Applied social sciences : sociology / edited by Patricia-Luciana Runcan, Georgeta Rata and Mihai-Bogdan Iovu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Runcan, Patricia-Luciana, 1977-

Rață, Georgeta.

Iovu, Mihai-Bogdan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Romania.

Post-communism.

Romania--Social conditions--1989-.

Romania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, Applied Social Sciences: Sociology, offers the reader a wide collection of quantitative and qualitative studies from different research areas such as medical sociology, political sociology, sociology of communication, sociology of culture, sociology of education, sociology of migration, sociology of population, and urban sociology. Theoretical and empirical papers attempt to explain complex social phenomena, including attitudes and values concerning economic recession, culture, e...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; LOCAL IDENTITY, REGIONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL COHESION; BIRTH RATE IN THE VILLAGE OF BELINT; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE SACRED TREE THEME IN THE WEDDING RITUALS OF THE ORASTIEI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA; THE BURIAL TREE IN THE ORSTIEI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY IN TRADITIONAL MENTALITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN THE RESEARCH OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES; CENTRAL, NATIONAL, POPULAR; CULTURAL MODELS AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY; HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GERMANS FROM THE BANAT HIGHLANDS

EXEMPLARINESS AND MORAL SUBTLETY IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF THE TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN FAMILY CHAPTER TWO; ROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN ITALY BETWEEN INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION; CURRENT ASPECTS OF ROMANIAN INTERNAL MIGRATION; FEMINIZATION OF ROMANIAN EMIGRATION; WHO LEAVES AND WHO STAYS?; REMEMBERING THE PAST; SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION OF ROMANIAN DOCTORS' MIGRATION; CHAPTER THREE; IMPACT OF PARENTS' SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

EFFECTS OF SCHOOL SUCCESS ON ADULTHOOD PROJECTS OF YOUNGSTERS BY THE END OF SCHOOLING DIFFERENTIATED SCHOOLS AND GROUPS OF STUDENTS; GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN ROMANIA; EDUCATION, QUALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY; CHAPTER FOUR; VOCATIONAL TRAINING; EUROPEAN PARADIGM ON CULTURAL POLICIES FOR NATIONAL MINORITIES; SHRINKAGE OF WESTERN ROMANIAN TOWNS; EQUITY-BASED EVALUATION; SOCIAL AND HUMAN SPECIALIZATIONS BEING STIGMATIZED OR CHALLENGED ON THE LABOUR MARKET; FEATURES OF EMPLOYMENT IN ROMANIA; YOUTH IN TRANSITION

PERCEPTION OF THE ECONOMIC RECESSION IN THE JIU VALLEY, ROMANIA MEANINGS OF DIABETIC PATIENTS' AUTONOMY FROM A DOCTOR'S PERSPECTIVE; CHAPTER FIVE; CHANGES IN MATE SELECTION STRATEGIES; ACT IDENTITY, SYNERGETIC IDENTITY; IS THERE LIFE AFTER FACEBOOK?; INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ROMANIANS' RELIANCE ON USEFUL CONNECTIONS AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CAPITAL; THE EXTENSION OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING THROUGH IT GOVERNANCE IN ORGANISATIONS; IMPACT OF STEREOTYPES; RELEVANT ASPECTS IN THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF INTELLIGENCE; SOCIAL DISTANCE PERCEIVED BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

PERCEPTION OF THE TRANSITION PROCESS IN POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES CONTRIBUTORS; INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEW FOR THIS VOLUME

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ISBN:

1-4438-4627-9

OCLC:

830168283