Sociological Point Of View Research Articles

THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION FLOWSON THE IDENTITY OF RUSSIANS

This article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of migration flows on the identity of Russians in modern socio-political conditions of the countrys development. Based on the study of a wide range of theoretical material and analysis of sociological studies, the author of the article comes to the conclusion about a significantly negative impact of the immigration factors in the civil and ethno-cultural identity of Russians. The article also formulates proposals for changes in the migration and national policy of the country to level the above risks. When analyzing the influence of migration flows on the Russians identity it is necessary, first of all, to pay special attention to the fact that a persons identity from the sociological point of view is multilevel in nature and its structure is influenced by a variety of factors relevant to different levels of identity formation. The impact of migration flows on the identity of Russian citizens is multifaceted and profound, and is manifested to varying degrees in different parts of the country and in the context of different types of identity.

INITIATING LAW REFORM IN INDONESIA (FROM THE DIGNIFIED JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE)

It is argued in this article that a study on the law reform of a country is the study which related to understanding of a scientific paradigm which made up of the basic idea of a country’s legal system. The main argument in this article is that the basic idea ofma legalmrefom on a legal system must be build upon the enforcement of the juridical principles found and developed in the system. This is derived from a postulate of the Dignified Justice teory perspective.In this view legal virtues underpinning a legal system are examined together as one system of principles and rules or a legal system. Philosophically, or it is a theoretical and a paradigm that law is believed as inseparable from the legal science itself. This philosophy has been developed to make a correction to the sociological jurisprudence perspective, which mainly argued that each occurence of social changes in a legal system cannot be answered by regulation alone. The sociological jurisprudence point of view argues that law is confined to the status quo of a society. Many has argued that this sociological indicative has occurred in many civil law systems, in particular Indonesia, to be used as its best prototype. In the Indonesian legal system, law is positioned as rules and regulations made by the legislative branch of the government. In this perspective laws has been excluded from humanity almost altogether. This article argues that Pancasila as the Indonesia Legal System is the way to solve this problem. Since Pancasila is used as the basis of the State and the source of all legal sources. For this reason, it is interesting to examine how the Pancasila actually became a basis of values in initiating the project of law reform in Indonesia.

“I AM NOT AN ARTIST, I MAKE ART”: AMATEURISH ARTISTS IN ISRAEL AND THE SENSE OF CREATIVITY

This study deals with self-taught visual artists who are considered “amateurish” by the establishment of the Memorial Center in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where they have exhibit their artwork. We will try to figure out both the explicit and implicit characteristics of “amateurish” artists, and challenge the supposed linkage between amateurism and lack of creativity. The methodology applied combines a sociological point of view, drawing on in-depth interviews with the artists, along with a visual analysis of the artwork produced. The theory of “modest” artists, by Marie Buscatto, and the theory of serious leisure perspective by Robert A. Stebbins, will contribute supportive classifications and categories for the analysis. We claim that the artists of our study are located on an axis between “amateurish” and “professional” within a fluid area of “serious leisure”. They are regarded as “amateurish” due to their lack of academic background in the arts, their relatively old age, having encountered lack of official recognition, having come across various obstacles in displaying their art and having received low remunerations. Aside from their marginal position in the art field, we were able to detect a few characteristics that distinguish their artwork from that of “professionals”. Our findings prove them to constitute an in-between category of “modest” or “serious-leisure-amateurish” artists, which blurs the dichotomy between “amateurish” and “professional” artists imposed by the establishment. We found these “modest” artists’ experiences to be creative, as well as some of their artwork; nevertheless, this kind of creativity seems to be disregarded by the establishment which perceives creativity as innovation.

