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Volume 4, Issue 2, 2017

17 open-access articles, published December 2017. Titles link directly to full-text PDFs.

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  1. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 6-41

    Global Business Cycles with Real Shocks in a General Equilibrium Trade Model with Endogenous Human Capital

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Keywords
    Business cycles; exogenous shocks; inequality and global growth; trade; endogenous wealth; endogenous human capital

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    Zhang, W.-B. (2017). Global Business Cycles with Real Shocks in a General Equilibrium Trade Model with Endogenous Human Capital. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 6-41. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-6-41.pdf

    Abstract. This paper generalizes the dynamic economic model of heterogeneous households built by Zhang (2015). The model tries to provide insights into the economic mechanisms of how the richest one per cent of the global population own 50% of the global wealth. It explains inequality in a purely competitive economic environment with endogenous wealth and human capital accumulation. The study simulated a case with three countries and each country with three groups of the population. It demonstrated the existence of an equilibrium point at which the rich 1% own more than half of the global wealth. This study generalizes Zhang’s model by making all the time-independent parameters as time-dependent parameters. We demonstrate how the system reacts to exogenous periodic perturbations.

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  2. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 42-77

    The discursive construction of meaning across texts and media

    • Vittorio Marone
    Keywords
    discursive construction

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    Marone, V. (2017). The discursive construction of meaning across texts and media. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 42-77. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-42-77.pdf

    Abstract. The purpose of this study was to examine how different texts and media contribute to the discursive construction of meaning in the context of a Christian church in the United States. Through a discourse analysis (DA) approach, this article analyzed a sermon (streamed live and recorded for an online repository), printed materials, and the website of the church, which includes images and video recordings. The analyzed texts exhibit a sophisticated interconnectedness that conveys a unitary picture structured through intertextual, synergistic, and strategic uses of discourse. The themes emerging from the analysis include the presence of the Gospel in everyday live, the functions of the opening prayer, rhythm and repetition, the use of the war metaphor, and the discursive construction of a "call to action" in the context of the values and mission of the church for a collective goal. Overall, the findings of this study advance the understanding of how church and preaching discourse is structured and how it structures meaning across different texts and media.

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  3. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 78-99

    Reading in your first and second language. On the use of prior knowledge when processing fictional texts at school

    • Anna Lyngfelt
    Keywords
    education; communicative competence; linguistic diversity; language ability; bilingualism

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    Lyngfelt, A. (2017). Reading in your first and second language. On the use of prior knowledge when processing fictional texts at school. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 78-99. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-78-99.pdf

    Abstract. This study, which is grounded on a sociocultural framework (Lantolf 2000, Säljö 2000), seeks to determine whether giving L2 pupils the opportunity to use fictional texts that correspond with their prior knowledge makes a difference in developing text response and to identify and discuss any difference found. The use and processing of L1 teaching materials were expected to increase pupil motivation and enhance L2 skills (DeFazio 1997; Cummins 2001). Twelve third-year pupils contributed 24 texts in L2 (Swedish). The results indicate that the use of texts in the pupils' first language does make a difference to L2 acquisition. When pupils were able to use their prior knowledge, their texts became more than twice as long, more elaborated and more independent. L2 pupils seem to belong to the group who display distinct differences between the language skills they demonstrate in the classroom and the knowledge they possess through prior knowledge.

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  4. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 100-110

    Continuity and change of religiosity. Selected results of sociological research on religious attitudes

    • Marek Korzeniowski
    Keywords
    social change; contiuniity; religosity

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    Korzeniowski, M. (2017). Continuity and change of religiosity. Selected results of sociological research on religious attitudes. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 100-110. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-100-110.pdf

    Abstract. Both continuity and change mark every process of culture, and hence belong to the field of religion. From another perspective, religion can be viewed as one of the most "conservative" constituents of culture. Consequently, it is not that easy, although interesting, for researchers either to observe different processes occurring in the field of religion or anticipate its long-lasting changes (e.g., in people’s religious attitudes).

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  5. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 111-125

    Predictor Relations between Owned Values, Self-Efficacy for Protecting from Substance Abuse and Future Expectations among Adolescents

    • Abdullah Selçuk Şen
    • Bülent Dilmac
    Keywords
    Human Values; Future Expectations; Substance abuse; Self- efficacy.

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    Şen, A. S., & Dilmac, B. (2017). Predictor Relations between Owned Values, Self-Efficacy for Protecting from Substance Abuse and Future Expectations among Adolescents. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 111-125. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-111-125.pdf

    Abstract. The aim of the research is to present precursor relations between the values which teenagers have, future expectations and self-efficacy of protection from drug abuse and test the model created with reference to these relations. The research is done in Accord with relational scanning which is a sub-genre of general scanning model. Study group of the research is selected by random sampling method from teenagers who have training in five different schools, one is a student at a vocational high school and four are a student at four Anatolian high schools, and in class levels in Konya in 2014-2015 academic year. 318 out of them is female students and 252 out of them is male students. Humanitarian Values Scale (HVS) developed by Dilmaç (2007), Self-Efficacy Scale of Protection from Drug Abuse (2013) developed by Eker, Akkuş and Kapısız (2013) and Teenagers’ Future Expectations Scale adapted by Tuncer (2011) into Turkish are used in the research. The research is used by using the AMOS 19 program according to "Structural Equation Model". According to findings obtained from the research, it is seen that the values have direct impacts on self-efficacy of protection from drug abuse and future expectations and that future expectations have direct impact on self-efficacy of protection from drug abuse.

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  6. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 126-138

    On Some Aspects of Foreign Language Teaching at the Beginning Level

    • Patman Antadze-Malashkhia
    Keywords
    typologically oriented teaching; systemic characteristics; sounds; alphabet; loanwords

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    Antadze-Malashkhia, P. (2017). On Some Aspects of Foreign Language Teaching at the Beginning Level. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 126-138. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-126-138.pdf

    Abstract. When teaching a foreign language, any method or approach is justified if it facilitates the process of language acquisition. We share the view that foreign language teaching should be based on a combination of diverse approaches and methods, as well as various perspectives combining practice and theory. According to our teaching experience, typologically oriented and structure- based teaching combined with the communicative approaches facilitates foreign language learning. It is especially effective in adults’ groups at the very initial stage of learning. Thus, the first /native language of learners serves as a reference point for adult beginners. The principles of our teaching approach are based on the course elaborated by us and tested three times with university students. We argue that along with the contrastive analysis of the native/first language (L1) and the foreign/target language (TL) embracing phonetic-prosodic, morphological-syntactic and lexical-phraseological aspects and all other specific features characteristic of the relation of L1 and TL must be taken into consideration in the teaching process. In case of Persian and Georgian, these are a large amount of Persian loanwords in Georgian as a result of the long-standing intense Persian-Georgian language contacts and adequacy of the Georgian alphabet for the Persian sounds. Envisaging of these factors along with the above- mentioned elementary systemic phonetic-prosodic, grammatical and lexical- phraseological characteristics serves the purpose of facilitating and accelerating the acquisition of TL.

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  7. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 139-160

    Implications of critical pedagogy in second language classroom education: a georgian case study

    • Giuli Shabashvili
    • Ketevan Gochitashvili
    Keywords
    Second language teaching; Second language acquisition; Critical pedagogy; Critical thinking; Teaching strategies; Recommendations for teachers

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    Shabashvili, G., & Gochitashvili, K. (2017). Implications of critical pedagogy in second language classroom education: a georgian case study. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 139-160. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-139-160.pdf

    Abstract. The article considers teaching of the language by means of critical pedagogical approach. The work provides the existing needs, challenges in Georgia in this regards and offers practical solutions. The article is of the practical nature and aims to assist the practitioner teachers in implementation of class objectives and tasks. In the end, knowledge and skills obtained will facilitate the students to social integration and wellbeing.

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  8. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 161-166

    The relationship of organizations with the media in crisis situations

    • Alexandra Iorgulescu
    • Mihaela Marcu
    Keywords
    media; communciation crisis; press conference

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    Iorgulescu, A., & Marcu, M. (2017). The relationship of organizations with the media in crisis situations. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 161-166. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-161-166.pdf

    Abstract. An interesting facet in the life of the organizations that we want to highlight in this article is to present some aspects of the relationships with the media during organizational crisis. Complex and complicated, this relationship involves the activation of numerous levers that build a necessary communication with the media. The dimensions of our approach have not allowed us to highlight all the underlying aspects on which such a relationship is built, but we have drawn only a few general frameworks that are important to follow if organizations are confronted with moments of crisis. The crisis management team in the organization plays an important role in maintaining and developing communication with journalists in a correct way, in communicating information on the crisis, on the evaluation of its effects, on rebuilding the organization. The tools that help build the organization's relationship with the media are the press release, the press conference and the press kit. The press release during a crisis must be concise, with a brief, but accurate summary of events, with an indication of the measures taken by the organization to mitigate the effects of the crisis. In turn, the press conference will be prepared by knowing the positions taken by journalists, by emphasizing the role of the spokesperson. The press kit is a lot richer; it is one of the most important ways to relate to the media. The clarity of the relationship certainly leads to the efficiency of the measures taken to fight the crisis. The press remains a fast way of communication between the organization and its audiences.

