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This article focuses on the practice of "working for yourself" (rabota na sebia), which was common in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s and entailed manufacturing and repairing household items during work hours, using factory resources.
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The concept of social identity is being reconsidered in the social sciences due to transformations undergone by (post)modern societites, such as globalization, localization, and the intensification of global migration. In the context, the Siberian identity (being "Sibiriak") is an interesting object of research for it reflects the cultural, political, and economic effects of globalization and localization, as well as transformations in individual self-perception. This paper demonstrates that Siberian identity is not only a personal matter but also a new type of social solidarity and political claim. In Russian, extended summary in English.
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The author studied the manner of depicting conflicts in the Middle East in articles published on Polish information portals in 2015-201; she also analysed photographs used in those articles and the contemporary technologies of portraying war.
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A simple, energy-efficient, and relatively quick synthetic procedure for the synthesis of p-anisyl ethyl fumarate from p-anisaldehyde has been carried out. The synthesis was started by solvent-free reduction of the aldehyde using sodium borohydrate. The second step was solvent-free condensation of the resulting alcohol with maleic anhydride to be followed by esterification of the resulting acid with ethanol in the presence of benzenesulfonic acid as the catalyst. Satisfactorily isolated yields (65-98%) were achieved confirming that the preparation of the C-9154 antibiotic analogue is possible in sustainable fashion.
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The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for translator and interpreter competence in an ever-changing professional environment and provide recommendations to improve academic teaching in translation and interpreting in Russian universities in order to meet the needs of the language industry. To this end, the author discusses the results of three surveys carried out in 2017-2018. In the first survey, chief executives and vendor managers of major Russian translation companies share their experience of hiring university graduates. In the second survey, young professionals entering the Russian translation and interpreting market reflect on their university experience versus the expectations they had when enrolling in translation and interpreting programs. In the third survey, teachers of translation and interpreting from Russian universities reflect on existing academic programs in translation and interpreting.
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There is a decline in the quality of graduates from secondary schools in Nigeria. A situation where some secondary school graduates cannot write a very good letter is a cause for concern. Secondary School teachers, parents and the society have always complained about the quality of school products. All these are alarming signals which portends danger for the country. A number of issues could have led to these problems and the most pronounced among them is examination malpractice. Examination malpractice has eaten deep into the Nigeria education system. The purpose of this study therefore was to examine the issue of examination malpractice in Nigeria. The use of secondary sources of data was the main method of data collection adopted in this research work. The secondary sources adopted in this study include materials like Newspapers, magazines, textbooks, internet, journals, government publications, official documents etc. After analyzing the data, it was deduced that collusion among candidates, impersonation, giraffing, inscription, scientific malpractice and bribery were some of the forms of examination malpractice in Nigeria. This study also found that fear of failure, craze for certificates, desire of parents to choose the profession and university, pressure on students to pursue courses which they have no aptitude for were some of the causes of examination malpractice in Nigeria. This study also found that the examination malpractice has a negative effect on the society, leads to irreversible loss of credibility, has negative consequences on the individuals and institutions of learning, leads to moral decadence and brain drain, leads to corruption, it discourages hard work among students. This study also found that measures of curbing examination malpractice include: societal reengineering and re-orientation to revamp moral values, retraining and reassessment of teachers, appropriate recognition and remuneration of teachers and examination officials. Curbing examination malpractice depended on our will power. This study revealed that examination malpractice is not perpetrated by Angels but human beings. Based on the findings above, this study recommended that aggressive campaign should therefore be mounted, educating all the stakeholders about the dangers in engaging in the act and let them be informed of the dignity in having a clean examination system, the Federal Government should try and make the salary of teachers reasonable, qualityand affordable education should be made available for all, this study concluded that Parents should not celebrate success without a commensurate input and that examination malpractice should be discouraged entirely.
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Starting from the premise that one of the words with the darkest resonance, no matter the language, is the one which denotes abandonment "(D, Magdalena, 1998, p.5), M. Ainsworth has defined the concept of safety by matching the attachment system with the exploration system (1974). In this paper, we are highlighting the affective, cognitive, somatic, social and behavioural problems in children currently facing these life situations, in once abandoned children, in children currently in foster families or foster care, waiting for an eventual adoptive family. In this respect, the main purpose is to examine the existing relationships between the problems of children adopted or in placement, evaluated from 3 perspectives: scales2measuring syndromes, DSM derived scales, ADHD problems and internalization problems and outsourcing.