A study on women, employment and family balance in Sri Lanka

There was a great cordial interrelationship between women role and family in past traditional society. But Women contribution to the economy of the family is a major component in today. Women are not marginalized to the domestic works because of the access of higher education in Sri lanker. Main objective of this study is to understand how women balance family and employment in sociological aspect. As the specific objectives of this study were to understand educational and economic achievement gained by women, to understand all responsibilities of women towards family, to recognition negative results balancing both fields, to understand alternatives and fair management to avoid role conflict of the women of these two fields and understanding satisfaction or non satisfaction by doing a job by women also been considered from this study in a sociological point of view. This study used purposive sampling method and selected only 60 women from several institutions related to dual career families for the sample. Both primary and secondary data were used by this study. This study found majority of women were with low stress when they manage the family. The study identified there was a positive-contribution of the employed mother to their children‘s education. Good relationship of both-wife and husband to the domestic works and making social relations was a significant of this study. According to this study it found that majority of women were satisfied with both employment and domestic works not only doing single domestic task. There is a good and proper savings maintained by women. Economical issue was the main cause for family troubles of the dual career family and mostly women taken assists from husband, children and parents to manage their day today works.

Совершенствование механизмов лесной политики и системы управления в лесной сфере в России: социологический взгляд

Совершенствование механизмов лесной политики и системы управления в лесной сфере в России: социологический взгляд

The application of crowdsourcing and the Bazaar model to the development of library classifications: an assessment of the Open Shelves Classification

Abstract This paper presents a discussion of crowdsourcing approaches to knowledge organization and more specifically to the development of classification schemes. It analyzes the case of Open Shelves Classification, a terminated project that was developed by the LibraryThing community following the “open source model”, and assesses its outcomes from methodological and sociological points of view. Working with all the documentation of the project that is freely available, the text conducts an analysis of the project following the structure of the methodological lessons for open source (Bazaar model) presented by Eric Raymond in his seminal work “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” and complementing it with the discussion of the sociological aspects presented in “Homesteading the Noosphere” and other writings. The paper concludes with some recommendations for the success of open source projects and some possibilities of research for crowdsourcing projects and social epistemology.

The Contributions of Propensity, Delinquent Peers, Low Parental Supervision, and Empathy to the Emergence of Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence: Testing Developmental Path Models Combining Psychological- and Sociological-Criminological Approaches

Psychological- and sociological-criminological research refers to, for example, cumulative risk factor models (e.g., Lösel & Bender, 2003) and Situational Action Theory (SAT; e.g., Wikström, 2006). The German longitudinal study “Chances and Risks in the Life Course” (research project A2, Collaborative Research Center 882; e.g., Reinecke, Stemmler, & Wittenberg, 2016) focuses upon the development of antisocial behavior from a psychological and sociological point of view. Two-wave panel data of two cohorts (children and adolescents) were utilized to test the power of developmental path models investigating the development of antisocial behavior. Individual risk seems to have both direct and indirect influences on antisocial behavior, supporting the ideas of risk factor models; antisocial behavior might be the outcome of the interaction between propensity and criminogenic exposure, so there is evidence for SAT. Additionally, empathy seems to be related to both propensity and low parental supervision. Implications for the study of antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence are discussed in line with developmental criminology.

Social Inclusion of Older People: Barriers and Opportunities

Older people most commonly face problems of social integration. Elimination from the labor market often means for them a sharp decline in social activity; deterioration of economic welfare creates a barrier to active participation in society as well. Moreover, loss of physical faculty and in some cases disability, could jeopardize the social autonomy of people in the Old Age. Long-term increase of such factors could lead to social deprivation down to social isolation. The article explains the complex multi-factor phenomena of social inclusion and social exclusion from the viewpoint of sociology and proposes indicative parameters of the individual inclusion in or exclusion from social life. Thus, the quality and quantity of social contacts, social activity, intensity of existing social connections, economic, political and cultural activity are promoted as basic indicators of social inclusion. Research covers the social inclusion of the elderly, in particular barriers and opportunities for the elderly in their access to social life, mobility and healthy aging. The article is based on the results of two projects “A 100-year-old Citizen” and “National culture of ageing”, that took place from April to December 2016. Project were conducted by The Institute for Social Analysis and Forecast (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) together with Russian Clinical and Research Center of (Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University) with the support of Elena & Gennady Timchenko Foundation. The empirical base for the article includes 23 biographical interviews with people aged from 86 to 103 years from two regions of Russia.

