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The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory Animals
Authors: Sharp Lesley A.
Published: May 2019

Chapter 3 is the sole chapter of part 2, “Sacrifice,” an interlude in the center of the book. In this chapter, I pause to consider the moral implications and responses to the inescapability of animal death as part of lab research. This chapter arose from the unprompted propensity among interviewees to raise animal death and killing or their euthanization (sacrifice in lab parlance) as central to shaping their thoughts and actions in moral terms, a trend I reference as animal “death talk.” Animal death is often predetermined by standardized research protocols. Set against this inescapable reality, I consider the moral significance of “sacrifice” as a trope of animal lab research and established analyses that ground sacrifice in ritualized and sacred understandings of life and death. I propose to broaden the analytical field by considering the affective consequences of interspecies intimacy and how such consequences shape thinking about and responding to animals’ deaths. I outline a history of how we celebrate working animals in order to consider contrasting public outreach campaigns offered by research science and by animal activism, which both rely on an animal generics that contributes to the erasure of individual creatures. I then return to lab settings to consider the surprising ways that individual personnel respond to the deaths of lab creatures they have known.
Changing Measures
Authors: Perramond Eric P.
Published: May 2019

To implement adjudication, the state devised and imposed new metrics and measures. Particular places in New Mexico were fundamental to the state and federal efforts to create a new science of water and a parallel legal treatment to water rights, by creating new ways to measure water for property owners. By moving away from local units to standardized acre-feet of water per year, the use of water at the local level became readable to the state agency responsible for water management. This chapter argues that water metrics were vital to creating a new state level of expertise, creating water experts along the way, as well as a basis for pricing water. These new units for water were critical for the coproduction of water expertise in the state of New Mexico and across the western states of the United States.
Working for the Adjudication Industrial Complex
Authors: Perramond Eric P.
Published: May 2019

During the twentieth century, new realms of expertise arose alongside the state’s legal mandate to find, measure, and allocate water rights. Abstract water knowledge embodied by legal, hydrological, engineering, and historical experts were produced as a consequence of redefining the human-water relationship. This legion of new water experts was centrally focused on materializing the new private property rights embedded in water as a substance. The costs of this process were enormous, as shown by the ethnographic evidence presented. The consequences are less clear. The new forms of water knowledge and expertise are now vital to state and federal agencies, as they are to local water users in the courts.
The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

Kōshien Stadium, the home of the Hanshin Tigers, is Japan’s most storied sports venue, and chapter 2 begins with game day at this epicenter. Playing in and defending Japan’s most storied stadium brings immense prestige and unrelenting pressure, but it is crucial to realize that the spatial coordinates of the sportsworld are far wider than Kōshien. Hanshin Tiger baseball is distributed across visiting stadiums, practice facilities, dormitories, newsrooms, sports bars, and the living rooms of homes throughout Kansai. The nightly game itself, nine innings over three hours or so, may be the fundamental time unit, but baseball at this level is a complex matrix of multiple overlapping temporalities—at-bats, innings, games, series, seasons, and careers are among the units and sequences of action. These times and spaces of baseball action create the most developed matrix of numbers and narratives of all sports, a matrix that underlies the soap-opera structure of Hanshin baseball.
In the Dugout
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

It is the responsibility of the manager to prepare and command this large body of players, and chapter 4 analyzes the fraught and often untenable position of Hanshin managers and the coaching staffs they bring in to assist them. Almost all of them had been star players, and almost all had played for Hanshin. It is the most inbred organization in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Despite this—or, more probably, because of this—there have been twenty-five managerial changes in sixty-seven years of two-league play, stark evidence of the short leash and brief tenure of most men in that job. The chapter focuses on the four managers whose tenures and careers I tracked during my fieldwork years to analyze the contradictions of this position and to explore its ramifications for the larger question of what Max Gluckman, in a different context, identified as the allocation of responsibility. Who gets credit for success and who is blamed for failure in team sports is a chronic dilemma but an essential demand. It is a core point of convergence for the diverse assessments of players, managers, management, media, and fans.
In the Stands
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

Kōshien Stadium is not only Japan’s most storied stadium but also its most raucous stadium, with colorful spectator garb, nonstop chanting, trumpets, banners, balloons, and other elements of the festive atmosphere. Hanshin fan behavior at the stadium is passionate, choreographed, and collective, but it is also more complex and variegated than its first assault on the senses. The chapter begins by exploring the aesthetics and routines of cheering and the elaborate social organization that lies behind the fans. The stadium fanatics are not the limits of spectatorship in the Hanshin sportsworld, however, and the chapter then considers the many other ways of being a Hanshin fan and of being aware of and affiliated with Hanshin, from the excitement of the games to the routines of everyday life.
In the Press Box
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

