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Volume 2, Issue 2, 2015

10 open-access articles, published October 2015. Titles link directly to full-text PDFs.

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  1. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 3-9

    Football, Identity and Mass Populism in Spanish Society

    • Jim O'Brien
    Keywords
    football; identity; mass populism; world cup; iconography

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    O'Brien, J. (2015). Football, Identity and Mass Populism in Spanish Society. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 3-9. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-3-9.pdf

    Abstract. The study is divided into two parts: PART A examines the relationship between Football and Mass Populism in Spain and considers the first Case Study, the national team’s victory over England in the Brazil World Cup, 1950 and it is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Conference Creativity, Imaginary, Language held at the University of Craiova, Romania in May 2015. PART B examines the implications of Case Studies 2 and 3, Spain’s victories in the European Nations Cup of 1964 and the World Cup of 2010.

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  2. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 11-21

    The extended meanings of medical terms. Difficulties in the practice of translation

    • Corina Lungu
    • Oana Badea
    • Valentina Gabriela Hohota
    Keywords
    medical lexicon; change of meaning; common language; specialized field

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    Lungu, C., Badea, O., & Hohota, V. G. (2015). The extended meanings of medical terms. Difficulties in the practice of translation. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 11-21. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-11-21.pdf

    Abstract. Taking into account that the structure of a specialized field is never homogeneous, in order to interpret or translate a term, we should define and know its different possible "semantic manifestations" (Martin, 1972: 125). In order to facilitate understanding and to ensure translation accuracy, we analyze - from the perspective of an internal polysemy - the terms of the medical lexicon which constitute a specific and restrictive use of the common language lexicon. Through the study of a selection of terms extracted from a specialized dictionary (Dicţionar Medical, Rusu V. 2010), this communication illustrates the restrictions and the extensions of meaning in a double translation: the terms taken from the common language with a restrictive meaning in the specialized field; the terms belonging to related disciplines and various fields adopting a specific meaning in the medical area. All these directions of change of meaning are thus envisaged to facilitate the practice of translation which raises both general and specific difficulties.

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  3. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 23-34

    Work of grief over infancy in street adolescents in Cameroon

    • Amana Evelyne
    Keywords
    adolescent in the street; grieving over infancy; crisis; development; identity

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    Evelyne, A. (2015). Work of grief over infancy in street adolescents in Cameroon. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 23-34. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-23-34.pdf

    Abstract. Adolescence is a period that is marked by an identity crisis which is itself a consequence of the balance-unsettling puberty transformations following the earlier resolution of the oedipal complex. Balance will be once again activated after the latency period. These transformations trigger others on the affective level (emotional, bonds to earlier objects). A crisis in the social bond can also be observed through this questioning of norms along with family and social values. These different crises contributing to identity construction are "developmental tasks" typical in subjects who actually go through this period; hence they constitute an important process of maturation. The subject can however face difficulties fulfilling those tasks. The article engages this challenge of grieving the passing infancy with its particular symbols as experienced by some adolescents in their responsibility to work out new symbols. In fact, every developmental crisis should, according to Wallon (1963), mediate the passing to the next stage. It is therefore manageable. In the special case of adolescents in the street, the persistence of the crisis characterized by anti-social behaviors specific to this population is nothing else but the difficulty in letting go of the symbols of infancy. This argument about the ‘grieving over infancy’ or mourning of infancy draws on works such as Nasio (2004); Delvenne Nicolis (2007); Marteaux (2008) and Franceschini (2012). The results collected through interviews and observations show the persistence in ‘street adolescents’ of behaviors unfavorable to the realization and reorganization of identity.

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  4. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 35-45

    Conjugal violence

    • Simona Mihaiu
    Keywords
    conjugal violence; research; social intervention

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    Mihaiu, S. (2015). Conjugal violence. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 35-45. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-35-45.pdf

    Abstract. Scientific knowledge of different aspects related to conjugal violence is highly important for people directly involved, such as researchers, practitioners and the entire society. In this respect, globally, specialised studies continue to advance, offer correct definitions, clear descriptions, convincing assessments to certain issues, encouraging thus long-term research, since some specialists have managed to overcome restrictive or ideological methods and explanations. Moreover, in practice, debates reach almost all social, political and legal dimensions regarding appropriate and efficient forms of preventing conjugal violence. Unfortunately, in Romania there are fewer research and prevention approaches of this social problem. In general, attention is directed to domestic violence and conjugal violence is dealt with only implicitly. Considering the given context, the aim of the paper is to outline, by analysing specialised literature, a new research direction and implicitly, social intervention. I specify that this article represents a stage in the ongoing postdoctoral research project, entitled "Conjugal homicide. Aggressors and victims".

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  5. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 47-58

    Self-Education through Web-Searching - An Exploratory Study

    • Razvan-Alexandru Calin
    Keywords
    Self-education; Web-searching; Virtual Education

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    Calin, R.-A. (2015). Self-Education through Web-Searching - An Exploratory Study. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 47-58. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-47-58.pdf

    Abstract. The 21st century is marked by the extensive and easy access to information through the virtual environment. Do we find in today's Romanian school the presence of a formative space - on the one hand, facilitator for a maximal exploitation of opportunities, and on the other hand, a "sensor" for new risks, characteristic to the information era? Is the "digital generation" (Mark Prensky) of the beginning of century in Romania ready from these perspectives? The present paper outlines the results of a comparative exploratory study regarding the ordinary methods used by youngsters - from 5th and 6th grades, as well as 11th and 12th grades, from six different schools, high-schools and colleges from Dolj county – to find information about different topics/homework. The results offer the premises for hypothesis regarding this phenomenon at national level. The conclusions indicate as the main method of obtaining information the web-searching. They emphasize the absence of an initial specific educational training in this domain and allow the delineation of a suggestive image regarding possible future methods of action.

