"Да се разбира": един ранен хайдегериански мотив у късния Бурдийо

Author(s): Svetlana Sabeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2005

The article presents the reflexive sociology of the late Pierre Bourdieu as a hermeneutically founded program. The argumentation is deployed through a ‘close-up view’ of the research perspective of Bourdieu in the collective monograph The Misery of the World. Testimonies and diagnoses of everyday suffering from society (1993). The new moments in field analysis, related to the attention to the microcosm of the place and leading to the concept of ‘positionally determined suffering’, have their reflexive counterpart in the unexpected, almost scandalous to sociological orthodoxy, appearance of the Heideggerian theme of ‘authentic understanding’. By an explication of this motive, the problem of the two modalities of sociological understanding is rendered more acute: on the one hand, the exogenous (‘necessitating’) understanding, as an understanding from the ‘ontological complicity’ between habitus and field, and on the other hand, the endogenous (‘maieutical’) understanding, as an understanding from the hermeneitucal complicity in the mastering of a situation.

"Дискурсивни борби" между френската "мондиализация" и американската "глобализация"

Author(s): Anna Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2004

The following research is a variation on the topic "les mots et les choses" or "who and how name reality?" in the light of two different versions in the discourses on "globalisation" – the French vision of "mondialisation" and the Ame-rican vision of "globalis/z/ation". I argue that behind the alleged terminological dispute "mon-dialisation" versus "globalization" there is a clash between two distinct "narratives" for naming and explaining the changing present. "Constituting a picture of the present" is not just a cognitive act, rather it is a gesture of power – an attempt to rule and control over what is current-ly happening. From this perspective, "globalisa-tion" and "mondialisation" could be interpreted as competitive "representations of reality" behind which different ideologies and interests are being articulated. So, what is in the focus of ana-lysis is the clash between various discourses, or as I call them "discoursive struggles", fighting for power over the present, which will allow me to see who the opponents are, what their arguments are and what ideological positions they take.

"Ето едно момиче, което не е нямо." За един психоаналитичен прочит на автобиографията на Дорина Ненчева Илиева

Author(s): Janja Jerkov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: Special/2011

This text is an attempt to use the ideas of Lacanian clinic in reading the different episodes of the life of Dorina Nencheva Ilieva in bringing to the fore their relation to the unconscious. Dorina’s autobiographic material permits the demarcation of three main themes: Dorina’s subjective position as a woman; the structural necessity that pushes her into oblativity; the adoption of the English language as her main language in the name of adhering to a new Ideal of the Ego. We contemplate the image of a unique and sophisticated woman whose contradictions principally arise from the lack of any signifying element that in the unconscious can tell her what a woman is as well as from an intimate trauma experienced by her, a trauma connected to the symbolic dimension of Dorina’s parental legacy. Due to these circumstances, Dorina tries to make a name for herself in the field of charity so to compensate the wounds that life has inflicted on her. In so doing, she engraves the everlasting name of a Bulgarian woman on the history of Mauritius.

"Женският опит": хрониката на една отминала илюзия

Author(s): Tatyana Kotzeva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/1995

The paper presents the main moves in the feminist theory since the 60s till nowadays. The category of women's experience is outlined as a central one to delineate the main shifts in feminism as a political movement and standpoint theory. Concepts like "female culture", "women's way of knowing", epistemic vantage point of a marginal knower, etc. are analyzed. The principal points in a critique of feminist essentialism are sketched. The views of J. Scott, G. Spivak, D. Haraway, D. Fuss, who are considered to be among the most influential authors in feminist deconstructionism, are presented. In the final part possibilities for a feminist discourse in East-European perspective are discussed.

"За тобою, Морозенку, Польща, Україна плачe..." : (до питання дослідження фольклорy польсько-українського пограниччя)

Author(s): Jarosława Koniewa / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: IV/1999

"За" и "против" за развитието на общата търговска политика на Европейския съюз

Author(s): Irena Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2018

In recent years, the trade policy of various countries has become an important topic, both for administration and business. The present paper aims at presenting the EU trade policy and some of its advantages and challenges.

