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Mapping the power of women MPs in the Serbian Parliament, through the analysis of the membership and the leadership of the Parliament and parliamentary committees, indicates that women MPs dominate the socio-cultural cluster of the committees, as well as foreign affairs and European integration committees. Women MPs are increasingly more visible in legislative-judiciary committees, while interior, defence and security affairs committees and minimally open to their membership. There is a growing trend of engaging women MPs in committees for ecology, then in trade and finance and, to a lesser extent, in infrastructure. Institutional gender sensitivity of the Serbian Parliament is still inadequate, and changes to the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct are necessary in order to introduce gender-sensitive rules and procedures.
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The paper deals with the analysis of feminists’ arguments about the sex/gender dichotomy within the relationship to trans activism. In the first part of the paper, we will give the usual definitions of sex and gender in feminist literature and the views of feminists on trans activism. Next, we will explain which trans activists’ views feminists disagree with, and how language is used for ideological purposes. The aim of this paper is to identify the basic dilemmas and bioengineering associated with the underestimation of biological sex, that is, with the opinion of trans activists that men who are trans women are also women. The author will explain why feminists believe that this approach to the sex/ gender dichotomy is a threat to women’s rights in the society.
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The first part of the article describes the ideological disputes in the Serbian public related to the proposal for the adoption of three laws: on same-sex marital union, on gender equality and on the prohibition of gender discrimination. The second part of the article proposes a modified version of the theory of the world capitalist system and neocolonialism as a theoretical framework for explaining these political and ideological controversies. In conclusion, the author states that it is certainly possible to contextualize these ideological and political disputes theoretically in a different manner, but that the proposed theoretical framework enables a coherent understanding of other dominant social phenomena in Serbia.
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The paper elaborates on the relation between marriage and the family, on one hand, and marriage-like and family-like homosexual unions such as so-called homosexual marriage and same-sex union (or same-sex life partnership). With a brief theoretical introduction and a comparative overview of the manner in which this matter is regulated in other countries, certain solutions are analyzed from the Proposal Draft Law on Same-Sex Unions of Serbia (2021). It is indicated that it is no longer possible to equalize marriage and the family with the same-sex union because the content of these concepts is substantially different. The society is interested in protecting marriage and the family and to take special care of them since they perform extremely important social functions, whereas without some of them the survival of the society itself would be brought to question (the reproduction function). On the other hand, homosexual marriage and/or same-sex unions do not perform any social function, but are formed exclusively for the purpose of relatively longer-standing satisfaction of sexual needs of same-sex partners. Since the society and the state do not protect marriage only because sexuality is regulated within it, but because it legitimizes sexual relationships aimed at having children, in the event of homosexual marriage-like unions it should also be proceeded in an identical manner: solely those rights and obligations of partners deriving from a relatively longer-standing homosexual partnership should be legally regulated. Moreover, having in mind the principle that every man’s right is limited by other people’s rights, it is impermissible to give priority to the protection of the rights of same-sex partners for the purpose of longer-standing homosexual relationships over the protection of children’s rights. Children need both a father and a mother (an ideal condition), and the family in which they will be socialized. In line with those homosexual marriage-like unions, neither adoption nor assisted insemination can be allowed.
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The paper gives a review and a critical overview of the theoretical approach to the dynamics of cultural and social changes of renowned sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the description of the most relevant theoretical contributions contained in Sorokin’s most important book Social and Cultural Dynamics. In the second part of the paper, there is a critical overview by the author of this text of Sorokin’s sociocultural dynamics theory, as well as of other authors who have studied Sorokin’s approach. The conclusion of this paper is that Sorokin’s approach is a very significant theoretical contribution to sociology, but also that his theory does not dedicate sufficient attention to external factors as the causes of sociocultural dynamics.
