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The paper is devoted to the problem of studying the personal representations about safety as a component of worldview and a person’s activity regulator. The research purpose is to develop and verify a questionnaire that would be able to detect a person’s representations about safety. The study includes different methods of analyzing data: theoretical analysis, content-analysis, interview, testing, correlation analysis and factor analysis. Two hundred and four subjects, aged from 18 to 25, participated in the study...

Background: The family is the primary scene of socialization therefore it determines the child’s development substantially. The style of the parents’ child rearing is one factor in the development process. This study examines three types of parenting styles: the dimension of support and affection, the dimension of restrictive control, and the dimension of overprotection. The child’s emotional and behavioral features relate strongly to the use of these strategies. The presence of rituals in the life of the family h...

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 concept of legitimacy belongs to our common set of notions which are frequently encountered in numerous studies of political ideology and power. Still, we believe that it needs to be better circumscribed and defined. Legitimacy seems to refer to the legal, official and recognized rules to which circumscribes each attribute of the political power. The hierarchical, arbitrary character of the power relations may be hidden and even denied by their presentation as being legitimate. Our hypothesis is that far from ...

The target of this research is most significant and impressive elements of the female costume from archaeological monuments dated to the 1st half of the I millennium ADand located in the Volga-Vyatka Interfluve. The article focuses on a specific type of the costume bronze decorations - arc rattle pendants which are of interest to comprehend local non-ferrous metalworking characteristic features, their artistic value and semantic text. The author provides a general description of the decorations and explores inform...

At the end of the XV century and the beginning of the XVI, the image of the prince was contoured by the Bible, a real pedagogical instrument which exclusively defined the notions of good and evil, of justice and injustice – the Bible was establishing how an ideal prince should be. In the same time the biblical figures were models with whom the voivode desired to resemble with and which influenced their behaviors and mentality. Studying the cases of Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, we were able to construct the...

Population aging phenomenon is recorded not just in highly economically developed countries but it is felt even in the less developed countries. The aging of the population affected the Czech Republic as well. Over the last 20 years there has been quite a dramatic change in the age structure of the population. Population aging brings with it the need for a wide range of changes in the functioning of society in areas that are significantly affected by the age structure of the population. The main areas are the fund...

Authors interpret a category of livability as a combination of social, economic and environmental resources and reserves, ensuring prospects of macroeconomic system sustainable development. Paper provides a number of aggregated indicators, which allow estimating the livability of macroeconomic system. On their basis classifications of analyzed set of objects are constructed, which allows to get qualitative conclusions on comparative livability estimations. Results of comparative estimation of livability of 15 coun...

Nowadays, seeing the prosperity of people growing and the desire of the public to take social responsibility, there are more and more social enterprises developing, whose purpose of activity is not only making profit but, most importantly, dealing with social problems for the public benefit. The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of social enterprises, to detect problems and to work out propositions for the development social enterprises in Latvia. To reach the aim, a survey and analysis was undert...

Approaching the history of music at present day, entails, first and foremost, setting in order the writings of important authors, who, by their general- cultural view (connection to the historic, esthetical, philosophical and political ideas of the time), and musical (the balance between general aspects regarding the presentation of either eras, styles, or composers and their oeuvres, and the personal option for certain esthetics, certain language or significant opus), contributes to the diversity of research meth...

Modern stage of the development of Information society is characterized by changes in the nature of information delivery. The growth of importance of visual communications in contrast to the verbal ones is marked by many researchers. Visual information becomes an important factor of social practices construction, such as social communication between groups, elites and active-passive majority, social mimesis, etc. Graphic design becomes one of the instruments that form our cultural identity, and graphic designer of...