Convocações ecológicas: o meio ambiente nas campanhas presidenciais brasileiras

This article analyzes, from a sociological and semiotic point of view, the discursive constructions of the three most voted Brazilian presidential candidates, in the 2010 and 2014 elections, to understand how each discursive agenda was constructed and their choice of themes and figures who built their political personas. This investigation examined all the approaches about the environment understanding the idea of economic development communicated in the Brazilian Electoral Propagandas. It became evident with the different discursive operations that there is a low interest in ecological issues and sustainable development.

Tinjauan Teologi Islam di Dunia

The purpose of this article is to find out the paradigm of classical to modern Islamic theology, and how Islamic theology is in North American settings. Classical kalam science is Islamic theology which is more inclined to the theocentric or divine discussion which is the subject of its discussion. Theology of modern kalam theology of Islam is a system of values ​​that are divine, but from a sociological point of view, it is a phenomenon of civilization, culture, and social reality in human life. Theology needs to be improved among North American Muslims to protect the community against internal divisions and disputes and to defend Muslims from the challenges and provocations of the strength of outside agencies, whether secular culture and institutions, institutions or Christian Da'wah. At the very least theological discourse needs to be revived and expanded if it is only intended to be apologetic, namely to maintain Islamic faith and order in a free market regarding ideas and beliefs that are not normally done by Muslim immigrants. Classical and modern Islamic theology in essence is only for the purpose of apologetics.

Reproduksi Kultural Komunitas Sastra “Pawon Sastra” Di Surakarta, Jawa Tengah

Pawon Sastra's literary community in Surakarta has conducted cultural and social practices. It brings impacts and responses from society. The main topic of this research is social and cultural practices carried out by the Pawon Sastra community as a form of reciprocal relations with the structure surrounding it, which similar to the interaction between the structure and agent. We used a sociological point of view, especially agents, construction, and actions. The problems of this research are (1) how the agent responds to the social structure and (2) what kind of cultural practices are manifested by the agent, and (3) what impact arises as to the result of the cultural practices by the agent. The research was carried out using the qualitative method. The data used were the activities of the literary community, the results of their work, and the subjects involved in the city. The results of this study indicated that social practices were carried out in various ways such as publishing, the reinterpretation of traditions, or publications as a form of interaction among similar communities. Moreover, the impact on social structures was the increase in the formation of the same populations and the emergence of new individuals who follow the footsteps of Pawon Sastra. This is also enhanced by various interactions occurring in the social environment of the newly established community.

Features of the cluster as an organization and system institute and their impact on the accounting development

The institutional nature of the cluster is investigated. It is established that the cluster is defined as an association, which has a voluntary character and which priority is to increase the competitiveness of products and the economic development of the region. The properties of the cluster functioning and its dissimilarity with other types of enterprise associations are determined. It is established that since the current legislation of Ukraine does not define the cluster as an object of economic and legal policy, there are some differences in the economic literature regarding establishing its status as an independent association in the field of entrepreneurship. Formation and effective use of accounting information in the cluster management system can be based on an institutional approach. The consideration of a cluster from the standpoint of institutional theory makes it possible to comprehensively examine it from economic, psychological, sociological, legal and other points of view. The defining features of the cluster as a socio-economic phenomenon are the presence of institutes (institute of cooperation, institute of competition and partnership, institute of communication, institute of coordination), establishment of partnerships between the participating companies, institutional forms of agreements, spatial and technological distribution of the organization, informal distribution of organization, regulation and culture. The authors distinguish the specific institutional features of the cluster (organizational and legal form, presence of participants of different spheres and relationships between them, geographical concentration, management) that influence the construction of the accounting system, in particular the organization and accounting of joint activities in the cluster, the formation of financial statements, access to information and the creation of transaction costs, the sharing of common assets, capital and liabilities.

