scholarly journals Policing in the Slovak Republic. The organization and current problems of police work

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Gašpierik
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Short Time

POLICING IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC. THE ORGANIZATION AND CURRENT PROBLEMS OF POLICE WORK The Police perform one of the most important roles within the modern society from the view­point of providing and maintaining peace, order and security. In the Slovak Republic the Police have been in existence for a relatively short time, but legislation regulating their activities and structure has already undergone several reforms. This treatise contains information regarding the structure and tasks of the Police of the Slovak Republic, discusses the development of criminality within the Slovak Republic, and analyses the current social status of the Police.

scholarly journals Methodological Framework for Resilience Assessment of Electricity Infrastructure in Conditions of Slovak Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8286
Author(s):  
Zdenek Dvorak ◽  
Nikola Chovancikova ◽  
Jozef Bruk ◽  
Martin Hromada
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Power Infrastructure ◽  
Electricity Infrastructure ◽  
Resilience Assessment

The quality of the environment as well as public health is convincingly coupled with the functioning of a power subsector. The power subsector plays a pivotal role in the sense that it emerges as the key cross-sectional element for the society’s functioning (production, services, healthcare, education and others). A modern society consists of infrastructure systems that are primarily dependent on continuous electricity supplies. Each and every element of the electric power infrastructure is unique, and thus, its malfunction can disrupt the functioning of an important part of the electric power infrastructure. In conjunction with ensuring the functioning of electric power infrastructure, our attention must be drawn to the resilience issue. As far as the resilience of electric power infrastructure is concerned, it can resist weather-related events ensuring there are no disruptions in continuous electricity supplies. First, in the introductory part, the article presents the legal framework in the Slovak Republic. Second, it describes the current state of the electric power infrastructure of Slovakia. Third, it handles the state of the level of security risk assessment. Later on, in the literature review, besides turning to the issue of resilience assessment, the authors focused on the area of resilience of power engineering. Furthermore, the article scrutinizes resilience assessment in Slovakia, and it briefly examines approaches towards natural threats. In addition, the article demonstrates several approaches towards flood resilience. Having used different methods, the primary concern is to devise a framework for resilience assessment. Therefore, the included case study examines aspects of the proposed framework for resilience assessment. In conclusion, our aim was, in most respects, to outline an innovative methodological framework for increasing the resilience of electricity infrastructure.

Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion: Property, Nation and Religion

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Bohn ◽  
Alois Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Nation State ◽  
New Form ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
Short Time

AbstractAdopting a comparative approach, the article discusses patterns of inclusion and exclusion such as property, nation and religion from a historical viewpoint. According to Luhmann the concept of inclusion and exclusion is about taking into account persons in social systems; according to Foucault it is related to deviance and abnormality. The transition from stratified to functionally differentiated societies is analysed, emphasising the transformation of ›Inklusionsindividualität‹ to ›Exklusionsindwidualität‹. Property and nation are both treated as transient semantics: for a short time after its emergence, private property guarantees inclusion and brings about new forms of identity and exclusion. Without the nation state the autonomy of subsystems would not be tolerable. The idea of a nation temporarily compensates for exclusion rates resulting from this new form of differentiation. While religion grants access to anyone and everyone even in stratified societies, thus anticipating the new pattern of inclusion, it also turns into a reservoir for unplanned, non-functionary exclusion in modern society.

From German-speaking Catholics to French carpenters: Strasbourg guilds and the role of confessional boundaries in the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners in the eighteenth century

Urban History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANNA SONKAJÄRVI
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
German Speaking

ABSTRACTThis article deals with the importance of religion as a factor influencing the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners from – and inside – the guilds in eighteenth-century Strasbourg. We consider the different notions of theétrangeras socially constructed and circumstantial. Together with factors such as social status, family ties, gender, systems of patronage, wealth, language and the citizenship rights of a town, religious and denominational boundaries constituted a major factor for influencing the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners in the early modern society. The construction and preservation of such boundaries are explored here through the examples of the carpenters' and the shipmen's guild found in the eighteenth-century multiconfessional city of Strasbourg.

Continuities of Social Mobility in Traditional and Modern Society in India: Two Case Studies of Caste Mobility in Bengal

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesranjan Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The People ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Ownership Of Land

The Sadgapas and the Tilis, two Bengali castes broke with their parent castes. They formed themselves into new castes which gained higher social status than their parent castes in terms of the local caste hierarchy in Bangal. The emergence of the Sadgopa caste, as distinct from the Tilis, occurred at a period when none of the technological, political, and intellectual developments had yet occurred in Bengal that are generally used to characterize modernization. They were established as a caste by the second decade of the nineteenth century while the history of their growth and development goes back to the second half of the sixteenth century. On the other hand, the Tili movement took an extensive form in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Tilis receives wider social recognition as a caste during the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century. The Tili movement was accelerated by modern conditions. Apparently the external factors helping social mobility varied from the case of the Sadgopas to that of the Tilis. But there are certain common features of development in both cases. Both the Sadgopas and the Tilis had collectively abandoned their traditional occupation to switch over to comparatively more lucrative and prestigious occupations, and became landowners. Complete dissociation from the traditional occupations which identified them with lower social ranks made it easier for the Sadgopas and the Tilis to aspire for better social status. But the crucial factor in their movements for mobility was ownership of land, which enabled them to have direct control over the life of the people in their respective areas and enhance their social prestige and power. This was the source of their strength as distinct groups and die source of their collective power to bargain successfully with the rest of the society for higher status. The incentive of corporate social mobility originated, both under traditional, pre-modern circumstances and under the circumstances of modernization, from the achievement of each group of a sense of corporate solidarity, regarding internal as well as external prestige. This enabled the groups to break away from the parent castes and to form new castes with higher social status. Previous writing on the subject has made this corporate solidarity a function of response to external forces, which are identified with only factors of modernization. It is the contention of this paper that corporate solidarity could have had its genesis in prcmodern times as well and that modernization marked only its acceleration.

scholarly journals The Model and Structure of the Slovak Catholic Police Chaplaincy

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Sándor Író
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Social Prejudice ◽  
The Military

This study introduces the military ordinariate that was created to provide pastoral care for the members of the army and the forces of law and order of the Slovak Republic; it analyses and examines the organisational structure and tasks of it. Policemen during their police work have to face many issues (such as fatal accidents, homicide, burnout, the thought of leaving the field, corruption, personal problems, the question of weapon-holding, personal and social prejudice, suicide, racism) that they cannot understand, process or handle effectively. In such cases they need help. Police Chaplaincy services work in many countries inside the institutional framework effectively helping the job of the police. The institutional background and structure of the Slovak Police Chaplaincy must be examined, considering that Hungary’s and Slovakia’s historical and cultural traditions are closely related, so during the build-up of the Hungarian Police Chaplaincy, this can provide useful guidance for the ecclesiastical and state leaders.

scholarly journals Institutional Resilience Amid Political Change: The Case of Biodiversity Conservation

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Safety Nets ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Social Safety Nets

There is a substantial literature documenting the spatial mismatch between the geographic location of biological resources and the spatial jurisdiction of the institutions responsible for their management. But little attention has been paid to the disjuncture in temporal scales between the long-term requirements of biodiversity conservation and the short time horizons governing public and private decisions affecting the survival of species and ecosystems. How can we create socially agreed-upon rules governing the long-term use and conservation of biodiversity when ongoing change is one of the defining characteristics of modern society? This article describes a new approach to biodiversity conservation—conservation systems—that addresses this question by providing design criteria that can be used to construct resilient social safety nets for biological diversity.

scholarly journals Foreign language education of seniors

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ctibor Határ ◽  
Soňa Grofčíková
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Youth Research

Abstract This study is of a theoretical-conceptual nature and is a partial outcome of the research project VEGA MŠVVaŠ SR and SAV no. 1/0176/15. It deals with one of the problems currently faced by educational theory and practice, i.e. the foreign language education of seniors. The trend is typical for many EU member states, since it results from the needs of a modern society. In addition to strategic documents, programs and legislation which binds the Slovak Republic to create conditions for lifelong education, including foreign language education, the authors are more closely preoccupied with specificities and possibilities of the language education of seniors, which are explained on a comparative basis with the language education of children and youth. Even though in literature one can find results of many substantial empirical research projects devoted to foreign language education of children and youth, research into the education of adults and seniors in the area of foreign languages falls behind considerably. A sufficient platform for the methodology of language education of adults and seniors in Slovakia has not been created either, if compared with the methodology of language education of younger age categories. This shortcoming is often quite noticeable in practice. The study attempts to pay adequate attention to the analysis of selected teaching styles specific for adult and senior age as well as teaching methods which may be used in the language education of seniors.

