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Minties ir veiksmo įkalnė (Maironio Kame išganymas)
Authors: Jonaitis Marijus
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to develop an interpretation of sociological and philosophical ideas in Maironis’ “Kame išganymas”. The author suggests that Maironis' work might be read as a discussion of the interrelation between the horizontal life chances and the vertical forms of social relations. On these grounds the author argues that the work is an effort to disclose the connection between culture and social practices that provides the grounds to discuss a sociological problem of an empowering culture.
Visuomenei reikia socialios kritikos
Authors: Laurėnas Vaidutis
Published: January 2019

Review: Walzer, Michael. 1992. Kritikų draugija. Visuomenė, kritika ir politinis angažuotumas dvidešimtajame amžiuje. Vilnius: Pradai.
Žaidimai socialiniais saitais
Authors: Gedutis Aldis
Published: January 2019

Review: Lyotard, Jean F. 1993. Postmodernus būvis. Šiuolaikinį žinojimą aptariant. Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
Johano Huizinga'os Viduramžių ruduo: istoriografinė ir istorinė problematika
Authors: Kazlauskas Raimondas
Published: January 2019

Review: Huizinga, Johan. 1996. Viduramžių ruduo. Studija apie keturiolikto ir penkiolikto šimtmečio gyvenseną ir mąstyseną Prancūzijoje ir Nyderlanduose. Vilnius: Pradai.
Demos ir ethnos
Authors: Peterson Abby , Sandén Marie-Louise , Furaker Beng
Published: January 2019

Review: Taljūnaitė, Meilė (ed.). 1996. Changes of Identity in Modern Lithuania. Vilnius: Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.
Steigtis ir sauga
Authors: Jonkus Dalius
Published: January 2019

Review: Arūnas Sverdiolas. 1996. Steigtis ir Sauga. Kultūros filosofijos etiudai. Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
Apie Martiną Buberį ir jo "religijos sociologiją": curriculum vitae, "tarpžmogiškumas", "tarp"
Authors: Sodeika Tomas
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to introduce the reader with Martin Buber, whose text fragment is republished in this issue of the journal. The article begins by providing a sketch of Buber’s biography. The second part aims to discuss the topic of the interhuman in Buber’s work. A special attention is given to the links between philosophy and sociology in Buber’s analysis of the interhuman.
Kita proto pusė
Authors: Žukauskaitė Audronė
Published: January 2019

The aim article is to develop a non-identarian critique of reason. The point of departure of the argument is a view that uniqueness of the Cartesian project lies not in privileging the principle of reason, but in privileging the subjective reason. The argument is developed by arguing that the preconditions of possibility of subjective reason are expressed in the logic of identity. Yet because of this the idea of reason becomes an ideology of reason: the philosophical principles of rationality turn into preconditions of ethical and political action. The author claims that because of interrelation between the philosophical idea reason and the institutions and structures of power, a critique of the idea of reason is necessary. Such a critique is developed in two directions: first, reason encompasses an irrational moment in its definition; second, irrationality itself is a notion of reason.
Žmogaus veiksmai
Authors: Znaniecki Florian
Published: January 2019

Translation: Znaniecki, Florian. 1963. Cultural Sciences. Their origin and Development. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; 186-215.
Savimonė
Authors: Mead George Herbert
Published: January 2019

Translation: Mead, George Herbert. 1967. Works. Mind,Self and Society, Vol. 1. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press; 135-144.
Postmoderno poetizmai rinkos sąlygomis
Authors: Gaižutis Algirdas
Published: January 2019

The article discusses the postmodern art on a few levels: first, its relationship with the vanguard and the mass culture, second, its eclectic existence and, third, the state of Lithuanian postmodernism. The author suggests that the earlier stylistic conventions and the rules no longer define the art. Rather, the inspiration is to be searched for not in the forms of human existence, but in the market itself.
Sociologijos ištakų beieškant
Authors: Baranova Jūratė
Published: January 2019

Review: Weber, Max. 1997. Protestantiškoji etika ir kapitalizmo dvasia. Vilnius: Pradai.
Akademinės tuštumos nikis
Authors: Sauka Donatas
Published: January 2019

The article discusses the cultural situation in Lithuania: the monologic nature of intellectual discourse, lack of alternative thought traditions. Apart from the episodic cases of international recognition, the field of art is dominated by commercial journalism, aesthetic freedom is perceived as legalization of destruction. The art is left with the function of provocation and irritation, but excludes the questions of meaning. The social science plays a secondary role in the consumer society. In the search for the alternatives to fill the intellectual emptiness, the ideas of Emile Durkheim could be considered. The notion of an intellectual as a critic whose task is to think of the collective aims is of special importance. Its justification comes not from scientific argument. It is rather an essayistic attempt to provide an image that is not bound by the pragmatic political and economic interests.
Modernizmas, anti-, post- ir neomodernizmas: socialiniųteorijų pastangos suprasti mūsų laikų „naująjį pasaulį“
Authors: Alexander Jeffrey
Published: January 2019

