„– if we twirl too much will our panties be seen?” – the social construction of intimacy and bodily privacy among girls in a kindergarten

Author(s): Manuela Ferreira / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (21)/2013

Drawing on the Sociology of Childhood, this paper aims to show how children during their play in kindergarten ascribe symbolic meanings to their own actions and to certain objects reproducing interpretatively certain taboos. Ethnographic descriptive analysis about the uses around a pleated skirt by a group of girls aims to show the emerging tensions between its playful use and the moral events generated. The ways girls coped with them, allows one to identify i) the social construction of their identity as both children and girls in the kinder-garten; ii) the interpretation of reproductive taboos concerning the behaviour and morality of the female gender, and iii) the importance of taboos for a consciousness of the intimacy and privacy of the infant body.

„…i niech świat dla Ciebie zatańczy…” Wspieranie rozwoju ucznia poprzez stwarzanie mu drugiej szansy

Author(s): Krzysztof Polak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2 (40)/2016

The Author presents the idea of a second chance as a fundamental dimension of respect by the teacher for the student’s right to make mistakes. He stresses the importance of time necessary for the realization of a second chance and indicates its metaphorical character. He sees it as an idea that should permeate all levels of education. After the second chance, the student should receive the third, fourth, and another chance. The Author associates it with the understanding of student failure, which cannot be treated by the teacher as the end of student achievement, but the impulse to initiate support activities. He combines this with the necessity of overcoming the cultural pattern widespread in educational practice, the dominant feature of which is time treated as the main criterion of assessment. This pattern is anchored in the system of school tests which predominates in student evaluation. For this reason, the Author claims it is not only a methodical but first and foremost an ethical issue connected with the teacher’s responsibility for the results of his students work.

„Село моје лепше од Париза“ - народна музика у социјалистичкој Југославији

Author(s): Zoran Janjetovic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2010

The article deals with the most popular musical form in the socialist Yugoslavia. Having been a predominantly peasant country until WWII, folk music was the most popular kind of music in the country even after the change of the social system. The communist government started a modernizing program which spurred urbanization, but the new town-dwellers retained their peasant musical taste. For that reason folk music remained the most popular musical form throughout the decades of socialism. It had essentially two forms: original folk music - made by anonymous authors in the previous ages and transmitted by live performances - and industrially made folk music, made and sung by professional singers. The latter form was the popular music of the country. Most of its authors stemmed from the Eastern and South-Eastern parts of the country. Majority of its adherents was of poorer and less educated background, but parts of the newly educated technical intelligentsia and Party leaders were also fond of it. Stars of this kind of music often led a Hollywood-style lives, undermining thus the official model of communist austerity. The “Newly-composed Folk Music”, as it was called, survived the break-up of Yugoslavia, and even spread into the territories where it had few adherents before.

„Сигурна съм, че ще има много несгоди, но няма живот без тях“: български милосърдни сестри по света след Първата световна война

Author(s): Kristina Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

Nurses were among the most mobile female professional groups in the time after the First World War. Some Bulgarian nurses (Nevena Sendova, Krustanka Pachedzhieva, Anka Lambreva, Slava Dimova) who had the opportunity to travel to North America, New Zealand and other parts of the world are presented through letters and travel descriptions. The aim is to reveal the emotions, attitudes, prejudices, fears of nurses-travelers, the ways they pointed out their qualities to overcome difficulties as well as how they presented themselves as “Bulgarian women”. Nurses contributed to the modern Bulgarian female travel culture (Reisekultur), to its establishment, to the creation of its ways of expression. They also made contribution to overcoming the female fears of uncertainty, to the ability to describe not only observations but also the own “inner landscape”, feelings and experience.

„Сирийската криза“ в България или как Facebook конституира граждански обединения

Author(s): Kalina Ganeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2014

The article discusses the potential of Facebook to mobilize various groups of citizens around important public causes. The first part of the article is focused on the basic characteristics of the social network, the principles of the establishment of ties between participants in the network and the strength of these ties. In the second part, the author analyzes attitudes in two Facebook groups created after the Syrian refugee wave in 2013.

