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Most liberal societies are committed to free speech, but there is evidence that some kinds of speech can be harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social inequality. This volume draws on a range of approaches to explore the problem and determine what should be done about allegedly harmful speech

In the leather industry, a production process that is the subject of many different disciplines is dominant. Many studies on these branches of science have examined the sector in detail in terms of production. On the other hand, studies dealing with the sector in terms of business administration department and sub-disciplines are not common.
In this study, academic publications examining the relationship between the leather industry and the business administration department are the subjects. 98 scientific studies obtained after the search in the Web of Science database were examined in terms of the form of publication, the year of publication, the country where the publication was made and the sub-disciplines of the business department.

Der Verfasser gibt zunächst einen Überblick über den Aufbau eines sozialistischen Wirtschaftsystems in Jugoslawien nach 1945 und zeigt, welche Bedeutung der hohe Anteil von als Nebenerwerbslandwirten tätigen Arbeitern für das jugoslawische Modell einer autozentrierten Industrialisierung hatte. Mit der anhaltenden Wirtschaftskrise der achtziger Jahre gewinnt dieses Modell eine neue Bedeutung als wirtschaftliche Rückfallposition und wird zu einem Elemente der Zurückdrängung Jugoslawiens an die weltwirtschaftliche Peripherie. Der Verfasser zeigt, daß sich gleichzeitig eine Schattenwirtschaft entwickelt, in der informelle Beziehungen dominieren, und daß es zu einer dramatischen Marginalisierung der technischen Intelligenz sowie zu einer systematischen Dämpfung der Erwartungen von Schul- und Hochschulabgängern kommt. (BIOst-Wpt)

The article deals with theoretical questions about the mechanism of state regulation of the economy. The content of the mechanism of state regulation of the economy is revealed on the basis of studying the mechanism of state administration, the etymology of the word "mechanism", taking into account the essence of state regulation of the economy. The issue of improving the mechanism of state regulation of processes related to the country's economy has been resolved, which is impossible without researching the theoretical foundations of this mechanism, determining the appropriate categories of state regulation of the economy. In an unstable economic environment, a special place is occupied by the "mechanism of state regulation of the economy." Without defining its essence, it is impossible to solve the problem of increasing the efficiency of the entire system of state regulation of the economy. This fact is confirmed by the processes aimed at the development of the economic system, which necessitates active regulation by the state. That is, without perfect mechanisms of state regulation of the economy, it is impossible to purposeful, coordinated and rational management of social and economic processes in the country, an appropriate level of organizational and managerial influence on the development of all spheres of state life, sustainable support for the actions of state authorities from various segments of the population.

Preliminary Material -- The Doubtful Chances of Choice /Imre Bárd -- Technoscience and Schizophrenia: The Technological Production of Nature and Biology under Control /Tamar Sharon -- A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking /Leighton Evans -- My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Avatar Identity in Social Virtual Worlds /Melissa de Zwart and David Lindsay -- Too Faced? Reconsidering Friendship in the Digital Age /Jordan J. Copeland -- Experiences of Embodiment and Subjectivity in Haunting Ground /Ewan Kirkland -- Trans-Generational Dialogues: Social Sciences as Multimedia Games /Peter Ludes -- Interactive 3-D Documentary as Serious Videogame /Daniel Riha -- Ecosystem of Knowledge: Strategies, Rituals and Metaphors in Networked Communication /Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski -- Gender Resistance: Interrogating the 'Punk' in Cyberpunk /Katherine Harrison -- What Does a Scanner See? Techno-Fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-Game Film /Laura Schuster -- Modern Myths: Science Fiction in the Age of Technology /Michael J. Klein -- 'Cyborg Art' as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-Technology Merger /Elizabeth Borst -- Digital Dance: Encounters between Media Technologies and the Dancing Body /Zeynep Gündüz.

The article reveals several most important preconditions for integration of disabled intothe labour market – specifics of the legal system of professional rehabilitation of the disabled,the role of state institutions in organization of professional rehabilitation services for thedisabled, the rules for delivery of such services, and the importance of criteria's to determinethe need for professional rehabilitation. The authors emphasize that positive results can beachieved by higher individualization and that the state assistance is necessary during theemployment. The article discusses the latest changes in the national legislation, the statisticaldata of the Lithuanian Labour Exchange and suggests several areas where the legislation on theprofessional rehabilitation of the disabled people can be improved.

One of the basic preconditions of successful regional politics and its effective implementation in a particular economic environment is knowledge of this environment - the region, its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities for development as well as threats. Regional politics should be regula- ted by a set of rules respecting the figures indicating the position of the region in the economy, its dimensions or obstacles to its development, its relationship to other regions and the possibility to be compared to other regions. Practical regional politics is expected to contribute to eliminating disparities among individual regions, above all by identifying the causes of the disparities and cho- osing appropriate means of elimination. The current theory of regional politics provides several ap- proaches to identifying, measuring and evaluating the causes of disparities, and diminishing them. In spite of that, the real social and economic development gives evidence that disparities continue to grow and result in a mismatch between the needs and the sources of development, especially in those regions of Slovakia that have been under-developed for a longer time. The paper highlights the problem of deepening regional disparities in Slovakia on the level of NUTS 3 resulting from the development of average nominal wage, which is a major indicator of social and economic develop- ment of regions and living standard of the population. The growing differences in average nominal wage lead to negative stimuli at work and in business, and aggravate the lagging behind of the region and have a negative impact on the other regions and politics of their development.

In the center of the article is the new regional ombudsman institution in Russia and its activities vis-à-vis the protection of women's rights. The article seeks to analyze how complaints filed by women are presented and how the status of women's rights within the context of human rights is described in the ombudsmen's annual reports. The analysis of the reports proves ambiguities of interpretations of human rights; it also shows that many of those filing complaints do it because of the violations of social and civil rights, and that the majority of those experiencing discrimination are women. However, in most of the cases the ombudspersons do not pay attention to the gender-specific dimensions of the discrimination nor have they identified this as an important problem in contemporary Russian society. This situation is connected with the absence of a legal or political mechanism for gender equality in Russia as well as a displacement of women's rights issues in favor of a focus on family issues and demography in the Russian public discourse of the late 2000s.

In this article, we present a case study investigating the socio-psychological aspects of grassroots participation in a Transition Town Movement (TTM) community initiative. We analyzed the first Italian Transition initiative: Monteveglio (Bologna), the central hub of the Italian TTM and a key link with the global Transition Network. A qualitative methodology was used to collect and analyze the data consisting of interviews with key informants and ethnographic notes. The results provide further evidence supporting the role of social representations, shared social identities, and collective efficacy beliefs in promoting, sustaining, and shaping activists' commitment. The movement seems to have great potential to inspire and engage citizens to tackle climate change at a community level. Grassroots engagement of local communities working together provides the vision and the material starting point for a viable pathway for the changes required. Attempting to ensure their future political relevance, the TTM adherents are striving to disseminate and materially consolidate inherently political and prefigurative movement frames – primarily community resilience and re-localization – within community socio-economic and political frameworks. However, cooperation with politics is perceived by most adherents as a frustrating and dissatisfying experience, and an attempted co-optation of the Transition initiative by institutions. It highlights a tension between the open and non-confrontational approach of the movement towards institutions and their practical experience. Corresponding to this tension, activists have to cope with conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalence of social representations about community action for sustainability, which threaten the sense of collective purpose, group cohesion and ultimately its survival. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion