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The results of the survey of personal growth as creative major senior students’ moral development are presented. Methodological basis of the experiment to be cultural-historical conception of psyche development having allowed us to carry out the experiment in the delicate and active sphere of the student’s personality mental life to be moral choice was shown.

A family is one of the most important institutes of socialization. The sociological research aimed at studying social problems of a modern family was taken in the Chelyabinsk region, it involved 1800 respondents in different cities and rural areas. During the research the attention was focused on the influence of family problems on the socialization of children. There appears in modern sociological science the category of self-determination of a family, including the realization of its educational function. The me...

The aim of this research was to analyze and systematize complex data of qualitative research on purpose to determine substantial and peculiar traits of A.Alekseichik’s “Intensive Therapeutic Life (ITL)” method. Goals of research: 1) discuss A.Alekseichk‘s impact on (post)Soviet psychotherapy, 2) to present theoretical background and basic concepts of ITL, 3) to discern specific ways of therapist’s work during therapeutic process according to ITL. Paper is based on qualitative research which consist of analysis of ...

Car accidents represent a constant concern in the European Union. Romania ranks as fourth in the EU in terms of number of car accidents and fatalities. Young drivers’ high accident involvement is particularly worrisome, as they represent only a very small percentage of the overall population. Generally, it is considered that there are two main reasons for young drivers’ high accident involvement: the lack of experience and risk taking behaviors. These two aspects are especially involved in overtaking maneuvers of ...

A variety of non-fiscal input could be brought into discussion regarding the redesign and/or reform of the social care system for the frail elderly in the Czech Republic. It should be based on a deeper understanding of different stakeholders’ interpretations of “Participation” – one of the core values of the European social model. The study was based on secondary data collected through semi-structured interviews with “informal carers” (family members, non-professionals), secondary data collected through internatio...

It is known that complex polysaccharides (polyuronides) are natural macromolecular compounds located in all the plant organs in special histological formations (cells and canals), as well as in the external seminal tegument. In contact with water, they form colloidal solutions or gels. Under the action of the intestinal flora they are split and form a protective film for mucous membranes as well as create a pH unfavorable for the development of the pathogenic microbial flora involved in the degradation of the inte...

The nature is a space, which we, people, did not create. This is the reason why it will never be a really cognizible and absolutely understandable or examined place. In spite of the fact that we prefer living in an artificial, to humankind adapted environment, we went on to make up an environment even more artificial – the virtual cyberspace. Overusing of technologies of today clearly defines our affection towards machines and tools as extension of our own existence. Mankind is no longer absolutely dependant on th...

At the present stage of development of Russian society increasing attention from various social actors is given to diverse theoretical, practical and ethical issues of sexuality and sexual culture. For their successful solution seems necessary, first of all, scientific revision, critical analysis of existing ideas about the sexual culture taking into account qualitative transformations of social and cultural reality of the 21st century. Thus, researchers have traditionally allocated structure of sexual culture, wh...

A territorial variety (natural, economic, ethnic, ecological, medical and sanitary, etc.) of the Russian Federation is so great that almost any actions directed on strengthening of population health, can lead to good results in one region and to negative consequences in other. For regional classification of the Russian Federation depending on a population state of health, we made the decision to use integrated indicators of health. Integrated indicators of health are widely applied to obtain the complex characteri...

What do we really know about the close ties between identity and social action? This article focuses on this problem, encompassing the case of the community, located on the Solovetsky archipelago in the White Sea. This settlement has a brief history. It begun to take shape after the second World War after the Solovetsky Camp of Special Designation and the prison were disbanded. If we look deeper at the history beyond the border of the twentieth century, we’ll see five centuries of Solovetsky monastery, which exist...

Conventional energy sources are, at the same time, the source of global warming, heat island, atmospheric distortion, green house effect, carbon emission, growing scarcity of water, the Climate Change and more damages to our mother earth. In this research, we will be discussing the following issues together with possible sample cases such as (1) negative results and reasons of these dangerous developments to our World and our Future; (2)the measures the governments should take, financing bodies should consider, in...

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been the subject of debate and research with non-profit organizations in the CR since the early 1990’s. CSR has been embedded in Czech society by the Czech based subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNC’s). It is a strategy whereby the corporations take responsibility for the economic, social and environmental consequences of their business activities. In so doing, they undertake to limit/eliminate the negative impact which they have on their ‘stakeho...

The purpose of the paper was to investigate the idea of intergenerational dialogue as a toolkit, beneficial for societies that recognised their need for adapting the “all ages” perspective. Such an outlook is hitherto a case of an ideal social structure type, yet Poland and other European countries already experience the need for flexibility of social roles available throughout entire life cycle, essential in the discussed structure type. By desk research the paper addressed steps to be undertaken in order to achi...