Translation: Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1994. „Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Social Theories Have Tried to Understand the „New World“ of „Our Time“. Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 23 (3): 167–197. (Editor's note: the issue presents the first part of the article.)
Teorinių prielaidų ir sąvokų sistema J.Alexanderio sociologijoje. Skiriamieji neofunkcionalizmo bruožai
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to analyze the conceptual system neo-functionalist sociology, central to which are the ideas of Jeffrey Alexander. One of the main qualities of this project is its multidimensional scope and the attempts to link theoretical considerations with the substantive analyses. The multidimensional character of the project connects Alexander's neo-functionalism with the works of authors like P. Colomy, R. Munch and provides the grounds for social theorizing that is attentive to the processes of differentiation, which generate changes in social, cultural and personality systems.
Visuomenė/bendruomenė: ekvivalencija ir skirtumai
Authors: Žukauskaitė Audronė
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to discuss the notion of community in the contemporary French philosophy. The author takes her departure from a notion of a community that is defined negatively - by distinguishing it from society that is built according to the logic of identity or equivalence. The author notes that such a notion is inseperable from the notion of society and is aimed to point out the difference of and behind the equivalence. As such, the author aurgues, the notion of community is to ground a question of pure difference: is there a possibility of a community that is not connected by what is the same?
Indiškos epistemos metmenys
Authors: Tamošaitis Regimantas
Published: January 2019

In this article, the author develops a civilizational analysis of the postmodernity. In his attempt, the author departs from the image of postmodernity as a romanticist critique of modernity that redefines the modern self-understanding built around the ideas of progress. Throughout the paper the author develops a comparative analysis of the Indian episteme and the postmodern culture. In his view, such an analysis provides a possibility of a better understanding of postmodernity on at least a few levels: postmodern conception of time, human relation with the nature, meaning and others.
Ekonomikos Sociologija - praeitis ir dabartis, žvilgsnis į ateitį
Authors: Korsnes Olav
Published: January 2019

The article aims to discuss the "New Economic Sociology" by developing a comparative analysis of two sociological approaches: the New Economic Sociology and the Societal Approach. The author takes his departure in a historical overview of the development of the New Economic Sociology, central to which are the ideas of Mark Granovetter and Rose whose critique of the Societal Approach is similar to Granovetter's programme. The author suggests that it is best to understand the difference between the two appraoches as a discussion over the principles of the sociological theory and develops his analysis by questioning the possible concequences that the approaches may have both politically and for the practice of empirical research.
Meno sociologijos istorija ir jos išgalės
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Gaižutis, Algirdas. 1998. Meno sociologja. Vilnius: Enciklopedija.
Etniniai ir politiniai pokyčiai buvusios Sovietų Sąjungos respublikose
Authors: Juška Arūnas
Published: January 2019

The collapse of the USSR resulted in a decline of institutions which had supported the dominance of ethnic Russians throughout the periphery of the country. In their place new institutions and mechanisms have been developed to regulate the access of people of different nationalities to power, resources and prestige. This paper provides a comparative analysis of ethnic transformation in 10 of the 14 successor states of the former Soviet Union. The analysis identified five types of ethnic transformation in the successor states. In the Baltics the attempts of titular ethnic groups to secure predominance over ethnic Russians and radically transform institutions of the Soviet state resulted in the creation of exclusive ethnic democracies. In Central Asia an elite-negotiated transformation led to t h e emergence of ethnocracies in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, while the regimes formed in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were characterized by a mixture of ethnocratic and consociationalist features. In Moldova a failed attempt at unification with Romania eventuated in policies directed toward the creation of a Moldovan ethno-territorial federation. Finally, in Ukraine gradual reforms and attempts to abolish any ethnic hierarchy have led to the creation of consociationalism, in which ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, Russophones and Ukrainophones share power over the state.
Petras Leonas ir sociologijos mokslų užuomazgos Lietuvoje
Authors: Genzelis Bronius
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to analyze the historical development of sociology in Lithuania in the beginning of the twentieth century. The author notes that despite the interest in sociological analysis the institutional grounds were lacking. The author argues that the development of sociology as a discipline in Lithuania is closely connected with the work of Petras Leonas. While Mykolas Riomeris might be considered as the first to apply sociological methods for the analysis of social phenomena, it was Petras Leonas who started to lecture sociology at the end of his life.
Igno Šlapelio meno sociologijos bruožai
Authors: Gaižutytė Žilvinė
Published: January 2019

