Socio-political Research Articles

VASILY DIMITRIEVICH DIMITRIEV, A RESEARCHER OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHUVASH PEOPLE, IS 100 YEARS OLD (in memory of the scientist)

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in January 2024, Vasily Dimitrievich Dimitriev, an outstanding researcher of the history of the Chuvash and other peoples of the Middle Volga region, turned 100 years old. His life and work are an example of service to science; his works are of lasting value for modern and future generations of researchers. The purpose of this article is to trace the life path of V.D. Dimitriev and evaluate his contribution to science, socio–political and cultural development of the republic and the country as a whole. Materials and methods. The main source base of the research was made by materials published in various publications about the personality of V.D. Dimitriev as a scientist, organizer of science and public figure, memoirs of his relatives and colleagues, unpublished documents and materials stored in the State Archive of Modern History, the personal archive of one of this article authors V.I. Sokolova, etc. In the context of the problem’s historiography, one can identify the research made by T.S. Sergeev, A. Kappeler, I.I. Boyko, S.M. Kashtanov, Y.P. Smirnov and many other researchers of V.D. Dimitriev’s works. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the biography, the role and the place of V.D. Dimitriev in studying the history of the Chuvash people, the Chuvash region, the Middle Volga region, the Urals and Russia as a whole are described in detail. Study results. Professor V.D. Dimitriev dominates among the researchers of the Ural-Volga regions of the XVIII–XIX centuries. It should be noted that he was the first who began to study the history of the Chuvash and other peoples of the Volga region since ancient times, the first to include oral folk tales in the study. Conclusions. The article presents a brief biography and results of V.D. Dimitriev’s activities as a scientist, public figure, teacher and organizer of education. His significant contribution to the development of science and education of the republic is noted.

Managerial understanding of corporate social responsibility in Nepal

PurposeConsidering the ongoing debate regarding the roles of business in society, this paper aims to examine the managerial understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Nepal.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses explanatory sequential design under mixed methods of research. First, the questionnaire survey method was used to collect data from 168 managers of listed companies in Nepal. Second, semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 senior-level managers of listed companies to verify the results obtained from the survey and to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomena.FindingsThe survey results show that managerial understanding of CSR is mainly guided by the notions of corporate philanthropy, stakeholder approach and political CSR, respectively. However, the managerial understanding vis-à-vis political CSR and corporate philanthropy were found to be remarkably positively influenced by the firm’s size, whereas the stakeholder perspective was widely held by the managers regardless of their firm’s size. The interview results largely substantiated questionnaire survey findings and further revealed vivid dimensions within the philanthropic approach, stakeholder approach and political CSR.Practical implicationsGiven the recent legal provisions vis-à-vis mandatory CSR spending in Nepal, the policymakers may devise and update common core and firm-size-specific informational, fiscal-economic, legal and partnering instruments based on the findings of this study. Besides, companies may go for appropriate institutional arrangements for CSR as needed.Originality/valueThe reaffirmation of conventionally accepted roles and the approval of relatively nascent political roles of business in a distinct socio–political–legal–economic context of Nepal can be an important contribution to the literature.

RETHINKING TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALISM AS KEY TRAITS OF JACOV ORFELIN’S STYLE - A CASE STUDY ON ICONOSTASIS PAINTING IN THE HISTORICAL BANAT

Tradition redefined by innovations is the topic our study proposes to investigate as fragments of visual transformations in the episode of Jacov Orfelin iconostasis painting. In this field, the particular example we have studied was not a singular manifestation, although it can be subsumed under the artistic evolution of the period, but a paradigmatic case of East meeting West, having as result a new perspective of visual dogma, getting endowed with new connotations. Viennese, Russian and Ukrainian baroque tendencies are the most obvious directions through which Serbian painters propose the new stylistic orientation. Those who proliferated the innovative models asserted themselves predominantly in Serbia, where they created a religious painting deeply contaminated by the inputs of the modern age, and acknowledged by the historiography of the subject as “the founders of the Serbian Baroque”. Although written sources corroborate information on biographies of the Serbian artists in connection with their artistic discourse and evolution, the study rethinks some of the concepts involved in the configuration of eighteenth-century artistic genre in the historical Banat. Moreover, the topic addressed will highlight the key aspects of Serbian late baroque, rococo and neoclassical art assimilation and advent throughout comparative - analytical methods, focusing on iconography and formal changes. In order to do so, the artwork under scrutiny is positioned within the original socio political, and religious frameworks focusing on examples that uphold or deconstruct the role this painter played in fostering a visual change. Issues regarding the ornaments will be also of reference as the iconostasis is a complex formal and iconographical medium.

