scholarly journals Critiques of the globalization process: The examples of Russia and Serbia

2003 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Milan Subotic
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Insight Into

The paper is devoted to outlining the research topic to be dealt with by the author in the incoming period within the project of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. Starting from "globalization" as the keyword of current debates on political, economic and cultural destiny of contemporary world, the author delineates the subject matter of his research as the critiques of the globalization process formulated in Russia and Serbia. In terms of contents, the research will be devoted to analyzing and interpreting different philosophical-theoretical, political and ideological arguments used by the critics of the globalization process in political and cultural life of Russia and Serbia. The proposed comparative approach ought to provide an insight into the influence exerted by Russian opponents of globalization on domestic critics of the process, as well as to help understand the differences in resisting globalization that stem from different political, economic, military, cultural and international positions of the two countries in today's world. The basic aim of the research is to asses theoretical-argumentative and practical-political potentials of the critiques of globalization in these two post-communist countries.

scholarly journals Making public space. About the same or about difference?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Elena Piha
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Specific Differentiation ◽  
Urban Condition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Similarity And Difference ◽  
Political Economic

<p class="Body">This text is about making public space out of and within the omnipresent entirety of space which is the defining circumstance of the macrocosm that holds us and that we inhabit. It begins with a propositional discourse on how that omnipresent space differentiates into public space and further articulates into human places. It concludes with a comparative précis of eight actual projects for public space as programmed, designed, realised and adopted for different purposes in the different socio-cultural and geo-locational situations of five established cities. The focus is on similarity and difference, or how social demands, human aspirations and design rationales for public space might depend on their originating context. It is also more about socio-cultural constants from which design approaches or, better, attitudes arise than the socio-political, economic or otherwise practical variables of procurement and implementation of public space, which are fleeting and fluctuate by time, government, and popular opinion.<br />The text is organised in sections, which form a collage of things that matter in making public space in the contemporary world which is essentially defined by the contemporary urban condition where global interconnectedness—networks and inclusiveness—negotiates with site-specific differentiation—otherness and exclusiveness. The order of the text is from general to particular, abstract to concrete, so as to set the subject matter in the context of the larger whole it belongs to.</p>

Social policy and social change – explanations of the development of social policy

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carrier ◽  
Ian Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
General Observation ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Subject

The resources of sociology do not appear to have been extensively or systematically utilized in the study of social policy and administration. One source of evidence for this statement is the absence of explicit references to sociological theories in some of the most well known general texts on British social policy and administration. Pinker's recent analysis of social theory and social policy also lends support to the view that there has been, and still remains, something of a division between sociologists and students of social policy and administration. He concludes that the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology (Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Spencer) had a tendency to be ‘not greatly interested…(in)…remedies for social problems’, and makes the general observation that ‘sociologists have been oddly diffident about the subject-matter of social administration’, possibly because of the latter's atheoretical nature.

scholarly journals A Methodology for Providing Individualised Computer-generated Feedback to Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Michael Lambiris
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Student’S Performance ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

The traditional way of providing feedback to students after tests or assignments is labour-intensive. This paper explains the concepts and techniques used by the author to build computer-based applications that analyse students’ answers and generate individualised, detailed and constructive feedback. The paper explains how the data gathered from a student’s answers can be combined with other knowledge about the subject matter being taught, and the specific test questions, to create computerised routines that evaluate the individual student’s performance. This information can be presented in ways that help students to assess their progress, both in relation to their acquired knowledge in specified areas of study, and with regard to their ability to exercise relevant skills. In this way, appropriate feedback can be provided to large numbers of students quickly and efficiently. The same techniques can be used to provide information to the instructor about the performance of the group as a whole, with a degree of detail and accuracy that exceeds the impressions usually gained through traditional marking. The paper also explains the role of the subject instructor in designing and creating feedback-generating applications. The methodologies described provide insight into the details of the process and are a useful basis for further experimentation and development.