The article aims to analyze the sociological insights of Ignas Šlapelis, a Lithuanian art criticist, art historian and a pedagogue. The author argues that Ignas Šlapelis develops important sociological ideas to understand the cultural situation of Lithuania in the first half of the twentieth century. The author attempts to reconstruct the perspective of Ignas Šlapelis about the functions of art and its role in society. It is claimed that Ignas Šlapelis develops his sociology by discussing the role of art in the context of education. The author of the article suggests Ignas Šlapelis to be held as a founding father of Lithuanian sociology of art.
Elito teorijos ir studijos sovietinėje bei posovietinėje visuomenėje
Authors: Matonytė Irmina
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to analyze the theories and studies of the elites in the Soviet and post-Soviet context. The author grounds the analysis on a view that the studies of political sociology, especially the elitology, depends upon the social context and the political regimes. The author attempts to differentiate the liberal schools in Warsaw and Budapest from the conservative school in Moscow and the periphery of the Soviet Union. She develops her analysis by suggesting that the legacy remains an important part of the practice of scientific enquiry.
Organizacijos kaip konstitucinės sistemos
Authors: Vanberg Viktor
Published: January 2019

Translation: Vanberg, Viktor. 1992. "Organizations as Constitutional Systems". Constitutional Political Economy. 3: 223-253. Translated by Zenonas Norkus. (Second part of the article. The first one is published in the previous issue of "Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas", 1999-4).
Tautos naracija ir simbolinis konstravimas Lietuvoje 1988-1991 metais
Authors: Klumbytė Neringa
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to analyze the narratives and the symbols of Lithuanian Sąjūdis (1988-1991). The narratives and the symbols played an important role in building the nation, defined through the symbols such as the ‘West’ and the ‘East’, ‘democracy’, ‘civil society’ on the one hand and the historical memory on the other. The article discusses their role on the level mobilizing the movement, constructing the idea of the nation and justifying the social and political change. The analysis of symbols, narratives reveals the remaining importance of the idea of socialism in the period of the movement.
Apie naujosios žiniasklaidos kuriamas iliuzijas
Authors: Balčytienė Auksė
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is discuss the duality of the new media. The author critically assesses the view of the new media as empowering and liberating. The author suggests that such a view is grounded on a notion of reflexivity that is abstracted from capabilities of cognition and builds her argument on the studies of human action to understand the difficulties of interpreting the interactive information.
Lietuvos sociologijos istorijos bruožai (I)
Authors: Kraniauskas Liutauras
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to analyze the notion of the history of national sociology and to discuss the methodological problems that the notion suggests. The author takes his point of departure by distinguishing two traditions in the historiography of the history of sociology: the history of ideas and the analytical tradition. The difference of historiographic traditions is the difference of function of the history of sociology: while the history of ideas is connected with the development of the identity of a discipline, the analytical is concerned with the sociological self-understanding of the discipline. The author of the article attempts to define an analytical methodology to analyze the history of national sociology.
Politikos ir mokslo santykio sampratos raida: nuo Weberio iki Habermaso
Authors: Gedutis Aldis
Published: January 2019

The article seeks to demonstrate the changes in the conception of relations between science and politics in the 20 th century German tradition of social philosophy. This tradition encompasses Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, Frankfurt School and Jürgen Habermas. The analysis of their works revealed that Weber’s neutral attitude towards the political role of science had experienced couple of transformations. First, Weber’s idea of science as a political instrument was radicalized in Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge. In the latter science as an institution is conceived much more positively because it can replace politics by controllable administration. Second, Frankfurt School denies the mannheimian optimism stressing the negative consequences of that substitution: scientific rationalism invades social and political life at the same time ignoring qualitative aspects that are so important in political field. And, finally, trying to breakthrough the one-sided negativism of elder colleagues in Frankfurt School, Habermas restores weberian attitude towards instrumental character of science. In order to elude the dominance of science two steps are of crucial importance: repoliticization of public sphere and removing restrictions on communication.
Šiuolaikinės Lietuvos vartotojo profilis
Authors: Leonavičius Vylius
Published: January 2019

The paper analyzes the data of survey which was carried out in Novermber-December 2001. The pattern of consumer society is applied for the analysis of the data. There are two general features of consumer society: it is whealthy and it has a set of characteristic values. The data shows that society in Lithuania has several characteristic features which differ it from typical wealthy western consumer society. At the same time it has some features which are related with wealthy society. First of all, the Lithuanian society is not the typical wealthy society. And the possibilities of population to consume are low. At the same time a part of society has values which are characteristic to the middle-class society: the need of self-expression and ecological attitudes.
Ekspertai viešosios politikos formavimo procese: kriminologinis žinojimas ir nepilnamečių justicijos reformos ateitis
Authors: Zdanevičius Arnas
Published: January 2019