La dialéctica de la plurinacionalidad como crítica del Estado-nación liberal

El artículo estudia la dialéctica como camino de indagación de la plurinacionalidad y su contraparte el vetusto Estado-nación monoétnico ecuatoriano. Indaga: 1) ¿cuál es el fundamento ontológico de la plurinacionalidad? y 2) ¿por qué la plurinacionalidad como planteamiento socio-político niega la homogeneidad del Estadonación liberal y su correlato el colonialismo externo-interno? Se plantea que el fundamento ontológico de la plurinacionalidad se halla en la sociedad comunitaria (o ser social) y que en su praxis socio-política niega la fetichización del Estado-nación liberal, determinado como instrumento del colonialismo externo-interno de la sociedad. La investigación concibe y aplica el análisis dialéctico de la realidad concreta y la ley de contradicción universal, como inherentes del ser social y del pensamiento que refleja dicha realidad. El estudio concluye que: 1) la dialéctica comprende la categoría de totalidad y es útil para el análisis y explicación de la sociedad en su conjunto, de las partes al todo y del todo a las partes, en mutua interrelación universal; 2) la sociedad comunitaria es una objetivación ontológica de la plurinacionalidad y se manifiesta en la diversidad étnicacultural del Ecuador, con temporalidades históricas distintas, y en contraposición a la formación económicosocial colonial y republicana; y 3) la fetichización del Estado-nación liberal como instrumento del colonialismo externo e interno de la sociedad ecuatoriana aún está vigente y continua cumpliendo esa misma función a través del procesamiento de la colonialidad del poder, la invisibilización ontológica del otro (alter) y la diferenciación colonial racista.

ESPEG model and corporate governance system for ensuring sustainable development of enterprises

In 2023, there is a pressing requirement to promote enterprise growth and guarantee enduring sustainability, therefore, it is timely to craft an effective model for sustainable progress and establish a corporate governance framework. The aim of the research was to develop innovative approaches to ensure the sustainable development of enterprises through the development of a sustainable development model and corporate governance system. The essence of the concepts of “corporate governance” and “corporate management” is also defined in the article using the categorical method of two-level triadic decoding. The research is based on the principles of sustainable development, systemic and holistic approaches. The article proposes a four-component model of the enterprise sustainable development concept (ESPEG model), which reflects the hierarchical arrangement of the environmental (E), socio-political (SP), economic (E), and governance (G) spheres of the enterprise. This model identifies the directions for the application of management tools to influence specific interacting spheres. The result of the work is an improved model of enterprise sustainable development that enables the structuring of the key components of the concept to ensure effective management of the enterprise based on the balance of its key elements. The model of corporate governance system has been improved, incorporating the paradigm of sustainable development and considering the necessity of integrating various management subsystems within the company. The proposed corporate governance system identifies the control loop of corporate management and defines the governing and controlled subsystems along with their components. It has been established that a corporate governance system built on the principles of sustainable development will contribute to achieving positive results in the company’s development, ensuring the sustainability of its social, environmental, and economic aspects. The implementation of the proposed corporate governance system will facilitate further research into its essence and application specifics in modern companies

St. Nicholai of Žiča on Socio–Political Topics

The advice of St. Bishop Nicholai of Ohrid and Žiča (1881–1956), written nearly 100 years ago rings evermore true as it did during that period of history. With all the troubling current events in our world, we need a reference point to focus both our perspective and response to them.

Современный английский исторический роман: традиция и диалог с нею

The article provides a problematic overview of the dynamics of the national English paradigm of the historical novel genre from the moment of its final formalization in the early XIX century to the modern stage of the development of the genre paradigm. The peculiarities of the functioning of the genre in the British literary process in the end of the XX century and early XXI century are specially demonstrated. The emphasis is placed on the postmodern «obsession with history» and the use by British historical novelists of a number of features of postmodern poetics in general, as well as on the continuity of the realistic tradition of the genre, which at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one resulted in the reconstruction in the historical narrative of not so much socio–political as socio-cultural bonds of history, in depicting a novel hero’s integral living through the past when exactly this is both introspective and retrospective plot existing of history and when it becomes the object and subject of historical narration.