Professional sports are among the most highly mediated areas of modern life. Baseball is at the center of sports coverage in Japan throughout the year, and the Tigers are followed by a huge corps of newspaper reporters and photographers and television and radio broadcasters and commentators. The chapter details the work routines and career paths of these media professionals. The most important of the Hanshin sports media are the five daily sports papers, which combine the exuberance of tabloid storytelling with the expertise of fulltime teams of highly knowledgeable reporters, editors, photographers, and commentators. Unlike the Hanshin Tigers’ main rival, the Yomiuri Giants, whose parent company is one of the largest media companies in the world, the Hanshin company lacks its own media company that it can control. Hanshin finds itself in a deeply problematical codependency with the regional and national media, and this Faustian bargain is analyzed in the chapter.
Baseball as Education and Entertainment
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

Baseball’s origins in Japan date back to the 1870s, and by the 1890s, it was a popular sport at the elite preparatory schools. Baseball was propelled into national consciousness by a series of games played by the most prestigious of those schools, First Higher School in Tokyo, against a team of Americans from the port of Yokohama. Their surprising success against the experienced American adults at a moment of patriotic fervor and a revival of a samurai warrior ethics as a national template popularized these boys, this sport, and this samurai imagery as a Japanese style of playing baseball. The game then spread rapidly through a national public education system, and it was promoted by newspapers and urban transport companies. Baseball, even its schoolboy origins, was not just education but edu-tainment, a contentious hybrid of moral pedagogy and profitable entertainment. Baseball, this chapter demonstrates, played a central role in the new metropolitan modernity of early twentieth-century Japan, and this provided a complex foundation for the professional sport that was Japan’s central entertainment in the post–World War II decades.
Becoming Nuns
Authors: Childs Geoff , Choedup Namgyal
Published: May 2019

Chapter 6 begins with the life story of a village-based nun to demonstrate how a woman’s path to religious attainment can be strewn with obstacles rooted in gender roles and ideologies. The chapter then explores the motives parents have for making their daughters nuns, the advantages young women perceive in pursuing a religious vocation, and gendered notions of virtue that affect life opportunities for nuns. The main theme of the chapter centers on how the modernizing of Buddhist institutions and educational migration are transforming the nun’s role from a servant in her parents’ village household to a disciple of the Buddha’s teachings who resides in an urban institution.
Nubri Futures?
Authors: Childs Geoff , Choedup Namgyal
Published: May 2019

Chapter 10 uses the gradual abandonment of a religious center and place of retirement to illustrate how educational migration is affecting elderly care, reconfiguring religious life, and compromising villagers’ ability to uphold a full complement of annual Buddhist rites. It then introduces the concept of “disembedding” to discuss the pros and cons of a migration phenomenon that distances youths from their places of birth while enhancing their capacity to function, as ethnic minorities, in a complex and rapidly changing society. The chapter and book conclude with a young migrant’s expression of appreciation for the sacrifices her parents made so that she could lead a more comfortable life.
Punctuated Humanitarianism and Discordant Politics
Authors: Feldman Ilana
Published: May 2019

This chapter provides an introduction to the history and central concepts of the book. It highlights the conceptual challenge that long-existing refugee camps pose for common understandings of camps and humanitarianism. It describes the beginnings of United Nations’ relief to displaced Palestinians. Considering the dilemmas of long-term humanitarianism, it introduces the term “punctuated humanitarianism” to capture the movement between emergency circumstances (the humanitarian situation) and extended, chronic need (the humanitarian condition). The chapter also explores Palestinian refugee politics in these conditions, identifying a discordant politics that has multiple, sometimes contradictory registers and aims. Refugee politics has been a politics of suffering, of aspiration, of existence, and of refusal.
The La Traviata Affair: From Courtesan to Lover
Authors: Roos Hilde
Published: May 2019

Chapter 2 deals exclusively with the group’s First Arts Festival, during which the group’s historic performance of La Traviata—as the first production of this opera by a non-European cast—took place. The preparations for the festival, the festival itself, and, more importantly, the aftermath and political fallout of their performance for apartheid’s government dignitaries are presented. The chapter illustrates how the nature of the group’s political compromise is large ignored.
Slow Death: On Twilight and Loss
Authors: Roos Hilde
Published: May 2019