„Социалистическият начин на живот": идеология, общество, семейство и политика в България (1944-1989)

Author(s): Daniela Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2008

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„Социалният свят през двадесет и първия век: противоречиво наследство и надигащи се предизвикателства“. ХV световен конгрес по социология 2002

Author(s): Siyka Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2002

„Социологически снимки“ на общества в движение. Разсъждения за „арабската пролет“

Author(s): Rahma Bourqia / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: Special/2015

In these past two years, Arab societies have witnessed uprisings that represent a challenge to sociologists trying to understand the social processes underlying the dynamics of these events. These societies are now on the forefront of the media without always being the subject of sound sociological reflection that might make a consistent contribution to sociological theory. Here lies a project that yet remains to be undertaken. It should be noted that classical sociology has focused its analysis either on the structural factors or on the function of social factors animating societies. During the past few years, a new sociology has started dealing with singularity, unpredictability of phenomena, with uncertainty and risk, within Western societies, which remain the focus of research. Without renouncing such a hegemonic sociology and its conceptual tools, sociology should be reoriented so as to grasp the movement that Arab societies are going through, within the framework of a complex sociological reality where political, socio-cultural and religious factors and strategies of actors interlace. This article raises some of the issues related to the production of sociology of societies in movement.

„Социологията в обществото“: професионални реализации на дипломираните по социология от Софийски университет (1990–2006)

Author(s): Petya Slavova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2011

BULGARIAN SOCIOLOGY: INSTITUTIONAL AND EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS (DEBATES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF BSA)

„Социологията на социалното“ се е изчерпала познавателно

Author(s): Ivan Tchalakov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2011

BULGARIAN SOCIOLOGY: INSTITUTIONAL AND EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS (DEBATES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF BSA)

„Социологията“ на Макс Вебер: поглед откъм историята на неговото творчество

Author(s): Klaus Lichtblau / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2015

The article considers Weber’s move from history to sociology and from cultural science to verstehende sociology. While these issues are not new, this article scrutinizes them in terms of the complete history of the works of Max Weber, which are now available through the publications of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe. Also considered is the relation between Weber’s early use of stages theory of historical development and the individualism imputed to him. At root is the changing relation of methodology to his substantive studies in social economics, law, domination, religion and universal history.

„Тази стара политическа въжеиграчка, нашата столица“: градът на трафика, градът на протеста

Author(s): Milena Iakimova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 42/2013

How politics was swallowed up by policies, both conceptually and as an orientation of practical social action, how policies in turn appeared to be just another name for administrative governance: Sofi a’s general public had the rare chance to learn that by experience. On 14 June 2013, several thousand people fl ooded the “Independence” square, named “Lenin” before 1989, to recapture it from what public spaces turn into under the predominance of everyday modality of social being together: that is, veins of traffi c. Totalization of everydayness renders traffi c and garbage to be the chief references of shared social living. Since 14 June 2013, however, a scandalous appointment of a suspicious person on a high-ranking state offi cial’s position subsumed the fractured role performances of a signifi cant number of Sofi a dwellers under the totalizing force of their civic identifi cation and threw them into protests against the current governance. This interrupted the totalization of everydayness and allowed for the re-appropriation of the public character of the obscured public spaces. This ecstatic mode of re-appropriation however cannot resist the forces of mundanization for long. The everydayness unavoidably strikes back.

「受洗タタール」から「クリャシェン」へ ―― 現代ロシアにおける民族復興の一様態 ――

Author(s): Akira Sakurama / Language(s): Japanese / Issue: 56/2009

Из «крещеных татар» в «кряшены»: в качестве примера этнического движения в постсоветской России После перестройки на территории СССР возникло немало различных национальных и этнических движений. Несмотря на то, что данной теме уже было посвящено довольно много научных работ, все еще остается нерассмотренным процесс зарождения этнического самосознания этих народов. В данной работе рассматривается возрожденческое движение cреди кряшен. Кряшены обычно определяются как «крещеные татары» и считаются «субконфессиональной группой» татар. Но в настоящее время интеллигенция из числа кряшен требует называть себя «отдельным народом». В данной работе мы попытаемся ответить на следующие вопросы: на каком основании кряшены хотят быть отличными от татар; на чем основывается их самобытность. Полагаем, что настоящее исследование поможет понять характер современного этнического движения в России в целом. Многие ученые считают, что кряшены происходят от татар, крещенных в результате политики христианизации, проводившейся Российской империей с XVI века. В конце XIX века у татар актуализировалась идея об их мусульманской идентичности. В то же время татары-мусульмане стали относиться к крещеным татарам как предателям. Именно в этот период у крещеных татар произошло окончательное самосознание себя как кряшен, народа совершенно отличного от татар. В 1910-х годах, кряшенская интеллигенция начала считать себя «нацией» и требовать, чтобы за кряшенами признали это право. После Октябрьской революции их статус, как отдельная народность, был официально признан. Но в 20-х годах кряшен снова считали лишь религиозной группой, которая постепенно стала сливаться с татарами. Во время перестройки кряшенские ученые, поэты, журналисты приступили к этническому возрожденческому движению. На самом начальном этапе они действовали сообща с татарами-мусульманами. Первая кряшенская организация была создана как одна из секций Татарского общественного центра (ТОЦ). Но татары также стали стремиться к возрождению мусульманского самосознания, и вскоре в СМИ возник негативный образ кряшен.

