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WILLIAM GOLDING’S RITES OF PASSAGE: FRAGMENTS OF TRAGEDY IN POSTMODERN FICTION

Author(s): Rahime ÇOKAY NEBİOĞLU / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2016

William Golding, as an author deeply interested in man’s evil nature, chaos and obscurity, is known for his novels that present an original account of man’s experience. In his novels he tackles man’s disillusionment with life, the concept of evil, social discrimination, multiple layers of truth and the difficulty of reaching a single and ultimate version of reality. Rites of Passage is one of such novels that is notably dense, dark and difficult to categorize due to its embodiment of different genres, techniques and elements. The novel is also rich with postmodernist strategies such as dialogic relations between different social classes and voices, double-voiced narration, self-reflexive allusions to other works of fiction, parodic use and abuse of different genres, and delays and gaps. These strategies invest the novel with playful yet at the same time tragic tricks that enable the reader to recognize reality as a human construct, life as a pathos and human condition as a tragedy. In this regard, this paper seeks to scrutinize postmodernist aspects in Rites of Passage, exploring the contribution of these aspects to the building up of chaotic and tragic atmosphere of the novel rather than to a playfulness that is expected to arise out of diversity observed both in characterization and in language and structure.

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Language Preferences of Foreign Consumers in High and Low Involvement Service Encounters

Author(s): David A. English / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This mixed method research was conducted to determine whether differences in the preference of language among foreign consumers in South Korea existed between low-involvement service encounters and high-involvement service encounters. A questionnaire was completed by 161 participants for this qualitative study. The findings indicated that all of the service encounters fell into either a high- or low-involvement in line with previous studies except for procuring a loan from a bank, which was a medium-level service encounter. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 foreign teachers in South Korea from the pool of quantitative participants. The qualitative study results indicated that foreign consumers were willing to use Korean in a low-involvement service encounter; foreign consumers in a high-involvement service encounter preferred to speak English; overall, foreign consumers preferred to use Korean over their native language; the level of Korean the foreign consumer spoke affected whether they were willing to use the language; the offer of a 10% discount would not be large enough for foreign consumers to speak Korean; and foreign consumers stated they were not willing to pay a premium for a service in English. Recommendation from the study included foreigners learning the language, for foreigners to use Korean during service encounters, and lastly, for service providers to offer more services in English.

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ЧАЛГИСКАТА МУЗИКА НИЗ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИТЕ ОД ВРЕМЕТО

Author(s): Aleksandra Kuzman / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 70/2018

The term “chalgia” has several meanings: ab old-urban music tradition from the second half of the XVIII century, with its peak in the XIX century, in urban areas now a part of the Republic of Macedonia; a music group of specific instruments (mostly consisting of, the oud, the canon, the tambourine, the violin, and the clarinet); and a specific music style. This kind of music transformed through the years due to changes in the context of nurturing musical traditions and everyday life changes in the said urban areas. Besides the sound transformations through the years, the most important thing is that the “chalgia” music survives until the present day through the new stylized orchestras and rare music groups which are trying to keep the authenticity of the sound alive.

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Емпирични доказателства за корпоративната социална отговорност в българските компании

Author(s): Radostina Bakardjieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

In the last years corporate social responsibility as a theory and practice is considered in integral unity with corporate sustainability, sustainable development and social reporting. The European agenda puts as accent non-financial reporting as a tool for legitimizing companies to society, twisting reputation of the firms and successful overcoming of non-financial risks. The goal of publication is to reveal corporate social responsibility as lever to achieve the goals of sustainable development. In the publication are presented monitoring and evaluation of external corporate social responsibility with purpose satisfaction of claims of external stakeholders targeting to ecological corporate initiatives and responsibility to local community as well impact evaluation of certain factors as number of workers and company profit. The attitudes of manager of Bulgarian firms to social responsible projects are studied. The processing of empirical date is by statistical methods. It is concluded that corporate social responsibility is a flexible tool for solving of social conflicts and overcoming of non-financial risks.