In chapter 5, the gradual stifling of Eoan’s opera productions in the 1970s is illustrated. After being moved out to Athlone on the Cape Flats, the group was effectively exiled from the central position it used to occupy with regard to cultural activities (such as opera and ballet) in the city of Cape Town. At the same time, the detrimental effects of their political compromise on the support they used to enjoy within the colored community took on serious proportions. The underlying theme of this chapter is the increasing isolation (artistic and otherwise) the group experienced and the ebbing away of willpower and creative energy resulting in the cessation of operatic activities.
When Easy Becomes Hard
Authors: Herbert Steve
Published: May 2019

Life-sentenced prisoners will age, decline and die. As that population grows older, their mobility and their general health will decrease. These realities generate a growing number of challenges for prison staff. This chapter reviews the most significant of those challenges. Most notably, elderly prisoners will lose mobility, develop more chronic and complicated health issues, and witness declining cognitive ability. Few prisons are designed to address these issues, just as few can provide prisoners with a comfortable and dignified death. Absent a change in sentencing policy, America’s prisons will face only increasing difficulty in meeting the needs of elderly lifers
Invisible Pathways
Authors: Scorsone Kristyn
Published: May 2019

Using oral history research under the direction of the Queer Newark Oral History Project, this essay explores how contemporary black lesbian entrepreneurs in the city of Newark, New Jersey, are engaged in entrepreneurial practices that resist patterns of gentrification. I argue for expanding our definition of public history to account for the business practices and social structures that queer black women in Newark are erecting as a part of their survival. These serve to pave the way for the preservation of their culture, enable them to collaborate with community in shared authority, and present queer black women’s knowledge and history to the wider public. By expanding the definition of what constitutes a public historian, we acknowledge the power of black lesbians as producers of historical knowledge and create new access points for shared inquiry with various marginalized communities that reach beyond academia and cultural institutions.
Androgens and ovarian function: translation from basic discovery research to clinical impact
Authors: Walters K A , Rodriguez Paris V , Aflatounian A , Handelsman D J
Published: May 2019

In the last decade, it has been revealed that androgens play a direct and important role in regulating female reproductive function. Androgens mediate their actions via the androgen receptor (AR), and global and cell-specific Ar-knockout mouse models have confirmed that AR-mediated androgen actions play a role in regulating female fertility and follicle health, development and ovulation. This knowledge, along with the clinical data reporting a beneficial effect of androgens or androgen-modulating agents in augmenting in vitro fertilization (IVF) stimulation in women termed poor responders, has supported the adoption of this concept in many IVF clinics worldwide. On the other hand, substantial evidence from human and animal studies now supports the hypothesis that androgens in excess, acting via the AR, play a key role in the origins of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The identification of the target sites of these AR actions and the molecular mechanisms involved in underpinning the development of PCOS is essential to provide the knowledge required for the future development of novel, mechanism-based therapies for the treatment of PCOS. This review will summarize the basic scientific discoveries that have enhanced our knowledge of the roles of androgens in female reproductive function, discuss the impact these findings have had in the clinic and how a greater understanding of the role androgens play in female physiology may shape the future development of effective strategies to improve IVF outcomes in poor responders and the amelioration of symptoms in patients with PCOS.
Binding of an X-Specific Condensin Correlates with a Reduction in Active Histone Modifications at Gene Regulatory Elements
Authors: Street Lena Annika , Morao Ana Karina , Winterkorn Lara Heermans , Jiao Chen-Yu , Albritton Sarah Elizabeth , Sadic Mohammed , Kramer Maxwell , Ercan Sevinç
Published: May 2019

Condensins are evolutionarily conserved protein complexes that mediate chromosome compaction during cell division and have been implicated in gene regulation during interphase. Here, Street et al. analyzed the gene regulatory role of an X-specific...

Condensins are evolutionarily conserved protein complexes that are required for chromosome segregation during cell division and genome organization during interphase. In Caenorhabditis elegans, a specialized condensin, which forms the core of the dosage compensation complex (DCC), binds to and represses X chromosome transcription. Here, we analyzed DCC localization and the effect of DCC depletion on histone modifications, transcription factor binding, and gene expression using chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing and mRNA sequencing. Across the X, the DCC accumulates at accessible gene regulatory sites in active chromatin and not heterochromatin. The DCC is required for reducing the levels of activating histone modifications, including H3K4me3 and H3K27ac, but not repressive modification H3K9me3. In X-to-autosome fusion chromosomes, DCC spreading into the autosomal sequences locally reduces gene expression, thus establishing a direct link between DCC binding and repression. Together, our results indicate that DCC-mediated transcription repression is associated with a reduction in the activity of X chromosomal gene regulatory elements.
Early optic neuropathy during pegylated alfa 2-B interferon and ribavirin HCV treatment. A case report
Authors: Chis Bogdan Augustin , Nicula Cristina , Dumitrascu Dan
Published: May 2019

Introduction. Hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) represents an important health problem worldwide. Natural evolution, with its complications, remains a high cause of mortality and morbidity. Interferon (IFN) treatment, along with ribavirin (RBV), was for several years the standard of care. However, many adverse effects have been described during this therapy. We report a very elusive case of optic neuropathy.

