CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102140s
Ana Sentov
{"title":"\"So obvious and so unthinkable\": Eco-dystopia in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy","authors":"Ana Sentov","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102140s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102140s","url":null,"abstract":"Themes of Nature and humanity's abuse of it have long featured in Margaret Atwood's works: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The author is an environmental activist herself, taking an active interest in current environmental and climate change issues. From one of her earliest novels Surfacing (1972) to her seminal work The Handmaid's Tale (1985) to the more recent MaddAddam trilogy (comprising the novels Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013)), Atwood has commented on and criticized humanity's treatment of nature as something to be dominated and beaten into submission. In the context of the current cultural and environmental crisis the world is experiencing, this paper will analyze Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy through the lens of ecocriticism and examine how closely her vision of eco-dystopia reflects the current state of affairs in the world.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102046q
Radojka Šolak, Jelka Dragičević
{"title":"The effects of perceived social support on loneliness","authors":"Radojka Šolak, Jelka Dragičević","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102046q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102046q","url":null,"abstract":"The principal objective of this research is to test the effects of perceived social support on loneliness with various age-dependent respondents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample is made up of 442 respondents (41% male), who are arranged into five age categories: up to 25, 26-35, 36-45, 46-55, over 55 years old. These subsamples are administered according to the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell et al., 1980) and The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet et al., 1988), which measures perceived social support from three sources - family, friends, and significant other. The results of regression analysis show that in all five models the perceived support of a friend is a statistically significant negative predictor of loneliness, while the perceived support of family is a significant negative predictor of loneliness with respondents up to 25, from 36 to 45 and over 55. Support of significant other is a statistically significant negative predictor only in the sample of respondents from 46 to 55 years old. Results show that a significant predictor of loneliness for respondents of a specific age category is the sense of support from a person who is largely not fulfilling that role.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102118q
M. Živković, Jana Drašković
{"title":"The level of English language competence among employees in foreign trading companies in Serbia","authors":"M. Živković, Jana Drašković","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102118q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102118q","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the globalization and high demand of international market, business correspondence is being performed mainly in English, making the English language lingua franca in international trade. This paper shows in what degree the English language is, as the language for specific purposes, important in the international trading companies; it studies the connection between the professional position of an employee in a company, the usage and understanding of the language. Together with examples from the research conducted, this paper provides some answers to the questions - what professional positions are most likely to change in terms of the English language usage, that is, on which professional positions is the language known best?","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102200r
S. Ristović
{"title":"The traditional and the modern model of police work in the security sector","authors":"S. Ristović","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102200r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102200r","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses sector work as the basis of efficient policing. There are two models to be discussed. The first model is the model applied during the period of socialism and social self-protection and the second is the one in the period after the year 2000 when implementation of community policing experiences taken from the developed countries started. In the period of socialism, the sector work was recognized as a form of decentralization of the police force, a suitable form for conducting preventive work and as a way to incorporate the police force into the system of social self-protection successfully. The patrolman in a sector enjoyed the trust and respect of the citizens. Being deployed in a particular sector for several years, he knew the people, the territory, and the security problems in that area. The sector work (both conceptually and practically) has many similarities with the community policing model whose implementation should lead to the transformation of the conventional way of doing police work and restore the confidence of citizens in the police. Community policing brought the reaffirmation of the patrolman and sector work, and taking on many of its recognizable programs, methods and techniques can contribute to adaptation and application of the traditional sector work to modern conditions.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102226r
N. Rajic
{"title":"Russia's neo-imperialist ambitions: Analysis of the foreign policy towards Georgia","authors":"N. Rajic","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102226r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102226r","url":null,"abstract":"The Caucasus, dubbed \"the Eurasian Balkans\" by Zbigniew Brzezinski, or \"the near abroad\" (bližnee zarubež'e) by the Russians, is both a region of strategic interest for Russia, and a space where the Russian foreign policymaking was clearly manifested, Russia's main goal being to establish regional dominance and discourage the Western influence in the region. Using comparative and content analysis and relying on the theory of offensive structural realism, the paper will discuss the foreign policy of the Russian Federation towards Georgia in the years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Analysing the case studies of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the paper seeks to show how Russia's neo-imperial foreign policy has been shaped, and how Russia's foreign policy has shifted in accordance with the part of the Caucasus involved in the conflict and the degree of anti-Russian influence in it. The results show that Russia carefully created the conditions and chose the moment to use the conflict, i.e., the secession on the Georgian soil, to position itself as a regional hegemon.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2101036m
