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Volume 1, Issue 2, 2014

8 open-access articles, published December 2014. Titles link directly to full-text PDFs.

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  1. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 3-10

    Teacher's asserting premises and possibilities of efficient managerial styles

    • Claudiu Marian Bunaiasu
    Keywords
    professional behavior; educational and managerial styles; class management; leadership; constructive teacher's managerial styles

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    Bunaiasu, C. M. (2014). Teacher's asserting premises and possibilities of efficient managerial styles. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 3-10. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-3-10.pdf

    Abstract. The issue of teacher's managerial styles is unitary approached along with educational styles issue and institutional management styles issue, and is part of the class' managerial dimension. Comparative, educational and managerial styles (of the school manager) have a theoretical history and benefit from validated techniques and tools, whereas teacher's managerial styles issue are about to gain consistency as part of the pedagogical literature, and present researches emphasize their roles in efficientizing didactic activity. The article Teacher's asserting premises and possibilities of efficient managerial styles is based on multiple specific sub- themes: a) analysis of the key-concepts outlining theme's theoretical framework; b) teacher's managerial styles typology; c) conditions and modalities in order to efficientize managerial styles. Premises of the topic speech consist in: situationally approach the educational process, the relation between teacher's educational and managerial styles, references to a personal research regarding the outline of the constructive teacher's managerial styles. Based on these key-concepts and in accordance with the multidimensional approach (conditions, factors, modalities in order to outline and assert styles), possibilities and modalities are being analyzed in order to efficientize teacher's managerial styles.

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  2. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 11-21

    Assessment of logistic outlays in industrial solid waste management

    • Janusz Grabara
    • Mariana Man
    Keywords
    logistics; logistics costs; waste management; industrial waste

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    Grabara, J., & Man, M. (2014). Assessment of logistic outlays in industrial solid waste management. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 11-21. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-11-21.pdf

    Abstract. Out of concern for environmental protection is an increasingly common practice. Companies thus have an additional task which is the correct organization of the industrial waste management. This is achieved through the use of logistics processes in industrial waste management, mainly such as warehousing, transport, storage and recovery. These processes involve the formation of logistics costs resulting from waste management. The paper presents a mathematical model for cost of logistics management of industrial waste resulting from the above-mentioned processes. It also shows the interpretation of these costs and the relations between them. The model can increase costefficiency in companies managing industrial waste, while increasing attention to the environment.

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  3. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 22-28

    Osgood's semantic differential: a review of the Romanian social sciences literature

    • Alexandru-Constantin Strunga
    Keywords
    Osgood's semantic differential; social sciences methodology; qualitative research; EPA structure; measurement of meaning

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    Strunga, A.-C. (2014). Osgood's semantic differential: a review of the Romanian social sciences literature. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 22-28. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-22-28.pdf

    Abstract. Starting from 1957, with the seminal book of Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum's ‘Measurement of Meaning', the semantic differential rapidly developed as a complex and subtle research instrument used for measuring social sentiments and attitudes with profound consequences for the social sciences research methodology. The aim of this paper is to analyze how the semantic differential was defined and presented in the Romanian social sciences literature and how it was progressively adopted by the Romanian methodologists from a variety of fields: psychology, sociology and education sciences.

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  4. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 29-44

    Five Computational Actions in Information Processing

    • Stefan Vladutescu
    • Florentin Smarandache
    Keywords
    information; communication; actions; computational actions; informational processing

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    Vladutescu, S., & Smarandache, F. (2014). Five Computational Actions in Information Processing. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 29-44. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-29-44.pdf

    Abstract. This study is circumscribed to the Information Science. The zetetic aim of research is double: a) to define the concept of action of information computational processing and b) to design a taxonomy of actions of information computational processing. Our thesis is that any information processing is a computational processing. First, the investigation trays to demonstrate that the computational actions of information processing or the informational actions are computationalinvestigative configurations for structuring information: clusters of highlyaggregated operations which are carried out in a unitary manner operate convergent and behave like a unique computational device. From a methodological point of view, they are comprised within the category of analytical instruments for the informational processing of raw material, of data, of vague, confused, unstructured informational elements. As internal articulation, the actions are patterns for the integrated carrying out of operations of informational investigation. Secondly, we propose an inventory and a description of five basic informational computational actions: exploring, grouping, anticipation, schematization, inferential structuring. R. S. Wyer and T. K. Srull (2014) speak about "four information processing". We would like to continue with further and future investigation of the relationship between operations, actions, strategies and mechanisms of informational processing.