Case report. We report the case of a female patient, 50 years old, who underwent pegylated IFN alfa 2B and RBV treatment for viral hepatitis C with low grade fibrosis, in a period when she was not qualified for free oral therapy (with direct acting agents according regulations in this country at that time). After 10 weeks of treatment, she experienced blurred vision and an optic neuropathy was diagnosed, attributed to the HCV. The symptoms and eye fundus alterations (hemorrhage, exudates) remitted after discontinuation of therapy.

Conclusion. IFN treatment remains an option for viral hepatitis, but the adverse effects are to be considered. Optic neuropathy can occur during the former standard of care HCV therapy. Patients submitted to IFN plus RBV therapy should be monitored for ocular adverse effects.
Analysis of geoecological problems of Dnipropetrovsk region (in multidimensional sign space)
Authors: Hrushka V. V. , Horozhankina N. A. , Boiko Z. V.
Published: May 2019

The generalized statistical data on changes in the indexes of statistical parameters of the investigated process in time and on sociogeosystems is calculated and given. According to the results of the analysis of the dynamics of the indexes of the statistical parameters of the development of the geoecological situation in urban and district sociogeosystems, it has been established that for the entire study period (2013- 2017) the largest number of positive changes (growth) of parameters was noted for the cities of Pavlograd, Novomoskovsk and Sinelnikove. The largest number of negative changes (diminishing) of parameters was noted for the cities of Dnipro, Vilnogirsk, Nikopol and Kam’yanske. These data characterize the stability of the dynamics of the geoecological situation in cities. It was determined that the district sociogeosystems are even more differentiated by changing the indices of statistical parameters of thedevelopment of the geoecological situation in comparison with the urban ones. More positive changes are characteristic for Novomoskovsk, Krynichansky, Mezhivskyy, Shirokivsky and Vasylkivsky districts; the majority of the negative - forApostolivsky, Pavlogradsky, Petropavlivsky, Pyatihatsky and Yurievsky districts. The statistical analysis of changes in the indexes in the context of the calculation periods gave reason to assert the existence of rather complex and contradictory time patterns of the development of the geoecological situation in the district sociogeosystems, but in the vast majority of cases they coincide with the results of modeling the trajectory of the process. The analysis of changes in the indices of statistical parameters of the geoecological situation for each city and district sociogeosystem has allowed us to group the parameters by the frequency of positive and negative changes. The classification of the development of the geoecological situation in the sociogeosystems is carried out on the criterion of the sum of codes of changes in the indexes of statistical parameters. The calculated sum of the codes of changes of the indexes of parameters for each sociogeosystemmakes it possibleto purposefully manage the process of formation and development of the geoecological situation in the sociogeosystems. A similar analysis was carried out for all parameters of the development of the geoecological situation, which showed that according to the dynamics of the indices, they differ significantly for cities and districts.
Assessment of open source digital elevation models (SRTM-30, ASTER, ALOS) for erosion processes modeling
Authors: Kovalchuk I. P. , Lukianchuk K. A. , Bogdanets V. A.
Published: May 2019