"Ковачница за мъже" или ... задължителната наборна казарма в представите на българина през Социализма

Author(s): Iliya Valev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2014

One widespread proverb in Bulgaria, knowing some different versions, says that “Man, who did not passed conscription is not a man”, “A boy, who failed to enter military service is second-hand man”, “A man, who has not walked as a soldier knows nothing”. What exactly is conscription according to public understanding of Bulgarians? What attitudes have the society to compulsory conscription? Frontier of what is the portal on the military unit? These and other issues related to conscription during socialism will be explored.

"Крехкото, катастрофичното присъства и в най-скритото кътче на света"

Author(s): Ulrich Beck / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2001

Ulrich Beck interviewed by Kolyo Koev

"Криза на науката"? Веберовата програма за историческа социална наука и социално-икономическият анализ на кризата на културата от началото на века

Author(s): Uwe Barrelmeyer / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1+2/1998

"Лошите кредити": институционални и финансови аспекти, 1994

Author(s): Christina Vutcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 1994

Since the beginning of 1991 Bulgaria has been living through a period of transition from centralized totalitarian control to free market economy. Year 1990 can be said to mark the political liberation of the people with the adoption of the new Constitution. The economic liberalization, however, is a reality yet to be brought to life since private ownership is not prevalent in the economy. The prime aim of the transition is to substitute an absurd and inefficient economic system for a new one to rely on the free initiative, private ownership and competition.

"МИСТЕРИЯТА" НА ЕДНА ИЛЮЗИЯ

Author(s): Francois Furet / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/1996

An Interview with Prof. Francois Furret

"Можем да изследваме ... следите ... на миналото, ... но не самото минало"

Author(s): Emil Grigorov,Yanya Yerkov,Yasna Koteska,Ivelina Ivanova,Hayden White / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2010

THE DEBATE ON THE PRACTICAL PAST

"Музикалната естрада продължава да живее в културната памет на българите"

Интервю с Розмари Стателова за новата й книга 'Естрада и социализъм: проблясъци'

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 5/2019

Interview with Rosemary Statelova about her new book „Estrada and Socialism: Glimpses“

"Пиша, когато има с кого"

Асистираното самонаследяване на писателя-маргиналист

Author(s): Todor Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

I will present the final stage of my study on socioanalytic conversations that I have had with a Bulgarian marginalist writer as a man who turns to creating literature in a situation when he ‘has no one to turn to’. There are the problems of reliability of the obtained data (especially those in the direct autobiographical narrative): firstly as a possible product of the author’s imagination and hence the need for developing methods of literary socioanalysis, secondly because of the effects of personal closeness between the conversers, and thirdly in relation to the endogenous look at the case that is provided by this very closeness. IN the course of socioanalytic conversations and later in the process of analyzing the data from them, the need came up of complementing the initial hypothesis that ‘he writes when he has no one to turn to’, The presentation of his smaller texts before a reading and understanding audience has its doubtless therapeutic role but the work of creating and publishing larger works is more important for overcoming his fractal identity. It came out that this work goes along not only with the underlying presumption ‘he writes when there is someone for who to do it’ (strictly speaking, it is valid also for his smaller texts) but mostly ‘he writes when there is with who to do it’. His successful self-inheritance took place with this last principle, and hence one can make direct conclusions about future therapeutic techniques that go beyond this particular case.

"Предимствата на изостаналия" — началото на Балканската модернизация

Author(s): Diana Mishkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/1995

The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the identity of the processes of modernisation, state-building and nation-building in the Balkans in contrast to their treatment in opposition by many historians and political scientists. Two interpretive views of the Balkans have been challenged: the first characterizes patterns of social and political development in terms of an East-West dichotomy; the second maintains a negative perspective on the political modernization of the newly established Balkan stales, the operation of Balkan politics and Balkan nationalism in particular. The author focuses first on the social background and goals of the Balkan political elites, then on the long-term effects of parliamentary institutions in the late-industrializing Balkan societies, and finally on the state-building and nation-building experiences in the Balkans as compared to those in contemporary Western Europe. The arguments pursued on the basis of this analysis concern the “advantages of backwardness" in the political and social realms and the precedence of political over economic modernization in the case of young nation-states.

