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Lietuvos gyventojų ekonominis stresas ir nepriteklius socialinės ekonominės nelygybės perspektyvoje

Author(s): Vaida Servetkienė,Aistė Diržytė,Aleksandras Patapas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 2/2017

Many authors investigating the quality of life have recently begun to examine economic stress to help promoting legitimate, effective and ethical public administration solutions. It is argued that economic stress has a negative impact on society’s well-being, thereby creating direct and indirect losses to the state. This study is aimed at identifying the economic difficulties of residents of Lithuania, as well as the economic stress in different income groups. This paper presents some results of the survey, which was conducted in 2016 in Lithuania (n=1001). The results showed that the vast majority (about 40 percent) of Lithuanian households experience economic difficulties and a significant lack of money. The results revealed statistically significant economic hardship and economic stress differences in different income quintile groups and different subjective socio-economic status groups. Authors indicate that additional research is needed.

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Changes in Purchasing Behaviours of Consumers in Conditions of Acculturation – an Empirical Study

Author(s): Agata Stolecka-Makowska / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2016

In the era of globalisation and intensifying integration processes the phenomenon of diffusion of different cultures (acculturation) is being observed. As a result, consumers – especially those who migrate – adopt elements of the consumer culture that differs from the culture observed in their country of origin. The article presents changes that have affected purchasing behaviours of Polish consumers as a result of the acculturation process. The author discusses the selected results of the empirical research conducted with the use of the interpretative methodology that is characteristic for the stream of qualitative research. The case study employed involves methods of data triangulation and methodological triangulation. The research covered three purposely selected European countries, i.e. France, Germany and Great Britain.

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Деиндустријализација и радничка класа Србије

Author(s): Nada Novaković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 159-160/2016

In this paper the author analyzed and described the most important systemic causes of the process of deindustrialization and the disappearance of the working class in Serbia. The initial hypothesis was: a process of deindustrialization was determined by systemic factors, i.e. the character of the new ruling class, the range of models of transition and privatization, and the place of the country in the world capitalist system. It was also influenced by the character of trade union organizations, and both old and new forms of workers’ resistance to the loss of economic and social rights. In the first part of the paper were studied the characteristics of industrialization and the working class before the transition, specific features of capitalist and socialist modernization, industrialization and urbanization in socialist Yugoslavia and Serbia. A special attention was paid to the financial status, characteristics and structure of the working class before the transition. The second part is devoted to the problems of transition, privatization and deindustrialization in Serbia over the last quarter of a century. The author pointed to the most important subjects of social transition, their social power and influence over the selection and implementation of a specific model of privatization. They have a decisive role in the destruction of the old and the emergence of the new social structure of society in the periphery of the capitalist system. It is particularly emphasized that privatization led to deindustrialization of Serbia and deterioration of the working class. Finally, the author concluded that during the transition public property was destroyed as well as the most important economic and industrial activities, and the working class was systematically marginalized. An agrarian society was created, without material and other assets to continue modernization and democratic processes.

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Portuguese Women in French Public Sphere: From Invisibility to Emancipation

Author(s): Manuel Antunes Da Cunha / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

This paper aims to examine the representation and role of Portuguese women in French public space. If the media discourses today are still being dominated by the national and masculine figures, it is nonetheless true that the immigration context is often a space of gender roles reorganization. Between a dual legal discrimination in media sphere (being an immigrant and being a woman) and a process of individual emancipation in the spheres of work and family, migrant women outline a process of identity reconfiguration. Our case study focuses on the diachronic analysis of the image of Portuguese women in France (since 1960) from a corpus consisting of thirty samples from emissions of the main TV channels as well as formulated in the framework of the so-called ethnic humour speeches. This case study is limited to the emigration of economic nature, distinct from most graduate migration.