The relief has a major impact on the landscape`s hydrological, geomorphological and biological processes. Many geographic information systems used elevation data as the primary data for analysis, modeling, etc. A digital elevation model (DEM) is a modern representation of the continuous variations of relief over space in digital form. Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are important source for prediction of soil erosion parameters. The potential of global open source DEMs (SRTM, ASTER, ALOS) and their suitability for using in modeling of erosion processes are assessed in this study. Shumsky district of Ternopil region, which is located in the Western part of Ukraine, is the area of our study. The soils of Shumsky district are adverselyaffected by erosion processes. The analysis was performed on the basis of the characteristics of the hydrological network and relief. The reference DEM was generated from the hypsographic data(contours) on the 1:50000 topographical map series compiled by production units of the Main Department of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of Ministers. The differences between the reference DEM and open source DEMs (SRTM, ASTER and ALOS) are examined. Methods of visual detection of DEM defects, profiling, correlation, and statistics were used in the comparative analysis. This research included the analysis oferrors that occurred during the generation of DEM. The vertical accuracy of these DEMs, root mean square error (RMSE), absolute and relative errors, maximum deviation, and correlation coefficient have been calculated. Vertical accuracy of DEMs has been assessed using actual heights of the sample points. The analysis shows that SRTM and ALOS DEMs are more reliable and accurate than ASTER GDEM. The results indicate that vertical accuracy of DEMs is 7,02m, 7,12 m, 7,60 mand 8,71 m for ALOS, SRTM 30, SRTM 90 and ASTER DEMs respectively. ASTER GDEM had the highest absolute, relative and root mean square errors, the highest maximum positive and negative deviation, a large difference with reference heights, and the lowest correlation coefficient. Therefore, ASTER GDEM is the least acceptable for studying the intensity and development of erosion processes. The use of global open source DEMs, compared with the vectorization of topographic maps,greatly simplifies and accelerates the modeling of erosion processes and the assessment of the erosion risk in the administrative district.
Intelligent Mission of the University. To the 100th anniversary of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Authors: Svitlenko S. I.
Published: May 2019

The article shows modern approaches to the study of the problem of university mission in modern historiography. The author aims to highlight the University’s intellectual mission, which is considered in the historical retrospective on the example of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. It is disclosed how during the hundred years since its foundation, the university performed its intellectual mission at various stages of its functioning, although under the influence of ideological, socio-political and military-political factors, this process did not develop on a one-to-one basis ascending, but had certain breaks of graduality. The article presents the author’s vision of the essence of the modern intellectual mission of the Ukrainian national university, which consists in substantially modernizing all sections of work in order to maintain and strengthen the flagship positions in the system of higher education and science of Ukraine on the basis of an organic combination of modern theoretical and methodological, informational, technological and methodical preparation. specialists, educating them on the principles of high professional ethics and morality, in the spirit of selfless service to the university corporation and people of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the implementation of such an approach involves the active approval of the innovative, intellectual and informational model of university education and science that should be developed on an autonomous basis and, at the same time, effectively interact with the state, civil society and business circles.
US participation in IGCR activity during 1943
Authors: Yushkevych V. V.
Published: May 2019

The article covers the resumption of the active work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees through the prism of US activity within this structure. Created on the initiative of American leader F. Roosevelt in 1938 to help refugees from Austria and Germany, IGCR in reality appeared dysfunctional with the outburst of the Second World War. The article examines factors that revitalized activities of the defined structure. It was emphasized that the organization’s revival was made possible by appropriate initiatives originating from the British and American parties in early 1943. It was determined that strategic and tactical tasks were discussed and adopted on the basis of the results of an Inter-allied Bermuda Refugee Conference. Special mention was made to the work of American representatives of the American delegation headed by the Rector of Princeton University - Harold Dodds.The article reveals agenda of the resumed meetings of the Executive Committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, analysis its results. The main range of issues that the Directorate of the IGCR had to deal with: the renewal of the membership of twenty-nine countries and the further expansion of the organization through the invitation and involvement of twenty new member states, the co-optation of new representatives of the new member states into the governing and executive body of the organization, changing approaches to funding, and introduction of the principle of “binding decisions”, preparation for the convening of a General congress.The questions, which were separately considered at the meetings of the Executive Committee - expansion of the territorial mandate of the IGCR, Soviet-Polish contradictions, the definition of the representative of the French delegation in connection with the struggle for leadership in the resistance of Russia, the creation of refugee camps in North Africa. It has been evaluated the influence on decision-making process of American representatives in the Executive Committee of the IGCR - Patrick Malin and John Winant.During the preparation of the article a potential source as the diplomatic correspondence of documents of the American foreign policy department are researched. Attention is drawn to the analysis of this matter in the investigations and research work of foreign historians. The article clarifies that the formation of a new system of international protection of refugees proclaimed F. Roosevelt in 1938 took place in complicated foreign policy circumstances. The change of the situation on the fronts, the emergence of public opinion and the new approaches of the British government allowed in the first half of 1943 to return to the development of instruments and mechanisms to conduct relief work and assistance to war refugees through the implementation of IGCR’s projects.
The experience of regional transformation in the EU: the precedents of Italy and Spain
Authors: Plyasov V. S.
Published: May 2019