The aim of this paper was to acquire a deeper understanding of the processes during which a construction of criminological knowledge is taking place and to analyse the complex relationships between experts and other agents in the formation of a particular task, that of juvenile criminal justice reform. Juvenile justice is regarded as one of the components of the Lithuanian criminal justice policy. Juvenile justice as a public policy is closely linked to various groups of experts such as lawyers, criminologists, police administrators, social workers, etc. My intention was to examine ways by which criminological knowledge has been mobilised by the Lithuanian political authorities when tasks are allocated to experts. An analytical theoretical model of public policy that included analysis at three levels (state, professionals and individual) illustrates a process during which the state mobilises criminological knowledge and certain professional groups monopolise spheres of influence. Qualitative methods (semi-structured interviews with experts), document analysis and secondary data served as major sources for the analysis of this case study. Knowledge-power discourse as a Foucaultian truism about criminology's utility to power sheds light on the mutual relationship and interaction between academics and policy makers. This relationship has yet to become a research agenda in post-soviet societies. A case-study of the Lithuanian juvenile justice reform demonstrates that criminology as a discipline is being institutionalised and is achieving an advisory role in the decision making process. On the one hand, the close connection to power creates favourable conditions for applications of legitimised academic knowledge, which consequently can encourage social change and reform. On the other hand, the adaptation of academic knowledge to that of powerful groups strengthens the historical tendency in criminology, that is, to become merely administrative and utilitarian to power.
Transcendentiniai kritinio reflektyvumo pagrindai
Authors: Pilotta Joe
Published: January 2019

It is a premise of this paper that phenomenological social science is not nor aspires to be phenomenological philosophy. Phenomenological social science has more than sufficient tasks before it to dissuade it from extending itself into philosophical domains of inquiry. Furthermore, it is our assumption, or rather, the goal of demonstration that phenomenological social scientific reflection does not need to be paradoxical; but that the way out of the paradox presupposes the validity and the effectiveness of the transcendental orientation. The following analysis is abbreviated; it merely sketches some of the main points for clarification. The paper has two sections. The first attempts to demarcate the domain of social scientific reflection and provides a listing of significant theoretical and semantic considerations pertinent to the lifeworld grounding of social scientific inquiry. The section draws attention to the systematic function of transcendental reflection in phenomenological social science.
Reprezentacijos kaip modernizmo sąvokos santykiškas sunykimas sociologijoje. Durkheimo, Parsonso ir Giddenso modeliai
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

This article critically examines the notion of representation by specifying the critical aspects of its contemporary development. The concept of “representation” most forcefully advanced by Durkheim has formed the basis for a kind of the social science that stresses the “naturalistica objectivity and externality of so called social facts. The unique and external character of what Durkheim terms reality sui generis is equivalent of Parsons' concem with what he called the “emergent properties” of social systems. The turn of latter-day sociological inquiry shows that under the new perspective the sociology undergoes a radical reframing of “representationalism”. As the self-sufficient social facts or the reality sui generis is treated with distrust, the emphasis is laid upon contextual, pragmatic aspects of an academic activity. The relationship between text and reality is reformulated and Challenges the representationalist paradigm prevalent in sociology. Furthermore, the narrative approach forces us to explore our understanding of the moral origins of sociological theory.
Vertybių kaita Baltijos šalyse europinės integracijos kontekste
Authors: Liubinienė Vilmantė
Published: January 2019

In the process of European integration and seeking for the membership inside the European Union, the problem of value change remains very significant if we are to understand processes of change not only in the economy, politics, and society in general, but in the minds, outlooks and social behaviour of the people as well. The purpose of this paper is to identify similarities and differences in attitudes, beliefs and value priorities between the three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and to suggest historical, economic, social, cultural, etc., aspects of these countries that may account for the differences.
Politinis dalyvavimas ir socialinė aplinka Lietuvoje
Authors: Imbrasaitė Jūratė
Published: January 2019

Modern democratic policy is essentially grounded on participation of citizens in public decision-making process. The focus of the study was the impact of social environment on political participation. The method of study was survey sample data analysis. The results of analysis reflect relationship between number of people whom respondent discuss about political and societal matters and political participation. Data anlysis confirm an assumption that social environment has impact on political behaviour, i.e. in some cases social environment could encourage low status group political participation or discourage high status group political participation.
Galios sąvoka Bourdieu, Foucault ir Baudrillardo teorijose
Authors: Gečienė Ingrida
Published: January 2019

The concept of “power” seems to be one of the basic and most attractive but also one of the most difficult to define in contemporary sociology. In this essay it will be concentrated on quite distinct from traditional perspective notion of power, presented by the theories of Bourdieu’s, Foucault’s and Baudrillard’s, what will give possibility also to follow the emergence of post-modern discourse on power. There are a number of distinctive (or even contradictory) perspectives of power, mostly rooted in the Weber’s and/or Marx’s theories. Among these new theories it is possible to indicate one more radical critique, which puts accent on the more or less invisible (indirect and symbolic) character of power, and thus unites such different theories as Bourdieu’s, Foucault’s and Baudrillard’s.

