SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/soc1904585l
Blaž Lenarčič
{"title":"Rethinking competencies of the European information-communication sector`s workforce in the context of industry 4.0: The case of Slovenia","authors":"Blaž Lenarčič","doi":"10.2298/soc1904585l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1904585l","url":null,"abstract":"The ICT sector is one of the most important economic sectors in the world and the driving force behind the industry 4.0. On this basis, the paper highlights the significant ways in which industry 4.0 transforms requirements regarding essential competencies of contemporary European ICT sector`s workforce. Stemming from this the author argues that competencies of the workforce in the ICT sector are gradually shifting from strictly technical towards hybrid (i.e. combination of technical and soft). The latter is associated with the fact that industry 4.0 is not only based on technology and creativity of people applying technology, but in addition also on increasing intertwining of ICT sector with other socio-economic sectors, which results in changes of competencies of its workforce. In order to verify the thesis, the case study of Slovenian ICT companies(interviews with representatives) was implemented.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68776945","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/SOC19022241G
C. Genova
{"title":"Youth cultures and style. Analytical approaches and a methodological proposal","authors":"C. Genova","doi":"10.2298/SOC19022241G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC19022241G","url":null,"abstract":"Youth cultures are nowadays one of the main social forms among young people, and at the core of youth cultures is style. Variously defined, style is made up of all those elements through which each youth culture, and every individual involved in it, expresses itself and positions itself with regard to other cultural models, by processes of identification, distinction and recognition. Over time, different approaches to the analysis of youth cultures have been developed - on the basis partly of the different empirical phenomena which have been taken into consideration, and partly of the different sensitivities of the scholars - and thus different interpretive perspectives of style have also emerged. The article aims at reconstructing the core elements of the main approaches to style in the study of youth cultures - considering definitions, constitutive elements, and interpretive models - and then, on these bases, at reflecting about a possible methodological path in the concrete study of today?s youth cultures? styles.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775527","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/SOC1902227H
R. Hofreiter, K. Koštialová
{"title":"Young returning migrants as actors of social changes in Slovakia","authors":"R. Hofreiter, K. Koštialová","doi":"10.2298/SOC1902227H","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC1902227H","url":null,"abstract":"Migration is a cyclical process which also involves a decision as to whether to return. The situation in Slovakia is characterised by a high number of young people studying abroad. Up to now, the process of their migration and return has been studied frequently from an economic perspective. However, the return migration also contributes to social changes in the home country of the migrants. Therefore, the return migration opens new research, areas and themes some of which we include in our paper. In contemporary migration studies, the transfer of new ideas, practices and codes of behaviour between the place of origin and destination covers the concept of social remittances. The idea of social remittances focused sociological attention on the tendencies of returning young migrants to become bearers of change and development in their home country. In this paper, we are presenting findings about practical aspects how young Slovak migrants become agents of social change in their immediate circle, community and even society.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68776203","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/soc1904521k
Jelena Kleut
{"title":"From active audience to passive data: Dominant conceptualizations of internet users","authors":"Jelena Kleut","doi":"10.2298/soc1904521k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1904521k","url":null,"abstract":"Within wider approaches to defining audience in communication studies, this article aims to provide critical analysis of the terms which describe new relations that appear between individuals and respective digital communication centres. On the basis of the explicit and implicit understanding of the agency of internet users, we identify several approaches and terms characteristic of them. The first group includes concepts where power is relatively equally distributed among the actors of digital communication, with the terms such are user generated content and citizen journalism at the forefront. Terms convergence culture and produsage belong to the second group, and they see the networked individuals as empowered challengers of the linear communication flows. The third group, defines users as abstract sets of big social data without the individual agency. The fourth group, with the terms such are small acts of engagement, locates user agency in the practices of sense-making and everyday life. The key point of divergence between these approaches is found in the answers they provide to the following questions: who has the power, over what and how it is evaluated in the totality of digital communication.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68776598","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/SOC1902186S
K. Szafraniec
{"title":"Challenges and life orientations of youth. The context of transition countries","authors":"K. Szafraniec","doi":"10.2298/SOC1902186S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC1902186S","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the life orientations of youth living in postcommunist countries. Although a large part of them function today within the same global organism, their political past still differs them from the other countries, defining in a special way all the socialization space the youth grow up in. The analyses undertaken in this paper try to argue that this is not only the problem of the political heritage, but much more complicated interaction between transformation and globalization processes, that can be described in terms of glocal space, where nothing is the same, starting with socialization process, through life opportunities, and ending with political significance of youth. Empirical basis are here existing data collected in an international project covered Poland, Eastern Germany, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, China and Vietnam. The analyses show life orientations of youth - representatives of the first generation, who have grown up intellectually within the new system - as an important driving force of changes, on the one hand, and equally serious source of social and political tensions, on the other, possible especially where the ?aspiration gap? (the distance between what young people aspire to and what they can achieve) is large and concerns considerable part of youth.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775796","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/soc1904535r
Dušan Ristić, D. Marinković