This article analyzes the political transformation polysyllabic societies in the era of modernism in the Second example of institutional reforms in Italy and Spain. The territorial structure of Italy in its present form was constituted in 1970 (special status regions, including Sardinia, Sicily, South Tyrol, were identified earlier). Each region has a population of regional assembly, which in turn elects the executive (government) headed by the president of the region. Regionalization of the Italian political and social life in general took place. This that the «region» replaced «province» of the political hierarchy of the country. The process of reaching a consensus at the regional level was much softer and adjusted, aimed at a compromise. Concern «radical social renewal» changed worry about administrative efficiency and professional level – a change institutional priorities. In general, population and community leaders satisfied with the availability and much greater openness regional administrations versus national. Regional governments have become laboratories of policy innovation, largely determined the «new way of doing politics». Also analyzes the Spanish experience of institutional reforms. New model of territorial organization of Spain called State autonomy. The article notes that the Spanish Constitution does not specify either the number or the name of the autonomous communities, but merely indicates ways to individual provinces or their associations can create such communities (this right was implemented by all provinces and is now in Spain composed of 17 autonomous communities). In Spain, always in one way or another existing political and cultural regionalism, there is always special historical area. The history of the country is in this respect the history of vibrations, movements between centralism and regionalism.
Voluntary activity in Ukraine as a social activity
Authors: Bolotova V. O. , Liashenko N. O. , Baidak T. M.
Published: May 2019

The article clarifies the concepts of social activity, volunteer activity, volunteering, volunteer. Volunteer activity is defined as a separate type of social activity. For such a type of social activity, the following features are characteristic: the lack of remuneration in general, voluntariness, the benefit of the group, or society from activities. Volunteering can be organized or unorganized, carried out individually or in a group, public or private organizations. Based on the characteristics of volunteering, volunteers are people who voluntarily, on their own accord, engage in activities that benefit people or the environment and do not require financial compensation.The article describes the results of a sociological study aimed at determining the level of volunteer activity of the inhabitants of Kharkiv. The data obtained during the study allowed us to say that in most cases, volunteering is associated with providing food, things, equipment and housing. To fully develop volunteer practices in society, and to support volunteering by the broad masses, society must trust volunteers and recognize volunteer activities as socially useful. Among Kharkiv people, the level of trust in volunteering is not high, moreover, this level is particularly low among people with secondary education and low income. The main reasons for non-participation in volunteering activities are the conviction of Kharkiv residents that the state, not ordinary citizens, should take care of the poor. Volunteers are more likely to be engaged by respondents with higher education and middle or high levels of prosperity. The most promising areas for volunteering are helping homeless children and orphans, helping the elderly and the disabled, helping the internally displaced people and improving the city. Various forms of volunteering are characteristic of different areas of volunteering. The main forms of assistance to the army and internally displaced people is money and supply providing. Regarding orphans and homeless children, the main forms of assistance are supply help, concerts, festivals and other entertainment activities organizing. The basic forms of assistance to the elderly are assistance in organizing events, assistance with professional counseling, help with supply. The main motive for participation in volunteer activity is the desire to change society by solving acute social problems.
Socio-cultural dimension of modern philosophical and educational paradigm
Authors: Shapoval A. P.
Published: May 2019

Social determinism of changes in the system of national education is the main factor determining the content and direction of educational reforms. Therefore, the analysis of the socio-cultural dimension of the most common basis for the modernization of education - the philosophical and educational paradigm - is of paramount importance for understanding the strategy and orientation of the development of domestic education.The purpose of the study is to determine the direction and effects of sociocultural determinants of the content of the contemporary philosophical and educational paradigm. The object of research is the philosophical and educational paradigm in the system of socio-cultural determinants. Proceeding from this, the subject of the study is the impact of socio-cultural factors on the content of the modern philosophical and educational paradigm and its study in the domestic philosophy of education.According to the goal, the following research objectives are defined: 1. To analyze the approaches to the analysis of the socio-cultural dimension of the modern philosophical and educational paradigm in the national philosophy of education. 2. To determine the main factors of socio-cultural influence on the content of modern philosophical and educational paradigm. 3. Determine the results of this influence on the content of the modern philosophical and educational paradigm.Based on the analysis of existing approaches to the definition of the socio-cultural dimension of the modern philosophical and educational paradigm, the main directions of social determination of the content of the contemporary philosophical and educational paradigm and the components of this content are specified.It is determined that in the sociocultural aspect the modern philosophical and educational paradigm is determined by the formation of the information society and the general process of anthropocentral reorientation of civilization. The most common direction in determining the content of the philosophical and educational paradigm of these factors is the introduction of culture as the main dimension of the modern educational process.
Urban (co)participatory practices (case Dnipro City)
Authors: Demicheva A. V.
Published: May 2019