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Kimliklenerek Toplumla Bütünleşme: Türkiye’deki Ermeni Ve Yahudi Örgütlenmeleri Aktörlerinin Kimlik Algilari Ve Stratejileri Integration Into Society By

Author(s): Hakan Yücel,Süheyla Yildiz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2015

This article discusses the efforts of Armenian and Jewish minority population in Turkey taking place in the Armenian and Jewish identity movement, against the assimilation by protecting and introducing their identities. The study also shows their efforts for being visible in the society by selfidentification in today’s Turkey. The main purpose of the study is to show that the outreach process of the Armenians and the Jews, which started in 1990's, contains an effort for introducing their identities to the other groups and majority by media and cultural activities, for protecting their cultural values that are in danger of disappearance. This process entails to be integrated into the society instead of to be assimilated by it or in other words, to be "Turkey-fied" instead of "Turkified". By embarking from the datas gathered from the interviewees, who are significant figures of their ethnic groups, the study indicates that the outreach process leans on an identity strategy, which is shared by the actors of both of the two groups, "to become integrated with self- identification". Even though our interviewees execute by administrators, active members and opinion leaders of Armenian and Jewish organizations, our study, does not focus on the organizations’ statements and discourses. Rather it comprises of the individual and subjective discourses of them. In other words, our study leans on the evaluation of the identity perceptions and the strategies of the active actors among the Armenians and the Jews with a comparative approach.

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“As Kendini De Hepimiz Kurtulalim Artik!”: Sosyal Dişlanmadan İntihara LGBT Gençler

Author(s): Esra Köten,Barış Erdoğan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2015

While various sexual orientations may lead to social exclusion, social exclusion, in return, may indirectly lead to suicide. Both in Turkey and the world in general, this mentioned phenomenon and the proposed correlation is depicted rather clearly when one looks at the social exclusion and harassment to which the LGBT youth is subjected to and the subsequent high rates of suicide. As a consequence of the social and individual discrimination, repression and at times even the violence they are exposed to in either the family, educational institutions, work environment or public life in general, LGBT youth experiences considerable difficulty in social integration and acceptance in social strata in general, whereby they seek ultimate refuge and escape in suicide. In this paper, the relationship between sexual orientation and the fact of suicide will be discussed with a sociological perspective, utilizing Durkheim's theoretical approach, various research results in the literature and actual narratives left behind by LGBT youth who ultimately chose to commit suicide.

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Ortadoğu’da Bír Kürt Topluluğu: Feyliler

Author(s): Özkan Gökcan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2014

Although three fourths of Kurds living in the Middle East is Sunni-Muslim it is possible to say that the remained population of Kurds displays an important diversity in terms of religious and denominational faith. Faylis is one of the Kurdish faith based ethnic community from antique ages until now living on Zagros Mountain foots composing the border of Iraq and Iran, has been known by its Shiite identity. What has been making the Faylis an important actor in socio-political life of the Middle East is their both denominational and ethnic identities and their political choices and positions in modern history of Iraq and Iran. In this study, cultural, social and political structure of Faylis, one of the silent victims of the Middle East, is analyzed. Hence, the community’s role in the modern history of Iraq and Iran will be scrutinized. The study proposes important clues about how religious and the denominational faith effect political choices, strategies and social positions within Kurds in the Middle East.

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Gezi Parki Direnişi’ni Toplumsal Hareket-Anarşizm Bağlantisiyla Anlamak

Author(s): Yavuz Yıldırım / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2014

The main of the study is to analyze Gezi Parki resistance in a framework of the thesis that there is a relation between new social movements and anarchism. In order to this aim, the closure of anarchism to the action rather than theory and its connection with the movements will be underlined. The basic points that help rethink the connection between movements and anarchism are the direct actions of the ordinary people, demands of autonomy and to be owner of their own lifes. Gezi Parki resistance is an unique and extra-ordinary experiment in Turkish social struggles. It indicates the changes of the social movements towards to anarchist tendency in global level, and it is a reflection of this changing in Turkey.