Vivere e sopravvivere nella community videoludica di Twitch Italia = Living and Surviving in gaming community of Twitch Italia

Living and Surviving in gaming community of Twitch Italia. In this contribution we present the results of an empirical study on the interactive entertainment in the gaming community of Twitch Italia. The research conducted so far on the co-evolution of the Twitch platform and community has focused on the quantitative flow of the audience; on gaming entertainment and e-sport; and on the communicative style. In the Italian context there is still a lack of systematic studies on the organization of virtual relations from a sociological point of view. We have observed Twitch Italia community in the perspective of Douglas' grid-group model and Bourdieu's field analysis, using digital ethnography's method and semi-structured interviews with streamers and audience. We describe here three processes: digital socialization, from the acquisition of digital skills to the internalization of community's values and norms; collective organization of interactive entertainment; the impact of monetization on the communicative pact with the followers. The analysis conducted allows to identify some motives of tension within the community and the strategies adopted in the process professionalization by young streamers in the transition to adulthood.

Relasi Habitus dalam Perikanan Napoleon Wrasse di Kabupaten Kepulauan Anambas, Kepulauan Riau

This study examines fishery management on Napoleon wrasse species in Anambas Islands district from a sociological point of view, using agent-structure relations perspective proposed by Pierre Bourdieu. It is found that the vital values of this species (ecological economic, and social) are not applied equally. Expansionist relationship within the use of this species had caused economic value is more prioritized than others. As a result, sustainability of marine ecosystem becomes threatened. Other than that, fishing community as subsistence group is also ecologically in danger in a long term. Qualitative methodology was used for 8(eight) months period of time. This research was conducted at the center of Napoleon wrasse fishery within 3(three) sub districts consisting of 5(five) villages namely Air Sena (Siantan Tengah sub district), Batu belah (Siantan Timur sub district), also Putik, Ladan and Piabung (Palmatak sub district). Habitus formed by personal history and in addition to become a baseline for collective actions and commitment of involving actors has not been supporting the value of sustainable fisheries. This has caused incoherency between international and national commitment in protecting Napoleon wrasse. Thus, this habitus within the fishing communities and the network of Napoleon wrasse fishery considered to be a fallacy of thinking. Therefore, a governance is urgently needed in order to add the value knowledge, to change desires and habits in terms of supporting the establishment of sustainable Napoleon wrasse fishery in Anambas Islands district.

ATTRACTING FOREIGN STUDENTS TO RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES: THE KEY IN SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OUTSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION

Universities still struggle with the ebbs and flows consisting of attracting, retaining and understanding foreign students. Too much focus is put on opinions and statistics around foreign students, which a majority of universities pursue via surveys on their perception of the quality of teaching, their adaptation, or performance appraisal. An approach which is questionable from a sociological point of view, and can be described as a faux pas given that those opinions are taken in most cases out of their contexts and devoid of adequate methods to identify or analyze such opinions, which I argue are mostly influenced by factors outside higher education itself. Therefore, this article suggests the theory of Social Representations (SRs), and some theoretical suggestions to fill the gap related to investigations on foreign students.

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR DESTINATION BRANDING IN JAWA TIMUR, INDONESIA

This article receives a sociological point of view to inspect the wonder of destination branding. Summoning the social trade hypothesis as the establishment and its mind boggling trade framework as its system, the part expounds the uniqueness of provincial destination as a social structure as opposed to a market or authoritative element. A branding model for provincial destinations is proposed and showed through a contextual investigation. The model promoters a network based way to deal with image examine as a stage on which the branding procedure happens. The part reports the near findings on the image as anticipated by a destination promoting association, seen by present and potential visitors, and wanted by neighborhood occupants. By featuring the job of host network's cooperation in the travel industry branding, the investigation advises its definition as a proceeding with procedure to make full of feeling encounters through structure an exceptional personality and supporting a predictable image that sincerely bond with inhabitants and reverberate with visitors.