The main incitement for this approach was the need to look at power from perspective different than the juridical-political theory of sovereign power and an analysis of the state and to consider the material techniques of power that are not compatible with relations of sovereignty. Thus here the main question emerges: how does a social system in which a substantial section of the population is obviously disadvantaged and exploited survive without its rulers having to depend on physical coercion for the maintenance of order?
Lietuvos perspektyvos ir alternatyvos: politinė-sociologinė paradigma
Authors: Šerpetis Kęstutis
Published: January 2019

Review: Laurėnas, Vaidutis. 2001. Normalios politikos genezės atvejis: Lietuvos politinės sociologijos studija. Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla.
Tyrimas dalyvaujant kaip socialinių inovacijų technologija
Authors: Poviliūnas Arūnas
Published: January 2019

The article analyzes the arguments for the placing of participatory research in the practice of sociology. The changing societal conditions have forced social scientists, of which sociologists are a prime example, to alter the way sociology has been conceptualized and has been practiced in relation to social change. As practitioners of participatory research are maintaining traditional sociology is producing narratives and practices that are not in the interest of the excluded and marginalized people. In order to live up to the potential of sociology as a technology for the social innovation and social inclusion, it must include the interest and the wisdom of the people in its researching and theorizing activities. Participatory research provides an opportunity to realize this possibility.
Nuosaiki proto kritika Jürgeno Habermaso socialinėje teorijoje
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Habermas, Jürgen. 2002. Modernybės filosofinis diskursas. Vilnius: Alma littera.
Tautinė mažuma lauko perspektyvoje: Pierre‘o Bourdieu ir
Rogerio Brubakerio idėjų sandūra
Authors: Stankevičienė Evelina
Published: January 2019

After the collapse of the Soviet bloc the regenerative specifics of the states was subject to a new outlook on nationalism of national minorities. Non-typical immigration process of the most national minorities in the regenerative countries does not enable from approaching them as typical groups of immigrants. In this article national minority is defined as a non-fixed, but changeable complex. Therefore, applying the method of theoretical analysis, there is an attempt to give a look to national minority as a dynamically changing field. The ideas of P.Bourdieu and R.Brubaker have been integrated trying to achieve this goal, which allowed forming national minority as a field of analytical model. Efforts were made to show that, due to this model, possibilities arise to single out more field actors than one homogenous group in the representation of national minority and present more flexible and universal analysis.
Thomas Kuhno istorinė-sociologinė mokslo raidos koncepcija
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Kuhn, Thomas S. 2003. Mokslo revoliucijų struktūra. Vilnius: Pradai.
Diskursyvioji galia
Authors: Mickūnas Algis
Published: January 2019

The phenomenon of power is implicit in numerous critiques of modern sciences and their methods, resulting in the crisis of rationality. Our analyses will follow two intentionalities, the vertical and the horizontal, showing that the modern scientific rationality assumes principles which exclude the vertical. By “intentionality” we mean a way of experiencing the world at the exclusion of other ways. Thus, intentionality is not a private affair but can be carried from generation to generations. For example, scientists invariably will say “let us look at the world mathematically,” proposing a quantitative mode of perception over poetic, ritualistic, etc. The latter, while equally intentional, will be discarded by science.Thus the scientific conception of mathematical method, as a way of mastering the material world, intimates also a restriction of linguistic sign systems and uses to specific modes, mathematical discourse, at the expense and exclusion of other discursive forms. If not deliberate, there is a specific “bracketing” that was performed by the philosophies and sciences of the modern age that allotted the primacy of all understanding to language, and indeed to a specific language. The result of this development is manifested in the current claims by the semiotics and the deconstructionists that language or discourse is the primary power in all domains of human experience and praxis. While at first sight outlandish, this claim is well justified on the basis of most concrete analyses of modernity, with its ontology and scientific method.Our approach will trace out “bracketing” and show what phenomena become discarded and what phenomena remain in order to be constitutive of power. It is hoped that the result of this investigation will reveal specific formations which belong to no one, are nowhere, and yet comprise the very modalities of our modern awareness. What is meant here by awareness consists of specific noetic practices ruled by, and expressive of, a set of intentionalities. In addition, the noetic practices constitutive of power are also ruled by a specific form of transcendence lending such practices their autonomy. The latter is expressed in numerous ways across various socio-political, economic and scientific formations, aims, and imageries. It lends an appearance of a total transcendental arbitrariness to the noetic practices at all levels. The phrase “noetic practices” encompasses what the human actually does in relationship to the world of objects of whatever type and at whatever level of posited objectivity.
Identiteto tyrimo metmenys: kartų identiteto paieška XX a. lietuvių autobiografijose
Authors: Kraniauskienė Sigita
Published: January 2019

Any empirical research of identity confronts a serious methodological issue. If social scientists categorise different human settings in society with assignment of certain social features as a base of collective identity, is it appropriate to talk about a certain identity as a really existing phenomenon at all? Our attempts to answer this question are based on the examination of specific character of a qualitative research of cohort generation identities in the XX century’s Lithuania. The article discuses a general meaning of identity concept and its connections with autobiographical narrative, defines concepts of collective and individual identity, theorises the process of social identity construction within social group and in the cases of social category, analyses dimensions of nominal and real identity.

Discussion of social identity construction is based on the idea of Anselm Strauss that life story narratives involve both personal and collective / social history. Biographical processes refer not only to individual but also to collectivities. Individual experiences are very often shaped by similar events. Similar experiences are treated as a symbolic universe, in the words of P. Berger and Th. Luckmann. It is a realm of common values advanced and shared due socialization. This universe in biographies is expressed through individual perception and narration or, according to A. Strauss, through symbolic representations. Those representations are experiential perceptions of certain structural social and historical circumstances. Such premise allows us to treat autobiography as narrative, where individual representations of identity intermingle with a general structure of social identity through merge of personal feelings, common historical experience, and shared worldview. The common experiences consolidate humans into social units called cohort generations. Mentioned theoretical assumptions give us a good reason to search for a common identity of cohort generations in the individual biographies.

Consequently, scientifically exploring identity of cohort generations, social scientists have to comprehend and focus on social categories and practices, which are empirically represented by the authors in autobiographies. It means that such point of view acknowledges a real appearance of identity and gives a nominal dimension to it.
Lietuvos gyventojų kultūriniai poreikiai: kultūros įstaigų vertinimas ir lankymas
Authors: Kublickienė Lilija
Published: January 2019

The article is devoted to the problems of cultural sociology. Methodological premises and actual directions of sociological research on culture are discussed. The importance and practical advantage of investigation of cultural needs of inhabitants is stressed. The aim of the paper – to describe actual cultural needs of Lithuanian inhabitants presenting repre sentative and statistically reliable data on their at tendance and evaluation of varies cultural institutions.

According to the data obtained the most positive ratings and highest attendance is given to such cultural institutions or events as festivals/fairs and concerts. It was ascertained that the necessity of some cultural institutions is not directly related with their attendance. The interdependence between cultural needs and age, education level and living location of respondents is analysed.
Prašom ragauti ‘Latour 1991’
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Latour, Bruno. 2004. Mes niekada nebuvome modernūs. Simetrinės antropologijos esė. Vilnius: ALK / Homo liber.
Lytis, globa ir kultūriniai gerovės kapitalizmo barjerai Lietuvoje
Authors: Maslauskaitė Aušra
Published: January 2019

The research aims to evaluate the opportunities for the welfare capitalism in the Lithuanian society and is directed toward the analysis of cultural conditions, which largely determine the success and efficiency of the social policy actions. The research objective is the analysis of gender inequalities, which are produced and reproduced in the family. Unequal distribution of care in family influences the gender opportunities, discriminatory attitudes and the development of gender modernization. The institutionalisation of care in most EU states is seen as one of the key factors in solving gender and family policy problems. The interplay of prevailing modern gender identities and the institutionalisation of care promote the equality of social rights, enhance women’s participation and help solving the family policy issues. The research examines the positioning of care in Lithuanian gender identities and questions to what extent the care institutionalisation in Lithuania may facilitate the overcome of gender inequalities and stimulate the development of equal opportunities and welfare capitalism. The research is structured upon several main lines. First, it discusses the theoretical issues of welfare capitalism and gender modernization, second, the sociological dimensions of the care concept. The third theme is dedicated to the analysis of the Lithuanian society’s values and attitudes toward gender and care.
Lyčių lygybės vertinimai ir Lietuvos viešoji nuomonė
Authors: Juraitė Kristina , Zdanevičius Arnas
Published: January 2019

