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Političke stranke u doba tranzicije i globalizacije

Author(s): Anđelko Milardović-Ivanković / Language(s): Croatian

This book depicts the complex past and present evolution of political parties. In the first chapter, a social and political origin of political parties is discussed. In the second one, the complex nature of relations between political parties and political systems, while in the third chapter the book portrays transition to democracy. In the fourth chapter a more empiric, case study-based approach is used and different transition experiences are analysed. The final chapter discusses the transformation of political parties in the age of globalization, using a framework of transformationism and the concept of second modernity. In this part, the European Union serves as an empirical example.

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Likvidácia Tábora a vznik sídliska Luník IX

Author(s): Anna Jurová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2015

The paper deals with complex problems in addressing the adverse housing situation of the Roma population in Košice. After World War II, part of the city known as the gypsy camp under Moldavská way found itself in an extremely exposed position at the entrance to the city. Arrival the amount of working class from rural areas with extensive construction and urbanization ratios further deepen. Numerous Roma growth was evident. Housing problems are addressed through an allocation of older apartments, phasing out the huts in the camp and fi nally focusing on specifi c Roma settlement. The idea of a separate settlement originated in the mid-60s, in 1970, the planned housing units was not built. Another intention of anticipated settlement was in the area Myslava with lower standard family houses. Because of the high costs the concept of prefabricated houses gallery type was born. The government in 1976 refused to deal with Roma housing in specifi c neighbourhoods. Council city national committee nevertheless approved the construction of Luník IX without a specifi c focus. The construction was carried out in late 1970s, several policies were processed recall procedure Roma families from the camp as well as the old city, according to various streets. In 1981 began the history of Luník IX, its ethnic ghettoization with disastrous consequences to the present.

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Počiatky motoristického športu v Bratislave a Košiciach v rokoch 1921 – 1933

Author(s): Mikuláš Jančura / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2014

The tradition of motor sport in Slovakia is not rooted so deeply as in the Czech lands, or west European states, where it was developed since the turn of 19th and 20th century. This expensive and marginal activity at the beginning started to grow through the organized motoring associations, which were based in Slovakia during the 1920s and 1930s. In Slovakia didn’t exist stable speedway in this period and the races were organized on public roads, what required the cooperation of the districts’ structures and security forces. This kind of races were more attractive and it made them accessible to a wider circle of audience. From the slowly beginnings in the first half of the 1920s a solid base of sports motoring has been formed, subsequently extended its activities range from small club trips to events such as: Competition reliability,„Star-driving“, Speed races or Competition of elegance. This positive trend, however, was temporarily dampened by the impact of the global economic crisis, which also closed the pioneering stage of development of motor sport in Slovakia. This paper aims to capture the character of a relatively dynamic growth of modern sport activity in its pioneering stage in Slovakia.

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POLSCY MIGRANCI I ICH STARZEJĄCY SIĘ RODZICE. TRANSNARODOWY SYSTEM OPIEKI MIĘDZYGENERACYJNEJ

Author(s): Łukasz Krzyżowski / Language(s): Polish

Wokół migracji dorosłych dzieci w kontekście potrzeb ich starszych rodziców, konstruowane są negatywne dyskursy przybierające postać panik moralnych. W ich centrum znajdują się migrujące kobiety, szczególnie te, których rodzice wymagają pomocy w utrzymaniu higieny osobistej. Są one w większym stopniu niż migrujący mężczyźni, którzy znajdują się w podobnej sytuacji, poddane społecznym (negatywnym) ocenom w społeczeństwie wysyłającym. Zmusza je to do podjęcia dodatkowego wysiłku w państwie imigracji, aby bezpośrednią opiekę osobistą zastąpić substytutem w postaci wsparcia finansowego. Sytuacja migrujących kobiet ulega dodatkowej komplikacji, gdy są one obciążone podwójnymi zobowiązaniami rodzinnymi i opiekują się nie tylko swoimi starszymi rodzicami, lecz także własnymi dziećmi. Ta częsta w transnarodowej rzeczywistości sytuacja prowadzi do pojawienia się licznych napięć i dylematów moralnych. W swej książce zajmuję się funkcjonowaniem transnarodowego systemu opieki międzygeneracyjnej, w ramach którego realizowane są praktyki społeczno-kulturowe redukujące przynajmniej częściowo owe napięcia i dylematy.

