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In this paper, it is argued that symbolic interactionism and hermeneutics are possible strategies for the sociological determination of culture in the context of contemporary transformations of "cultural identities". The paper is based on the assumption that contemporary reflections on the sociological question of culture, due to the overemphasis of empirical research, have lost sight of some classic theoretical starting points that can be an important resource in determination and a better understanding of the general spiritual crisis of the modern world. With this idea in mind, the paper tries to accentuate two theoretical paradigms in the domains of their classical interpretation with the possibility of "strategic adjustment" of certain conceptual frameworks aimed at problematizing cultural reality on the "glocal" level. The paper in its various aspects is critical of the "Balkan" understanding of culture in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I present an analysis of modern society, which under the influence of indicators of modernization and globalization produces risks that affect people globally with increasing uncertainty and uncertainty. Starting from Beck’s ideas, the conceptual understanding of risk is pointed out, including the concept of contemporary world events related to the emergence of COVID-19. The historical aspects of the modernization of aid to science and technological innovation and the role of capitalism, which has its foundations in this for the purpose of maximizing profits and increasing risk, are pointed out. I explain the triangulation of the terms globality, globalism and globalization and their connection with neoliberal ideology. Te wants to show how such processes have made it difficult to control and respond to COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are two aspects of this work - one is sociological, based on sociological insights into the relation of globalization trends to B&H culture and art. Another aspect of this article is pedagogical, which places its emphasis on observation on the development of the child and educational processes in the age of digital technology, which are one of the consequences of the transition of B&H society. The content and depth of change in B&H society encompasses a longer period of transition changes in all segments of society, firstly political changes, new territorial and demographic structures of society and the state, which in their retrograde processes have largely left major consequences for the upbringing, education and culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Instead of democratizing society, we have sunk into totalitarianism, the backbone of which was nationalism; instead of into an economic transition and a market economy, we have sunk into a mafia-criminal and corruption situation; instead of human rights, a collectivity of national rights was established in which the individual and his interest do not exist (...)" (Fočo, S. 2005: 49). On the other hand, young people are in coexistence with all the products of the West, first with the digital world which is becoming one of the dominant factors, even with its existence it influences the education process and therefore the development of personality. Through his actions he creates changes in the current "hierarchy" of education. The roles of all factors are changing. Teachers and professors are no longer the only source of information. Information is easily accessible to students everywhere. The role of educators of young people is changing, in fact, the role in which the teacher and professor was the source of information is disappearing; shapes itself into a role in which it helps pupils and students by focusing on the right information and helping them to organize already existing ones. Therefore, it is said that the teacher is no longer a soloist but a supporting vocalist (Delors, J. 1998). Through the empirical part of this paper, we will show what students think about B&H society and culture, and how to overcome transitional changes in B&H society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the opening speech from the 38th General Conference and Assembly of the Croatian Library Association. Giving a historic overview and presenting the experience of the Croatian Library Association, as well as its contemporary priorities and activities, the paper analyzes the goals and tasks of professional library associations today, in modern society which is going through great changes caused primarily by the new technologies and globalization. Furthermore, it questions which reasons should motivate librarians to engage in the work of professional library associations, in the environment in which the libraries themselves are substantially changing their goals and tasks in order to secure their survival, which was seriously questioned by some recent theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being against globalization is like being against the sea current. He who wants to get back into the world before globalization, must know that he will have to fight forces that cannot be beaten. That doesn`t mean we lost the fight for a better future and consequently fell into a sort of apathy. What we say in this regard is that any serious and useful political analysis has to have globalization as a starting point. Few have attempted to address the specific challenges of globalization, with the idea that the world is a place which should be governed by the political community, as a starting point . This is what cosmopolitism says. Hybrid identities, mix, diversity and variety are key concepts for cosmopolitism. Renewed radical cosmopolitism must consider these questions. Such policy is based on a small universalism, insisting on the fact that certain values are inviolable and common to all of us. But, at the same time, this universality goes further and recognizes the difference. In this regard, this paper provides some suggestions that could mean the solution of many problems which seem unsolvable, at first glance. The balance between difference and similarity must be found and established. These days, cosmopolitism goes exactly where the differences are, because universalism is also there. Where differences are, cosmopolitism is committed to universalism and where there is demand for equality, cosmopolitism is committed to pluralism. This