The Socio Political Demography of Happiness

The Socio Political Demography of Happiness

FORMATION OF A CONCEPT MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF A VIABLE MOTOR TRANSPORT ENTERPRISE

In the conditions of the modern economic crisis, caused first by the coronavirus pandemic, and then by the military actions in Ukraine, the problem of ensuring the viability of enterprises is actualized, emphasizing the need to use new approaches to the management system of enterprises, based on the paradigm of sustainable development. Thus, there is a need to manage viable road transport enterprises in the conditions of transformation of the business environment based on the paradigm of sustainable development. This actualizes the issue of developing a model of the concept of sustainable development of a viable enterprise. Theoretical studies of existing approaches to models of the concept of sustainable development of enterprises were carried out and their main components or areas were highlighted. It was determined that in the scientific literature, too little attention is paid to the issue of forming a model of the concept of sustainable development of a viable enterprise. The lack of systematicity and completeness of the considered structure of the concept of sustainable development of the enterprise hinders the development of a conceptual model of sustainable development of a viable enterprise. The goal of the work is to improve the model of sustainable development of a viable enterprise, which allows to achieve a long-term balance between the main areas of sustainable development of the enterprise. In order to substantiate the model, it is proposed to use the postulates of holistic and systemic approaches, as well as the concept of sustainable development. The article proves that the viability of the enterprise is interconnected with the components of the paradigm of sustainable development. A four-component model of the concept of sustainable development of a viable motor vehicle enterprise is proposed, which presents the hierarchical arrangement of the economic, socio-political, environmental and management spheres of the enterprise, as well as the directions of application of corporate management tools, with the help of which it affects a certain sphere with which it interacts. The formed model is proposed to be called ESPEG, because it involves taking into account four components: environmental (E), socio-political (SP), economic (E), as well as governance (G - governance). The structural elements of the model are also characterized. The formed conceptual model of sustainable development of a viable enterprise allows structuring the main components of the concept in order to ensure effective management of a viable enterprise based on the balance of the main components. Together, this will contribute to the development of innovative approaches and methods of managing a viable enterprise, ensuring work efficiency and formation of strategic advantages in competitive markets. The implementation of the model of sustainable development will increase the efficiency of managing the viability of the enterprise. This, in turn, will lead to the formation of the long-term viability of the enterprise on the basis of sustainable development.

Avina Sports:A Case Study of Organic Growth

The global market for sports was worth between $600-$700 billion. Significant growth prospects in the market were expected because of Socio Political changes, commercialization of sports in developing nations and increased competitiveness. Indian Sports Goods Industry had a century old history and it prospered due to the skills and expertise of its workforce. The world of sports goods complement the passion India has for sports. The Indian market for sports goods was valued at US$ 2 billion in 2012-13 and estimated to reach over US$ 4 billion by 2018. In 2014–15, the UK, the US, the UAE, Australia, South Africa and Germany were the major export markets for Indian sports goods. France, Poland, the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, New Zealand and Italy were emerging export destinations. Avina Sports, a dedicated provider of sports goods, equipments, material to Indian sports players was a part of A & S Group. The annual turnover of A & S Group was approximately Rs. 250 Crores and projected sales turn-over of Avina Sports only for 2017-2018 was about 180 crores. Avina Sports was one of the fastest growing brands having its presence in all the states of India. It had efficient distribution networks across India. It had planned and achieved organic growth.

Characteristic Features of the Chinese Marxism’s Formation: Key Philosophical and Socio Political Foundations of Rese

Characteristic Features of the Chinese Marxism’s Formation: Key Philosophical and Socio Political Foundations of Rese

“Passengeriality”: Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran and the May Coup in Poland

Travellers’ discourses thrive on anecdotes. According to Stephen Greenblatt, they interpose between a series of similar, narrow experiences and a wider pattern they may indicate. This analysis deciphers how an anecdote from Passenger to Teheran (1926), the travelogue written by Vita Sackville-West, is not just an isolated flash but can indicate larger representational strategies. In her epic journey Vita Sackville-West travelled from London to Egypt, India, Persia, and then back to England, through Russia, Poland and Prussia; by boat, train and car. In the episode which is subject to a detailed analysis, the travellers were stopped at the Polish–East Prussian border and forced to leave the train. The consequences of what could be just an anecdote about an “unwelcome incident”, reverberate – as it turns out – far beyond the incidental because what is at stake at almost every border incident is a socio–political, geo–political, military and ideological reality. No matter whether such events are presented as adventures or in all seriousness, each border trouble has consequences beyond any “local moment”. To disclose some of the less obvious implications of the Polish–Prussian passage in Vita Sackville-West’s book is the aim of this essay.

