bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Lyčių lygybės strategijos diegimo įvertinimas Europos bendrijos profesinio ir tęstinio mokymo institucijose
Authors: Šidlauskienė Virginija , Eitutytė Daina
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to discuss the possibilities to evaluate the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming in the institutions of professional and continuing education in the form of a virtual network. The article develops a discussion of the methodological issues of the conception of NET31REM that is based on the use of information and communication technologies to create an international network through seminars, conferences, and surveys.
Išviešintos erdvės
Authors: Trumpytė Dovilė
Published: January 2019

Review: Tereškinas, Artūras (ed.). 2002. Vieši gyvenimai, intymios erdvės: kūnas, viešumas, fantazija šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje. Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
Radikalios mikrosociologijos gairės
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Contrary to the popular definition of qualitative research as “the new mode” of cognition we can see qualitative methods as having at its essence the concepts of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and radical microsociology. The focus of this article is on the historical roots of qualitative method and the methodological tension created by the foundational and discoursive terminology. The goal of this paper is to discuss and suggest a need for sociology to more thoroughly integrate microsociological insights into its theory and practice. It is from this point of view that we must consider the contemporary “demise” of empiricism and make explicit some substantive connections between the new ways of cognition, i. e. qualitative methods, “post-“ insights, and “radical” microsociological trends. Within the larger context of sociology as an academic discipline, a growing breach now exist between the proponents of a so-called quantitative epistemology and those who have identified themselves as qualitative researchers. The transformation of recent methodology has been accompanied by a proliferation of qualitative techniques of research. Its focus shifts from foundational attempts to the discoursive, contextual, and indexical problems. Supposing that the two ways of cognition are based on different sociological traditions and methodological justifications leads to asking the question posed to us by the dualist context of latter-day sociological inquiry: what are the roots of qualitative research? This paper begins by arguing that progress towards a fully articulated sociological practice must proceed now from a historically focused analysis of different methodological ideas. The themes and the principles of the classic methodological works of these traditions reveal the plausibility of the claim that the incorporation of their content is central for recent methodology. The main argument of this article is that the highlighting and criticizing particular arguments relevant to the debate between the quantitative sociologists and the critics of quantitative researches leads to a better understanding of the radical transformation of the contemporary critical sociological thought. From the critical point of view the main task is to ensure the proceeding potency to make sociological discourse negotiable.
Organizacinio identiteto konstravimas mažumų bendruomenėse
Authors: Pilotta Joe
Published: January 2019

The purpose of this article is to outline the basic methodological, theoretical, and technical issues in the development and practice of organizational identity formation through research.

Power, or more precisely, empowerment is conceptualized as a proper communication variable rather than as a poorly disguised analogue of a dimension of physical calculation. This means that we shall not entertain in this discussion the push-pull metaphors so endemic to analyses presupposing the mechanical triad, force-resistance-change. Instead, we shall make some explicit assumptions about organizations and generate a communication evaluation of power.
Postmodernioji galios epistema ir jos raiška Lietuvos viešajame diskurse
Authors: Baločkaitė Rasa
Published: January 2019

The aim of this article is to analyze the postmodern episteme of power and its outlines in Lithuania. Postmodern concept of power and discursive regime of truth is analyzed following the theoretical premises of poststructuralist theories by J.–F. Lyotard and J. Baudrillard. Credibility of postmodern discourse in Lithuania is being proved by illuminating and developing the concept of double modernization of Lithuania and devaluation of two projects of modernity, the soviet one and the national one. The model of national modernity replaced the devaluated model of soviet modernity in Lithuania after 1990. The national modern system of signs and symbols, inherited partly from early twentieth century, experienced a deep crisis in approximately 1993: credibility and implied self evidence of the meta language of national rebirth has been destroyed; systematic exploitation of remains of the meta language, its signs and symbols, turned out to normative and commercially successful activity; and finally parody, former shadow of reality, overshadowed the reality itself. The postmodern discursive regime of truth and power emerged in Lithuania from the crisis of modern meta language of national rebirth.
Rygos bobulės. Amžiaus ir galios veiksniai translokalinėse rusakalbių aplinkose
Authors: Novikova Irina
Published: January 2019

Using a transnational perspective, this article analyzes a web of relations forged by, around and among women in the age of babushka in the Russian-speaking families of Riga, Latvia, and the ways in which gender, age and power interface the relations in the sphere of the private, intimate, familial. My interest is in looking into how these relations position women of age in certain social formations, in the exchanges of material and intangible resources and symbols between their “origins” and their “place”. The object of my fieldwork, analysis and argument is elderly women, or babushkas, in the age (Pearsall 1997; Rosow 1965) by which a Soviet woman had already fulfilled her duties and identities of “a working woman” and “a good mother”. It is a woman’s time that actually was never explicitly addressed by Soviet dominant gender ideology behind well-known cultural representations.
Rožinis inkliuzas knygų lentynoje
Authors: Šidlauskienė Virginija
Published: January 2019