Social projection is a ubiquitous phenomenon representing attribution of own beliefs and evaluations to others. In a between-subject experiment (N = 61) and a correlation study (N = 80) we tested whether social projection is susceptible to framing (original versus typical) and which individual characteristics predict its level or guide its occurrence. In this regard, we tested indicators of perceived similarity to a target group, need for uniqueness, socio-demographic parameters, cognitive reflection, open-minded ...

Region is a territory united by common features that differentiate the concrete area from other neighbouring territories. It is characterized by persistent and stable cultural models, which have formed and continue shaping in the course of history and which determine its pace and direction of development. The cultural space in its essence cannot be viewed only horizontally, it should be viewed also vertically as a depository of intangible values. The mundane or traditional that is concerned with the worldly matter...

The paper cover covers topic related to the signific ance of ideal /model of mother and father in the family for child, parents but also and mainly for society . It speaks about motherhood, fatherhood (parentage) in past and in present. Specifically it talks about fatherhood after break break-up and about jo int /shared parentage and generally about aspects of ch anges in the values of family frame in relation to the social structure of society society.

The issue of health, demographic changes and quality of life as well as food security has become a part of the current challenge of the new EU program for research and innovation, Horizont 2020. The paper follows up the findings of the first European survey on health EHIS 2009, that was elaborated on the basis of a harmonized methodology developed by Eurostat in Slovakia. It seeks to find a link between demography, health, access to healthy food and retail management, which should respond more flexibly to the need...

The people coordination in extreme situations involve correct communication form. Lot of deaf and hearing impared people are using lips reading or total communication TC as a main communication form. They prefer Virtual speaking head in extreme situations, as is crisis time as fire, flood, bombs, and different evacuation and as a communication form in high mountains, in caves and on lonely areas. A viseme is a representational unit used to classify speech sounds in the visual domain. A "viseme" describes the parti...

Atmospheric Explosion is crucial point in occupational safety in modern industrilized economy. That is because ex-proof materials should be used in the explosive environments. Legistlation and governmental regulations aim to protect employees from explosions. In Turkey, this topic is an emerging issue in many sectors such as mine, metal, chemical and so on. In this research, we will not only present the structural building of ex-proof materials Technologies but also mandatory legistlations in Turkey by giving some...

The study focuses on the primary associations that are evoked by the city of Prague, as well as on the differences that can be seen between the professionals and the general public in this regard. One of the main objectives is to highlight the growing importance of the city branding in today's hyper-competitive environment, which creates a demand for empirical studies of a similar nature. Therefore, in this paper, we pay attention to the analysis of selected attributes of the brand of Prague. Special attention is ...

It is generally believed that the more the growing global competition makes it strategically important to continuous improvement for all types of organizations, therefore different methods are geared to develop continuous improvement in production processes (such as Total Quality Management or more recently, Six Sigma ): although all that there are few scientific studies on this topic. We consider continuous improvement performance of a worker as the behaviors of perfecting and enhancing in the job tasks. The pres...

Media education is in an international scientific community considered to be one of the most effective means to acquire key competencies necessary for an interactive and inclusive use of media and critical perception of constantly growing spectrum of media messages. Successful implementation of media education requires innovative research strategies, techniques and procedures which can integrate suitable and reliable methods of media literacy evaluation and measurement into research and social practice. The study ...

This research deals with the issue of social pollution practices, expressed in reducing the level of welfare and deterioration of physical and psych osoci al wellbeing of workers and other members of social community triggered by enterprises. The purpose of this paper is detection of the most sig nificant components of social pollution, which require control in order to decrease its development and influence on the wellbeing of the workers. On the basis of literature review was elaborated the classification of soc...

The mediumistic art is a psychic phenomenon in which the subject appears to be possessed by an entity that guides the creation of an artwork. Until today it is preferred to classify this kind of creative performances as parapsychological or paranormal events calling them Channeling Phenomena. Through the study of some cases, we have analyzed the mediumistic art by a scientific point of view, classifying this psychic phenomenon as abnormal or anomalous manifestation of the human creativity, that in some neurophysio...

Anchoring effect, systematically influence by random and uninformative starting points, is robust. In a between - subject experiment (N = 199; groups: control, anchoring, with forewarning alone, in conjunction with overconfidence note) we placed the participants in a certain numerical information and then we attempt to diminish the impact of this number of judgments about various issues they did not suffer a knowledge about. The experimental questions were sorted according to the extraction of particular anchor (s...