{"title":"Lifelogging: Digital technologies of the self as the practices of contemporary biopolitics","authors":"Dušan Ristić, D. Marinković","doi":"10.2298/soc1904535r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1904535r","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper we apply a theoretical concept of technologies of the self developed by Michel Foucault to the field of lifelogging practices. Lifelogging is a global social phenomenon, a part of contemporary experience of everyday, especially in the developed societies of the West. Our hypothesis is that, despite different ways of quantifying self, lifelogging practices have some characteristics in common: they all belong to the field of biopolitics. This is demonstrated on the levels of the body, identity and subjectivity, since they are influenced and changed by lifelogging. At the same time, lifelogging practices blur the relationship between coercion and consent, power and resistance. The theoretical framework for addressing lifelogging is the concept of biopolitics, also developed by, since it refers to the mechanisms, techniques and technologies, as well as the forms of rationality that regulate life and its various manifestations. In conclusion, we claim that it is still not possible to explain lifelogging exclusively in the terms of biopower, since it has a potential for the ?counter-conduct? and resistance. This also makes lifelogging practices open for development of new forms of subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68776689","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/soc1904599m
Mladen Milošević, N. Putnik
{"title":"The phenomenon of cyber bullying: A challenge for science and legislation","authors":"Mladen Milošević, N. Putnik","doi":"10.2298/soc1904599m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1904599m","url":null,"abstract":"Cyber bullying is a very complex phenomenon whose consequences can lead to a serious violation of the psycho-physical integrity of the victim. The digital world does not require a direct physical contact between bullies and the victims, and at the same time enables the perpetrators to conceal their identity. Cyber bullying is wide-spread with young people, who interact on web sites for social networking more often than adults, and often perceive the digital world as an extension of the physical world. This article is devoted to discussing the phenomenon of cyber bullying, together with the challenges it poses to the contemporary science and legislation. The challenges are numerous and range from the conceptual and terminological (the problem of defining cyber bullying) and those concerning its detection and prevention through development and use of software tools including ethical dilemmas related to their implementation, to the legal ones (adequacy of the existing legislation in the Republic of Serbia). Having this objective in mind, the authors have described the characteristics and phenomenology of cyber bullying, and analyzed the effectiveness of various mechanisms for its prevention and suppression. After analyzing the conceptual and terminological concerns, the authors are discussing the possibilities offered by the software tools in the field of cyber bullying detection and prevention, and also consider the ethical justification for their use. Particular attention has been paid to the role and importance of promoting digital literacy and education of students, parents and teachers on safe behavior on the Internet. The challenges to the legislation are presented and analyzed in the review of the relevant national legislation. The authors have identified and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of particular legal solutions in the subject matter. In the conclusion, they summarize the most important challenges for science and legislation, and provide guidelines for creating a safer digital environment.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68777042","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/SOC1901055V
M. Višić
{"title":"Everyday living in Yugoslavia: A life beyond the realm of necessity","authors":"M. Višić","doi":"10.2298/SOC1901055V","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC1901055V","url":null,"abstract":"In the text author discusses the living standard of the daily and averaged Dasein living in Yugoslavia. Given that the article is written in a form of retrospective gaze from the perspective of a completely different economic, social and political regime the emphasis is put on those indicators that testify to the high living standards: consumption, housing and the availability to spend summer vacations in the sea resorts. These indicators are considered to be part of luxury from contemporary perspective. Through selected topics the author will also attempt to demonstrate a certain level of democracy within socialism which was also the emblematic feature of Yugoslavia?s socialism. Yugonostalgia, a term often associated with remembering life in Yugoslavia, should therefore be understood not as a romantic repentance, but as a projection of former social organization from the perspective of capitalist societies, in other words as the comparison of then and now.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775102","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/SOC1901113K
Nemanja Kostić
{"title":"Ethnoreligious dichotomization in Serbian epic poetry","authors":"Nemanja Kostić","doi":"10.2298/SOC1901113K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC1901113K","url":null,"abstract":"By using certain theoretical settings of ethno-symbolic and interactionist approach to the phenomena of nation and nationalism, this paper?s aim is to explain and reconstruct various pre-modern forms of ethno-religious dichotomization widely present in Serbian folk epic poetry. In that purpose, the paper displays ideas about ?other? communities that were nurtured in the Serbian epic poetry, where these ideas were interpreted as a reflection and consequence of concrete socio-historical circumstances. Special attention was given to examining the interconfessional and inter-class relations, which could have vastly influenced the self-determination process for the members of Serbian ethnic community. In other words, the factors of religious affiliation, social ranking and ethnicity are recognized as key determinants in establishing ethnoreligious dichotomization in the epic literature. The findings of the study showed that the most pronounced and most represented ethno-religious boundary in the epic poetry was set in relations to the Ottomans and Islam. On the other hand, the scarcity, incoherency or the lack of distinction of the dichotomization in relations to non-Ottoman communities, Greeks, Bulgarians, Hungarians, ?Latins?, Albanians and Arabs show that this boundary was not particularly defined, unlike the one with the Ottomans, who were different not only in terms of ethnicity, but also in terms of religion and class.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68775423","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}
SociologijaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.2298/soc1904497n
Danka Ninkovic-Slavnic
{"title":"Online audience from the perspective of national scholars: An overview of published articles","authors":"Danka Ninkovic-Slavnic","doi":"10.2298/soc1904497n","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc1904497n","url":null,"abstract":": The paper examines the way audience phenomenon has been studied by national scholars with the primary goal of identifying researched topics. The content analysis has included scientific papers from the Cobiss database published during the period from 2004 until now. In the body of 34 selected articles, the findings have revealed seven different themes that are not thoroughly examined but rather just opened up. The research topics are: characteristics of the online audience, citizen journalism, traditional media transformation, online user comments, communicators’ perception of online audiences, fandom, and the structure of web spaces. The analysis has revealed the lack of empirical research and concluded that the mentioned topics are dealing with only a small segment of diverse experiences of online audiences.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68776787","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}