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Some (Social) Aspects of Education in Transition Serbia

Author(s): Uroš V. Šuvaković / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 3/2019

The paper examines the changes that education in Serbia - especially high education - has undergone during the transition period, 1989–2019. Based on the performed analysis, the author proposes to periodize changes in education and educational policy in transition Serbia. During this three-decade-long transition period, there is a clear distinction between pre-Bologna and Bologna phases in higher education. It is pointed out that the ideological basis of transitional education reform in Serbia, and especially its “Bologna phase”, is neo-liberal, globalist and anti-Enlightenment. The purpose of education has changed, so that educational institutions have become “enterprises”, which, instead of having a role of spreading enlightenment and shaping personalities with broad education, have the function of making a profit on education and, at the same time, educating young people for occupations that should contribute to GDP growth as the main criterion for the merchantability of workforce qualifications. It is clear that the results of the whole process were: the inflation of the highly educated, emigration of the best experts, the retainment of mediocre and weak experts, the lack of workers of all kinds, the promotion of technical “knowledge”, various forms of “systemic educational corruption” and neglect of the social sciences and humanities. This, of course, should also be observed through the prism of “global division of labor”: peripheral or semi-peripheral countries “export” their best experts to the center countries, like they do with other raw materials, thus financing the prosperity of the rich, while at the same time remaining in stagnant or even regressive position.

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Serbia in the Eve of the Revolution 4.0

Author(s): Jovan R. Bazić / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 3/2019

A review of this book is presented through a dialectical-synthetic approach which discusses various issues of the state of Serbian science and development of Serbia at a time of great technological innovation in the world. It is about integrated development, which includes science, education and culture, as generators of social development, because only they are able to respond to the complex temptations of the modern world and offer a vision of development.

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„I nie powiem, żeby to były jakieś takie spotkania z Mistrzami”: relacje z innymi przedstawicielami dziedziny a rozwój zawodowy w narracjach polskich reżyserek

Author(s): Monika Modrzejewska-Świgulska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The author of the study refers to fragments of qualitative research conducted among Polish – professionally active – film, theatre and television directors. The article has been divided into three parts: theoretical, methodological and organizational aspects of research, selected conclusions from the author’s own research. The article presents a sketchy model of professional development (four stages / areas of professional development) and the importance of other directors for moving in the professional hierarchy, with a special discussion of the first stage – orientation in the profession / in the field of creativity.

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The Social Construction of a Postmodern Industry: the Wedding-Planning

Author(s): Antonio Sandu,Aişa-Iolanda Dobre / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

A personal event, such as onomastics, marriage, anniversary of important events in life, etc., facilitates the creation of a personal brand through which the individual is favorably exposed to the close persons transformed into an audience who receives a message about the person's existence and insertion in his / her social environment , allowing the individual to create and maintain a public image of their close friends. The phenomenon of the industry development of private events, including the wedding, from the perspective of commercialization of private life, is analyzed as a result of the post-industrial society. Deprivation and marchetization of domestic activities is one of the most important elements of emancipation of women who no longer have to carry out unpaid domestic activities but also to modernize the family, breaking apart from the extended family and externalizing the support function.

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GENEALOGY OF POLITICAL THEATRE IN POST-SOCIALISM. FROM THE ANTI-“SYSTEM” NIHILISM TO THE ANTI-CAPITALIST LEFT

Author(s): David Schwartz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

What have been the conditions of production for a political theatre to appear in post-1990s Romania? How and why contemporary theatre in Romania ended up ignoring or dismissing the leftwing, engaged or militant theatrical movements active before 1945? Why local theatre history and theory entirely obliterated, also, the politically-engaged theatre forms active during communism itself? What kind of tradition forms the contemporary political theatre, what is the politics that informs their working practices and collaborations, how do the artists engage with the groups they choose to give voice and with the audience? Using a broad and on-purpose multi-faceted definition of political theatre, the article focuses on theatre artists, practices and performances that question capitalism as a social and power structure, sometimes from an intersectional perspective, but always framing this criticism in a class approach. Largely a practice-based analysis, the text gives a comprehensive on-going history of a strong performative movement and its challenges, from the representational strategies and the financial and positioning issues to the scarcity of critical covering and reviewing and the extending of an (opposite) political engagement in the mainstream theatre in Romania.

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CULTURAL WORKERS FROM THE PAINTBRUSH FACTORY. BETWEEN INSTITUTION-BUILDING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES

Author(s): Marina Mironică / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The paper is an ethnography of cultural workers from the contemporary art centre from Cluj-Napoca, Romania – The Paintbrush Factory. The one-decade existence of the alternative space contributed to a range of changes in the local cultural scene and evolved from a physical space into a resource for the city’s culture-led development strategy. It also became affected and reshaped by wider changes in terms of applied cultural policies. Cultural workers’ perspective, their precarity and their involvement in the local art scene influenced the current commodification and entrepreneurialisation of the cultural offer. The Paintbrush Factory’s expansion and contraction are vividly presented through the reflexive lenses of the cultural workers and managers, whose case-study could easily be regarded as a signal and a symbol of the deficient cultural policies mostly oriented to profit and lacking any local and long term-vision.