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  5. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 45-51

    Credibility - an Honest Claim in the Current Romanian Press

    • Xenia Negrea
    Keywords
    Journalism; Credibility

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    Negrea, X. (2014). Credibility - an Honest Claim in the Current Romanian Press. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 45-51. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-45-51.pdf

    Abstract. In this article we analysed a series of discursive processes used by some Romanian journalists to give credibility to their texts. As a case study we chose the most visited news portal in Romania since the parliamentary elections in 2012. We analysed the few hundred materials written on this temp and managed to establish a writing grid so as to raise the level of reliability of the data.

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  6. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 52-61

    Hermeneutics can make beauty and ugly as neutral (as neutrosophic)

    • Mihaela-Gabriela Paun
    • Mirela Teodorescu
    Keywords
    beauty; ugly; neutrosophy

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    Paun, M.-G., & Teodorescu, M. (2014). Hermeneutics can make beauty and ugly as neutral (as neutrosophic). Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 52-61. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-52-61.pdf

    Abstract. The study aims to be an application of the neutral-neutrosophic theory of Florentin Smarandache on the fundamental nucleus of Aesthetics: Beauty-Ugly. If a history of Beauty may resort to a long series of theoretical proofs (of which one can deduce the taste of a certain age), a history of Ugliness can at most to look its documents through visual or verbal representations of certain things or beings perceived somehow as "ugly". But if from a point of view one is Beauty and subsequently in time and space this is Ugly, then we can say that we are in a neutrosophical situation. In all ages, "philosophers and artists have proposed definitions of Beauty; thanks to their testimonies can thus reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas over the time. But other things were with the idea of Ugly. Most often, Ugly was defined in opposition to the Beauty, but almost never have been dedicated ample studies, but some hints in parenthesis or some marginal notes" as U. Eco asserts (Eco, 2005).

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  7. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 62-72

    The organicist-animist metaphor in Italian wine media discourse

    • Alina Tenescu
    Keywords
    conceptual metaphors; description; Italian media discourse; organicist-animist metaphor; perception; senses; wine; winespeak

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    Tenescu, A. (2014). The organicist-animist metaphor in Italian wine media discourse. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 62-72. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-62-72.pdf

    Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main aspects of the organicistanimist metaphor in Italian wine tasting discourse and to identify its main characteristics in the specialized media discourse. Commencing from an approach whose overall view is guided by conceptual metaphor theory, we will analyze and classify the main elements of the metaphorical schema associated with the organicist-animist metaphor related to wine and wine tasting. We will illustrate this category by examples taken from a corpus of excerpts of Italian media discourse. Tackling the issue of perception and description of wine in Italian media discourse allows us an orientation of the research by multiple approaches of the semantics of winespeak: the recognition of essential aspects of wine imaginary, with a focus on the organicist-animist metaphor in our research corpus; the analysis of sensory impressions and representations in winespeak. Our main aim is to organize conceptualizations of wine tasting notes into a main category – the organicist-animist metaphor – , following the model inspired by the research of Lakoff and Johnson (Metaphors we live by, 1980).

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  8. Volume 1 · Issue 2 · 2014 · pp. 73-75

    Book review. Antonio Sandu: Elemente de sociologie

    • Stefan Vladutescu

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    Vladutescu, S. (2014). Book review. Antonio Sandu: Elemente de sociologie. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 1(2), 73-75. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-73-75.pdf

    Abstract. Appreciated specialist in the social sciences domain and of the sociohuman sciences, Professor Antonio Sandu posted at Tritonic Publishing a remarkable book, "Elements of sociology" (Bucharest, Tritonic Publishing, 2014) (Antonio Sandu (2014). Elemente de sociologie. Bucuresti: Editura Tritonic). This represents an introduction to the theory of social phenomena. What performs first of all the value and originality of the research in question is shown to be: a) the comprehension and interpretation of the social, i.e. social hermeneutics, and b) the novelty of the postmodern and transmodern perspective of methodological, transdisciplinary and constructivist approach.

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