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Kolektif Belleğín Işiğinda Günümüzde Ístanbul Rumlari

Author(s): Birol Caymaz,Duygu Çanakçı / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2014

How the collective memory and the changing conjuncture affect the Istanbul Greeks? In this paper the subject of “being other” is studied by examining Greeks (“Rûm”) living in Turkey. In this respect the main problematic is investigated through semi structured interviews in order to understand if Greeks who are living in Turkey felt themselves otherised by the government and the society. To begin with, it could be said that in the historical process in many events they had been “otherised” or “foreign” by the society and in the changing and transforming environment, they are still continued to be otherised. Although some of them state that they have been otherised socially while the others indicate that they feel as “other” because of the public regulations, they do not want to attribute the otherisation behaviour to the whole society. To conclude, groups that are not a part of the sunni-muslim society have been otherised commonly which could also be understood by examining the decrerasing numbers of Greek people living in Turkish society. However, it is important to note that in this study a limited sample could be examined only, therefore the results do not reflect the general outlook.

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Milliyetçi Söylemin Her Dem “Poine” Si**: Savaş Tecavüzleri

Author(s): Çiğdem Akgül / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2013

This article focuses on the power of rape, a kind of sexual and gendered violence and how it creates nationalities and unites its members. According to this framework, the first section points gendered images of national discourses and its power on creating “others”. By underlines how this process transforms women bodies to a weapon of war physically and theoretically The second section draws attention to the potential of these images in Rwanda,Yugoslavia and Syria. In the last section the gendered power and meaning of rape in a changing war rhetoric are emphasized.

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Suriye’de Toplumsal Direniş Hareketleri: Reform Ve Devrim Bağlaminda Essad Rejimi

Author(s): Veysel Ayhan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2011

Although the Sunni Arabs were the primary social group calling into question the reform demands through the massive protests on March 17, the Alawis (Nusayris) Arabs have been the primary group protecting the regime. The Syrian opposition alone does not have enough force to overthrow the regime, yet the regime was able to suppress the riot through military measures. Despite the fact that Bashar al-Assad frequently talks about the reform initiatives, civil casualties have been increasing as a result of the use of excessive force against protesters, which may bring about a long-lasting tension among the different sects and religions in Syria. In this context, this study will focus on the social opposition movement and analyze the future of the Assad regime in Syria.

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Zaufanie a cechy społeczno-demograficzne konsumentów

Author(s): Grażyna Plichta,Adam Sagan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2014

The article is devoted to an analysis of the dimensions of confidence in transactional relationships connected with consumer’s behaviour in the market. In identification of the confidence dimensions, there was applied the multi-level factor analysis allowing singling out dimensions at the level of individuals (intragroup variability) and households (intergroup variability). The singled out confidence dimensions were the basis of analysis of the dependences between socio-demographic traits of the family members and confidence at the individual and group (family) levels.

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Shia and the State in Bahrain: Integration and Tension

Author(s): Mansoor Al-Jamri / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2010

Up until recently, Bahrain was an archipelago of 33 islands, positioned in the middle south of the Gulf. However, figures published in 2008 by Bahrain’s “Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB)”, said Bahrain is now an archipelago consisting 84 islands, which is a result of the on-going reclamations. The total area of Bahrain had jumped from 695 square kilometres in the 1980s to 756 square kilometres, and this figure will also change in the coming years.

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Toplumsal Cinsiyet Ve Yurttaşlik: Kadinlarin Özgürleşmesinde Aydinlatici Bir Bağlanti

Author(s): Nuran Erol Işik / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010

Due to the ambivalent nature of modernity, citizenship has been historically used as a force for inclusion and exclusion. Societal transformations brought about the necessity to reformulate the concept of citizenship into a gendered political conception by which one can evaluate hegemonic relations of different nature. The contested nature of citizenship also provided an avenue for women‟s political participation through different means in different societies. This article aims at outlining the major theoretical perspectives on re-gendering citizenship, which brings us to more practical concerns about the political sphere: Gender mainstreaming is presented as one of the key issues on political freedom for women, which is the second theme emphasized in the article.

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Полна припадност и наслеђивање

Author(s): Jadranka Đorđević-Crnobrnja / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2005

Посматрајући установу наслеђивања у социјалистичком периоду, аутор констатује да полна припадност представља главни параметар по којем се врши распоред наследних добара између наследника. У раду се објашњава веза између пола наследника и начина на који се регулишу наследно-својински односи између сродника у врањском крају. Самим тим се јавља потреба да се размотри и питање равноправности полова у социјалистичком друштву.