scholarly journals Kesiapan Siswa dalam MenyelesaikanTugas Sekolah

Konselor ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Ninil Endriani ◽  
Yarmis Syukur
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Homework Assignment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

School task in the form of school homework assignment (PR) is intended to provide insight into the subject matter to students who must the finishing. The fact is there are still students who didn't make the task because not understand the task, do not have book sources, there are students who cheat task friend and late to collect it. This phenomena indicate is readiness of students completing school task still less . The purpose of this research described readiness in school student finished the taskseen from: (1) understanding students with task (2) preparation of source material/task (3) completion of Task (4) collect the task. The results showed that students have the readiness in completing the task of schools, however there are still some students don't have the readiness.

B. F. Skinner and the Technological Control of Social Behavior

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith W. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Empirical Theory ◽  
Technological Control ◽  
The Subject

Humanist critiques of B. F. Skinner have made valuable contributions to our understanding of his thought, but more attention needs to be paid to his work as potential empirical theory. To evaluate the theoretical merits of Skinner's approach, this paper examines his methodological postulates, his implicit epistemology, and some underlying normative assumptions. It is argued that Skinnerian behaviorism commits a serious error in allowing a methodological presupposition (reduction of the subject matter to observable behavior of the organism) to become a de facto ontology that prematurely forecloses the incorporation of potentially valuable hypothetical constructs at the level of social theory. This theoretical difficulty is critical because the inherent safeguards of science that Skinner proposes as a humane safeguard against misuse would be unlikely to apply to an actual technology of behavior control as employed by political and administrative authorities.

scholarly journals Klauzula porządku publicznego a uznawanie zagranicznych orzeczeń, których przedmiotem jest uznanie wyroku lub stwierdzenie jego wykonalności

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 21-46
Author(s):  
Maciej Zachariasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
European Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Domestic Law

The paper is devoted to the admissibility of recognition and enforcement of a judgment of a foreign court, the subject matter of which is recognition or declaration of enforcement of a judgment from yet another state (judgment on judgment). The issue is discussed in particular with reference to the public policy exception which constitutes a ground for refusal of recognition or enforcement of foreign judgments, both under Polish domestic law (the Code of civil procedure) and European law (Brussels I bis Regulation). It remains controversial whether the judgments on judgments should be recognized, thus benefiting from the so called “parallel entitlement”. The article takes a comparative approach, examining solutions adopted by various legal systems and analysing arguments for and against recognition of such decisions. The author takes the position that they should not be recognized (and that their enforceability should not be declared) in Poland, both under the Code of civil procedure (as with respect to judgments originating from non-EU states), as well as under EU legislation, in particular Brussels I bis Regulation. It is advocated that the concept of a “parallel entitlement” should be rejected.

scholarly journals Insight into the city/town names of Latvia

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59
Author(s):  
Laimude Balode
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract. The origin of place names is a research topic for linguists (or onomasticians) and geographers, but since ancient times a wide range of people have also been interested in the subject. As Latvia is the closest neighbour to both Lithuania and Estonia, they share, to a large extent, a common history, as well as – because of this fact – a number of borrowed common words and names. This article is based on the toponymical material included in the short dictionary of Latvian geographical names entitled “No Abavas līdz Zilupei” (“From Abava to Zilupe. The origin of Latvian geographical names”), which was compiled by Laimute Balode and Ojārs Bušs and published in Rīga in 2015. It offers insights into the contemporary situation of Latvian oikonyms as well as providing comparisons of the names of inhabited places with their historical names.Kokkuvõte. Laimute Balode: Pilk Läti linnanimedele. Kohanimede päritolu on keeleteadlaste (täpsemalt nimeuurijate) ja geograafide uurimisvaldkond, mis on ammustest aegadest huvi pakkunud ka kõikidele teistele. Kuna Läti on Leedu ja Eesti lähinaaber, jagavad riigid suurel määral ühist ajalugu, mistõttu on neil ka hulk ühiseid laensõnu ja laenatud nimesid. Käesolev artikkel põhineb Läti kohanimeleksikoni “No Abavas līdz Zilupei” toponüümilisel ainestikul. See heidab pilgu tänapäeva Läti oikonüümide olukorrale ning võrdleb asustuste nimesid nende ajalooliste nimedega.Märksõnad: onomastika; linnanimed; Läti

scholarly journals The elite delusion: reflexivity, identity and positionality in qualitative research

