper reviews the concept and measurement of subjective age. Considerable research has shown that people tend to consider their age as being different from what it actually is. Generally, adults under 20 years of age often perceive themselves as slightly older than their actual age, while adults over 30 years perceive themselves as younger than their actual age. The differences between actual and subjective age become more pronounced with advancing chronological age. The different types of measures that have been used to assess subjective age as well as correlates of age identification are discussed.

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BRAČNA KVALITETA: POIMANJE, UZROCI I POSLJEDICE

Author(s): Josip Obradović,Mira Čudina-Obradović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 36+37/1998

Different approaches to defining marital quality (marital quality as satisfaction, as marital adjustment and as the partner’s assessment of marital relations) are examined. Those theories of marital quality which have raised the greatest attention in scientific literature are describe and analysed (the theory of social exchange, behaviourist theory, theory of affective attachment, theory of marital and family crisis). Special attention is focused on the problem of measuring marital quality, resulting in the presentation of all the advantages and disadvantages of different measuring methods. Subsequently, marital quality is observed as a dependent variable, and the determinants of marital quality in marriage and out of it are analysed (especially the influence of marital periods, the birth of a child, and length of marriage). Marital quality as an independent variable is observed from the aspect of its influence on partners and marital and family processes, satisfaction with life and marital partners’ health, the stability of marriage and the emotional development of children.

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SUOČAVANJE ADOLESCENATA I ODRASLIH SA SVAKODNEVNIM STRESNIM SITUACIJAMA

Author(s): Vlatka Šimunović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 35/1998

In this study, which draws on the stress and coping theory, age and gender differences in coping with daily hassles were examined in a sample of 245 adults and adolescents by means of Ways of Coping Scale. The results indicate that adults endorsed more active problem solving in coping with daily hassles, while adolescents endorsed more avoidance and denial of problems, self-blame and wishful thinking – avoidance. Two interpretations of age differences in coping are evaluated: a developmental and a contextual interpretation. The findings support the developmental interpretation, which says, that there are inherent, stage-related changes in the ways people cope as they age. Gender differences emerged only when the results were not corrected for age. In analysing whether there were age and gender differences in the ways of coping again the age differences were dominant. Implications of these results for the development of adolescent and adult coping strategies are discussed.

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ČIMBENICI PROSTORNE ORGANIZACIJE KULTURNIH DJELATNOSTI: PRIMJER HRVATSKE

Author(s): Laura Šakaja / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 33+34/1998

This article develops those tendencies in cultural geography which look upon elements of space as representatives of socio-cultural processes and phenomena. The main thesis is that the historical, social, geographical and other factors influencing spacial arrangement of institutions (in this case cultural institutions) are represented and recognized in a network of these institutions. Factors influencing the spacial organization of cultural activities are brought into relation in this article with their representatives (i.e. the results of their activity) in a network of cultural institutions. Three groups of factors have an impact on the development of cultural infrastructure: macrosocial factors, microsocial factors and elements of the geographical environment. Macrosocial factors – in the first place the institution of politics, and in some periods also the institution of religion as well as economic and technological prospects of the society – influence the establishment of cultural institutions and some of their varieties.

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ODRŽIVI RAZVOJ - KONCEPCIJA GOSPODARSKOG RAZVOJA HRVATSKE

Author(s): Mirjana Dragičević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 28+29/1997

The basic conditions of economic stabilisation, have been realised by the macroeconomic policy in Croatia. But only a longterm economic development strategy could provide answer to the following questions: With what and how can we approach the European and world economy? The purpose of this paper is to point out the essence of contemporary economic development trends and the preconditions that should be fullfilled in Croatia in order to join these trends as soon and as productively as possible. Qualitative analysis of contemporary literature dealing with this subject as well as the experience of developed economies indicate that economic growth causes high social costs. As transitional social costs that are already high should hot multiply, it is necessary for Croatia, while taking into consideration its specific conditions, to initiate economic growth congruent with the global development strategy - the strategy of sustainable development.

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VIŠEDIMENZIONALNI PRISTUP U ISTRAŽIVANJU RELIGIOZNOSTI: SMJERNICE ZA ISTRAŽIVANJA U HRVATSKOJ

Author(s): Dinka Marinović-Jerolimov / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 20/1995

In research of the ecclesiastical type of religiousness, debates about the true nature of religion, religious affiliation and religiousness began very early - are the latter separate, unique or complex, multidimensional phenomena with different, and possibly, unrelated elements. The dimensional approach continued its development as the researchers recognized various forms of religiousness. Today the one-dimensional approach is not considered in opposition to the multidimensionalone, but, rather, what is examined are the conditions under which a certain analytical approach seems to be adequate.

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