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The most modern media systems in television program production and placement have the obligation of ensuring program accessibility to persons with disabilities. While in some countries this obligation is defined through a certain minimum of adapted content, in Serbia there is a set of media laws only indicating the necessity of care for persons with difficulty in following the television program. The basic thesis of this paper is how program accessibility, and thus increased social inclusion through media content, may be improved through the development and greater presence of the existing services (subtitle, sign language, audio-description), as well as through the introduction of new services, based on the capacities offered by digital technology and application of artificial intelligence in content production and placement. The statistics shows that at least one in eighteen persons in Serbia has difficulty in following TV program due to vision or hearing impairment and therefore, in the absence of the tools ensuring accessibility, these persons are unable to get information, education and entertainment from the television program.
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Objectives. The aim of this study is to assess physical appearance behavior avoidance among a group of Moroccan adolescents and to identify the associated factors. Material and methods. The data were gathered from a cross-sectional study conducted on 487 adolescents (223 boys and 264 girls), with the average age of 14.6 years. Gender, age, body mass index (BMI), and satisfaction of their body weight and height were considered in this study. Body satisfaction was evaluated by two questions: "Are you satisfied with your body weight?" and "are you satisfied with your body height?". The Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire (BIAQ) test was used to assess the adopted behaviors. Results. The average score on the BIAQ test was 24.4. According to the different factors of the BIAQ test, the factors "clothing", "grooming and weighing", and "eating restraint", were more noticed among adolescents. The results showed that behavioral avoidance was associated with gender, age, BMI, and body dissatisfaction. It was females, the youngest group of adolescents, overweight, and those dissatisfied with their body weight or height who had the highest scores. This reflects the fact that adolescents resort to physical appearance behavior avoidance or control including practices such as dressing, grooming, and weighing. Conclusions. It is recommended by health professionals to enhance awareness among adolescents about the risks of adopting such behaviors on their physical and mental health, to correct the narrow and unrealistic standards of physical appearance, and to encourage healthy behaviors.
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The phenomenon of veganism is not new in the World, but it was only in the first decade of this century that it became the subject of wider sociological and other research. The concept of veganism is complex, associated with consumption, lifestyle, social group, social movement, subculture, and other social phenomena, but researchers’ attention to the complexity of this phenomenon is limited. The article examines the multidimensionality of the phenomenon of veganism, which has so far been poorly analysed in the works of Lithuanian researchers, the diversity of its concepts and research directions, and summarises the levels of analysis of the phenomenon of veganism and research directions.
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The Fourth industrial revolution, called digital, is associated with a radical transformation of society (digital society emerges) and a social reality that is twofold: offline and online social reality. The digitalization of social life is deterritorialization, which poses in a fundamentally new way the classical problem of sociology, “How is social order possible?” Unlike natural science, whose subject is a-historical, the subject of sociology (society) is historically determined, and for this reason with each historical turn a new sociology emerges, which, however, does not make the previous one meaningless. Digital sociology as new is not a negation of “old” sociology, just as quantum physics is not a negation of Newtonian physics. Digital sociology seeks its place in post-non-classical science and faces serious challenges related to the place of man in a social world inhabited by intelligent machines or non-humans as social agents.
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1992. sam dospjela u Njemačku, u meni do tada nepoznatu zemlju, gdje sam imala sreću brzo naučiti jezik i kroz nova saznanja dalje razviti moje literarno stvaralaštvo. Moja prva faza u Njemačkoj 1992-95. bila je izbjeglička agonija: preko dana sam bila opterećena poslom, radila sam u nekoliko domaćinstava kao čistačica, brinula se o domaćinstvu i porodici, a onda sam trčala u učionicu jedne narodne škole da nekoliko sati učim njemački. Pri tome je u glavi neprestano bila ratna katastrofa u Bosni, ubijanje, umiranje, glad i bijeda mojih sunarodnika. Bosna je bila prisutna u svim medijima. Njena tragedija je svakog dana prenošena uživo u dnevne sobe širom cijelog svijeta. Mnogo Nijemaca se angažiralo i sakupljalo humanitarnu pomoć za narod u Bosni i Hercegovini. Ti ljudi su trebali nekoga da ih iz prve ruke izvijesti o tome, nekoga ko je upravo bio došao iz Bosne. Pomažući taj humanitarni rad shvatila sam koliko je važno znanje njemačkog jezika, i koliko se sama bolje osjećam kad se mogu javiti za riječ na istom nivou kao i drugi saradnici i domaćini.