Reading religious radicalization by Merton’s strain theory

This article aims to analyse the process of radicalization of young Western Muslims employing the Merton’s strain theory as an interpretative factor. Without necessarily underestimating other approaches, applying Merton’s theory to this field means choosing to deal with it mainly from a sociological point of view, taking into account its political, economic, structural and social characteristics and embedding the individual paths within this framework. As is known, in 1949 Merton conceived a ...

KRISIS DISIPLIN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM: ANTI PLURALISME

This article discusses the problem of Islamic education from a theological and sociological point of view. The emergence of normative and verbalist Islamic education curriculum distorts the universality of Islam. Islam that is contextual in space and time, always in contact with sociological aspects, should be understood as something that can change its partiality dynamics continuously, even though there is a universal thing that is maintained as a normative belief. On the other hand, the failure of education to produce educational output that is dignified and virtuous has caused some people to distrust the world of education in developing the character and ethics of children. The vote of disbelief is getting stronger with the emergence of the National curriculum model which gives a greater portion of general subjects than religious subjects. This paper is a criticism of the development of the world of education in Indonesia, with the hope that education stakeholders make changes to the education system and the applicable curriculum.

PROSPEK PELEMBAGAAN HUKUM ISLAM DI INDONESIA

Indonesian is constitutionally as the state of Pancasila and not as a religious state, but the state is able to accommodate a number of religious norms in the formation of legislation. Indonesia, as the largest Muslim country in the world with a diversity of ethnic, religious and ethnic groups, has chosen the plural of legal system. This situation provides an opportunity to source a specific law affects the formation and preparation of the norms of national law. Islamic law has long been used in the community, even before the colonial period, has significant effect in certain customary law in society. This paper describes the existence of Islamic Law in the plurality of national law amidst the process of the tug of political struggle of national law in reform era. This discussion is focused on the following; first, the prospect legal institution of Islamic law in Indonesia; second, the resistance and constraint in course of legal institution of Islamic law in Indonesia. This paper was as a result of library research using legal normative status, historical, and sociological point of view.

ADAPTATION AND VALIDATION OF THE LEARNING STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE – VARK TO MIDWIFERY EDUCATION – ME-VARK

The research objective is to adapt and validate the VARK questionnaire on learning styles (Fleming, 2001, 2008) to the discipline of midwifery education in nursing – ME-VARK. The four major learning styles are: Visual, Auditory Read/write and Kinesthetic. From a sociological point of view, the working relationship between preceptor (midwife) and preceptee (student) contributes to the student's professional learning (self-efficacy in midwifery) and to the social formation of the students' identity as a midwifery practitioner. Therefore, matched learning styles between them are important for successful training, particularly in clinical practice. In order to construct the ME-VARK, following an in-depth literature review, and a documental analysis, a focus group and a Delphi procedure with in-depth literature review interviews were used to expose the subjective meanings of preceptorship relations as a social construct. Three expert-midwives that also were experienced preceptors participated in the focus group, and ten expert judges participated in six Delphi rounds (a total of 15 judgements). They were requested to propose items/responses relevant to midwifery education and then to validate the new ME-VARK. The results indicate that the chosen items are suitable to measure knowledge, competencies and learning styles in midwifery education. The adapted ME-VARK is relevant to midwifery education and encompasses the main labor stages, the central types of learning via preceptorship, and the essential topics in midwifery profession (exclusiveness). All items are relevant only to midwifery education (inclusiveness). The adapted ME-VARK was found to have all psychometric attributes: Content and construct validity, as well as face validity.