Review: Ślęczka, Kazimierz. 2005. Feminizmas: šiuolaikinio feminizmo visuomeninės ideologijos ir koncepcijos. Vilnius: Mintis.
Vytauto Kavolio istorinė sociologija: metodologiniai aspektai
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

This paper examines the problematic relationship between sociology and history that had a significant place in Kavolis’s historical sociology. In light of the methodological concerns, the paper attempts to provide a conceptual introduction to Vytautas Kavolis’s historical writings.

Vytautas Kavolis was a Lithuanian and American sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the civilizational analysis. Although the concept of “civilizational analysis” has deep roots in the social sciences, Kavolis points out to an urgent need to re-think it for contemporary times. His method of civilizational analysis supports an interesting pluralist perspective. Kavolis suggests a need for sociology to more thoroughly integrate sociological, historical, anthropological, psychological, and philosophical analysis into its theory and practice. He has developed an interdisciplinary method along the lines of a historical, cultural, and existential sociology.

The central thesis is that although Kavolis is often regarded as an nonempirical theorist, existential empirical experience of everyday life is actually central to Kavolis’s work. The relation between sociology and history as academic disciplines is reexamined by comparing the civilizational method of Vytautas Kavolis and the approach of the traditional historiography. In contrast to a conventional historiography that centers attention upon descriptive historical facts, Kavolis urged a sociology that is historically reflexive and that is based on the existential conception of man.

Kavolis‘s historical sociology is contrasted also with the theoretical attempts to build grand historical systems which narrows the “small” causal relations in history. Kavolis applies Norbert Elias’s concept of civilizing processes to problems of modernization, individualization, and humanization of human consciousness. His work is especially noteworthy when he explores the different paths of socio-historical modernization, offering a comprehensive analysis of the cultural significance of the new modes of thought and action.
Viduriniosios klasės diskursas postkomunistinėse visuomenėse
Authors: Gečienė Ingrida
Published: January 2019

The focus of this article is to reveal some ambiguities existing in discourse on middle class, particularly on causal relationship between the middle class and democracy, and to show some risk in applying such Western theoretical framework in post-Communist context. Therefore, the essential purpose has been to ask: what explanatory power does the term ‘middle class’ have in the analysis of post-Communist societies? Does the term really help us to understand the actual situation within the rapidly changing societies of the region, or does it serve only as a powerful metaphor of their ‘backwardness’ in comparison with Western ones? The practice of transferring Western theoretical tools to other social contexts is hardly new. We need only think of the transfer of United States modernisation theory to explain the ‘backwardness’ of Latin America. The theory and its constituent elements did not fit these societies precisely because the theory succeeded only in showing them up as backward in terms of the modernisation process. Similarly, if to use the concept of the middle class as purely descriptive tool for analysing post-Communist social reality, then it quickly becomes apparent that such phenomenon as the middle class hardly exist, at least not in the form it takes in Western countries. However, such implication says nothing about particular social realities or about the degree of democratic development in post-Communist countries. The enormous emphasis placed on the middle class in post-Communist intellectual discourse makes one aware that this concept is used not so much as a theoretical tool in explaining social reality than as an ‘ideological artefact’. Therefore, we can speak about signs of an ideological manipulation of theoretical assumptions, employing otherwise quite artificial models for the construction of compliant social structures, or at least presenting a simulacrum of them from above. Besides, the common practice of transferring Western models to the East points towards the dominance of Western political programmes in setting research agendas and in attracting sponsorship for academic work. Such negative effects simultaneously lead us to look critically at any direct application of Western concepts to the post-Communist world and inspire us to look for more adequate approaches and theories with which to explain the social reality of the region.
Religijos, kaip socialinės institucijos, samprata
Authors: Advilionienė Živilė
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is analyze the characteristics and functions of religion as a social institution in contemporary society. The is built upon the ideas of Durkheim, Weber, Berger and Luckmann, Grigas, Laumenskaitė. A special attention is given to the concpetions of the social construction of reality and symbolic universe of Berger and Luckmann.
Inteligentija ir politika
Authors: Rapoportas Sergejus
Published: January 2019

The article is dedicated to contemporary political situation in Lithuania, emphasizing sociopsychological content of the opposition between different political competitors in modern Lithuania.