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Injecting Drug Users In Bulgaria. Profile and Risks

Author(s): Tihomir Bezlov,Cas Barendregt / Language(s): English

Despite the epidemic rate of growing use of psychoactive substances after 1990, the public continues to know too little about the drug users, as well as about the risks related to them. In the summer of 2003 four Bulgarian non-government organizations – Initiative for Health Foundation - Sofia, Dose of Love Association - Bourgas, Panacea Foundation - Plovdiv, and Pleven 21 Century Foundation in cooperation with the Addiction Research Institute IVO - Rotterdam succeeded in conducting a survey requiring special efforts. They implemented an outreach approach to the IDUs providing needles and syringes for exchange, as well as health services. As a result from this experience the programmes were able to secure a unique possibility to interview a great number of not easily approachable persons (from hidden and encapsulated communities) who were to provide answers to questions that are not easy to talk about.

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Heroin Users in Bulgaria One Year After Outlawing The Dose for "Personal Use". Law Changes and New Risks

Author(s): Tihomir Bezlov / Language(s): English

The report reveals the place of heroine use in Bulgaria and its development since the amendment to the Penal Code repealing Paragraph 3 of Art 354a and its provision. The revision gained public popularity as „the single dose law”. It renders criminal every drug substance possession, regardless of the type or quantity of the substance, or whether the individual in possession of the dose is dependent or not. Under the new regulation, the drug wholesalers, the small drug dealers, and those just using, not trading in drugs, are treated equally harshly. The change was carried out, despite keen objections on the part of experts and civil society organizations that it might lead to severe and unpredictable consequences. The research, however, revealed that the ban on the „single dose”, and its negative implications, are only part of a larger nationwide problem caused not only by the legislative framework, but also by the inadequate institutional response. Author of the publication is Mr. Tihomir Bezlov, researcher from Center for the Study of democracy.

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Publiczna pomoc mieszkaniowa a demarginalizacja społeczna ludności ubogiej

Author(s): Andrzej Przymeński,Monika Oliwa-Ciesielska / Language(s): Polish

Przedmiotem rozważań zawartych w książce są działania na rzecz inkluzji społecznej osób, które znajdują się w sytuacji wykluczenia społecznego z powodu niemożności zaspokojenia potrzeb mieszkaniowych na poziomie minimalnych standardów kulturowych, a więc osób znajdujących się w sytuacji marginalizacji mieszkaniowej. Prace badawcze przeprowadzone w celu napisania książki, w tym rozległe badania empiryczne, zostały sfinansowane przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki w ramach realizacji projektu nr N N114 163940. Na treść składają się zarówno analizy teoretyczne, jak i prezentacje wyników badań empirycznych przeprowadzonych w Polsce. Autorka pierwszej, socjologicznej, części książki, Monika Oliwa-Ciesielska (w roku powstania książki adiunkt w Instytucie Socjologii Wydziału Nauk Społecznych UAM), skupiła się na zagadnieniach marginalizacji i gettoizacji w wymiarach fizycznym i mentalnym oraz na interakcjach osób współzamieszkujących przestrzeń, na której usytuowane są budynki/osiedla z mieszkaniami socjalnymi. Druga część książki, której autorem jest Andrzej Przymeński, prof. nadzw. w Katedrze Socjologii i Etyki Gospodarczej Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu, merytorycznie usytuowana jest w perspektywie nauki o polityce publicznej / polityki społecznej. Zawiera ona naukową rekonstrukcję socjalnego sektora polityki mieszkaniowej państwa i wywód na temat zarządzania socjalną pomocą mieszkaniową, zwłaszcza w kontekście demarginalizacji mieszkaniowej dokonywanej w ramach socjalnych osiedli mieszkaniowych w Polsce i za granicą. Książka kończy się sformułowaniem wniosków oraz rekomendacji dla polityki mieszkaniowej w aspektach socjologicznym, polityczno-społecznym i ekonomicznym.