The main goal of the article is to analyze public attitudes towards gender equality and issues of normative and empirical equality in Lithuania. Following theoretical assumptions, it is aimed at examining of what kind of attitudes people have impact towards gender equality, how sociodemographic characteristics, particularly gender, differentiate them and what kind of factors may explain these differencies. The analysis is based on the empirical data collected in the framework of the sociological research EU Enlargement and Its Commitment to Women carried out by the Department of Sociology, Vytautas Magnus University in 2004. The authors discuss different aspects of gender equality in public opinion, as well as recommendations regarding the improvement of gender policy that are interesting and valuable from the practical, as well as theoretical points of view. What kind of theoretical models and measurements can help to avoid the most frequently made mistakes when analyzing public opinion on the issues of gender equality and policy recommendations? How important is the research on the assessment of gender equality from the methodological point of view? The authors aim at answering the questions by examining the factors that foster or weaken traditional and liberal attitudes towards gender relations on individual and structural levels and shape gender policy recommendations.
Moterų politinės galios raiška Rusijos visuomenėje:diskursai ir strategijos
Authors: Popkova Ludmila
Published: January 2019

The article analyzes public discourses on political leadership of women in the post-communist Russia. Based on her sociological research the author differentiates two main strategies of female politicians and women’s organizations. The first “professional” group of activists considers women’s interests or women’s rights issues as marginal for their democratic agenda. The second “maternalistic” strategy insists on the essentialist women’s political “predestination” to be responsible only for social and family policy. The analysis of these discourses gives the understanding of the perspectives for political empowerment of Russian women in the context of democratic transition.
Charles Montesquieu ir ankstyvoji sociologinė tapyba
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Motesquieu, Charles. 2004. Apie įstatymų dvasią. Vilnius: Mintis.
Socialinės tvarkos problema šiuolaikinėje racionalaus pasirinkimo prieigoje ir Maxo Weberio suprantančioje sociologijoje
Authors: Norkus Zenonas
Published: January 2019

The idea that the utilitarian explanation of social order is dead, established in Talcott Parsons’ major work „The Structure of Social Action“, had been predominating among sociologists for a long time. Indeed, Parsons was commonly thought to be the one who buried the utilitarian explanation. The situation changed after the rise of Rational Choice Approach which could be called a neo-utilitarian social theory. It reanimated utilitarian explanation of social order, recycling it in the framework of the game theory. This article (1) profiles methodological singularity of the neo-utilitarian explanation by describing it as „protosociological“ as opposed to sociological (empirical) application of the rational choice theory; (2) discloses and criticizes the implicit assumption of Parson’s „convergence thesis“ that the problem of social order was conceived in the same way in all significant contributions of the classical sociological tradition; (3) compares Weberian ideas on social order with those in the neoutilitarian works and discusses the significance of Max Weber’s theoretical legacy for the current work on the problem of social order.
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (I)
Authors: Mickūnas Algis
Published: January 2019

Education, and above all formal education, has been one of the principle components of modernization and globalization. This is to say that the notion of universal participation in human affairs is by now regarded a necessary condition for national and international relationships and understanding. Without education, as a rational condition, such relationships and understanding are hardly possible. The call for extension of democracy and the production of the good life around the globe is constantly premised on the requirements of formal education. It is advisable to disclose what constitutes this modern education and what sort of human being and a type of reality does it require and in fact construct. While the phrase formal education sounds intellectual, indeed enlightening, we want to argue that such a designation has a preunderstanding that frames the modern Western civilizational understanding of sciences and by extension of human sciences. Indeed, it shapes the way in which human beings must become in their concrete, practical interrelationships, whether intra or international.
Elito įvaizdžio formavimo ypatumai Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje
Authors: Kučinskė Irina
Published: January 2019

After the collapse of Soviet system, mass-media in Lithuania became the concomitant element of democracy. However, with the great reliance by society upon and with the enlarged influence of mass-media, it could become not only the scene where formation of cultural and social values of society take place, but, failing to establish an efficient supervision, an autocratic former of public opinion as well. The authority, carried by mass-media, enables it to create different images, which, if the audience fails to be critical, could be treated as real. Means of mass-media form agenda setting by paying greater attention to some of the topics and leaving the other ones behind, however, the elite of the society always has been one of the subjects of mass-media. The relation between mass-media and elite has not been broadly explored yet, therefore the main purpose of this paper is to analyze how the image of elite in Lithuanian mass-media is formed. The research is based on content analysis of national daily newspapers „Lietuvos Rytas“ and „Vakaro zinios“ published during December 2003. The investigation revealed, that „Vakaro zinios“, which represents the yellow-press, openly divides society into „elite“ and „the masses“ and uses this division actively in it’s pages. This contraposition is extremely emphasized and highlighted by the huge and expressive headlines, comments on photoprints. „Lietuvos rytas“, which aims at representing the solid mass-media, also shows existing confrontation between social segments, however it avoids emphasizing this by giving clearly expressed titles to these segments. During the second research the image of elite was explored in „Stilius“, a weekly supplement of „Lietuvos rytas“, which in several years became the publication, reflecting in chronological order the lifestyle of Lithuanian elite. The investigation of photoreporting of public events in 1998-2005 „Stilius“ revealed an active process of formation of the image of elite. „Stilius“ brought elite into publicity, introduced the lifestyle of elite to society, sorted and presented persons, belonging to elite, to society. There was no publication in Lithuania before „Stilius“, which would show so visually and clearly who forms the elite, what persons belong to it, how they are different. The portrayal of their luxurious lifestyle became one of the features, representing elite. In summary, could be proposed that Lithuanian mass-media, carrying great reliance of society and using it’s influence, actively forms the image of Lithuanian elite, using it to catch the attention of audience. The image of elite, created by mass-media, in case of social tension, could influence the hostility of lower segments of society for the elite.
Savižudybių aprašymo 1991–2004 m. Klaipėdos spaudoje ypatumai
Authors: Gedutienė Reda , Maskoliūnaitė Laura
Published: January 2019