The study tested, that participatory urban practices are a form of social practices, implemented in city areas and connected with the process of (co)participation of the citizens, both collectively and individually, in the city’s vital activities. Those practices can be implemented on the three levels: formal, semi-formal, informal. Wherein, it is stated, that on the formal level of the implementation of participatory practices, citizens recreate themselves in a form of territorial group, on the semi-formal – as a community, and on the informal – as a togetherness. There is a whole spectrum of various participatory practices on the formal level – a city referendum, general citizens’ meeting at the place of residence, local initiatives, public hearings and councils, bodies of self-organization of the population, etc. To semi-formal one can include the budgets of participation, city participatory projects, etc., to informal - the local actions of like-minded people, who unite around space. The study notes, that since the 2000’s, the gradual activation of collective participatory forms has begun. Even though, the researches have shown, that those practices nowadays are vital only for a small part of the territorial community. Probably, the main reason for that is the habitus of modern Ukrainian that is a combination of strong distrust towards government, including the local one; distrust that people are capable to influence the decisions of officers, paternalism of mindset, etc. Therefore, the leftovers of Soviet world perception don’t let the modern citizens actively use legal schemes in urban participatory practices. On the other hand, the informal practices follow the concept of tactical urbanism. Its main idea is that people change the city themselves, only they can improve the surroundings through the action that don’t require neither a lot of time, nor money, just a bunch of enthusiasts. Moreover, the study proved that today institutionalization of urban participatory practices takes place both «from the bottom and from above». The main prerequisite for the emergence of new practices is the impossibility of the old (traditional) to fully meet the demands of actors in achieving certain goals. In this regard, new practices arise, for example, a consensus conference, a consultative survey, an open office, a public panel, etc. The actual and potential level of participation of residents of the city of Dnipro in the life of the city is revealed. The results of four national surveys, studies of the Department of Sociology recorded that the residents carry out routine actions based on the habit, believing in the fact that there is a certain order of action, but not much efficiency in them. Regarding semi-formal and informal practices, the readiness for their implementation is inherent in the Dnipro City, not to a significant extent.
Workshop as Form of Existing of Philosophy in University
Authors: Shevtsov S. V.
Published: May 2019

Critical thinking, reflection, multiple methods of researching need a preparation, discipline, training. Classical forms as lectures, seminars don’t response of contemporaries challenges, because of a subject-object installation between a lecturer and students. It’s impossible to create researching atmosphere at an auditorium. The aim of the article is clarification of conditions of creating of workshop as a form of existing of philosophy in higher education.Workshop as a specific pedagogical form isn’t something principal new thing. Pedagogic measurement is a fundamental component of workshops of painters (for example, workshops of Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer van Delft etc.). Something like that we can observe in theatrical workshops.In 1922 was created French Group of New Education (J. Piaget, H. Wallon, P. Langevin etc.). They rethought ideas of J.-J. Rousseau, I. Pestalozzi, J. Korczak, A. Makarenko etc. and formulated six rules of pedagogic workshop: a) active position of a teacher and students; b) priority of autonomy during education; c) confidence of every student’s talent; d) using of critical thinking; e) intersubjective character of thinking; f) accuracy of calculation of psychological statesю.I’ve proposed seven components of a philosophical workshop. The first is informative that consists of two aspects: a) topological – a philosophical workshop as a communicative space; b) technological – a philosophical workshop as a developing skills and proficiencies. The second is a historical component that includes: a) foundation of our university; b) personal roots of our philosophical workshop (V. Karpov – a founder of our department of philosophy and the first rector of the same time, G. Zajchenko – the first doctor of philosophical sciences); c) opening of specialized academic council in 1992 by P. Gnatenko; d) opening a branch ‘philosophy’ in our university. The third component is developing of three fundamental humanitarian practices – speaking, reading, writing. The fourth component is methodological as familiarization of classical (analyses, synthesis, observing, describing etc.), non-classical (hermeneutics, structuralism etc.), post-non-classic (synergic) methodologies. The fifth is organizing component – priority of communicative-praxeological approach under lectures. The sixth component is communicative as forming of creative atmosphere during class. And the last – theoretical component as possibility of creating of own metaphysics.
Protests and fashion in modern society: political science
Authors: Voronkova A. I.
Published: May 2019