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My native country is Bosnia and Herzegovina. I did not want to leave my land. In 1992, Serbs carried out their genocidal action called “ethnic cleaning” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many Muslims had to leave, or they would be destroyed and executed. I immigrated with my family to Germany. Although it was an unknown culture for me, I was happy to be in a free country, where I could work and, at the same time, learn. German became my second language through which I developed my writing. My first phase in Germany was from 1992 to 1995; it was a refugee’s agony. During the day, I was burdened with work: I worked in several households as a cleaner, took care of both the household and the family, and then I ran to the classroom of a public school to learn German for a few hours. At the same time, the painful war in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the killing, dying, hunger and misery of my compatriots was constantly in my head. The war was present in all the media. Bosnia’s tragedy was broadcast live every day to living rooms around the world. Many Germans become engaged and collected humanitarian aid for people in Bosnia. These people needed someone to inform them first hand, someone who had just come from Bosnia. By helping with this humanitarian work, I realized how important knowledge of the German language was. I felt much better when I could use a word at the same level as other collaborators and hosts.
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Bosna kao uzor jeste ime za nacrt o zajedničkom i skladnom životu sljedbenika različitih svetih predanja. Cijelu njezinu povijest sačinjavaju nastojanja da se taj uzor ozbilji u preovladujućem mišljenju i da se iz njega izvedu primjenljivi nacrti. U ranome razdoblju Bosne- poznatom kao vremenu bosanskih banova i kraljeva- taj uzor iskazivao se u nastojanju da se opravda i uspostavi zajednički život različitih kršćanskih zajednica. Tumačenja i vjerovanja o Kristu imaju nejednake odraze i utemeljenja u različitim kršćanskim zajednicama. Neslaganja su bila nekad velika, a nekad jedva prepoznatljiva. Iskazivala su se kao pravoslavlje, katoličanstvo i krstjanstvo. Među njima nikada nisu uspostavljeni odnosi koji bi uvažavali stav da u vjerovanju nema prisile, te da se pravi put si mora pronaći u raspravi osnovanoj na uvažavanju svakog od sudionika u njoj. Ali, neosporno je da se u postojanju tih zajednica iskazuje i navedena težnja posvjedočenja da je “Bog za svaki narod dao njegov zakon i njegov način života.” Iz osjećanja da u taj razgovor valja uključiti i ostala predanja proistekla je prisega značajnog broja bosanskih prvaka islamu. Oni su u toj prisezi vidjeli, kako je to moguće pokazati nepristranim proučavanjem bosanske povijesti, unaprjedenje uvjeta takvog razgovora.
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Bosnia is a name for a model of community life shared by the inheritors of different holy traditions. Its history bears witness to efforts to formalize this model in contemporary modes of thought. In an earlier period––the time of the Bosnian Bans and Kings––this model expressed itself in the effort to justify and establish communal life between different Christian communities. Interpretations of Christ developed differently in the various Christian communities. The disagreements were sometimes large, sometimes hardly noticeable. They took the forms defined as Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and the Bosnian Church. No agreements were formally established to assert that no single creed can have priority, nor that the right road lay in dialogue based on the acceptance of the faiths of all participants. However, it cannot be disputed that the tolerance that these communities showed each other testifies to a respect for the statement that “God gave every people their law and their way of life.” The realization that other teachings might form a meaningful part of this dialogue may have been the reason for a significant number of Bosnian Church leaders to adopt Islam. This suggests that unbiased research into Bosnian history may produce the conditions necessary to reconstruct such a dialogue.