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Sociokultūrinės Bendrumo Tarp Žmogaus Ir Gyvūno Paieškos: Kinetinis Atidumas Ir Dialogas

Author(s): Gilija Žukauskienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 90/2017

This article brings together dialogical approach offered by Josephine Donovan and Donna Haraway’s notion of kinship with the organic and genealogical unity of all living creatures. This allows one to focus on the social dimension in the reformulation of the human - animal split and on the role of socio-cultural practices for the human – animal coexistence. After discussing Gilbert Simondon’s concept of individuation in the human - animal relations, I extend Haraway understanding of kinship. My argument is that kinship is not a “given” phenomenon but the result of communal actions, which shows interspecific connectivity. The article analyzes socio-cultural practices as the institutes of embodied non-verbal social/ethical contract between man and animal. Dance as an example of a socio-cultural practice shows assimilation of human-animal kinship through movement and passage in space. Contemporary dance may be viewed as an example of “liveliness” common for all species in an aesthetic way and thus may contribute to interspecies dialogue.

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Elitinė Ir Masinė Kultūra Medijų Sąlygomis

Author(s): Tomas Kačerauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 89/2016

The paper deals with the relationship of elite and mass culture. The theses have been developed as follows. 1. Elite and mass culture nourish each other; it is impossible to speak about the mass culture as an antipode of the elite culture without the latter. 2. Although the character of consuming is a feature of mass culture, it does not say anything about the difference of mass culture from elite culture. 3. The demand of a piece of art is relative, it depends both on the activity of an artist and on aesthetical environment. 4. Mass- and elitecharacter can change their roles; beside this, they are the criteria of each other; the changeover of their roles is a necessary aspect of cultural dynamism. 5. First of all, the elite culture shows a way and the tendencies for art and for culture in general. 6. The mass culture is a phenomenon of the new media that produces the products. 7. The elite culture has been ghettoized and spreads in limited portions. 8. The destruction of the steady media channel and the search for new ones should be connected with elite activity.

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„Travesti “ tapaty bė: lytiškumo , seksualumo daugiaprasmiškumas ir kūno transformacijos

Author(s): Gintarė Narauskaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 89/2016

This article surveys and analyses the travesti identity – a unique and polysemic phenomenon of Latin America. Although the travesti emphasize that they are homosexuals, many consider them to be transgender. Nevertheless, due to the polysemy characteristic to travesti we cannot categorize them autonomously. The polysemy of travesti identities is formed by deconstructive practises, as these subjects represent their identity without fully destroying masculinity and without fully embracing femininity. In order to embody the imaginary of a perfect woman and to obtain a more feminine body shape the travesti actively transform their bodies using practises usually performed by women but they maintain their male genitals to please themselves and to please others. Penises enable the travesti to be either active or passive as they please. The travesti try to destroy binary categories and represent the fact that gender and sexuality is a fluid social construct. In an identity discourse, the travesti are neither transsexuals, nor drag queens. They are liminal figures that disrupt dichotomies and shape a new understanding of femininity and masculinity. These subjects activate a homoerotic view and they only want to resemble women but not to become them. Males are of high importance to travesti, as they signify and are overwhelmed by desire and power.

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„Travesti “ tapatybė: lytiškumo, seksualumo daugiaprasmiškumas ir kūno transformacijos

Author(s): Gintarė Narauskaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 88/2016

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Tarpkultūrinės Filosofijos Šalininkų Tolerancijos Sampratos Humanistiniai Ir Edukologiniai Aspektai

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 88/2016

The essential aim of the article is the discussion of the idea of tolerance in respect to the context of German intercultural philosophy and its novelties. The main tasks of the investigation will be: first, to study the educational and humanistic tolerance conception in aspects of intercultural philosophy and, second, to think about the correlation between tolerance and its manifestations in the dialogue and in the polilog forms. The article discusses also the philosophical link between intercultural philosophy and comparative philosophy. The auhor’s investigation discloses the peculiarity of the polilog in regard to its multiperspective outlook.

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