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Review of: Alexandru Vona “Misterioasa disparitie a orasului din campie”, Biblioteca Apostrof Publishing House, Cluj, 2001. Iustin Panta “Celalta obisnuinta”, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2002. Sigmund Freud ”Opere 7: Nevroza, psihoza, perversiune” , Trei Publishing House, Bucuresti, 2002. Simona Corlan Ioan ”Tombouctou, Orasul imaginar”, Paidea Publishing House, Bucuresti, 2002.
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The article is a presentation of the second edition of Nicolae Sutu’s “Amintiri de calatorie 1839-1947” translated by Petruta Spanu and published by the Fides Publishing House, Iasi 2002.
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The objective of this paper is to reflect on the consequences of the current economic and financial crisis on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a concept of great importance nowadays. The core approach is the possible link between CSR and the crisis, if both elements can be combined. After an introduction to the current economic and financial situation, some conceptualizations about CSR are made to clarify the perspective used for this complex and incompletely defined concept. The last part of the paper presents an approach to the combination of both concepts, concluding with the idea that CSR in crisis periods can be converted from being a threat to an opportunity.
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The paper attempts to investigate the influence of the 1988 Basel Accord on bank behavior and monetary policy. It is argued that the Accord was successful in that it forced commercial banks in all of G-10 countries to maintain higher capital ratios. Tentative research suggests, however, that – at least among American banks – the Accord also encouraged the widespread resort to regulatory capital arbitrage techniques, in particular securitization. The paper also reviews the literature on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy and shows that the Basel Accord has affected the bank lending channel.
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This article comprises the testimony of two prominent Romani women’s rights activists from opposed geographical corners of Europe: Russia and Spain. In these two countries, the Romani women’s rights movement has been developing itself at different times.
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In September 2004 ten Romani women filed complaints with the Public Defender of Rights (“The Ombudsman”), claiming that they had been sterilised without their free and informed consent, in hospitals throughout the Czech territory. Besides the Ombudsman’s investigation, an effort which ultimately led to a report published in December 2005 recognising this practice and bringing a number of recommendations for changes to law and policy to end it (www.ochrance.cz), some of the women concerned filed civil complaints with the Czech courts.
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“Roma” Terminology. The accurate use of terminology can help those working at local level to understand the human rights angle in their work and prevent them from being preoccupied only with its social aspects. It is only in this way that all current advocacy and lobbying successes achieved on the international level can show their value. The issue of the human rights of people, who are men and women of Romani origin, has to be the focus. The very first step is to change the way we understand our approaches … and our terminology.
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In this article, I intend to explicate one of the major challenges facing Roma rights activists generally, and especially those of us charged with conducting human rights capacitation initiatives in the field of Roma rights in Europe. Inevitably, in conducting this exegesis, I will touch upon the vexed issue of the role culture plays in this. Culture is increasingly being seen as a profound barrier to the implementation and full comprehension of the human rights discourse and I have written on this in the past. Then, I suggested that the community of Roma rights activists were duty-bound to challenge certain cultural perceptions and perspectives within Romani communities that hampered the full enjoyment of rights by certain people in these communities
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On the Occasion of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.
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The improvement and visibility of the mainstreaming approach, where Romani issues are integrated into all fields of policy-making, has slowly been replacing earlier paternalistic policies. However, there is an urgent need for further emphasis of the current and foreseeable economic pitfalls that the countries will experience if Roma integration is further delayed.
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Introduction: The Situation of Romani Women in Montenegro. Current Roma- and Romani Womenrelated Policies in Montenegro. Romani Women Activists and Romani Women Organisations: Nikšić. Activists, Journalists, Students: Podgorica.
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Paper presents the social audit method – a research tool designed to measure discrimination in the employment area. Social audit is used to examine the discrimination problem in the recruitment process and to study working conditions, especially these of female staff, in companies applying or having obtained the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) certificates. The audit methodology combines the experimental approach with the fieldwork orientation: hidden and open observation, various types of interviews, documentation analysis linking to financial audits and occupational health and safety control. This approach seems to be similar to the grounded theory methodology or to the evaluation research methods. The paper examines the audits conducted in Poland – both these commissioned by a non-governmental organizations in order to evaluate the working conditions, and these conducted by the author of this paper to countercheck its methodology and adapt it to the local environment, pointing out its advantages and disadvantages.
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The paper presents some possibilities of using the observation technique in the virtual space of the Internet. It begins with some thoughts about the main changes of the Web and their consequences for its users as well as for the social researchers. Some main types of the qualitative online researches are also mentioned. Finally, the article focuses on the online observation – its possible types and dilemmas of using it in the research project.
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Chromiec Elizabeth (2011) Intercultural dialogue in the activities of Polish NGOs period of transition. Wroclaw: Publishing House ATUT
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The article presents the basic concepts and methodological procedures of grounded theory methodology that uses visual data and is called visual grounded theory. It uses the visual data to construct categories, theoretical properties of categories for action and visual phenomena that manifest themselves as processes. Present article introduces, therefore, the rules and procedures for visual grounded theory based on both my own, and other authors research experience. In order to better illustrate the procedures in question, there are presented examples of these studies. The visual analysis is conducted at four levels: creating an image, its presentation, its content and structure and its reception. It is the basis for the concept of multislice imagining and visual grounded theory helps to reconstruct it. Keywords: grounded
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Qualitative Sociology - innovative methods in qualitative research
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