The article emphasizes the role of intelligentsia as the basic group of politicians, its’ forms, intentions of their political activity, and, especially, the motive of their „self-importance“. This competetive activity has moral „cover“, opponents reveal each other, using the fact, that under the cover of popular slogans they satisfy their own needs and values. As a result, a morality occurs a kind of tool in political game.
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (II)
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.
Šeima ir vaikai: realijos ir vertinimai
Authors: Mitrikas Alfonsas Algimantas
Published: January 2019

In the paper family life and children having realities and relationships of their evaluations on the basis of corresponding statistical data (about the real situation and its changes), European Values Study and World Values Survey data (about attitudes and evaluations) carried out in 1999-2001 are analysed.

Family formation, having children and family life factual status are connected with the world of values, regulations which are reflected in people’s attitudes (and evaluations) about different aspects of life, and about having offspring as well. However, relations of the real state, views and evaluations are not so simple and easily interpreted.

Comparing real facts and evaluations we rather often encounter their contradictions. The refore the goal of the paper is to discuss the conditioning circumstances of the contradictions.

The main attention is given to the problem of having children. The problem is analysed starting with family formation and impacts on its stability and ending with the phenomena of extra-marital children. The main particularly used indicator of having children is the number of births given by a woman during her life, i.e. total fertility rate (TFR). The questions why the TFR have remained higher and in recent thirty years and there hasn’t been a marked decrease in the European countries where modern viewpoint of family life is backed up are discussed. Relations between the share of extramarital children in different countries and corresponding view of family formation and children having and others are fixed.
Filantropija Lietuvoje: modernybės paieškos tradicinėje visuomenėje
Authors: Vaidelytė Eglė
Published: January 2019

Philanthropy phenomenon in contemporary Lithuania demonstrates the weakness of philanthropic and civic traditions that occurred due to the gap during communist period. This tendency puts ambiguity to the perception of what is “pure” and “appropriate” form of philanthropic action. During the last century all over the world philanthropic concept has acquired new modern qualities of rationality that largely enriched the traditional philanthropy understanding. The perception of philanthropy as a traditional Christian charity is still dominating in Lithuanian society, nevertheless philanthropic action appears as a combination of traditional altruistic and modern egoistic intentions as the nowadays reality doesn’t allow to avoid modern rational aspects of philanthropy. This paper is dwelling on the analysis of empirical quantitative and qualitative data revealing the philanthropy perception and intentions of philanthropic action among Lithuanian society and philanthropy experts.
Naudojimo instrukcija: kaip dekonstruoti liberalų humanizmą, bet nepakliūti į genealogijos pinkles
Authors: Gedutis Aldis
Published: January 2019

Review: Bielskis, Andrius. 2005. Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political: From Genealogy to Hermeneutics. Palgrave Macmillan.
Globalizacija ir tapatybė: asmeninės pastabos apie lietuviškuosius tapatybės diskursus
Authors: Donskis Leonidas
Published: January 2019

Contemporary society’s human identity is multidimensional and pierces at least several layers of cultural and social experience. Vytautas Kavolis analyzed postmodern identity as an attempt to bridge what was cleaved off by modernity, joining modernism and antimodernism in our consciousness and culture. Does it make sense to return, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, to some worn-out models of self comprehension and identity describing loyalty as a sort of uncompromising battle for, and defence of, the nation and its history? Or should we rely, instead, on our ability to fill the gaps bridging ourselves and the others in terms of open-mindedness, understanding, and devotion to our culture combined with responsiveness to other cultures? Can we inherit identity in an age when it tends to be a matter of conscious choice and achievement, rather than ascription? The article addresses all these issues describing identity in the age of globalization as a symbolic design within which we search for the concepts and the frames of meaning to interpret ourselves and the world around us.
Gėjų ir lesbiečių atsivėrimas viešumo ir privatumo sankirtoje: seksualinė pilietybė, slaptumas ir heteronormatyvi publika
Authors: Tereškinas Artūras
Published: January 2019