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The aim of this research was to determine whether there is a connection between the authenticity of a parent and his/her authenticity in relationship, the length of marriage, the number of children, the average age of the children, the satisfaction with relationship, and the satisfaction with a partner’s support. The sample consisted of 32 married couples who were parents (N = 64). The authenticity of parents and their authenticity in their relationship was the subject of research. The results show that parents who have younger children and are more satisfied with their relationship and their partner's support will live in accordance with reality (high Authentic life), and will freely, openly and naturally show their emotions, thoughts, and needs to their partners (Authenticity in relationship). Also, the results show that parents are less authentic in relationship if they accept external influences and convince themselves that all wishes and values from other people are their own (high Self-alienation). The results also show that the authenticity of the parents is not related to either the length of the marriage or the number of their children. A parent who thinks, but does not feel connected with his/her values, can express this through "I do not really know myself" (Rogers, 1961), which can also be reflected in the parental role. The child of such a parent could begin to suppress its own authenticity still in childhood and can grow into an inauthentic adult with a sense of emptiness. The authenticity of the parent as a person and his/her authenticity in a relationship are interwoven with each other, which is confirmed by the research that showed that the authentic behavior of the individual is normal in the context of emotionally significant relationships (families, partners, close friends) indicating that the readiness to be authentic could be a key factor for close relationships in which people strive for mutual exchange and the assessment of authenticity (Lopez & Rice, 2006; Grijak, 2018). This research has shown that the authenticity of parents changes with the growth of children, which might confirm that authenticity is a dynamic process where personal potentials, traits, emotions, motives, and other things are discovered, explored, accepted, interwoven with meaning, which are then realized (Rogers, 1961). Only a parent who knows how to balance the expression of their own thoughts, emotions, motives and wishes with the demands of the environment, not neglecting them, who does not suppress or substitute them for socially desirable behaviors, will be able to nurture a happy, free and confident child.
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The article is an attempt to add meanings to the already existing analyses of selected autobiographical- fictitious texts by Helena Deutsch. The awareness of the textual character of both discourses: psychoanalysis and autobiography prompted the author of Confrontations with Myself to play some kind of a game with the reconstructing the autobiography recipient The representations of the subject only confirm that the latter is not so much being reconstructed in the story as created over and over, between the standards of truth and fiction, the desire and fulfillment. Codenaming of senses develops this absorbing family affair which Deutsch’s autobiography as well as the accompanying it texts are, in a difficult to stop rotary movement of tropes, suppositions and hypotheses.
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Bogusława Latawiec is the author of – among others – short prose verging on essay. These works reveal her attitude towards the art of words and at the same time they tell the private history of the woman writer. It is a dialogic attempt to define herself in confrontation with the texts of culture. Short prose by Latawiec has the potential of self-presentation and leads to working out of an individual poetic project. Bogusława Latawiec values this literary form for its fragmentarity, discursiveness, intellectuality and autobiographicalness; paired with metacritical reflexion it allows her to recognize and to construct her own identity.
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The aim of the article is to first recognize the theme of the journey in female essayistic work by analyzing selected texts. The author focuses on contemporary non-fictional women’s travel relations and treats them as an individual way of implementing a travel narrations pattern. In the case of texts selected by Joanna Bator for analysis in this article, their affiliation to essay writing may raise doubts: the term “essay reportages” or “essay articles” fits better, which is in line with the theses on expansivity an essay and its penetration into other species. These works are also located on the borderline of literature and anthropology: the journey is an opportunity to observe on moral, cultural or religious topics.
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Agnieszka Graff is an author of academic and non-academic texts. An analysis of non-academic texts constitutes a basis for an article which includes sets of essays, columns and conversations. The second factor which determines the order in an article is chronology. The titles of her books are the mile stones. This structure allows to observe self-commentary, references and aspects, which she returns to. The most interesting are those which can be seen as the signs of autobiographism – self-citations, first-person narrative, mise en abyme. These are signs which the reader decodes as autobiographism and which constitute the autobiographic strategy (prefaces, afterwords which include interpretative hints). The aim of the article is an attempt to answer a question about the functions of (auto)biographism of Agnieszka Graff. Analysis of texts is a result of a question why Graff reaches for autobiographic instruments and in which way she uses these tools.