is the basic pattern of thinking that we use in an attempt to provide answers to most questions that are asked and discussed in this paper. The aim of this paper is to divert the political debate in the other direction - according to its ability, not its concerns. This paper provides a global mindset rather than a national concern and preoccupation with itself. The work is intended to force readers to think about these issues. Therefore it gives guidelines for this radical project and presents an optimistic policy for the 21st century. The work provides satisfaction and optimism instead of apathy and nihilism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I deal with the broadness and significance of the change and the need to conform to it since it has occurred during the globalisation era and brought the people in better and faster contacting among themselves using the electronic media, which then resulted in necessity to teach and enhance both linguistic and IT skills and competence of all: mastering the present global language of communication, English, as well as information and communication technologies since these are inclusive and intertwinned. The aim of this paper is to prove that by using the CALL method (Computer Assisted Language Learning) with young learners such as the primary school years children we can achieve the worldwide set principles of education prosperity and consequently gaining greater working mobility and competence of the future generations. The CALL method incorporates different techniques and tools, such as: word-processing, CD-ROMs, authoring packages and the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, political leaders throughout Europe are facing a real paradox. On the one hand, Europeans want them to find solutions to the major problems confronting our societies. On the other hand, people increasingly distrust institutions and politics or are simply not interested in them. The problem is acknowledged by national parliaments and governments alike. It is particularly acute at the level of the European Union. Many people are losing confidence in a poorly understood and complex system to deliver the policies that they want. The Union is often seen as remote and at the same time too intrusive. The Irish ‘no’ highlights the impact of these problems on many people. This was reflected not only in the final outcome of the referendum, but also in the low turnout and quality of the debate which preceded it. Yet people also expect the Union to take the lead in seizing the opportunities of globalisation for economic and human development, and in responding to environmental challenges, unemployment, concerns over food safety, crime and regional conflicts. They expect the Union to act as visibly as national governments. Democratic institutions and the representatives of the people, at both national and European levels, can and must try to connect Europe with its citizens. This is the starting condition for more effective and relevant policies. The Commission identified the reform of European governance as one of its four strategic objectives in early 2000. Political developments since then have highlighted that the Union faces a double challenge: there is not only a need for urgent action to adapt governance under the existing treaties, but also for a broader debate on the future of Europe. The White Paper proposes opening up the policy-making process to get more people and organisations involved in shaping and delivering ELI policy. It promotes greater openness, accountability and responsibility for all those involved. This should help people to see how Member States, by acting together within the Union, are able to tackle their concerns more effectively. Having been passed in July 2001, this document attracted comments by many participants within public consultations, and the realisation of the principles laid down in it was one of the four crucial determinants of the European Commission activity in the period between 2000 and 2004. The White Paper on European Governance represents one of the foundations of the contemporary development of the European governance models, which is the reason why we are publishing its translation here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will show the influence of globalization in all its segments, with special emphasis on political scene where globalization is explained as denationalization or new imperialization of western countries. Thus, these imposed processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina abolish nation and national state which are loose anyway, apropos nation-state that was declared as three-nation structure. State boundary and state power of Bosnia and Herzegovina in world of globalization are lowering because of the increasing influence of "powerful" West. Their increasing relativization is influenced by the interests of large transnational international companies, as well as by the great influence of governmental and nongovernmental organizations on the life and work of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, one can speak of the nation-state and capitalism, which, together with their corporations, consider globalization useful, trying to improve it in every possible way, and to remove all obstacles that interfere with globalization in any way. By striving for the identification of the nation with nationalism, each individual shows national identity which encompasses territoriality, sovereignty, culture, legal status, political system, ethnic origin and identity, and all with the goal of globalization. The media are the only direct promoters in the spread of globalization as well as persuasive notice of the existence of the New World Order in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Invisible, but fully present secret elite, with equally secret objectives, backed by a new financial and banking underworld, tightly holds foundations of globalization processes. With the omnipresent globalization and increasing influence of the New World Order, we aim to survive in an internationally recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina with all three constituent nations who live there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will examine the relationship between the development of means of communication and globalization processes. Since the communication process is elemental social constituted as a separate reality, our assumption is that the change in the type of producing communication can be considered as a change in the society. Electronic communication immediacy substantially changed the linear system of our civilization - it's all center and all the while, peripherals. Compression, implosion time-and-space breaks the link between the „when“ and „where“, that is, between „here“ and „there“. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Domination of Western Civilization globally presents a great problem for small nations and cultural communities. That problem is especially noticeable in the light of globalization when many peoples and nations almost completely lose their identity. The formula of success many people are aware of today is to remain devoted to one's own tradition and culture, and to acquire positive streams of contemporary times. However, the answer to the question how to achieve that in a quality manner, so that it is not detrimental to either of the components, is not yet completely defined. One of important segments of academic work is scientificresearch work that has its own methodology. Unfortunately, as in other segments of life, western concept is the one that dominates. It is a rarity today to find Muslim researchers that manage to adopt positive aspects of the methodology and to liberate themselves from its colouration by Western view that is contrary to Islamic view. The aim of this paper is to specify broad methodological guidelines that will help Muslim researchers in the field of their faith, so that they remain on the right path, and accept scientific methodology of research at the same time. When Islam is concerned, it is based on the fact that everything in terms of faith defined by the Qur'an and the authentic hadith is the bare truth that cannot be doubted in any case and that cannot be outdated ; regardless if it is related to ghaib (metaphysics), as the matter of the Divinity, hereafter and the origin of man, or to general postulates as the perfection of Islam and its foundation on oneness of the Creator (tawheed), or to disrupting one's belief (iman) by following some other faiths apart from Islam, etc. And when Western thought is concerned, its philosophical and religious conceptions, moral values, cognitive and social systems, it is a result of human effort7 and by that it is subject to correctness and mistake. Nevertheless, the fact that it was developed without any connection to the true faith, due to various social and civilization movements of unbelieving peoples, does not mean that it is completely inaccurate and that is has to be dismissed automatically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influence of new informational technologies, especially the wireless ones (laptop, mobile phones) is more and more felt from day to day. Due to the fact that the mobility of the population is highly expanded, especially in urban areas, the notion of space, localization and time is getting new meanings. In a ways, nobody is «somewhere« if he or she could not be seen «there«. So, even we live in a deterritorialized world more and more, in a way we should to come again back to some older concepts when the time and space had been overlapped which means that somebody was «somewhere« only if he or she could be registered and seen «there«. Today's concept of time and space compression, new thinking on places and spaces (flows of spaces - Castells) as well as new notions of cosmopolitism and globalization and localism and localization and calling upon social scientists to try to provide contemporary explanations. In a way, contemporary inhabitant of the urbanized world, and especially under the influence of modern communication technology is more and more «globalize«, but at the same time he or she is also oriented to select and bring closer to his home the parts of the global world that she or he prefers (home cinema, for example). The most important sociological aspects will be expanded and explained in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociology deals with a great number of social phenomena, which are often inter- and multidisciplinary in nature. The paper discusses the relationship between sociology as a science and its representation in the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) scheme. The author explains some of the issues in classification of documents in the field of sociology and their content complexity and describes the practice in classification adopted by the National and University Library in Zagreb (Croatia). The author illustrates the problem of classification of interdisciplinary subjects with the examples of globalization, violence in mass media, violence in schools, violence in sports etc. In addition, the problem of distinguishing the contents pertaining to sociology from those coming from related disciplines (e.g. social and cultural anthropology, sex and gender studies, feminism and cultural studies) is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term "state sovereignty", defined as the state's highest power within a country, is no longer suitable when describing international relations in the 21st century. State sovereignty is continuously compromised, especially by international economic organizations such as the lMF, which gravely affects the economic independence and sovereignty of many countries. In almost every segment of what used to be the state's domaine reserve, its prerogatives are being threatened by external factors. Perhaps one of the most important, and certainly the most painful attack on a state's sovereignty comes from international judicial institutions, especially international criminal courts. Starting with Nürnberg, through ICTY, hybrid tribunals and finally the ICC, the evolution of international criminal courts, particularly their influence on state sovereignty, seeks our attention and consideration. In its first part this paper deals with the concept of sovereignty from a traditional point of view, but also discussing the changes as a consequence of the process of globalization. The second part contains a short history of the evolution of international criminal courts and a few thoughts on the globalization of justice. The final and most important part deals with a variety of influences that international criminal courts have had on state sovereignty throughout history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]