The paper focuses on the relationship between Lithuanian gays and lesbians’ coming out experiences and sexual citizenship. Analyzing Lithuanian homosexuals’ view of public/private divide, it asks how they perform their identities in public and private settings and how they align themselves with being public. What anxieties over citizenship and sexual boundaries are reflected in their life histories? The paper starts from the premise that “sexual citizenship” can be considered a fourth aspect of citizenship in addition to the traditional model of political, social and civic rights. Plummer (1995) conceptualizes it as rights to choose what people do with their bodies, emotions, relationships, gender identities and desires. This citizenship is related to the plurality of multiple and overlapping public discourses on intimacies. Diane Richardson (2000a) emphasizes the “right of identity” as a part of sexual citizenship. This right to have a public identity is particularly relevant when we speak of wider issues of secrecy and disclosure, discrimination and tolerance, and the private and public. Examining 32 interviews with gays and lesbians, in this paper, we argue that their life stories comprise the context for the emergence of the sexual citizen because these stories tell of exclusion based on sexuality, gender, body, and publicity in the post-Soviet Lithuania. Since the public is still exclusive of homosexuality, most interviewed homosexuals attempt to pass as heterosexual in the public sphere. In a society in which heteronormativity is a powerful principle of social and cultural order and heterosexuality, an essential aspect of human nature and intelligibility, the majority of homosexual people hide their sexual orientation from their relatives, colleagues and even friends. The informants’ lives oscillate between pleasure to be open and danger to be stigmatized. On one hand, they strive for greater integration of their sexual experiences into cultural narratives of citizenship; on the other hand, absorbing normative sexual and gender disciplines they succumb to conservative appeals to privatized sexual identities.
Vertybiniai pokyčiai Lietuvos visuomenėje: nuo tradicinių link sekuliarių – racionalių vertybių
Authors: Žiliukaitė Rūta
Published: January 2019

The analysis of value changes in contemporary Lithuanian society, presented in this article, is based on insights of Ronald Ingelhart, that transition from a traditional, agrarian society to industrial society is accompanied by the changes in worldviews, reflected in value shift from traditional values, emphasizing traditional authority, importance of religion, family and community, to secular-rational values, emphasizing independence and autonomy of individual.

Using data of European Value Surveys and World Values Surveys conducted in Lithuania from 1990 to 2005, the author of the article seeks to reveal intergenerational value differences between generations that grew up before Second World War and generations, that reached adulthood during years of Soviet regime, between generations that grew up in still agrarian Lithuania and generations that grew up in more industrialized and urbanized Lithuania. Data analysis, presented in the article, show that intergenerational differences in value orientations form one dimension of value change, related to 20th century modernization processes in Lithuania.
16-asis pasaulinis sociologų kongresas. Žvilgsnis iš vidaus
Authors: Juozeliūnienė Irena
Published: January 2019

A look on XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology.
Kelio korupcijai užkirtimas baudžiamosios teisės priemonėmis
Authors: Michailovič Ilona
Published: January 2019

The article provides an analysis of the issues relating to corruption problems – the social conditionality of corruption, the definition of this phenomenon, and types of corruption. The problems relating to the definition of corruption are analyzed through the prism of criminal law, with the provision of a list of criminal offences and account taken of the requirements of international instruments. Corruption is analyzed as a social problem, while exploring the causes of this phenomenon. It is stated in the article that corruption is still more becoming a modern topic, the causes of this phenomenon may be explained by the provisions of various theories. The term of corruption does not coincide with the terms used for bribery and bribe. Bribery means separate cases that consist of bribe giving, receiving or soliciting, whereas corruption means the condition related to those phenomena, which is negatively assessed in a certain environment or the entire society. The limits of the term of corruption encompass the whole syndrome of this phenomenon. Therefore for efficient prevention of corruption the complex of civil, financial, banking, tax, customs, inheritance, housing, trade, family, ecological, etc. legal norms and only then administrative, criminal proceedings, and criminal law is necessary. However, in terms of human rights the criminal law should be one of the most important guarantees against the criminal encroaching on them and against self-will of the state authorities and officials. Criminal offences of corruptive nature are divided into corruptive criminal offences sensu stricto and sensu largo. Corruptive criminal offences sensu largo are committed committing corruptive criminal offences sensu stricto. A close interaction exists between them in respect of the subject and object, since in many cases a bribe may be a stimulus to another crime, encouragement, reason. Taking into account the provisions of international instruments, corruptive criminal offences sensu stricto would include taking of a bribe (passive corruption), giving of a bribe (active corruption), intermediary bribery (trade in influence) as well as criminal offences of corruptive nature in the private sector. Corruptive criminal offences sensu largo would include, for example, abuse, registration of illicit rights to the item, disclosure of the state secret, disclosure of the secret of office, abuse of power, criminal offences in the field of political corruption, disclosure of commercial secret, etc. This list is incomplete, taking into consideration the complicated nature of corruptive crimes. In terms of corruption prevention it is necessary to stress that social legal control of corruptive activity is not possible without the active cooperation of state anticorruption structures and the civil society. It is possible to seek for formation of the anticorruptive opinion of the society, the role of which is, though slowly, increasing. Therefore it is necessary to prepare the ways and measures.
Globalizacija ir intelektualo atsakomybė
Authors: Mickūnas Algis
Published: January 2019