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Following the Jews’ deportation to Transnistria, the Romanian authorities at central and regional level began receiving a sustained correspondence, from as early as December 1941, from the families of the deportees and from those ghettoized in Transnistria. That type of correspondence peaked in the latter half of 1942, as the dramatic situation in Transnistria became known, and information on the deported reached the home-country. The stories contained in those petitions illustrate the arbitrariness of the deporting actions, the extreme life conditions in Transnistria, the set of arguments brought to the fore by the petitioners, and how the State authorities treated those administrative undertakings. All these aspects will be dealt with in this study.
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The present chapter aims to interpret new Nicolas Winding Refn`s TV Show called Too Old to Die Young. I focus of interconnected topics of symptomatology, violence and the role of women in TV Show. In a world, which is collapsing, where nothing make sense anymore, the women are the hope. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze adopts concept of symptomatology from Nietzsche and points up that one function of an artist consist of being “symptomatologist of a world”. Then I make the distinction between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” violence based on Walter Benjamin`s and Jacques Derrida thinking. The last part of the text deals with the media representation of women as “priestess” of justice in Too Old to Die Young.
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In the article the author reflects upon the issue of the basis of Hobbes‘s theory of liberalism i.e. examines the way how a par excellence theory of Modernity shifts from being a political ontology into apolitical haunt logy proper. In this light, the first part of the paper – beginning from Hobbes‘s concept of politics as a technique – the concepts of appearance, representation, theatre and imagination are reflected as the foundations of sovereignty. Considering the conditions of possibility for a despotic techno, the second part of the paper puts an emphasis on the structural relation between polis and oikos, and on the unclear, hidden element of oikos, i.e. the figure of the mother and the matter of authorization. The specificity of the mother‘s role in the Commonwealth – as well as before the establishment of the state and the sphere of the political – is first and foremost contained within the dialectics of her permanent absence and the fact that the figure of the mother represents the very principle of beginning of life and of its sustainability. In conclusion, there is an outline of the potentialities of different thinking of sovereignty and politics of freedom.
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Based on Schmitt‘s critique of parliamentary democracy during the interwar crisis period, this paper answers the question of how relevant his insights are today regarding the political consequences of ignoring power relations in a society, and what negative effects are produced by depoliticization of economic and social relations. The author argues that Schmitt accurately diagnoses the key problems of parliamentary democracies. These are their inability to protect themselves from powerful social groups that displace decision-making from parliament, and neutrality towards political content potentially leading to the abuse of political institutions. However, solutions should not be sought in his work, especially because of the willingness to accept the broad competencies of the executive power in times of crisis and justify the suppression of party pluralism.
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The objective of this research was to examine the citizens‘ attitudes to various factors influencing the implementation of effective disaster risk communication in the Republic of Serbia. In addition, the research aims to scientifically describe the predictors of successful disaster risk communication. Using an online survey questionnaire, based on the snowball principle, 243 respondents were surveyed during July 2021. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis used to assess the explanatory power of six selected variables (gender, age, education, marital status, employment, and income level) on the perception of disaster risk communication show that the most important predictors of risk awareness are income level and gender. The obtained results have multiple scientific and practical importance for the improvement of integrated disaster risk communication through the process of improved understanding of the demographic and socio-economic perspective of communication.
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Whistleblowing cases that shook intelligence community in the last decade have something in common. Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Reality Winner are all members of a single generation – Millennials. We challenge the viewpoint that depicts this generation as а potential “insider threat.” Millennials do have certain psychological traits and attitudes that can be related to tendencies towards whistleblowing, but these findings still do not approve the rhetoric that creates distrust towards the generation. This paper proposes a shift from the cultural to the socio-psychological level of analysis, with respect to both cultural and individual characteristics of whistleblowers, but puts more emphasis on the social dimension. In comprehending recent cases of leaking classified information, it is not enough to reduce explanation to some individual personality traits or hide behind an abstraction, such as the concept of generation. To shed more light on the issue, we introduce the concept of the imagined community, such as the open source community, promoting free Internet and transparency of information and knowledge. Therefore, mental membership in an imagined community might be more decisive for blowing the whistle than the global set of values related to the whole generation of Millennials.
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