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  6. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 59-71

    Psychological effects and epistemological education through mathematics "abstraction" and "construction"

    • Aurel Pera
    Keywords
    mathematical existence; ontological; mathematical abstraction and building; analytical insight; cognitive map; abstract entities

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    Pera, A. (2015). Psychological effects and epistemological education through mathematics "abstraction" and "construction". Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 59-71. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-59-71.pdf

    Abstract. This study is part of a broader research which will be found in future work, Psychology and epistemology of mathematical creation, complementary work of experimental research psychology mathematics, whose investigative approach, promoting the combination type cross section paradigms and quantitative methods and qualitative and comparative method and the analytic-synthetic, based on the following idea: to make learning as efficient, contents and methods must be appropriate to the individual particularities of the pupils, a measure of the balance between converging and diverging dosing tasks as a promising opening to the transition from education proficiency in math performance. At this juncture, mathematical existence as ontological approach against the background of a history of "abstraction" mathematical and theoretical observations on the abstraction, realization and other mathematical thought processes, explanatory approach fulfills the context in which s mathematics constituted an important factor in psychological and methodological perspective, in a context of maximizing the educational effectiveness that depends on the quality of the methods used in teaching, focused on knowledge of the general principles of psycho-didactics not only mathematical and mental organization individual student or knowledge of the factors that make possible psycho-educational learning process.

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  7. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 73-80

    Three Metaphors for Liminality of the Political Party Concept

    • Bianca Teodorescu
    Keywords
    cultural anthropology; communication anthropology; liminality; representation

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    Teodorescu, B. (2015). Three Metaphors for Liminality of the Political Party Concept. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 73-80. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-73-80.pdf

    Abstract. The given study is circumscribed by anthropology and communication and its purpose is to research the perception and the social-anthropological concept of a political party. If we analyze the meta-analytical method and quality method, we will achieve three modes of reporting to the thought of what a political party means. The article is organized in three primary sections: the political party as a scene, the political party as a dispossession of a person, and the political party as a metamorphosis of freedom. This blend of transformation contains a multistructure in which anthropological reasoning guarantees the best possible measurements of liminality. The political party represents a social irradiation through the idea of liminality.

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  8. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 81-91

    Breaking News and News Alert, between Information and Spectacle for Rating

    • Georgiana Camelia Stanescu
    Keywords
    TV News; tabloidization; information; credibility

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    Stanescu, G. C. (2015). Breaking News and News Alert, between Information and Spectacle for Rating. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 81-91. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-81-91.pdf

    Abstract. We live in a digital era, a period when information travels with fulminant speed and goes from one side of the world to the other in only a few minutes. The general interest information has a strong impact on the mankind and is transmitted rapidly especially through the internet and through news televisions, which take over the information directly from the area where the event occurs or by the intermediary of other media channels, such as news agencies or other TV stations. Therefore, it is extremely important for the journalists to grant a particular importance to the research of a piece of news before broadcasting it as news alert or breaking news and to analyze the impact that the information has on the audience. This because, at present, we reached the situation of creating 10-12 breaking news per day, fact that leads to a decline in journalists’ credibility and it can cast ridicule on the journalist concepts of breaking news or news alert.

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  9. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 93-98

    The relationship between national culture and organizational culture

    • Alexandra Iorgulescu
    • Mihaela Marcu
    Keywords
    culture; national culture; organizational culture

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    Iorgulescu, A., & Marcu, M. (2015). The relationship between national culture and organizational culture. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 93-98. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-93-98.pdf

    Abstract. The definition of organizational culture must start from humans, from their historical existence, the psychology of the people they belong to, because, as everybody knows, organizational culture is an integral part of national culture. The values, symbols, histories of a nation become starting points in shaping the cultures of organizations operating in that geographic area.

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  10. Volume 2 · Issue 2 · 2015 · pp. 99-102

    Book review: Alexandru Avram - Fiscal policies and economic growth during crisis

    • Aurelia Dumitru
    Keywords
    crisis; finance; tax; economic growth

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    Dumitru, A. (2015). Book review: Alexandru Avram - Fiscal policies and economic growth during crisis. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2(2), 99-102. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2-2-99-102.pdf

    Abstract. The Assistant Professor at West University of Timisoara Alexandru Avram is publishing at Sitech Publishing House, Craiova, a remarkable book, "The mix of fiscal and monetary policies – the impact upon the economic growth". The scientific research had previously been made for achieving the title in Doctor in Economic Sciences. The theme of the book is the identification of the measures of economic growth after the economic crisis at the end of 2007 and the impact of some fiscal and monetary measures and also the introduction of the taxing quotation, the decreasing of the interest of monetary policy, the increasing of VAT quotation from 19% to 24% upon some macroeconomic components. The book represents a valuable synthesis and a guide for those who are interested in the subject.

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