The question of intellectual responsibility in confrontation with globalization is the philosophical question from Socratic to modern philosophies. In brief, it is impossible to practice philosophy and not to raise this question. It is well known that Socrates stood his ground unto death with the demand that he and others have a duty to interrogate all claims to truth regardless of their origin. Intellectual honesty was for him a requirement to keep open the discursive domain – called the polis – wherein the search for truth could be pursued. This means that the task of philosophy as such is identical with the maintenance of an open polis wherein all theories and propositions can be tested and contested. Hence, when we raise the question of the responsibility of the intellectual, we must recall the task for philosophy set by Socrates. Yet our situation is quite different from that of classical Athens. We are confronted by modern philosophy in its ontological and metaphysical guises that require a serious consideration whether we can even think of the relationship between intellectual and responsibility. It is our task, then, to consider what sort of position will open up for an intellectual that would be worthy of philosophy.
Grindžiamosios teorijos metodologija: B. Glaser’io ir A.Strauss’o versijų palyginimas
Authors: Petružytė Donata
Published: January 2019

Grounded Theory is one of the most widely used methodologies in social sciences of modern days. Clear framing of differences of two principal versions of Grounded Theory (Glaserian and Straussian) is the essential question when one wants to understand it and make Grounded Theory research. Therefore in this paper it will be briefly presented Grounded Theory and analyzed differences of its two principal versions. At first it will be discussed the context of Grounded Theory origin and its contribution to the methodology of social sciences. It will be proceeded with coherent analysis of differences of both versions. In the beginning will be discussed historical aspects (the split between two co-originators which influenced further development of Grounded Theory methodology). Afterwards will be analyzed theoretical basis of Grounded Theory and discussed its place among quantitative and qualitative research methods. Focal attention in both topics will be given to the differences between Glaserian and Straussian versions. Ultimately it will be discussed various procedural and technical discrepancies. The analysis of differences leads to the conclusion that two versions of Grounded Theory can be treated as two substantially distinct methodologies.
Socialinė benamių atskirtis ir jos formavimasis
Authors: Kocai Elena
Published: January 2019

The paper analyzes the process of homeless social exclusion, its stages, also main levels and factors of exclusion. In the article it is maintained that not only heavy economic situation (destitution of home, unemployment, low incomes) of the homeless, intermitted social links and insufficiently effective social policy of the state condition their exclusion, but also individual spiritual and mental features of the homeless themselves that determine their stigmatization and ostracism. Social exclusion of homeless is a double-sided process: firstly, it is predetermined by the peculiarities and conduct of the individual, secondly – by the social environment where he lives.
„Nenutrūkusi gija”: Nerijos Putinaitės pasižvalgymai po Pandoros skrynią
Authors: Baločkaitė Rasa
Published: January 2019

Review: Putinaitė, Nerija. 2007. Nenutrūkusi styga: Prisitaikymas ir pasipriešinimas sovietų Lietuvoje. Vilnius: Aidai.
Koks kapitalizmas, tokia ir demokratija
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Norkus, Zenonas. 2008. Kokia demokratija, koks kapitalizmas? Pokomunistinė transformacija Lietuvoje lyginamosios istorinės sociologijos požiūriu. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.
Klimato kaita: socialinio rizikos suvokimo ir žiniasklaidos diskurso Lietuvoje konfigūracijos
Authors: Balžekienė Aistė , Telešienė Audronė , Rinkevičius Leonardas
Published: January 2019

This article aims at analysing public perceptions and mass-media discourse of climate change in Lithuania. Global discourse on climate change stretches from alarmist to sceptical discourses, reaching far behind political and scientific agendas. The empirical evidence, presented in this article, is based upon representative public opinion survey and mass-media monitoring. The results identify, that public discourses on climate change in Lithuania are prevailed by reproducing of knowledge and opinions of foreign sources. That leads to social perceptions of climate change as more threatening to the world in general than to Lithuania in specific. The urgency of climate change problem is situated as least important among other social and economic problems in public consciousness. The debates on climate change in mass media in Lithuania is lacking the critical discussions on climate change causes and effects on the one side, and the issues of social consequences and adaptation to climate change on the other side. Climate change remains as a minor issue of concern both in public perceptions and in mass media discourse.
Nušvitimų beieškant: Walteris Benjaminas ir literatūros sociologija
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Benjamin, Walter. 2005. Nušvitimai. Esė rinktinė. Vilnius: Vaga.
Įžanga
Authors: Mancini Paolo
Published: January 2019

Introduction to a special issue of “Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas” that contains a number of original papers presented at the international conference “European Public Spheres, Civil Society and Civic Mass Media“, organized by Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas in April 2007.
Tinklų Europa ar Europos viešoji erdvė? Keturios ir viena perspektyvos
Authors: Nieminen Hannu
Published: January 2019

The main argument in this article is that instead of attempting to establish the existence or the non-existence of the European public sphere or public spheres, we could think of Europe as consisting of a multiplicity of networks, each having a public sphere or spheres of their own. The idea of seeing the public sphere from the point of view of networks is critical to the traditional Habermasian idea of conceiving the public sphere as something intrinsically restricted to national boundaries.