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Social Media and its Role in the Success of “100 Millions' Health” Campaign in Egypt

Author(s): May Mahfouz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This research addresses the influence of social media with its ever-evolving techniques that serve social campaigns focusing on people as the central theme of its concern. Developers of social media techniques are always looking for and making the necessary changes through intensive and successive campaigns across various social media channels, to reach its full impact on users taking into consideration important marketing elements, such as culture and timing of said campaigns among other elements. Social media is a great way to communicate with the public. It contributes to building trust, elevates the spirits of society, enhances tolerance by considering emotions of individuals and it reinforces the feeling of belonging. It could positively affect the behavior and moral levels of humans. All that while working in an integrated framework of analysis that is run by governments, international institutions, civil society organizations and private sectors. These institutions factor in the public needs to better deliver their messages, there is no doubt that these types of social media campaigns are becoming a great deal of interest in different societies at different levels. As Egypt is aligning itself in recognizing the importance of evolution in social media and ultimately aim to change the negative reality and transform society to better reality; I will address in this study the role of social media in the success of “100 Millions’ Health” campaign that took place in Egypt. This campaign was able to gain great amount of popularity through social media networks and contributed to the convergence of Egyptian public opinion about its objectives.

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Mid-Level Management Style in Healthcare

Author(s): Jamion Lewis,Kruti Lehenbauer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this paper is to recommend a quantitative model based on the outcomes from a comprehensive literature review of multiple studies to identify the most effective leadership style among mid-level managers in a healthcare setting. This literature review includes theories of leadership and discusses the usual leadership methods associated with mid-level managers. This study addresses the effectiveness of transactional, transformational, and passive leadership styles of middle level managers in healthcare organizations. The proposed quantitative non-experimental correlational study would examine the statistical relationships between the independent variables of three leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and passive leadership) and the dependent variable of leadership effectiveness among mid-level managers in the healthcare industry. This literature analysis proposes how to clearly define the variables transformational leadership, transactional leadership, passive leadership, and leader effectiveness which would eventually make it possible to quantify and measure them.

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Adoption History. From Ancient Societies to Contemporary Societies

Author(s): Silvia Timofti / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

From the earliest times, the religious factor has said its word on several social systems. The social factor has been of great importance and relevance to the social construction of the communities as well as to the regulation of the various institutions I have chosen the ones that represent the interests of society. Among these institution is adoption, being one of the oldest law institutions. Adoption is a social phenomenon that has undergone changes that have been inevitable and a breakthrough in the turn of the century. This form of social protection of children, adoption, played a particularly important role in antiquity especially in the institutions of the Jews, the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Indians and the Romans, because the adopted person was perceived as the one to represent the perpetuation of the religious and political interests of the people, after the persons who approached the children died.

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I Know What Iʼm Doing: Experiences of Women who Use Methamphetamine

Author(s): Magda Frišaufová / Language(s): English

Women drug users have been in the focus of social science research for several decades. Quite a lot has been written about their specific situation, especially concerning their unequal gender position, higher stigmatization, or harder access to treatment or social services. On the other hand, not much attention has been given to their strategies of resistance, or dealing with problems they encounter in their everyday lives. In this book, the author provides a different view on their living situations. Through the narrative analysis of qualitative interviews and focus groups with seven women who have experience with long-term methamphetamine use, the author explores not only the challenges that they face, but also the strengths and agency they use to influence and take control of their lives, and negotiate their needs and interests with the world around them.

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Starość w dzielnicy poprzemysłowego miasta. Studium na przykładzie „starych” Bogucic

Author(s): Jolanta Klimczak,Dorota Nowalska-Kapuścik / Language(s): Polish

The research conducted by the authors on the situation of the elderly in one of the post-industrial districts of Katowice showed that degree of satisfaction of specific needs is diverse depending on their type, therefore, despite actions taken by organizational and non-governmental units and other institutions for senior environment, criterion of deficit in the sphere of interpersonal contacts and active participation in social life has not always been met.