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INTELLECTUAL FIELD, NETWORKS, AND REPUTATION ECONOMY IN ROMANIA AFTER 1989

Author(s): Marius Lazăr / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

In this article, I analyse the transformations of the Romanian post-communist intellectual elites, using as a case study the disputes in the cultural press in Romania from 2002 to 2004, disagreements that influenced the repositioning of the Romanian public intellectuals through ideological alignments. Those debates gave birth afterwards to a cohesive Conservative pole and to anti-conservative tendencies of diverse political orientations, which constitutes the origin of the current divisions of the intellectual space. The analysis combines the Bourdieusian perspective on the social field and the theory of social networks with the purpose to formulate a hypothesis concerning the competitions meant to produce and preserve the prestige of the status groups in the social space that generate conflicting ideological positions. It outlines an alternative form of reassessing the “reputation economy” outside the space of the commodity exchange economy, starting instead with symbolic exchanges. The study describes the social rationale behind status production, as a source of strategies for maintaining dominant positions in a social field.

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THREE DECADES AFTER. ADVANCING CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF ROMANIA’S SEMI-PERIPHERALITY

Author(s): Enikö Vincze / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The article elaborates upon the production of Romania’s semi-peripherality at the intersection of long-durée dependency, uneven development, Eastern enlargement, and imperial politics, while addressing the advancement of capitalism not as a purely economic endeavour, but as a process of political subjection. It discusses the particular status of Romania in contemporary global capitalism by analysing the broader context of (1) a semi-periphery country subjected to a long-durée dependency; (2) uneven development underlay by imperial politics as endemic feature of the neoliberal European Union; (3) ‘Eastern enlargement’ and its economic conditionalities; (4) unevenness in the EU in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. As its conclusion, the article notes that in the past three decades, each of these components had a productive (material or symbolic) function in the reproduction of Romanian’s semi-peripherality as part of capitalism’s advancement in the new Millennium.

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CSR w programach kształcenia przyszłych menedżerów – przyczynek empiryczny

Author(s): Agnieszka Bobola / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7.3/2016

The objective of the present work is the analysis and assessment of the level of education in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the management of selected universities in Poland. The methods used were literature preliminary research as well as analysis and assessment of documents from the websites of universities. The survey was conducted in April 2016. On the basis of the conclusions drawn indicating a large diversified in terms of how the education of students at different levels of study. Only 5 of the surveyed universities next managers allowed systematic expansion of knowledge of CSR (first degree, second degree studies and postgraduate studies).

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Uwarunkowania nierówności społecznych – ujęcie modelowe

Author(s): Katarzyna Krot,Dagmara Lewicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7.3/2016

: This paper presents the concept of study of inequality based on the perspective of the individual in addition to the commonly conducted research on the basis of the perspective of macro to enable comparison between countries. These studies, however, have one major weakness. They do not include cause-effect relationships between the studied constructs. Moreover, existing research would be complemented by the research model encompassed constructs connected with inequalities, ie. the trust and distrust. Pointing to the adverse effects of inequalities emphasized that their effects have a negative impact on organizations. Therefore, the results of the study of the causes of inequality and putting the conclusions of these studies to the actions of social policy, education and business firms seem an issue of a great importance.

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The Role of Systemic Risk in Creating New Vision For Capital Markets

Author(s): Jarosław Klepacki / Language(s): English Issue: 8.1/2016

The financial crisis of the years 2007–2009 allowed to perceive and define a new role and importance of systemic risk. Today, seven years after the event, it appears that systemic risk has evolved. It should therefore examine whether the currently developed top-down attempts to limit (Capital Market Union) are fully effective and will not affect the education of new potential sources of risk.

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Proprzedsiębiorcze kształcenie wyższe a oczekiwania studentów – wyniki badania studentów wybranej uczelni ekonomicznej

Author(s): Agnieszka Faron,Wojciech Maciejewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9.2/2016

The article is focused on the term of Entrepreneurship Education, as a point of interest of researchers and practitioners dealing with issues of Entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine the students’ expectations regarding the entrepreneurship education. To achieve the purpose, the results of a research was presented – surveys and focus groups aimed at understanding respondents’ opinion on the implementation of the education process and the selection of teaching methods. Students have their own expectations for higher education, first and foremost pay attention to its practical dimension. Skills and competencies are the foundation of their career. The role of the University supplying them these key competences.