"Просяк бях, направо просяк"

Бездомничеството и "убягващата ни социална уязвимост"

Author(s): Dimitar Panchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

This article is based on the ‘Roma, homelessness, inequality’ research study, which is a part of the “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and the work with the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol. The article focuses on a craftsman from the neighborhood of ‘Stolipinovo’ and his life history as a homeless man in France, where he decides to leave shortly after suffering a work-related accident. The choice of a research case is dictated, on one hand, by the experience of the craftsman as a homeless person and, on the other, by his distinctive position as ‘The Carpenter of Stolipinovo’, which he occupies in the social space of the neighborhood. Secondly, this choice is dictated by the singularity and exclusivity of this experience, because, although homeless, this experience is undoubtedly marked by the presence of a place that he nevertheless inhabits, to which he returns several times, and which is maintained and renovated over time by the locals with whom he shares a common physical space. In this sense, the unprivileged position of the homeless, i.e. the lack of any opportunity to invest in the future, even the ability to plan in the short term, is more like a landmark vector of a biographical trajectory that serves as a starting point and, at the same time this moment of fractured experience, as the data shows, always is thought about relationally, because even in the position of a homeless person, at least according to the constructed narrative, he loses neither his distinctiveness nor his biographical illusio, contrary to what is expected, even though homelessness is thought of as one of the extreme forms of social vulnerability and social inequality. Hence the definition of his experience as a form of ‘elusive social vulnerability".

"Противоречията на наследството": механизми на (не)наследяване и дискурсивни практики

Author(s): Stoika Penkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: Special/2011

The article presents a possible approach to the analysis of the situation of accepting/transmitting inheritance (in the widest sense) among a migrant group – the one of Bulgarian emigrants to Turkey – and an attempt is made to make explicit its practical logic. To trace the actual ‘sociogenesis’ of the process of inheriting, there must be a double process in its conceptualization: 1) on the one hand, conceptualization of ‘the constitutive dispositions of the habitus’ that are able to generate not only correct actions and practices but also disappointments, tensions, conflict and contradictions, psychological traumas and repressed intentions; 2) on the other hand, conceptualization of the way in which the social order becomes imprinted in the bodies as it ‘collects, channels, reinforces or counteracts psychological processes’. Thus the conceptualization of the process in which, through the figure of ‘inheritance’ social positions and biographic trajectories are ‘eternalized’ in practice, comes out linked to the question how the ‘ontological complicity’ between biographical and social illusio happens when it is possible (as in the case of ‘Bulgarian emigrants’) that their formation is the result of different social conditions. Finally, taking advantage of the specific manner of ‘praxeological understanding’ that permits simultaneously to retain the many points of view and layers in what the respondent ‘testifies’, the article proposes a conception of the contradictoriness itself of the studied agents as heirs. For this purpose, the analysis first dwells on the theoretic justification of the diverse modalities of ‘inheriting’ and then on their empirical verification by the study of specific ‘cases’ that are representative of the studied group.

"Работа на себя": использование ресурсов промышленного предприятия в личных целях в позднюю советскую эпоху

Author(s): Olga Smolyak / Language(s): / Issue: 2/2014

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.

"Секуларизацията" като категория на модерното историческо съзнание

Author(s): Hristo Todorov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/1996

Philosophy of history and sociology are defined as results of the historical development of the modernity and as specific forms of modernity's selfreflexion."Secularization" is dealt with as a consept belonging both to the philosophy of history and to sociology. The close interrelation between the usages of "secularization" in these two fields is examined. "Secularization" is terminologically and conceptually clarified against the background of the discussion between K.Lowith and H. Blumenberg on the origin of the philosophy of history. Some empirical developments within modern history are described. These processes which resulted in abolishing and restricting the influence of the Church and religion on important areas of public life i. e. in their "secularization") — are viewed as preconitiones for the emergence of the concept of "secularization" itself. The interdependence between the philosophical and sociological usages of "secularization" is ultimately grounded in "historicity" The latter is one of the basic concepts of modern historical consciousness and is also a fundamental principle (ratio essendi) of modern social reality.

"Сибиряк": общность, национальность или "состояние души"?

Author(s): Alla Anisimova,Olga Echevskaya / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2012

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.