The social and cultural networks operate in all areas of life. They have developed, transformed, and vastly expanded in time. It is difficult to make clear distinctions between different networks today as they can operate locally, nationally, trans-nationally, regionally, trans-regionally as well as globally. However, from the point of view of democratic theory it is still important to make a separation between these different spatial embodiments of the networks as they all indicate different modalities for democratic polities. Democracy needs to be thought differently on a local or national scale than on the trans-national or global scale. The idea of seeing the public sphere from the point of view of networks is critical to the traditional idea of conceiving the public sphere as something intrinsically restricted to national boundaries.
Kodėl klystantis žmogus pranašesnis už techniką? Futbolo technofobų argumentai
Authors: Gedutis Aldis
Published: January 2019

The technophobic arguments against the use of high technologies in football are being analyzed in the article. Technophobia is understood as fear of new technologies, incredibility towards them and their demonizing. Technophobic arguments are reconstructed in order to provide them (if possible) rational, non-contradictory and integral form. Therefore, the technophobic arguments are linked with the theories analyzing the impact of technology upon society. This kind of connection, on the one hand, enables better understanding of technophobes in football, and, on the other hand, makes the highlighting of shortcomings of some theories possible.
Senstantis kūnas Lietuvos viešajame diskurse
Authors: Rapolienė Gražina , Juozulynas Algirdas
Published: January 2019

Based on biomedical view bodily ageing in gerontology traditionally was associated with biological decline. Theorists of social gerontology recently noticed certain ambiguity of biomedical age discourses: between statements that ageing is universal, natural on one hand, and the proposed means for its „treatment“ on the other. The objective of the article is to discuss results of an investigation on representation of ageing body in Lithuanian mass media. The method used is qualitative content analyse using Hamlet data analysis software. Research data: publications mentioning bodily ageing in the internet portal “Delfi” (Lithuanian version) 2007.01.01 – 2007.12.31. The analysis of publications confirms theoretical insights showing that two interconnected topics are dominant in the public discourse: medical knowledge and body care. Ageing of body is associated with decline, destruction and risk to health, so ageing body is socially constructed as

marginal.
Garbės koncepcija socialiniame diskurse (I)
Authors: Žvinklienė Alina
Published: January 2019

The article discusses honor issues in social and political sciences. In the frame of analysis, honor refers to the politics of institutionalization of domination. An analysis of mainstream studies on honor reveals that it is overlooked as a scientific paradigm chiefly because the western discourse of civilization is predominant. Neglecting the significance of honor in modern social practice is more indicative of modern social sciences’ somewhat blinkered perspective, rather than its capability to meet the challenges of social reality in connection with globalization. As a sociocultural phenomenon, honor is a legacy of patriarchy that becomes apparent via an analysis of public representations of masculinity and femininity. Honor is gender-related and as such defines ideals of manhood and womanhood in a given historical and sociocultural context. Publicity of honor underlies the public perception that first associates honor with manhood and only subsequently with womanhood.
Europinės ir tautinės tapatybės kriterijai elito nariųpožiūriu
Authors: Veličkaitė Kristina , Matonytė Irmina , Morkevičius Vaidas
Published: January 2019

The article is based on the data from the “IntUne” project survey of elites carried out in spring of 2007 in 15 European Union countries (N= 1780). The Lithuanian, Polish and French elites’ samples, analyzed in depth, have N= 120. The aim of the study is to assess the importance of selected criteria for elites’ definition of a true “national” and of a true “European”. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the dichotomy of national and European identity. The hypotheses are: 1) in elites’ view European identity dwells on the same criteria as national identity; 2) definitions of the national and European identities by the Lithuanian elites employ the same criteria as the European elites in general and the French and Polish elites in particular. Results show that 1) among the elites, the criteria of national and European identity are very similar, yet the salience of factors are perceptibly higher in the case of the national identity; 2) each country’s

elites have slightly diverging criteria of national and European identities.
Sprendimų priėmimo samprata ir tyrimų tradicijos
Authors: Šarkutė Ligita
Published: January 2019

This article aims to analyse the process of decision making which is the object of interdisciplinary research. The definition of decision making is presented and the stages, limitations and simplification strategies of decision making are also discussed. This paper also deals with the scientific disciplines which examines decision making and with research paradigms widely used in decision making analysis. These paradigms are rational decision making and naturalistic decision making. The article also gives an overview of approaches to understanding decision making from the point of sociology.
Socialinių tinklų analizė migracijos studijose
Authors: Gečienė Ingrida
Published: January 2019