A. Matković
{"title":"Social deviations and the \"black wave\" of Yugoslav cinematography: Multiperspectivity of deviance","authors":"A. Matković","doi":"10.5937/civitas2101036m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2101036m","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this paper is to investigate various forms of social deviations that can be related to the phenomenon of the black wave of Yugoslav cinematography. The analysis is structured according to our general typology of possible models of connection between artistic and deviant contents (1. artist as a deviant; 2. presentation of deviance as a theme of a work of art; 3. work of art as a deviant phenomenon or action [Matković, 2017]). The author noticed complex and heterogeneus perspective of the relationship between the black wave and the sphere of social deviance, present at several different levels, which provided a basis for concluding on the multiperspectivity of deviance associated with the aforementioned artistic orientation. Among other conclusions, it was pointed out that the most energetic socio-political reaction was caused by the presentation of social deviations with political connotations, as well as deviations related to the dissatisfaction of various categories of Yugoslav society (i.e. those deviations that directly threatened the survival of the official state ideology and ruling regime), while the cinematographic treatment of socio-pathological phenomena in a narrower sense, although also undesirable, was still more tolerated, being subjected to repressions of lower intensity.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71208958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2101149t
Boris Tučić
{"title":"The principle of ne bis in idem in the context of European arrest warrant: A view of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice","authors":"Boris Tučić","doi":"10.5937/civitas2101149t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2101149t","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the most significant ruligs of the Court of Justice of the Europian Union regarding the interpretation of the provisions of the Framework decision on the European arrest warrant which established the principle of ne bis in idem as one of the grounds for both mandatory and optional non-execution of the extradition request issued to the judicial authority of the executing Member State. Although the European arrest warrant is one of the most important mechanisms of cooperation in criminal matters between Member States, the provisions of the Framework decision that established the European arrest warrant as part of the EU law do not define precisely enough some of the key aspects of its implementation, leaving plenty of space for different interpretations and actions of national authorities, which in turn contributes to legal uncertainty and unequal application of the EU law within Member States. In this context, the European Court of Justice made some of the key points in the 2010 Mantello case and 2018 AY case, and primarily focused on issues related to the ''same act'' category as one of the key criteria for applying the ne bis in idem principle in transnational context. The inductive-deductive method and content analysis were used in the analysis of the cases mentioned above.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71208994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102173q
Jelena Čolaković-Lončar
{"title":"Social motivation and emotional competence in students","authors":"Jelena Čolaković-Lončar","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102173q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102173q","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of the research was to identify relations between social motivation structure and emotional competence among students of different psychosocial characteristics. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Economics, East Sarajevo University. The sample consisted of 228 first-and fourth-year students. For the study purposes, we used the social motivation questionnaire and the emotional competence questionnaire. The results of the research will be useful as motivation for further research, as well as in teaching and designing programs which promote students' mental health.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2102271p
Milica Petrovic
{"title":"Unenforceability of claims for damages in court practice","authors":"Milica Petrovic","doi":"10.5937/civitas2102271p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2102271p","url":null,"abstract":"The statute of limitations is an essential element in claims for damages proceedings. If the claimant fails to seek damages in time, they may lose the right to claim restitution from the debtor. To protect injured parties, the laws regulate this matter should be interpreted carefully and uniformly. It is of crucial importance to establish legal security regarding unenforceability, especially the statute of limitations, by taking a decisive and uniform position. Different court opinions and decisions can contribute to feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability, and ultimately generate citizens' distrust in the judiciary.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivitasPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/civitas2101118m
I. Milojević, M. Miljković
{"title":"The impact of the adopted secondinstance tax administratiive acts on the budget of the Republic of Serbia","authors":"I. Milojević, M. Miljković","doi":"10.5937/civitas2101118m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/civitas2101118m","url":null,"abstract":"The tax administration, as one of the most important state bodies that participates in the process of collecting public revenues, among other functions it performs, also has the authority to adopt tax administrative acts which determine the amount of tax liability that tax-payers are obliged to pay. taxpayers, on the other hand, are constantly looking for a way to avoid paying the determined taxes or to reduce the tax liability as much as possible. In this process, the activities of both parties have an impact on the budget and the amount of tax revenue collected. The paper discusses the tax administration's rights and obligations, specifically those related to the adoption of tax administrative acts, with an emphasis on the second-instance tax procedure as it directly affects the amount of collected revenues. Furthermore, the paper describes the role of taxpayers in the process of adopting tax administrative acts, focusing primarily on the institute of appeal in this procedure. The available data are also presented supporting the conclusions of this article.","PeriodicalId":37246,"journal":{"name":"Civitas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71208985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}