Symbols in the Ukrainian Public Discourse (Analysis of Presidential Speeches on the Occasion of Constitution Day)

This article develops the understanding of symbols as a certain type of signs, the meaning of which is established by agreement or habit. There is an opinion that symbols in public discourse are a reflection of values and anti-values of the society, which are formed in the process of mass communication. This article identifies the main features of the characters, including emotional engagement, attachment to a particular act of communication, as well informativeness. The types of meaning are determined, and the mechanism of nomination is explained. The article reveals the concept of semantic competition. M. Edelman’s opinion that value structures can be divided into mono-, bi- and multimodal — depending on the number of values assigned to key symbols. The presidential speeches delivered before the Ukrainian Constitution Day in 2017–2020 were analyzed in this article. Thanks to the content analysis of emotionally colored words, the symbols, which are characteristic for the speeches of P. Poroshenko and V. Zelensky, were identified focusing both on similarities and differences of Ukrainian values and anti-values. This article analyzes the nominations used by speakers to give meaning to key symbols. Aspects of semantic competition of the key symbols are defined here as well. It was revealed that during the tenure of President Poroshenko, other symbols circulated mostly in the Ukrainian public discourse than those during the presidency of V. Zelensky. Among the common key values for both presidents, we can find “Constitution,” “Constitution Day” and “freedom”. There is a semantic competition in their use. Both presidents underline the negative meaning of the term “parliamentary immunity.” Poroshenko expresses the threat using symbols such as “Russian aggressor”, “fifth column,” “corruption,” “Russian Empire” and “war.” On the other hand, V. Zelensky does not use symbols of external threat. It was found that the value structure formed by Poroshenko’s speeches showed signs of bimodality, and the one created by V. Zelensky’s speeches — multimodality.

Barriers towards Resilient Performance among Public Critical Infrastructure Organizations: The Refugee Influx Case of 2015 in Sweden

During the autumn of 2015, Europe experienced a sharp increase in refugee influx, and many refugees arrived in the European Øresund Region. Refugees travelled through Denmark and over the Øresund Bridge, arriving in the third largest city in Sweden, Malmö. Private, public and voluntary organizations in Malmö had to change the way they worked to meet the new entry demands. Flexible adaptations to changing circumstances can be described as resilient performance and are supported or hindered by societal and organizational drivers and barriers. Qualitative interview data from Swedish organizations managing the refugee reception in Malmö were analyzed through the theoretical lens of Resilience Engineering (RE). The analysis results showed that necessary adaptations were not supported by the managerial design of the responsible public organizations. The analysis also showed that preconditions created from societal steering hinders value responsiveness at the public management level, i.e., the public management level has barriers towards becoming familiar with the organization’s value structures. Familiarity with the system value and goal structure is essential for an efficient prioritizing of conflicting goals, which is why it is suggested that this aspect be explicitly included in RE principles.

Research of personnel potential of the military institute of the national guard of the Russian Federation

Introduction. The formation and strengthening of the personnel potential of the National Guard troops of the Russian Federation is impossible without the formation of a certain spiritual and moral component. This component is directly related to and, moreover, is determined by the specifics of military service in the National Guard troops as a special type of activity. In the course of considering the value component of the personnel potential, it is necessary not only to determine the most significant ones, but also to assess the level of their significance for the subjects of military professional activity. The assessment of the significance of the values of military service, in our opinion, can be solved in the course of a sociological analysis of this problem. This is due to the fact that in this case it is most appropriate to consider the assessments of the significance of certain values, to identify the causes, factors and conditions that affect such assessments of at least one of the social groups – cadets who study at a military institute.This article provides an overview of a number of methods for assessing the personnel potential of a military organization described in Russian and foreign scientific publications, and considers the acceptability of using these methods in the system of military and law enforcement agencies, including in the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation. To assess the personnel potential of a military organization, the methodology for assessing the personnel potential based on the definition of hierarchical value structures was tested, and the results of the study on the basis of the Novosibirsk Military Institute named after Army General I. K. were described. Yakovlev troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation.Materials and Methods. Analysis of respondents ' answers to the questions of the sociological questionnaire, carrying out factor analysis, carrying out the procedure of multidimensional scaling of the obtained factors using the Alscal procedure, generalization and structuring of the obtained results.Results. The total list of publications studied in the framework of the scientific research was 1387 Russian and foreign works. The content of selected scientific papers allows to characterize the most common methods of evaluation of personnel potential (regression analysis, using the Mann-Whitney test, analysis of hierarchy of values and structures), as well as the use of these approaches in practical conduct their own research on the basis of the new Siberian military Institute of national guard troops of the Russian Federation.Discussion and Conclusions. The analysis carried out to identify the hierarchy of value structures with the respondents showed that the latter are based on corporate and professional values, affecting to different extent the stability and level of personnel potential of the personnel of the national guard troops of the Russian Federation.