♫ Градил Дионис килия…♫♫ или за Брад Пит и Трифон Зарезан

Author(s): Vyara Kalfina / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 12/2015

The text explores the way ancient literary and mythological stories and personages are being used in modernity. The first part of it focuses on the cinematographic representations of ancient stories explaining some differences between the literary sources and their modern interpretations. Then, it explores local Bulgarian festivals that include some ancient divine or heroic personage, e. g. Dionysos, Sabasius, Roman warriors, etc. The practice of “reconstructing” i. e. composing the past is interpreted in terms of gaining prestige and in terms of the attempt to fabricate a coherent religious, cultural and even political history of Bulgaria.

ІДЕАЛ ЛЮДИНИ У КУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЧНИХ ПАРАДИГМАХ ХХ – ПОЧАТКУ ХХІ СТОЛІТЬ

Author(s): Olga Ovcharuk / Language(s): Ukrainian / Publication Year: 2016

У монографії на основі методології культурології здійснена культурологічна концептуалізація феноменів «ідеал» та «ідеал людини». Виявлено трансформаційні тенденції у трактовці ідеалу людини у вимірах культурної свідомості Модерну та Постмодерну. З позицій культурологічного прогнозування виявлено культуротворчий потенціал феномену ідеалу людини у проекції національної культурної ідентифікації. Монографія адресована фахівцям у галузі теорії та історії культури, викладачам культурологічних дисциплін, аспірантам, студентам гуманітарних спеціальностей.

Інноваційний вимір розвитку вищої освіти України: сучасний стан та перспективи

Author(s): Oleksandr Levchenko,Volodymyr Zaychenko,Olga Tkachuk,Anna Levchenko,Dmytro Plynokos,Vladislava Natalchenko,Oksana Sytnyk,Tatiyana Ryabovolik,Alona Hora,Snejana Kovalenko,Olha Horpynchenko / Language(s): Ukrainian / Publication Year: 2016

In the monograph the question of transformation of the role of higher education in the condition of the becoming of an innovative model of national economy is comprehensively studied, the mechanisms of intensifying transfer of educational and professional knowledge are justified. The current status, tendencies, quantitative and qualitative aspects of training of specialists in the sphere of higher education, taking into account the territorial peculiarities of such process and international experience, the peculiarities of formation model of employment of specialists in the conditions of the innovative development of national economy are analyzed by the authors. In this monograph it was paid attention to improving the competitiveness of graduates of universities on the labor market, providing them with timely and effective professional training under the conditions of intensive development of the national economy. The question about preparing the specialists for foreign countries as a factor of the preservation and development of national higher education in the condition of reducing its own contingent of students was explored in the monograph. A considerable attention is paid to the development of directions of improvement of the state regulation the spheres of training and employment the specialists with higher education, such as: implementation the strategies and mechanism of increasing the competitiveness of university's graduates, support programs of employment of youth with higher education, improvement of state regulation of educational services' export, social partnership relationships and intensification of interaction of the employers with universities. The monograph is designed for a wide range of specialists of the sphere of higher education, researchers, professors, employers, employees of bodies of state authority and local municipality.

Японците

Author(s): Bratislav Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017

Bratislav Ivanov's new book is dedicated to the values and traditions of the Japanese culture. Already in the early twentieth century, French scientist Henry Dumolard draws attention to the fact that the Japanese people are guided by their logic and draw conclusions that are often incomprehensible to Europeans. To understand the Japanese people, we need to know the values that form the core of their culture. A key to their understanding is the geographical environment, mythology, religion, and Japan's history.

Ярослав Отченашек, Вихра Баева и др. Slovnik terminu slovesneho folkloru. Bulharsko / Речник на термините от словесния фолклор. България. Прага–София: Етноложки институт – АН на ЧР, ИЕФЕМ – БАН, 2013

Author(s): Stanoy Stanoev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2015