Over the last 20 years, there has been growing interest in social network analysis across a variety of social science disciplines, particularly in sociology, antropology, communication science, health and medicine, managment and political science. The roots of a social network perspective can be found in Simmel and Moreno discovery that the nature of ties themselves rather than the social group per se that lay at the center of many human behaviors. Despite these early insights, social network analysis gain its prominence only with revived interest in social networks as essence of social structure in 1980s (Burt, Bourdieu, Coleman, Putnam, Castells, et al.). This article aims to explore current metodological social network analysis approaches and how they can be succesfully employed in migration studies. It is argued that previuos dominant quantitative social network analysis based on full network and egocentric network analysis nowadays is renewed by social capital theory and social support approach. This new social network perspective allows to investigate how social networks function, how they can be constructed, maintained and reproduced, how are network dynamics across time and space.
Šiuolaikinė sociologijos teorija (III)
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

The aim of this essay is to identify and critically assess the key concepts, ideas, epistemological principles, and the relational – symmetric and asymmetric – aspects of the ongoing global division of sociological labor. The third part of the essay attempts to explore the ambivalent relations between the ‘global’ content and ‘national’ form of public sociology. There are four dilemmas that confront Michael Burawoy in his attempts to articulate the idea of public sociology in a globalising context: first, the contradiction between the universal content and national form of public sociology; second, the contradiction between analytical realism and pluralist relativism; third, the (nominal) contradiction between artificial types of public sociology and critical sociology; fourth, the contradiction between epistemological pluralism and value pluralism. The conclusion is that, despite the excessively ethnocentric principles of so-called ‘methodological nationalism’, it is precisely the claim to more cosmopolitan sociological principles that makes an overly ‘national’ form of public sociology ‘global’. The main task is to ensure the ongoing power of public sociology to make global sociological discourse negotiable. What is needed in public sociology is not another symmetric-functional historicism, but a deeper critical understanding of both analytical theoretical frameworks and normative discourses, including the attempts to understand the unevenly distributed global sociological field of asymmetric institutional and intellectual power relations.
Kokia demokratija Europos sąjungai? Skirtingos demokratinio deficito strategijos
Authors: Švarplys Andrius
Published: January 2019

According to the ‘standard version’ of democratic deficit, European Union suffers from the lack of legitimacy comparing with the national democratic system. The efforts were stated to raise European Parliament’s strength as the main political body representing people’s will and to promote European political community. This idea normatively and empirically confronts the arguments that European Union still bears exclusively economic (regulatory) character meanwhile national democratic systems assure that European institutional bodies meet democratic requirements. The problem of EU democracy seems to stand in the center of political debate what kind of political system is preferred: federation, intergovernmental, or intermixed sui generis political system. Each of these approaches defines the particular meaning of democracy in the European Union.
Kultūra kaip ekonominė galia
Authors: Valantiejus Vaidotas
Published: January 2019

Review: Rubavičius, Vytautas. 2010. Postmodernusis kapitalizmas. Kaunas: Kitos knygos.
Besikeičianti sociologija – kelio pradžia ar trypčiojimas vietoje?
Authors: Juozeliūnienė Irena
Published: January 2019

A look on XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology.
Posovietinis vyriškumas: išbrauktas ar nepastebėtasdarbotvarkės klausimas? (II)
Authors: Kraniauskas Liutauras
Published: January 2019

The paper contributes a concept of post-Soviet masculinity to the masculinity discourse of the post-communist societies. Short overview of the main studies on men and masculinities in the territory of ex-Soviet Union and Lithuania misses idea of historicity, which might be compensated by the concept of post-Soviet masculinity. Three conceptual papers of A.Juska (2003), S.Oushakin (2002) and A.Tereskinas (2008) suggests few insights on the content of the post-Soviet masculinity. Critical analysis of three conceptual suggestions is finalized in more concrete understanding of the post-Soviet masculinity as a concept defined by historicity.
Carlas Schmittas ir mokslo karų pateisinimas
Authors: Gedutis Aldis
Published: January 2019

From time to time in the fields of philosophy and sociology of science the political vocabulary is employed. Certain processes, which take place in science, are described using military notions such as “conflict”, “war”, “revolution” etc. This article concentrates on question, whether the vocabulary and instruments of political theories could enable more adequate understanding of the scientific processes that are socially influenced? In order to answer the latter question, Carl Schmitt’s political theory (concept of the political, friend-enemy distinction, notions of war and exception) is employed. The main objective of this article is to figure out possible benefits of the Schmitt’s ideas for current discussions in the field of philosophy of social sciences and humanities.
Lyginamoji istorinė Zenono Norkaus sociologija:ankstyvosios Lietuvos imperijos neįgyvendintų galimybių analizė
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas
Published: January 2019