“Passengeriality”: Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran and the May Coup in Poland

Travellers’ discourses thrive on anecdotes. According to Stephen Greenblatt, they interpose between a series of similar, narrow experiences and a wider pattern they may indicate. This analysis deciphers how an anecdote from Passenger to Teheran (1926), the travelogue written by Vita Sackville-West, is not just an isolated flash but can indicate larger representational strategies. In her epic journey Vita Sackville-West travelled from London to Egypt, India, Persia, and then back to England, through Russia, Poland and Prussia; by boat, train and car. In the episode which is subject to a detailed analysis, the travellers were stopped at the Polish–East Prussian border and forced to leave the train. The consequences of what could be just an anecdote about an “unwelcome incident”, reverberate – as it turns out – far beyond the incidental because what is at stake at almost every border incident is a socio–political, geo–political, military and ideological reality. No matter whether such events are presented as adventures or in all seriousness, each border trouble has consequences beyond any “local moment”. To disclose some of the less obvious implications of the Polish–Prussian passage in Vita Sackville-West’s book is the aim of this essay.

Social of Women and Girls in Our Country-Improvement of Political and Social Activity Factors

The article gives an idea of the factors that improve the activity of women in the socio-political spheres, the opportunities that high organizations give to women, the conditions, the activity and initiative of women in the life of a separate society and the state, the strengthening of the formation and well-being of the family with its effective efforts, the awards given to

Ibsen's Transformations: The performance Europeana by Rafika Chawishe

The article focuses on the music theatre performance Europeana by Rafika Chawishe which was staged at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera in 2019. The performance is inspired by Ibsen’s play Little Eyolf (1894) about a disabled child that is neglected by its parents and loses his life in the sea. In the case of Europeana, which was constructed based on multiple interviews from teenage refugees, the main theme is the uncertain life and dreams of young refugees who leave their home and arrive in Greece and other Mediterranean countries. The performance, socially engaged and politically informed, does not use the approach of documentary theatre but chooses a postdramatic aesthetic in order to portray its message. At the article at hand I look into the creative adaptation of Ibsen’s play into a modern theatrical saga on teenage migration and nightmarish statelessness. At the same time, I examine the sociopolitical connotations of the performance which touches upon harsh contemporary reality in order to promote the need for inclusion, cultural plurality and social integration in Europe.

Language Shift and Gender in Dilling, Sudan: Who Leads the Process?

Language shift from a local language to Arabic bilingualism to the exclusive use of Arabic is occurring in vernacular speech communities in Dilling town, in the Nuba Mountains. Females are further along in the direction of shift than males. The contrast between males and females within the framework of language shift reflects the social change resulting from migration from rural areas to the urban ones. Language choice in everyday interaction appears to have been part of a speakers’ identity. Women in Dilling are increasingly attracted to Arabic for the practical function the language plays in their life. The growing role of women in the changing society of the Nuba Mountains has contributed much to the process of language shift among themselves, as they have to use Arabic in more domains of communication. Women go to school, are employed in government institutions, and participate actively in the sociopolitical and socioeconomic life in the region. In this perspective women tend to move away from their traditional domain, the house, to a more open and interactive setting involving people from different ethno linguistic background whose only lingua franca is Arabic. The paper confirms Gal’s (1978) findings that women’s speech choices may best be understood within the framework of their social status, their life choice, and the symbolic values of the code at their disposal.

