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Accesul egal la educatie de calitate
Get PDFThe Romanian educational system is confronted with a profound crisis which affects all strata of Romanian society. Poor access to education of the marginalized, low financing of the educational system, are just some of the challenges faced by Romanian education. A serious and far-reaching reform is needed if the present state of affairs is to change. In this respect, I am trying to examine several of these major issues with which the Romanian education system is confronted and present possible solutions
Pragmatism si democratie in contextul "educatiei de tip nou"
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to summarize a series of specific arguments for Dewey's "new type of education" reprezenting a new beginning for the way in which democracy should be applied into all the spheres of social and political life, and especially in education. The pragmatic conception of knowledge is enriched in the Dewey?s view by a social dimension impossible to ignore. If the pragmatism insists on the idea of knowledge as a tool to adapt to the environment, and if the human environment is essentially social, then knowledge has a fundamental social dimension, which must be taken into account in organizing education. Therefore, from a Deweyan perspective, education in a democratic context must try to be integrative in regard to societal particularities
The origin of Indigenous customary law in Australia
Get PDFMy article tries to answer the question whether in criminal cases existing courts should be able to apply indigenous customary law to indigenous people, and whether indigenous communities should have the power to apply their indigenous customary laws in the punishment and rehabilitation of indigenous people
Analiza comparativa a miscarilor sociale din Republica Bulgaria si Romania, perioada 2012–2017
Get PDFIn order to differentiate between “social movement” and “collective conduct” it is necessary to clarify the two concepts in the first place. According to Robert Benford, Timothy Gongaware and Danny Valdez, social movements are “collective efforts aiming at promoting some social changes or, on the contrary, resisting to change, efforts that take place within a certain group, a given society or at the global level”.1 Even if collective conducts are one of the forms of expression of social movements, they represent, according to Ralph Turner, those particular situations in which “rules or general standards cease to guide individuals’ actions so that individuals are collectively transgressing, breaking or undermining the existing interaction structures”.2 According to Cãtãlin Augustin Stoica, social movements, contrary to collective conducts, obey a series of clearly defined rules, among which: the explicit pursuit of a common goal and the presence offormal leaders and organizations aiming at reaching that common goal. The collective conducts category is much more flexible, including a diversity of actions starting from rallies in support of a certain party or a particular party leader and protest actions up to rallies carried out by supporters of one football team and violent clashes between various groupings.3 According to Septimiu Chelcea, some of the features of collective conduct include: spontaneity, the existence of some divergent standards in relation to those generally accepted by a certain group or society and the emergence of new standards guiding individuals’conducts. 4 In the light of the above conceptual clarifications, this paper aims to analyze exclusively the social movements that took place in the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania, between 2012-2017 and not other smaller protest actions that can be framed as collective conducts. As information sources we will useboth national and international news websites, in both Romanian and English, as well as articles in the field and works belonging to authorized sociologists and political analysts who are analyzing from different perspectives thesocial movements that have experienced an increase in the latest years. Firstly, I will analyze the social movements phenomenon within its historic, political and economic context defining each of the two countries, following that at the end of the study to determine whether there are certain convergent points of view which might lead us to the conclusionthat these large protest rallies directed against the national political elites could be considered as a regional phenomenon of contesting the representative democracy model and the monetary capitalist system
TVR, SRR si Agerpres – organizatii-cheie in structura de securitate nationala
Get PDFThe regional geopolitical situation appears to be very tense. The media assault executed by various Moscow financed media channels is in full swing. The only Romanian media able to counteract this informational attack is the public one – the Romanian Television Society and The Romanian Radio Society. By emitting abroad in the Republic of Moldova, can be of real help in terms of supporting a pro-European and a pro-N.A.T.O. campaign at their borders. But the two Romania public media channels are confronted for the past several years with a number of issues that must be addressed as quickly as possible
The U.S. Hegemonic Model during the Cold War
Get PDFThis paper examines the question about the nature of the US hegemony in the international system during the Cold War. In this paper I will analyze the US hegemonic model during the Cold War, by arguing that the United States promoted and exerted an inclusive hegemony. As theoretical basis for hegemony I will use a mix of theories on hegemony (Robert Gilpin and Antonio Gramsci) and new institutional economics (Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson)
A treia cale si social-democratia în Romania si Ungaria. Transformarile ideologice ale stangii democratice contemporane si consecintele acestora
Get PDFThe electoral and organisational crisis of contemporary social democracy followed the footsteps of an ideological transformation that brought the democratic left very close to the political center. My paper describes how the substance of this concept (political center) changed during the last decades, and tries to determine how strongly connected is the crisis to the ascension of the „third way” doctrine. There are two cases which are analysed: the social democratic parties from Romania and Hungary. A section focuses on the communist past of this parties, and on how this past influenced their process of adaptation to the rules and practices of a liberal democracy. The arguments follow a mainly chronological path, explaining how the social democrats from the two countries embraced the „third way”, and how this shift affected their actions during the economic crisis and its aftermath. Observing the impact of policies of the Ponta and Gyurcsány governments is essential for reaching my conclusions. These conclusions notice that pivoting towards center is harmful for the electoral results of the social democrats. Nonetheless, the doctrinal identity of a party is not the only factor that has a role in its degree of success at the polls
Migration as an area of political science research
Get PDFThe aim of the present article is to indicate the importance of migration in political science research. Compared with other scientific disciplines, political science took interest in the recognition of migration processes relatively late, not infrequently analysing the problem as a complement for research on other topics. Today, however, migrations as an important social and political issue, gained the status of an important and „autonomic“ research area for political scientists. It is therefore necessary to consider what the specifics of political science in relation to migration is expressed in, particularly, what issues concerning migration should be included in the mainstream of political scientists’ interest and how political science research can contribute to the analysis of migration processes. The article consists of two parts. In the first part the author explains why political science ought to deal with migration. In the second part, there are distinguished areas particularly important from the point of view of political science research on migration
O cultura nerepresiva? Dincolo de societatea abundentei
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether the concept of a non-repressive culture is viable, and whether this form of liberation from the affluent society has indeed left the field of Utopia and has turned into an alternative to the industrial advanced society, as it is firmly believed by Marcuse. I believe that, in spite of his masterful argumentation in favour of this qualitative leap into an empire of freedom, there are several fallacies pertaining to the ontology of the individual, since there are certain characteristics which eschew socio-historical (weak) determinism and shape human life. Throughout this paper, I will link the Althusserian concept of Ideological State Apparatuses to the so-called mechanisms of escape postulated by Erich Fromm, to prove that even the new potential agents of revolution (students, "wretched of the earth", hippies, beatniks, et. al. ) are influenced to such a degree by specific human drives, that the complacency offered by the affluent society will not be sacrificed for an Aesthetic Form of a free society
Trade Unions - Government: A Relationship in Crisis. The Romanian Case of a Double Dismissal
Get PDFThe transition process pursued since 1989 by Eastern European countries also entails the transformation of the role of trade unions from an institution designed to maintain control over the workforce and to provide different social benefits towards an organization authorized to fight for labour rights, better working conditions and higher wages. The present study examines the path taken by Romanian trade unions, observing their successes and failures and tries to explain why the Romanian labour movement finds itself in a weak position nowadays. On one hand, this situation is explained bythe actions of trade unions? leaders who placed their private interests above the interests of those they represent, and on the other hand, it is due to the government?s stance which promotes companies' needs at the expense of the workforce