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The main subject of this research was the examination of the relationship between the basic psychological needs of the elderly and different socio-demographic variables. The goals of the research were focused on examining relations of age, gender, level of education, family structure and marital status with the self-determination of the elderly.The survey was conducted in three cities in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in retirement homes during 2014/15. The sample consisted of 219 elderlies (74.6% female). The age range was between 62 and 92 years old, and the average age of respondents was 76 years. Basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) were measured with the Scale of basic psychological Needs (Deci & Ryan, 2004).The obtained results of the multivariate analysis of covariates showed that the relatedness decreases with the age of the respondents, while gender differences were not registered. The results also indicate that there was a significant difference in competence among respondents of varying degrees of education. Competence is higher in those who have completed school (primary or secondary education), compared to incomplete elementary school and respondents without schooling. Differences between respondents living alone and those living with their spouse or family of their child were also examined. The results have shown that family and marital status are significantly related to the competence, so that the elderly living alone have lower results in this area compared to those who live with others.Since most of the elderly examinees in this research are widowed and live alone, we assumed that staying in retirement homes is one of the ways to compensate for the feeling of loneliness, and thus meet the need for relatedness and, therefore, competence. The need for autonomy in the examined sample was not related to socio-demographic characteristics. However, it should be emphasized that the sample in this research consisted of the elderly who actively socialize in retirement homes (i.e. those in good general health) and live outside institutions, in their own homes. It is assumed that the results could be different in the sample of the elderly who suffer from ill health, as well as in those who are accommodated in care institutions.
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Nurculuk, bu hareketin lideri olan Said Nursi’nin İslam düşüncesiyle ilgili dile getirdiği yorumları içerir. Onun derinlikli çalışmalarının toplandığı külliyata Risale-i Nur adı verilmiştir. Bu hareket, içinde bulunduğu şartların da etkisiyle, toplumun büyük bir kesimi tarafından kabul görmüştür. Molla Said’in eserlerinin, geniş halk kitleleri tarafından gruplar halinde, büyük bir istek ve heyecanla okunması, onlar tarafından nasıl benimsendiğini de göstermektedir. Kitaplarının böylesine yaygın bir biçimde okunması, bu hareketin, Türkiye toplumu içinde, nasıl bir yere konumlanacağı açısından dikkate değer görülmektedir.
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"Young workers are the category of people who experience precarity and precariousness the most. This article explores the work experiences of the young precarious workers as an important component of constructing their social identity. It focuses on the problems with sense of professional identity, biographical sense of work experiences and the processes of transition to adulthood in the context of insecure earnings and permanent uncertainty. It also deals with the lack of control over time and future life plans and the alienation of work. As a consequence of precariousness, young people need to cope with traps of uncertainty, poverty and helplessness. The article is based on the analysis of biographical interviews with young people aged 18-30 years old in low-paid temporary jobs, low paid open-ended contracts, traineeships and the unemployed. The whole collection contains 70 interviews. The article focuses on ten cases which represent more general properties of work experiences. The analysis enables us to address emerging questions concerning the relationships between constructing biography and the experience of work and to formulate tentative conclusions from the ongoing research.(original abstract)"
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Focusing on undocumented immigrant children who were brought to the US by their partents at a young age (the so-called 1.5 generation) and US citizen children living in irregular or mixed-status immigrant families, this essay argues that the current US immigration regime is too strongly adult-centered and in this way not only systematically disenfranchises immigrant children but also structurally disadvantages US citizen children living with at least one undocumented parent because the parent’s irregular status in practice tends to extinguish the child’s citizen status. Analyzing the US’s current immigration regime through the lens of under-age youth can thus function as an enabling prism to highlight the extent to which current US immigration laws and policies collide with both national and international legal practices and produce inherently contradictory or paradoxical situations; it can throw into relief the extent to which children (even US citizen children) lack sufficient agency and voice in current US immigration law; and it can foreground the deleterial consequences of the current immigration regime’s prioritization of deterrence and deportation for one of the most vulnerable segments of the US population for whom not even DACA can provide sufficient protection.
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Evoluția fenomenului migrației românești în spațiul european
At the beginning of the 1990s, Romania had a relatively modest level of immigration which dramatically increased over the following decades. This study focuses on the forms and dynamics of the Romanian immigration within the European border, analysing the determining factors of relocation, the social-economic and cultural implications, as well as the common abusive practices related to immigrant workers.
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