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The article demonstrates the topicality of Cornelius Castoridis' work in pointing to some of its aspects which can be connected to current discussions about the role and the functions of social critique and which also show several weaknesses of this discussions. After a sketch of the development of Castoriadis' thought, three connection points to these discussions are elucidated: the question of the conditions of the possibility and of the possibilities of a justification of critique; the concept of capitalism as a project of organization, rationalization and control, instead of a market society; and the distinctive interest in resistance and practical critique in everyday life which are interpreted as germs of a non-capitalist autonomous social institution.

In the present study, we use the self-determination theory (SDT) as a framework to explore the mediating role of needs satisfaction (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) on the relationship between the volunteers' motivation and two aspects of the organizational context (i.e., social network and autonomous vs. controlled work climate). Data from 349 Romanian volunteers provided general support for SDT and emphasized the effect of an autonomy-supportive climate initiated by the coordinator in volunteers' autonomous motivation. The results showed that needs satisfaction acts as a partial mediator of the relationship between work climate and volunteers autonomous motivation. The social network size was positively related to needs satisfaction but has no direct impact on autonomous motivation. Practical implications and future research are discussed.

Рассматриваются отдельные аспекты социальной детерминации уголовного закона и формы отражения социальных ожиданий в нем, приводятся результаты проведенного исследования общественного мнения относительно оценки иерархии объектов уголовно-правовой охраны в действующей системе Особенной части УК РФ, а также их аксиологического значения, определенного законодателем, и его соответствия мнению населения. ; Some aspects of social determination of the criminal law and forms of social expectations are considered; the results of survey of public opinion of hierarchy estimation of the objects of criminal and legal protection in the system of Special part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as well as axiological value, identified by the legislator, and its correspondence to the opinion of the population are given in the article.

Given the importance of informal ways of getting things done in postsocialist societies, research into the field of unwritten rules and informal practices has been slow to develop. In studying such rules and practices, the researcher often encounters skepticism or hostility stemming from the ways in which people relate to tacit agreements, or else she or he is greeted by an ambivalent smile of complicity—a knowing smile. This article draws a connection between knowing smiles and open secrets and argues that these notions illuminate a great deal about how the "grey areas" of social life function. It also suggests that such seemingly trivial aspects of everyday life can reveal profound features of social institutions and point in the direction of innovative research.

This article explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or "Blaxicans." In-depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States, in particular among African American and Chicana/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas/os/Mexicans to monoracial notions of "authenticity." The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race/ethnicity in the United States and the influence of social interactions in shaping how Blaxicans develop their multiracial identities.

This paper describes the inside organization of Educative Networks (ENs) and the aspects that allowed their growth and success in the city of Barcelona, Spain. ENs emerged over the past ten years in Catalonia, Spain, as a way to incorporate social and educative challenges in the territory. These educative proposals are based on the connection between the different educative institutions in the community to tackle social and education challenges in cooperation through transversality and a common project. The intent of ENs is to create synergies between cooperating organizations and coordinate community action to avoid overlap and redundant work. This study shows how these educative structures use context possibilities to improve educative impact and develop a new vision of organizing and conceiving education.

On occation of the end of the founding phase of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences with the integration of the formerly independent Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP) as well as the former Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg, a scientific symposium on university governance with a top-class cast was held. The aim was to compare different management models, especially from other European countries, and to analyse and evaluate them from an experience-based management perspective as well as from a scientific-analytical point of view. A special aspect was the tension between centrality and decentralisation, which is relevant for all universities. The lectures are documented in this volume.

Авторы статьи изучают многие конкретные вопросы, связанные со вкладом населения Саратовской области в общую победу советского народа в Великой Отечественной войне. В статье рассмотрены социальные, экономические и политические аспекты этой темы, патриотическое движение жителей Саратовской области. В заключение сделан вывод о характере массового героизма советского народа в годы Великой Отечественной войны. ; The authors examine many specific issues related to the contribution of the population of the Saratov region to the common victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The article describes the social, economic and political aspects of this topic and the patriotic social movement in the Saratov region. The article concludes with the statement of the nature of mass heroism of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.