scholarly journals THE SOCIAL STATUS OF YOUNG MOTHERS IN MODERN RUSSIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Elena L. Kruglova ◽  
◽  
Marina E. Rodionova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Mothers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Young Family ◽  
New Perspective

Nowadays, in the conditions of global modernization, structural changes in society, lack of sustainable social development, family takes new forms and, therefore, needs studying from a new perspective. Quite a large number of works are devoted to the family as a special sphere of social life, its problems, family relationships, roles within the family. In recent decades, more and more attention has been paid to the young family as a special category. However, both in the context of the young family and in studying the problems of women and children, underaged mothers are rarely identified as a separate subject of study. It is the modern young family that is unstable to the greatest extent, precisely this type of family is affected by social cataclysms more than others. A juvenile mother with a child is certainly one of the forms of a young family. It is of great importance to define the social status of such a family. For this purpose, several important indicators have been identified: the level of education, the type of employment, income, housing conditions, prospects and leisure. Unfortunately, a young mother with a child is rarely independent of the immediate environment and the parent family because of her age, so her social status directly depends on the older generation or her husband. At the moment, centers are being created to help women who find themselves in a difficult life situation, which help young mothers to find their place in modern society and raise their child to be a worthy member.

scholarly journals The study of the formation of relations of educational cooperation of younger schoolchildren

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Runova ◽  
E. G. Gutsu ◽  
M. A. Nyagolova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Relationship Of

Introduction: the need to study the current state of relations of educational cooperation of younger students is determined by the increasing role of communicative universal educational activities in the development of modern society. However,  a number of studies it prove that often the life of a modern school does not provide any opportunities to use the potential resources of such an important component of the development of the student, as educational cooperation. Traditional school due to many restrictions does not always provide the possibility to build a student-centered relationship of educational cooperation in combination with a differentiated approach to younger students. Numerous studies often describe the interaction of students with adults and peers separately, that prevents making unified approaches to the child's socialization.The initial step towards solving this problem should be the complex study of the areas of interaction and diverse study of the formation of relations of educational cooperation of younger schoolchildrenMaterials and Methods: in article the diagnostic program-the complex made of the techniques giving the chance to get the idea of a modern state of development of the relations of educational cooperation in elementary school is declared. They were: a technique with the working title  “ the Carpet”, allowing to establish levels of development of skills of group interaction of younger schoolchildren in the lessons; “Sociometric research”, intended for identification of the social status of the child in children's group; “Self-esteem ladder”, designed to determine the adequacy of children's self-esteem in the sphere of business contacts of the child with classmates.Results: the results of the study of the formation of relations of educational cooperation among younger schoolchildren with peers in a specially created innovative conditions in the context of a given procedure of learning and initiated by the child communication. The idea of teachers about the most important for younger schoolchildren’s psychological conditions of development of relations of educational cooperation is revealed.Discussion and Conclusions: the study suggests that for the effective development of relations of educational cooperation with children it is necessary to create a special innovative learning environment, which provides a high motivational basis for younger students to achieve their goals, initiatives, independence, strengthen their social status in the group of peers, increase self-esteem.

scholarly journals ЛГБТ ОСОБЕ У СРБИЈИ: ИЗМЕЂУ ФОРМАЛНОГ ПРИХВАТАЊА И НЕФОРМАЛНОГ ОДБАЦИВАЊА

TEME ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Милош Јовановић
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Time Span ◽  
High State ◽  
Short Time Span ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Incidents ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Police Forces

Generally speaking, Europeanization is defined as “a process in which states adopt EU rules”. As Serbia is getting closer to the EU, this process is gaining on the momentum, but running far from smoothly. Formal endeavors aimed at the change of the social status of the LGBT persons in Serbia are a case in point, as they are linked to the idea of Europeanization. In accordance with the EU conditions, a number of laws aimed at fighting discrimination of LGBTs were passed, programs with the same goal were implemented, and several Pride Parades took place without major incidents (as Belgrade was “besieged” by heavy police forces). At the same time, high state officials publicly manifest their reluctance toward non-heterosexuals, with the police practicing indirect resistance toward organizing the Pride.The LGBT affirming actions were characterized by short time-span and superficiality, and this is what makes this case a paradigmatic one of the Serbian Government’s attitude to Europeanization: the formal obligations (as imposed) are fulfilled, while simultaneously enormous (informal) efforts are undertaken in order that no changes occur in society. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the aforementioned. Attempts to diffuse EU rules and regulations seem to be of no avail if local adaptation, interpretation and appropriation of these norms and resistance which they spawn, is not taken into account.

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