A Threat to Open Societies? Conceptualizing the Radicalization of Society

Which are the factors that favor societal radicalization? Few studies in international and national radicalization research have been directly interested in investigating the societal level and discussing the impact of radicalized groups, milieus and strata on society and its potential radicalization. This article provides on overview of current research and discusses factors favoring the radicalization of societies. The latter arises when the legitimacy of the political system is called into question and a society witnesses a departure from prevailing social norms in political dealings, especially if the use of political violence is no longer rejected. All in all, radicalized individuals, groups, milieus or strata can hold the potential for radicalizing societies. Increasing and incremental socio-political changes can lead to decreasing social cohesion. In view of this possibility, the authors call for strengthening social resilience and civilizing the public debate.

MY LIBERATING APPROACH EDU-POLITICAL THEORIES

The practical results of current innovative methods and approaches which have been formulated based on Imperialism' theoretician theories are falling short of expectation in the present complicated competitive world’s circumstances: They are contributing to uncivilized detrimental-to-peace peasant societies. The present article, as such, gives a brief but to the point introduction to this researcher’s (Hosseini, 2000, 2020) seminal holistic revolutionary liberating didactic approach known as Competitive Team-Based Learning (CTBL) as a significant alternative to the present doomed-to-failure colonial educational approaches. Most importantly, it sheds light on this researcher's edu-political theories namely Cognitive Socio-Political Language Learning Theory and Multiple Input-Output Hypothesis based upon which he formulated CTBL. The article then seeks to throw into relief CTBL's distinguishing features and characteristics which make it a catalyst for transformation and change and elaborates howabouts of its contribution to the decline of the present Imperialist’s methods and approaches. The findings of some researchers on the effectiveness of CTBL as well as some significant suggestions to researchers, educators and educational policy makers have also found a place at the end of this article. CTBL is this researcher’s proactive sophisticated reaction to the social / political circumstances he and his family members along with the other marginalized/deprived communities are suffering from. Article visualizations:

Una propuesta de secuencia basada en el contexto, para la promoción de la argumentación científica en el aprendizaje de las reacciones químicas con estudiantes de educación técnico profesional

espanolEl proposito de este estudio fue analizar las limitaciones, posibilidades y condicionantes de una secuencia cuyo foco es la contextualizacion de los contenidos, abordando problemas reales y cercanos, permitiendo al estudiante poner en practica la teoria en situaciones autenticas, promoviendo el pensamiento critico y la argumentacion cientifica, en estudiantes de Educacion Media Tecnico Profesional. Se trabajo con una muestra de 50 estudiantes (14-17 anos) de un establecimiento educacional que imparte las carreras de Quimico Industrial y Explotacion Minera. La recoleccion de datos proviene de las actividades desarrolladas por los estudiantes respecto al el contenido de reacciones quimicas bajo el contexto minero, para promover el desarrollo en la argumentacion cientifica. Los resultados muestran que un alto porcentaje de los estudiantes, logran seleccionar una conclusion en base a pruebas y utilizar informacion de caracter disciplinar, socio-politico, etico y ambiental al momento de elaborar una argumentacion cientifica en un juego de roles EnglishThis work analyzes the limitations, possibilities and conditioning factors of a sequence whose focus is the contextualization of the contents, addressing real and close problems, allowing the student to put the theory into practice in authentic situations, promoting critical thinking and argumentation scientific, in students of Middle School Professional Technical. We worked with a sample of 50 students (14-17 years old) who study Industrial Chemistry and Mining. Data collection comes from the activities in which students participated in the content of chemical reactions under the mining context, to promote development in scientific argumentation. The results show that a high percentage of the students manage to select a conclusion based on tests and use the information of a disciplinary, socio-political, ethical, and environmental nature when preparing a scientific argument in a role play

Construction of Authenticity in Islamic Law

Construction of authenticity in Islamic law on contentious issues including gender-related issues is an outcome of an intricate and complex process of interaction between the divine and human agency situated in a specific sociopolitical context. The divine text is not monolithic and is susceptible of various interpretations. It is this interpretative space, which is employed by scholars coming from various backgrounds to articulate their authenticities. Hence, we do not find one authentic perspective on any issue. Without preferring one perspective to others, the paper aims to analyze the process of constructive mechanics by engaging with the issues of polygamy, dissolution of marriage by divorce and khul‘, and women’s participation in the political domain. For this purpose, it has attempted to deconstruct the constructive process of authenticities relating to these issues with an object to discern how mush these authenticities are the product of the divine agency and where they are influenced by a human agency located in a specific context.