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Mason-Bish
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Joint Construction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines how perceptions of interviewing elites influence the decisions made at every stage of the qualitative research process. It also reflects on issues of positionality and power which relate not only to the relationship between researcher and respondent but also to the subject matter of the research itself. As such I suggest that it is important to critically assess assumptions made about elites and to reflect on how the position of the researcher might impact upon the exchange and resultant findings. In essence what is found is that in discussing the construction of policy, a delicate balance is struck between positionality and research topic and that the policy narrative is a joint construction which is very much shaped by the identity and positionality of everyone involved.

JANE EYRE'S PURSE: WOMEN'S QUEER ECONOMIC DESIRE IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-759
Author(s):  
Meg Dobbins
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic

“Young ladies don't understandpolitical economy, you know,” asserts the casually misogynistic uncle of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot'sMiddlemarch(1871) (17; bk. 1, ch 1). Although Eliot's heroine resents both her uncle's remark and “that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights,” her attempt to teach herself political economy in the novel only seems to confirm her uncle's assessment (18; bk. 1, ch. 1): Dorothea gathers a “little heap of books on political economy” and sets forth to learn “the best way of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors, or – what comes to the same thing – so as to do them the most good” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48). Naively likening “spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors” to “do[ing] them the most good,” Dorothea fails to grasp the self-interest at the core of nineteenth-century political economic thought and so misunderstands the subject matter before her: “Unhappily her mind slipped off [the book] for a whole hour; and at the end she found herself reading sentences twice over with an intense consciousness of many things, but not of any one thing contained in the text. This was hopeless” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48).

scholarly journals Periferni polemički diskursi povodom Mandićeve knjige Romani krize – kritički paratekst ili „politikantska uzbuna“?

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Miranda Levanat-Peričić
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Literary Period

Publication of a book of literary reviews Romani krize (The Novels of Crisis) by Igor Mandić in Belgrade in 1996, as well as the book promotion in Serbia, have been the subject of sharp attacks on its author in the Croatian media. In this “case,” which Mandić himself called “the chase of the collegial choir of elite commentators” for an “insignificant book of literary reviews,” several peripheral levels that are attempted to impose as dominant or to compete for a more favorable discursive position can be distinguished. First of all, the complex of peripheral is in the very status of literary criticism, the marginal letter, inferior to the prestigious discourses of belletristic and literary theory. However, as Mandić underlined in the foreword to The Novels of Crisis, this “by status wholly devalued writing, no matter how small, could always be used as a ‘symptom’ to raise some sort of ward-heeler’s alarm.” Regardless of the ironic modus of this attitude, the “ward-heeler alarm” that followed completely departed from the subject of this Mandić’s collection, or a decade of Serbian and Croatian literary productions, from the 80’s to the 90’s. Finally, precisely this literary period, which Mandić defined as a decade after the death of J. B. Tito and M. Krleža until the break-up of the SFRY, as the last decade of literary and cultural life in a common state, after its disintegration remained on the historical periphery of newly established national canons. However, the most important peripheral level of the whole of this “case” is concerned with the approach to the body of texts that this book deals with, i.e. a comparative study of Serbian and Croatian literature. At the time it was published in 1996, from peripheral cultural positions the comparative approach to the Croatian and Serbian literature was perceived as a radical political provocation that comes from the common past, in the wake of its renewal. In this work special attention is given to Mandić’s choice of Serbian and Croatian literary titles, hence to the very content of the Novels of Crisis. However, since the cultural context of this book goes beyond the literary criticism of the decade to which it relates, its significance is looked into from the aspect of polemical discourses this book produced, even at the periphery of the Croatian nineties.

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