The article is devoted to the problem of the studying of fashion and protests in the modern society.Within the work some classical and modern theoretical methods of the regarding of protests and the forms of their realization are viewed. It is stated that in the most cases a protest is studied with the observing of either common behavior or actions, public or social movements, or various ways of political involving and participating.Also, there the terms of ‘political participating’ and ‘political protest’ are differentiated in the modern political discourse.As a matter of fact, in the article it is proposed to consider ‘fashion’ as a complicated structured phenomena that, on one hand, is an innovation (an individualization) and, on the other hand, an inheritance (a massif dissemination, a social equalization).Likewise, there are analyzed possible variations of cooperation between fashion and protests under conditions of the progressing mobility. Hence, it is decided that fashion stimulates participants of actual protests and, at the same time, expands their number with so-called ‘passive component’. For example, the black color has united the most spectacular representatives of the cinema regarding one problem that is connected with the Golden Globe Film Festival. However, such a massif dissemination of the black dress-code could have made all the guests of the festival accept the common idea.So, it is concluded that the dissemination of protests causes the appearance of legitimate social movements and organizations, as well as destructive modes of common behavior. In the light of above mentioned, it should be stressed that teenagers are in the group of the most possible risk who are very active participants of meetings, tumults that provoke the spreading of antisocial behavior in the society.In addition, in the article is proclaimed the idea that the cooperation between fashion and protests in the modern mobile society is presented by two variants. They are ‘fashion in protests’ that is characterized by the presence of fashion symbols in any protest and ‘fashion problems’ that occur constantly.As for the first variant, a certain list of examples can be proposed: individual demarches, group and collective actions that expect their popularization in the entire society (or, at least, in some of its parts). Protest practices prove that this popularization is based on the transformed classical scheme of the existence and functioning of culture in the society (for example, the appearance of fashion symbols such as the orange color during the events in Ukraine in 2004).As for the second variant, we can suggest as an example the fact that at the end of the XXth century and at the beginning of the XXIst century were widely discussed problems of humans` and parents` rights, the support of healthy life style and etc. For this reason, there were the Movement for humans` rights, the Movement for parents` rights, the Life Without Drogues Movement, the Eco Food Movement and many others.
Electoral parties: the ideological positioning of parliamentary parties in Ukraine
Authors: Slipetska J. M.
Published: May 2019

The article defines the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of the concept of «electoral party», investigates how this political institution evolved and which subspecies can be distinguished. Revealed that the electoral political party is a modern type of political party, characterized by erosion of the boundaries of the social base, professionalization and personalization of politics, de-ideologization of the party program, and recognition of the leading role of the electoral function. The main sub-types of electoral parties include: electoral-professional parties, cartel parties, strataghia, modern personnel parties, program parties, business-party parties, and «big tents».The ideological component of parliamentary parties in Ukraine according to the results of the last elections in 2014 has been analyzed. The methodology of content analysis of party programs by the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, the Narodnyj Front, Samopomisch, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Radical Party and the Opposition Bloc, using the formula of Chi Min Kim and Richard Fording, determined the ideological positioning each of them. Revealed that parliamentary parties in Ukraine have weak ideological articulation, the vast majority of parliamentary parties tend to centralism.According to a number of formal signs, determined that modern parliamentary parties in Ukraine are electoral in their essence - with blurred ideological positions, the main purpose of which is to reach the widest possible electorate and gain maximum representation in parliament. Determined that Ukrainian political parties are «parties for all» with a blurred social base and de-ideologization. Analyzing the programs of Ukrainian parliamentary parties, was found common to all parties, namely, the abuse of populism and attempts to take a centrist stand.
Trust as a social resource: from theoretical conceptualization to the search for mechanisms of practical management
Authors: Stetsenko T. O.
Published: May 2019

The article is devoted to the analysis of trust as a social resource of society. It is established that awareness of the importance of trust for the society functioning is directed by the logic of scientific thought that proceeds from theoretical conceptualization of phenomenon of trust to the search for mechanisms of practical management of trust as a social resource.The main purpose of the article is to identify the mechanisms for managing the social resource of trust. In connection with this, the basic achievements and directions of the study of the phenomenon of trust are described. According to the latest theoretical researches it is substantiated the necessity of interpreting trust as a sociological category. The interdependence between trust and social capital is described. An understanding of trust in the sense of social resource is revealed. The main experience of empirical measurement of trust in Ukraine is presented.The author proposes the main mechanisms for management of social resource of trust on the example of Ukrainian society: 1) practical sociological measurement of trust; 2) reproduction of trust criteria; 3) informing; 4) tools of control; 5) creation and implementation of socially significant initiatives. Also author insist on the necessity to distinguish the constructive and manipulative forms of mechanisms for management of social resource of trust, as well as the features by which they are determined. The revealed mechanisms for management of social resource of trust are proposed to take into account in the future theoretical developments, empirical studies and practical social management.