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Wielowymiarowość dobrostanu człowieka i społeczeństw, czyli o tym, jak szlachetne jest zdrowie. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor Ewie Syrek

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The volume is a collection of reflections and analyses concerning widely understood and interdisciplinary terms such as well-being and health. The problems have been approached from a pedagogical perspective and referred to individual and collective, social contexts. The contributors to the volume are prominent scholars in Polish pedagogy, especially those working in the field of social pedagogy, but also younger researchers who begin their academic careers. The book takes up the issue of the determinants of public health and well-being both at the meta-social level and in the light of smaller structures of the family or local environment, yet it also looks into individual biographies and patterns of personality. The whole effort is dedicated to professor Ewa Syrek who has been one of the foremost scholars in social and health pedagogy

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Instytucjonalne wsparcie dorosłych osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną i psychiczną w województwie łódzkim – potencjał – potrzeby – wyzwania

Author(s): Grażyna Mikołajczyk-Lerman,Małgorzata Potoczna / Language(s): Polish

The presented publication discusses the problems of the functioning of the institutional support system for people with intellectual disabilities and the mentally ill based on the analysis of selected institutions in the Lodz Voivodship. The assumptions of the social model of interpretation of disability were presented with particular emphasis on the approach based on the implementation of human rights along with a review of legal regulations shaping the social policy towards people with disabilities. The book presents the potential institutional resources of forms of support for adults with intellectual and mental disabilities and their exemplification are the results of the analyzes carried out based on empirical material. Due to the socially important subject, both researchers and practitioners, as well as families / carers of adult people with disabilities will certainly be interested in the publication."It is particularly valuable to present this issue in an interdisciplinary context (...) It is an important voice in the discussion of Polish scientists, researchers of this issue. The monograph certainly inspires further exploration, reflection and empirical research"(from the publishing review of Prof. B. Szluz).

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Гуманітарна політика в Україні: виклики та перспективи (Біла книга)

Author(s): O. O. Sinaiko,Yulia Tyshchenko,Yu. B. Kaplan,O. Yu. Mikhailova,O.L. Valevsky,M. T. Stepiko,O. M. Litvinenko,A. Yu. Ishchenko,M. M. Karpenko,V. S. Lozovy,S. O. Zubchenko,V. O. Bakalchuk,Svitlana V. Dubova,Serhiy I. Zdioruk,V. V. Tokman,T. V. Chernenko / Language(s): Ukrainian

The analytical report is prepared in the format of the White Paper, it contains an overview of the main pressing issues in the humanitarian sphere of Ukraine: cultural, educational, scientific, linguistic, as well as religious and church relations, rights of national minorities and indigenous peoples, creative industries. Particular attention is paid to the tasks of state policy in the field of cultural (public) diplomacy and socio-humanitarian reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the development of the humanitarian sphere in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the restriction of mass events, which put the cultural and creative industries on the brink of survival, and the need to develop quality distance and online education in secondary and higher education. The issues of the state of museum affairs and museum funds in Ukraine, the existence of a gap in the level of access to quality cultural services between the population of large cities and the periphery are considered. // The situation with the "language" issue is analyzed, in particular the advantages and challenges of the adoption and implementation of the Law of Ukraine "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language." Attention is paid to the tasks of the state policy of reintegration in the socio-humanitarian sphere, which include analysis of the humanitarian sphere in the temporarily occupied territories, outline the socio-humanitarian needs of residents of the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons in need of solutions. increasing the level of cohesion, unity of Ukrainian society. For specialists in the field of humanitarian policy, scientists, experts, a wide range readers.