Review: Zenonas Norkus.2009.Nepasiskelbusioji imperija. Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštija lyginamosios istorinės imperijų sociologijos požiūriu. Vilnius: Aidai
Švenčių ir miesto erdvės santykis: trijų Klaipėdos miesto švenčių sociologija
Authors: Kraniauskas Liutauras
Published: January 2019

The article explores complex relationship between festivals, urban spaces and consumption. The study of three city festivals - Sea Festival, Jazz Festival and short films festival ‘Tinklai’ - in Klaipeda, Lithuania, over the period 1991-2010 reveals that changes of festivals’ locations in the city were mainly stimulated by consumption. The festivals gradually move to those urban spaces, which lost their functionality and are easily converted into the temporary places of controlled consumption. Despite the fact that usually festivals set urban spaces for new sociality of emotional community, physical arrangements of festival territories reproduce more general patterns of social distinctions and hierarchies. Urban festivals convert postindustrial territories into places of consumption and shape discourse of consuming city. Methodological assumptions of the study are based on P. Bourdieu’s typology of taste, M. de Certeau’s idea of urban space signification practices, and H. Lefebvre’s theory of urban space production.
Miesto erdvė ir subkultūrų dinamika Klaipėdoje 1991–2010 m. (1)
Authors: Kraniauskas Liutauras
Published: January 2019

Santrauka. Tekste svarstomas klausimas apie miesto erdvių sąsajas su subkultūrų raišką. Pasitelkus dviejų dešimtmečių empirinę medžiagą, bandoma rekonstruoti Klaipėdos muzikinių subkultūrų dinamiką posovietiniu laikotarpiu. Šioje studijoje siekiama suderinti britų kultūros studijų įžvalgas apie hegemoninės jaunimo kategorijos santykį su subkultūromis, Kevino Hetheringtono ekspresyvios tapatybės teoriją ir Michelio Maffesoli teorines įžvalgas apie šiuolaikinio socialumo formas. Visos teorinės prielaidos susijusios su erdvės ir tapatybės santykio pažinimo klausimu. Posovietinio laikotarpio Klaipėdos subkultūrinių erdvių tyrimas atskleidžia, kad 1991–1996 m. galima stebėti subkultūrų subordinaciją hegemoninei jaunimo kategorijai, stilių hibridiškumą ir subkultūros suartėjimą su popkultūra. 1997–2002 m. subkultūros pradeda trauktis iš viešosios erdvės, jaunimo laisvalaikio vietų ir socialinės kontrolės akiračio, kas vedė link naujų erdvių paieškos ir jų pritaikymo subkultūrinės tapatybės raiškai. 2003–2010 m. laikotarpiui būdinga subkultūrų diferenciacija, ideologinis išsigryninimas ir ritualinių erdvių uždarumas. Įvardinti subkultūrų dinamikos procesai interpretuojami platesniame urbanistinių pokyčių kontekste. Šiame žurnalo numeryje spausdinama pirmoji straipsnio dalis.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: subkultūra, jaunimas, miesto erdvės, subkultūrinė tapatybė, ideologija, Klaipėda, posovietinis laikotarpis, socialiniai pokyčiai.Keywords: subculture, youth, urban space, subcultural identity, ideology, Klaipeda, post-Soviet, social changes.
ABSTRACTURBAN SPACES AND SUBCULTURAL DYNAMICS IN KLAIPEDA IN 1991–2010The main issue discussed in the article is relationship between urban spaces and subcultural identity: what empirical analysis of subcultural places say about social processes in a city? The present study is empirical reconstruction of the dynamics of musical subcultures as spatial phenomena in a post-Soviet city (Klaipeda, Lithuania) and covers two decades of rapid urban changes. In our study of post-Soviet period we follow Marxists interpretation proposed by CCCS about relationship between hegemonic youth category and subculture, apply Kevin Hetherington’s theory of expressive identity, and empirically explore Michel Maffesoli’s ideas about changing sociality. All theoretical assumptions differently focus on relations of space and identity.The study locates three periods of subcultural dynamics in Klaipeda. In 1991–1996 subcultures were subordinated to hegemonic youth category; pop culture and subcultures were not differentiated; the different styles were mixed in hybrid identities. In 1997–2002 subcultures leave public spaces and escapes from social control, what leads them to exploration and appropriation of new spaces for ritual performances. 2003–2010 are marked by subcultural differentiation, ideological purification of subcultural identity and seclusion of ritual spaces. Identified processes are discussed in a wider context of urban changes. In this issue of the journal is published only the first part of the study.