The paper examines the peculiarities of reporting suicides in Klaipėda‘s newspapers during the period from 1991 to 2004. The articles were analyzed using 28 features evaluation scheme (according to Gailienė, Trofimova 1999). The qualitative and quantitative analyses of articles covering suicides revealed that majority of them do not satisfy the recommendations for suicides to be reported in media. Main newspapers in Klaipėda almost do not pay any attention to suicide prevention and help. Moreover, the articles practically do not publish statistical data and results based upon scientific research.
Ko reikia gerai interpretacijai?
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Geertz, Clifford. 2005. Kultūrų interpretavimas. Straipsnių rinktinė. Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
Pirmasis lietuviškas sociologijos metateorijos veikalas
Authors: Norkus Zenonas
Published: January 2019

Review: Valantiejus, Algimantas. 2004. Kritinis sociologijos diskursas. Tarp pozityvizmo ir postmodernizmo. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.
Korupcijos diagnostikos būdai ir iššūkiai pasaulyje ir Lietuvoje
Authors: Piliponytė Jolanta
Published: January 2019

This article addresses the issue of corruption diagnostics. It analyses the existing approaches to measure corruption, namely the perception-based approach, the experience-based approach, the tracking approach and the legal statistics approach. The article discusses the possibilities and difficulties that measuring of corruption presents and offers global and national examples to illustrate that. It also addresses in greater detail corruption research carried out in Lithuania. Finally, the article presents the summary of the insights made, discusses the challenges of corruption diagnostics and its possible solutions.
Viešosios politikos kultūros formavimasis Lietuvoje: aplinkosaugos
politikos ir visuomenės dalyvavimo sociologinė eksploracija
Authors: Rinkevičius Leonardas
Published: January 2019

This paper aims at diagnosing change in policy culture in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Lithuania, focusing on the field of environmental policy. The article analyzes public participation in the Soviet period, the years of break down of the Soviet system, and contrasts it with social change during the years of transition to a market economy and democratization of society. Based on interviews with relevant actors, secondary data analysis, and discourse analysis, this paper illuminates the shift of public involvement in environmental science and technology policy to a different mode. This shift, or dialectics of policy culture, is epitomized by a changing mode of citizen participation – from latent forms and “double faced” culture in the Soviet times towards euphoria about civic democratic governance and direct participation during the years of “Singing revolution”, and towards another round of colonization of public policy by the bureaucratic domain and the private sector during the 1990s.
Kita Anthony Giddenso Sociologijos pusė
Authors: Kraniauskas Liutauras
Published: January 2019

Review: Giddens, Anthony. 2005. Sociologija. Kaunas: Poligrafija ir informatika.
Sociologija – tai ne kvietimas (?)
Authors: Berger Peter L.
Published: January 2019

Translation: Peter Berger's article "Sociology: A Disinvitation?" was first published in a journal Society (1992, vol. 29 (6)). The editorial board of Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas is thankful to the State University for permitting to republish this article in Lithuanian.
Šiuolaikinės lietuvių tautinės tapatybės kontūrai
Authors: Kuznecovienė Jolanta
Published: January 2019

The article presents the data of the qualitative research (namely focused interview) that was performed by the Centre of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University in 2005. The aim of the research was to find out what people think are the main features/markers of the Lithuanian national identity and to discover what it means for them to think of themselves as Lithuanians. On the basis of the research data four types of Lithuanian national identity are indicated. Both the main features of the loosing of Lithuanianness as well as possibilities to uphold the Lithuanian national identity for Lithuanian emigrants are described. The article proves the ambivalence of the articulation of Lithuanianness implied by globalization that are followed by changing markers of Lithuanian national identity. The decisive role in the process of identification of Lithuanianness is given not to so called “hard” markers, namely ethnic ones, but rather the markers of emotional dimension.