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Bezrobotni z pokolenia Baby Boomers i pokolenia Z. Różnice generacyjne a gotowość do funkcjonowania w realiach zmieniającego się rynku pracy – na przykładzie Rudy Śląskiej

Author(s): Rafał Muster / Language(s): Polish

The monograph attempts to show – on the basis of research carried out in Ruda Śląska – the differences between the expectations towards employers and the issues of professional activation of the unemployed from the Baby Boomers generation (born before 1965) and the unemployed from the Z generation (born after 1989). Empirical research was carried out on representative samples of the unemployed and allowed for the formulation of a number of recommendations relating to undertaking activities in the field of professional activation. The differences between younger and older unemployed have been shown in terms of expectations towards employers and the labor market, and in terms of potential participation in activities related to professional activation.

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Investigarea transparenţei şi efi cienţei economice a utilizării fondurilor Companiei Naţionale de Asigurări în Medicină

Author(s): Alex Oprunenco,Ana Popa,Evelina Gherghelegiu / Language(s): Romanian

The Republic of Moldova ranks unfavorably in most of the indicators that measure the health status of the population, which denotes both the existence of some deficiencies in the health care system in the Republic of Moldova, as well as the relatively increased financing needs of this system. Moreover, the share of health expenditures in GDP is the highest in Moldova compared to the countries in the region, with public expenditures covering only half of the total expenditures. Certainly, such a high share of health expenditures in GDP, and especially of private expenditures, can reflect both the very high financing needs and the inefficiency of public expenditures. Our country is facing serious problems in the functioning of the health protection system. This has negative implications for the health of the population, the quality of human capital and the confidence of citizens towards the future of this country. Consequently, the inclinations for emigration are intensifying, and corruption in the health system is becoming more and more rampant.

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Profesionální pomáhání: Rozhovory napříč pomáhajícími profesemi

Author(s): Vlastimil Švec / Language(s): Czech

The book introduces various helping professions. It presents reflections of helping professionals in their professions as well as on helping. The book reveals the core of helping professions, requirements for being helping professionals and act as helping professionals. It is an introduction to the word, where helping is the key issue.

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Sociální práce se seniory v kontextu kritické gerontologie

Author(s): Kateřina Kubalčíková,Jana Havlíková,Olga Hubíková,Zdeňka Dohnalová / Language(s): Czech

This publication is a contribution to the debate on the possibilities to ensure the provision of social work services to older people in the context of demographic ageing of the Czech population. In the first part we discuss the functional potential and its assessment as a tool to adequately set the level of support for people whose self-sufficiency is limited. The problem of reduced self-sufficiency is regarded from the perspective of critical gerontology. The second part includes chapters dealing with practical possibilities to reduce the risks of socially constructed dependency, particularly the possibility for older people to remain in their usual environment. We will tackle the questions of support for home carers, of technological innovations and their significance for home care and of dying in the home environment. In the last part we discuss the potential of social work to help older people remain in their normal environment.

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Koprodukcja usług społecznych źródłem osobistej i społecznej produktywności osób starszych. Studium socjologiczne na przykładzie beneficjentów Programu Wieloletniego „Senior+"

Author(s): Grzegorz Gawron / Language(s): Polish

The presented volume is the author’s proposal of a sociological description of the phenomenon of co-production of social services as a source of personal and social productivity of older people. The main conceptual axis of the study, which defines its cognitive goal, is an attempt to link the idea of co-production of social services with the productivity of older people, indicating the potential relations occurring between these phenomena. According to the author’s knowledge, both in Poland and abroad, no analyses in this area have been conducted so far, not only within sociology, but also within other sciences. Therefore, the theoretical aim of the study was to describe and rank the concepts constituting the backbone and filling in the presented theoretical perspective, such as co-production, personal and social productivity of the older persons, social services, human capital and social capital. The conceptual analysis carried out resulted in the development of the author’s operational framework for the services organised and provided under the “Senior+” Multiannual Programme, showing how co-production of older people, based on the use of their human and social capital, generates their personal and social productivity. Therefore, it can be considered that the publication is a direct response to the persistent deficit of comprehensive studies in this area in the Polish scientific space.

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