Cooperation within organizations has been considered a key asset for organizational performance, effectiveness and overall success. The aim of the present research is to study the psychometric properties of the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire in a sample of research team members. The innovation of this study is in assessing organizational cooperation in a sample which has not been widely researched. Given its distinctive characteristics of teamwork, goals interdependence and effort coordination, research ...

Politicians and political parties very often hire advertising specialists that serve like experts – consultants during pre-election campaigns creating the images that correspond to the demands of the electorate [4]. The aim of the research is to investigate the social representations of the politicians of Latvia about the ideal image of a politician. The research methods are method of association analysis and interview (partially structured). The research selection was made up of the Latvian politicians (N=114). O...

In this article, we examine problems of professional and educational trajectories choice by students of universities in the conditions of transforming society. This article based on the results of sociological poles taken of students of universities, conducted from the middle 90th to this time using the same instruments. We have revealed several tendencies in the professional self-determination of Russian students, among them are: the decline of orientation on employment according to specialty gained in the univer...

In this paper we will tackle the role of translators and translation within the sociology of culture as can be seen from the Romanian discourse on translation from the 19th century to present day. Therefore, we will account for the reasons behind the translation process and the role of translators as social agents in the Romanian culture. We will particularly focus on key moments in the Translation Studies discourse in our culture such as the debate on the role of translations and translators in society in the 19t...

The purpose of our research was to investigate male caregiving via a status of being hidden and forgotten in East-Central Europe, where caregiving itself had only lately been emancipated, and only as provided by women. In Poland and in other European countries the gender bias is clear: men provide less care than women, the care is less intensive and of a different character. By desk research, own research interpretation and literature review, the paper addressed informal, family caregiving towards frail older adul...

It is well known that the pathogenic mechanism of algic posttraumatic syndrome is still incompletely understood. Although multiple attempts have been made to reduce chronic regional pain syndrome to a single pathophysiologic mechanism (e.g., sympatho-afferent coupling), it has become increasingly accepted that there are multiple mechanisms involved. Only in the past few years, has it been recognized that chronic regional pain syndrome is not simply a sympathetically mediated peripheral pain condition but rather is...

In the 21st century Romanian school teachers are more and more faced with the fact that pedagogical tools having stood the test of time now seem to fail in the context of continuous change of laws and standards in the educational field. Writing the program for the optional discipline means a challenge for them each year; they need competences in many areas of knowledge to fulfill the regulations of the new Law of Education (nr. 1/2011). The article presents the situation of the optional disciplines in urban area a...

Social marketing is a systematic planning process that imports methods and techniques from commercial marketing as a way to find innovative solutions to social problems and foster voluntary behavior change through active involvement. Still, in Romania, few scientists report its use and it is a pity for both professionals and potential beneficiaries not to engage in, and benefit from, the strategic framework it proposes. In order to bring social marketing closer to our communities, besides local practice examples, ...

During the years 1921-1925 in Moscow, as a consequence of the deep political and social changes brought by the October revolution, an original experiment took place thanks to Vera Schmidt, a pedagogist trained in psychoanalysis who intended to search for new educational ways for small children, based on recent findings and knowledge of S. Freud’s psychoanalytical theory . The purpose of this contribution is to provide a brief report about the development of psychoanalysis in Russia and about the foundation of the ...

The aim of this paper is to present the various aspects of the development of e-accessibility of public administration web portals for people with visual impairments in 2008 - 2013. During the six years we have tested a total of 822 web portals, including more than 150 portals that were evaluated at least 2 times. We found, that despite the overall improvement in the rating of accessibility of public administration, the development is in fact, stagnant. From the repeatedly evaluated portals, 41% had lower level of...

This article presents the results of the study of the ethnic identity as a component of the social identity of the Russian and Armenian school students. The study found that the majority of the teenagers of both nationalities have their ethnic identity formed, while in both samples the positive identity dominates, there is an ethnic indifference also. In comparison with the Armenian teenagers the Russian teenagers are characteristical to have a more positive attitude towards their own ethnic identity and readiness...

The working environment of police officers has “special conditions”. Female police officers serve under the same conditions as male police officers. Female police officers, performing their duties in the traditional male subculture, however, hold senior positions; work in operation support units and “analytical” units. Thus, female police officers have gained experience in a field heavily dominated by men, and they are ready to share such experience. Despite this, many issues including the peculiarities of “a woma...

Background It is still a challenge for physicians and researchers to identify the patients at risk, to make an early diagnosis and to do a correct monitoring for the progress of periodontitis. According to the research literature, Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the first line of oral mucosal defense against bacterial invasion, including periodontitis. Also, 8-Hidroxy-2-Deoxy Guanosine (8-OHdG) is a result of DNA modification suffered by the attack of free radicals resulted from the oxidative stress processes in periodo...

Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938) – a Polish philosopher and psychologist – was a founder of the internationally famous Lviv-Warsaw School. Having studied under the supervision of Franz Brentano, he both improved the level of Lviv University and educated many well known philosophers and psychologists of both sexes at that university. The three main factors of private nature decided on his pro-women attitude; first, his friendships with women in the early age; second, the happy marriage he created with Kazimiera Twa...

The nature of each person as wise and free being is endowed with potential based on mind, free will and moral consciousness to evolve through the process of knowledge creation and innovation and introduction of innovative forms of learning. Man in it self absorbed nature of his existence that life in reality and only then design fully conscious and individual, which is in a position to create his own mind through the process of knowledge. Only man in that situation would be able to have their own elevated sense of...

This research aims at clarifying the relation between students’ personality types and their environmental awareness. Study was conducted on the departments of engineering students (N=137) at Istanbul Arel University. According to the research findings, there are strong relationships between students’ personality types and their choices. In this study, the questionnaire for the academic students have been provided, applied and consequently, the conscience level of awareness of the subject has been researched and so...

The paper describes the mission of universities and colleges in general. Furthermore, their roles and relationships to the region and institutions in the region in which they operate, the importance of universities in the development of Europe and its European regions. Universities can have a great impact on regional development in terms of employment, expenditures and other economic factors, education, social and cultural function. The author point to the importance of relations between universities and business....

Background: Perinatal loss is the death of an infant during pregnancy or soon thereafter. A suitable approach to the parents with perinatal loss from the health professionals is essential. Parents need help and support. The aim of the study was to identify and analyze specific nursing / midwifery interventions to meet the special needs of women / parents related to perinatal loss and grief in a particular hospital in Slovakia. Methods: The sample consisted of 17 midwives employed at Louis Pasteur University Hospit...

The objective of this work is to contribute to validation studies of the Team Trust Questionnaire in a call centre environment. According to Costa and Anderson [1] trust can be understood as a collective phenomenon, and at a team level can be conceptualized as “a latent construct based on the individual’s own propensity to trust others on the perceived trustworthiness of the other team members” (p. 5). Eighteen hundred employees in a call centre service provider in Portugal answered the Questionnaire (32.1% male; ...

This paper presents the findings of an experiment conducted in an innovative way through the use of the most popular social network: Facebook. Exploiting the system of “like” and “share”, on which this online platform is based, thousands of artwork images were submitted to a sample of over 10,000 users worldwide. Through the metrics analysis related to the aesthetic choices expressed by the users, it was observed that viewers are inclined to react in the same way towards certain visual stimuli coming from the artw...

As a fundamental part of personality, behavior represents the modality of acting and reacting in certain circumstances or situations. Specialty literature describes three types of behavior: aggressive, assertive and nonassertive ones. The purpose of this paper is to construct the assertive behavior profile in performance sports, but also to highlight the behavioral differences, depending on the type of sport practiced by the subjects of our study (individual sports, team sports and combat sports). In order to achi...

The aim of our research. The article deals with the phenomenon of evaluation of ethno-cultural types of facial appearance from a position of the psychology of social knowledge, categorization of which is carried to a greater extent, on the basis of ordinary designations ("Caucasian facial appearance", "Slavic facial appearance", "Asian facial appearance"). These designations types of facial appearance penetrate into various spheres of life and are one of reasons of discrimination against members of ethno-cultural ...

Becoming-a-person processes have been the issue of a heated discussion in modern Russian psychology for recent years. Two major theories existing on the issue are the concept of personalization (V.A. Petrowsky, 1981) and the concept of personification (A.B. Orlov, 1995). Both theories regard personalization process as the realization of an individual’s need to be a person (to become a personality); but the personification concept considers an alternative personification process, regarded to realize the need of an ...

The focus of this research is to develop techniques for optimizing the learning environment, identifying factors that facilitate and impede the formation of an educational space model which produces a coherent and socially desirable system of socio-moral and socio-cultural attitudes of the current generation of engineers.1 This makes it possible to build specific models of abilitation of would-be engineers, providing comprehensive education and training and ensuring ones professional fulfillment. It could be argue...

There have been some researches and scientific publications on professional burnout for different professions in Latvia, but for special education teachers are just studies based on another countries experience, who cannot give a precise overview on the Latvian special teacher professional burnout level. The aim of the Research is to identify professional burnout, find out the level of professional burnout, special educators, and to find out whether there are differences in the level of burnout for special teacher...