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Traditional African Art Technologies and Contemporary Art Practice

Author(s): Samuel Nortey,Edwin K. Bodjawah,Kissiedu Kwaku Boafo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This study discusses the influences and relationship between traditional African Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, as from the Western perspective. It amplifies historical perspectives on the theatre of art making technologies, dissemination and consumption on the African continent in the past, which may have had some influence on Western contemporary art. Using material, documentary evidence and argumentative research methods, the study reveals that traditional African art and contemporary art often embrace and propose more egalitarian approaches in making and exhibiting art, however, their relationship has many times been obscured. More often than not, contemporary art is either presented as if it were new to Africa or was introduced to the continent later by the Western culture. The study posits that there are influences and close relationship between traditional African art and modern/contemporary art, in terms of liberalization of media, deskilling through the use of simple technologies and collective modes of production, and that the latter was partially and occasionally inspired by the former. It reaffirms the position that traditional African art technologies had always been integrated into communal life and reflected the technologies and societies of the time. Installations, reproductions, multi-form and cross genre art which propose a more inclusive agenda, also comprising publicness by way of production, experimentation, dissemination and experience as art reconfigures within given spaces, provide greater platforms for artists to re-examine traditional African art in relation to technologies for art today.

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RESILIENCE OF GIFTED ADOLESCENTS. SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROTECTIVE FACTORS

Author(s): Mădălina SImona Iordache / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Institutionalization is one difficult moment in anybody’s life. This study has identified the protective factors manifested by gifted resilient adolescents after being institutionalized. The two-stage research was conducted in Iași (between November 2015 – June 2016) and had a quantitative component (based on questionnaire analysis) and a qualitative component (based on interview analyses). The resilience of adolescents is the result of three types of factors: internal characteristics, family-related characteristics and social environment characteristics. This study has identified the following external protective factors: a supportive family, a school environment providing information according to the capacities and interests of the gifted adolescents and a residential environment providing opportunities for self-exploration and continuous development. Another important external factor is the group of friends, a source of affection, sympathy and moral guidance, a proper space to experiment and to gain autonomy and independence from parents. The internal protective factors identified are: a good self-image, awareness of one’s individual abilities and their valorisation, motivation, a high degree of emotional development, the ability to be aware and express their own emotions, as well as a high level of self- efficacy. All these factors were identified in adolescents that achieved high scores on the resilience scale. In addition to internal and external factors, an important aspect is the perception of adolescents about these factors. The way adolescents relate to similar situations is different, so the consequences of the same event differ greatly from one adolescent to another.

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The Roles Of Teachers In The Digitalage School

Author(s): Ivko A. Nikolić,Veljko R. Banđur,Dragan D. Martinović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2020

Contemporary changes in school, especially student-centered teaching, require teachers to play new roles in digitalization the teaching process. To respond to new challenges in teaching, a teacher needs to have a number of different digital competences. For this purpose, research was conducted with the aim of determining the attitudes of teachers on the importance of digital competences for successful realization of teaching. The survey was conducted on a sample of 566 primary school teachers in Serbia. The Likert Attitude Scale was applied in the study. Data were processed using descriptive statistical procedures. The results of the research show that new roles to be acquired are based on the acquisition of skills in: integration of eLearning in the school teaching and learning system, ability to use electronic resources in the teaching process, ability to apply electronic devices and media in teaching, ability to apply European informatics standards. The results obtained may represent a sound basis, for policy makers, in modeling a quality school and effective teaching that would lead each student to success according to his or her individual capabilities.

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Education in the Social Context

Author(s): Tatjana T. Kostić / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2020

Education and textbooks are always connected with the social context. The social context that has influenced education and textbooks in Serbia ever since the end of the World War Two is based on the socialist and post-socialist cultural pattern. The informatics society has inevitably affected culture and education. The work analyzes the changes that have led to the modifications in education and textbooks. The result is that education and textbooks suffer the influences of the society, but that the society also suffers their influence. The conclusion is that without raising the level of education Serbian culture and the society embodied in it cannot be preserved and there can be no social progress; the most efficient way of attaining improvement is to create textbooks which, regardless of frequent changes in cultural patterns, must be guardians of the patterns of culture.

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