Rationale for the Formation of a New Work Ethic through the Prism of Post-Operaism Philosophy and the Concept of a “Projective City”

The article attempts to analyze the formation of a new work ethic in modern society through the prism of the post-operaist concept and the theory of "projective city". It is demonstrated that labor has undergone significant changes in comparison with the labor of the Fordist stage, as a consequence of which a new justification of justice and individual good was required, which would promote involvement in project labor. Drawing on the concept of post-Fordist labor, the emergence of such a rationale is examined. The article reveals the key points of post-Fordist theory that deal with the transformation of labor. conditions of postFordism. It is shown that, on the one hand, labor becomes immaterial, biopolitical, affective, on the other hand, such features contribute to the formation of new practices of ethical justification of labor. It is demonstrated that the organization of "immaterial labor" or biopolitical labor is formed as a network. At the same time, it is the project that becomes the value model that allows the formation of a new work ethic. Thus, the destruction of hierarchical structures leads to the formation of a network mode of labor organization, which does not allow an answer to the question of the fair distribution of material and symbolic goods. Then project work imposes a certain framework that allows us to restore the procedure of fair evaluation. Through the concept of "projective city" by L. Boltanski and E. Chiapello the logic of development of justification of individual benefits for a person included in hired labor is comprehended. It is revealed that justification is built through increasing the opportunities for selfrealization and the expansion of personal freedom. The article shows that the reliance on the concept of "projective city" allows to consider the contradictions associated with the formation of new ethical justifications and value structures. When the apparatus of argumentation of labor involvement in the "projective city" works with the principle of justice and individual good, the worker is offered the opportunity for self-realization and development of his own potential through practices of self-control. The conclusion is that the value changes described above are indicative of the emergence of a new ethic of labor relations.

On the Fictive Reading of German Steigen ‘Climb, Rise’: A Frame Account

Fictive motion, i.e., the figurative stative use of verbs of motion, has attracted much attention in cognitive linguistics as a paradigm case for how basic dynamic concepts are exploited figuratively in concept formation (Langacker 1986; Matsumoto 1996; Talmy 2000; Matlock 2004a, b inter alia). In this paper, we present a case study of the fictive motion reading of the German movement verb steigen ‘climb, rise’ and explore how it can be related to the various dynamic readings of the verb. In our account of steigen, which builds on Gamerschlag, Geuder & Petersen’s (2014) analysis of the dynamic readings of the verb, we contrast the different readings in terms of frames, i.e., recursive attribute-value structures in the sense of Barsalou (1992) and Petersen (2007/2015).

Associations Between Higher-Order Values Vary with Age, Education, and Income

A theory of basic human values relies on the similarity of value structures across countries. It has been well established that the quasi-circumplex value structure as a whole is indeed universal. However, less attention has been paid to the associations between specific values. This study investigated associations between four higher-order values across age, education, and income groups. We analyzed the data from national representative samples collected in 29 countries as part of the fourth round of the European Social Survey with a series of multilevel regressions. Younger age, higher levels of education and income coincided with higher independence of the four adjacent higher-order values, whereas among older, less educated, and less wealthy groups, values tended to merge into a single dimension of Social versus Person Focus. These differences were slightly weaker in more economically developed countries. The group differences in value associations may follow from corresponding differences in the degree of societal and individual empowerment, cognitive abilities, and socialization experiences. Accounting for the individual differences in relations between values may bring deeper understanding and higher predictive power to the studies of links between values and various behaviors or attitudes. , value structure, value interactions, European Social Survey

Large Questions, Small Questions, and Leaky Ones Too

An examination of the kinds of questions we ask ourselves provides a window through which to interpret our history and imagine our future. I suggest that there are three kinds of questions—large ones, small ones, and leaky ones. Those that are identified as large and small map onto the value structures we have created for ourselves in higher education. I call these structures caste systems in which some subdisciplines are valued over others, and theoreticians stand above both practitioners and skill teachers. Leaky questions are those that cross boundaries because they cannot be effectively answered by those residing in any one area or at any one level. I argue that leaky questions generate humility, mutual respect, and incentives for collaboration. I trace my own attempts to address all three kinds of questions as a sport philosopher and conclude that our brighter future in kinesiology, including our attempts to address the harms created by the caste system, requires us to see that most of the questions we find interesting are, in fact, leaky in nature.

Generalized Property Graphs(GPG) of Property-Value Structures for Knowledge Model

As a popular emerging technology, knowledge graphs (KGs) have become a platform of Web-based knowledge applications and services. Two dominant graph-based knowledge models, RDF and LPG, are widely used to construct large-scale KGs. It is argued that these models have some limitations to cope with complicated knowledge structures. This paper proposes a noble generalized property graph model that can seamlessly realize knowledge structures with compact expressiveness and robust formalism. Since the proposed graph model is compatible with RDF and LPG, it can be practically applied to KGs with effective performance.