В статье поднимается вопрос опасности для социальной и политической стабильности государства, устойчивости политического режима существования моногородов — населенных пунктов, полностью зависимых от одного или двух крупных предприятий. Делается попытка рассмотреть проблемы моногородов не только как болевые точки экономического и социального состояния, но и представить политические аспекты этой проблематики. ; In the article the question of existence of monocities — the settlements completely dependent on one or two large enterprises as a threat to social and political stability of the state and stability of a political regime is brought up. The authors made an attempt to consider the problem of monocities not only as painful points of an economic and social condition of the country, but also to present the political aspects of this problem.

The representation of modern Greeks by a number of nineteenth-century French travellers raises questions about the factors that influenced them in their accounts. If we accept that travel literature is a distinct kind of literary genre characterized by a range of forms and themes, we should also not ignore the influence of the travellers' social and cultural background on the images they produce. Their social status, gender, cultural and professional backgrounds, together with their personal motives for travel, determine the approach they adopt while observing 'others'. The accounts they produced of numerous aspects of modern Greek life and culture were almost inevitably subjective, often controversial, and reflected intellectual currents and Western preconceptions of that period.

- Tres para tres: third economy, third world… a third way? The essay focuses on the economy originated within the community, characterized by solidarity, trust, proximity, which possesses its own specificities, and therefore presents strong aspects and a certain stability. By analyzing a work experience in a region of the north of Columbia, the author shows how the production of goods and services for the local communities becomes a resource for the community. The network formed by public, private and social organizations sharing the same aim of integration on the territory produces a value above all through the social construction of the strategic plan itself, which identifies programmes, responsibilities, subdivision of the resources and time for the interventions.

The article analyses some relatively new aspects of the Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre. In particular it tackles the double bond for the Conselho do Orcamento Participativo (imperative mandate & budget constraint according to redistributive justice), as well as the rule providing for an equal proportion between the participants at the assemblies & the number of delegates for each Forum. Participatory budgeting is suggesting to be a procedure aimed at adopt fair decision from a social point of view, & not only at promote the largest political participation of the citizens. According to the author the originality of the Brazilian experiment is to propose the formalization of "constitutional" rules for achieving social justice, beyond the virtues of popular participation. Adapted from the source document.

Discussing aspects of Marx's critique of political economy and Foucault's analytic of power, the text seeks to separate the reflexive stance of anti-essetialism from two positions wich are often seen as being part of it: judgmental relativism and the ,anti-depth war'. To recognise the historical and social relativity of knowledge does not necessarily imply the view that all theories are equally true. And to analyse social structures and dispositions as underlying conditions of events and behavior is not tantamount to a search for metaphysical parallel universes. Criticising Badiou, the paper concludes with a plea for a realist politics of truth as an alternative to either relativist or rationalist conceptions of this topic.

This paper presents results of empirical analysis of data on opinions and attitudes of Poles towards immigrants. In the investigation we aim at reconstructing the multidimensional character of the attitudes expressed as a tolerance in a broad sense. The measurement and analyzes of several aspects of tolerance are based on European Social Survey Data from 2002. International character of the dataset served us as a point of departure to evaluate attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policies, as they exist in Poland, to attitudes which are supported in other countries. The main focus of the paper concentrates on social and geographical determinants of the attitudes towards foreigners. We trace the dependencies of between tolerance and selected structural and territorial factors.

Scientific debate requires a common understanding of what constitutes good research. The purpose of this article is to establish such an understanding. The purpose of political science is to uncover, understand and explain the conformist aspect of social behavior, well aware that not all behavior is systematically determined by society. Good political science ought to be grounded in two questions: What do we know, and what are we going to learn? Research question and theory are decisive, while all discussion about methodology and design is about subjecting our prejudices and expectations to the most difficult test possible. The binary opposites we are familiar with from the 'Methodenstreit' of the social sciences are unproductive. Adapted from the source document.