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  9. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 167-172

    Transhistorical views over journalism as a profession

    • Xenia Negrea
    • Dan Valeriu Voinea
    Keywords
    education; journalism; communism; propaganda; information

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    Negrea, X., & Voinea, D. V. (2017). Transhistorical views over journalism as a profession. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 167-172. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-167-172.pdf

    Abstract. In this paper we aim to describe the basics, the roots, the genetic heritage of the today Romanian journalism, as a profession and epistemic object. The idea came to us from this need to offer an answer, an explanation regarding the necessity of a strong development of the journalistic education. The journalistic education has continually to confront scepticism, some pretty noisy denial from the journalists. Our researches led have led us intro the historical area, in the communist age, and the findings were really unexpected for the new generations. We have showed that the communist system not only knew what the power of the press really means, but it looked (and it managed) to control it in the minutest detail - from its birth (at school) to the newsrooms.

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  10. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 173-180

    Vatican radio. Romanian identity personalities (archive documents from 1969-1971)

    • Carmen Ionela Banta
    Keywords
    archive; documents; Romanian identity; personalities; Vatican Radio.

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    Banta, C. I. (2017). Vatican radio. Romanian identity personalities (archive documents from 1969-1971). Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 173-180. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-173-180.pdf

    Abstract. This article presents some of the results of a postdoctoral research conducted between 1 August and 30 September 2015 at the Vatican Radio. As a result of the research in the archive of the editorial office in Romanian, we found supporting documents, chronologically ordered, of the programs that were broadcast in 1969-1970. We have selected only the texts which, in their message, can create Romanian identity profiles (Eugen Ionescu, Vasile Pârvan, Sever Pop) in a virtual space - Vatican Radio, which outlined the "linguistic personality" needed by the Romanian language department. All the fragments are well-designed journalistically specific to Vatican Radio requirements. These were aimed at transmitting information in the world of clear, pertinent messages about the notions of Romanian culture in a troubled period in Romania. In 1969-1971 the Romanian language department was presented by Father Ph.D. Flaviu Popan and Mircea Popescu, and by the end of the year, by Monsignor Ovidiu Bârlea, leading intellectuals of exile. The texts analyzed in this article, which gave rise to a lively interest, have as a thematic support the vast culture of Professor Mircea Popescu.

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  11. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 181-189

    Considerations on organizing and conducting a radio debate case study: a debate on media representation of children

    • Davian Vlad
    Keywords
    radio; debate; media; representation; children

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    Vlad, D. (2017). Considerations on organizing and conducting a radio debate case study: a debate on media representation of children. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 181-189. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-181-189.pdf

    Abstract. Organizing and conducting a radio debate is a complex journalistic process which must be done carefully and responsibly. The conceptual procedure should be done by focusing on all the aspects involved in the topics that are taken into debate. The points of view of all the parts involved in the matter under discussion are to be taken into consideration. As an example, a radio debate about the media representation of children must start from presenting all the laws, rules, regulations, recommendations and provisions concerning the subject. Then there should be expounded both the right and the inadvisable approaches of media representation of underage persons, and also the methods that can be used in order to counteract a toxic tendency that can be identified in Romania and elsewhere. It is exactly how the radio debate analyzed here was designed and carried out.

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  12. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 190-208

    The accounting of the grant funds and subsidies

    • Aurelia Dumitru
    • Andrei Bogdan Budica
    • Adrian Florin Budica
    • Alina Georgiana Motoi
    Keywords
    non repayable funds; beneficiary; investment grants; operating grants; distinct accounting; fixed assets; depreciation

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    Dumitru, A., Budica, A. B., Budica, A. F., & Motoi, A. G. (2017). The accounting of the grant funds and subsidies. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 190-208. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-190-208.pdf

    Abstract. Within this article it is studied the field of the subsidies received as a nonrepayable financial support (grant), either we discuss about the grants for investments or the operating subsidies. Subsidies accounting is differentiated, according to their typology, classification that proves their distinctive characteristics. Subsidies for assets, also known as investment grants, are those that considerably increase the beneficiary's patrimony with new assets. Operating grants are those used for a purpose other than the acquisition of assets. The article aims at collecting all definitions related to this area, including legislation on European funds, received by the beneficiaries. The methodology of research is the qualitative one, the whole process of accessing projects with community money being discovered from a descriptive conceptual persepective.

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  13. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 209-214

    The protection of children with parents left for work abroad

    • Adrian Nicolescu
    Keywords
    child; parents; work abroad; central and local public authorities.

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    Nicolescu, A. (2017). The protection of children with parents left for work abroad. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 209-214. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-209-214.pdf

    Abstract. Currently, given the current economic context of Romania, there is a growing tendency for parents to migrate abroad to find a job for improving living conditions. Thus, it was remarked that after this exodus, the children remain at home, without parental care, in the care of other persons. The authorities of the local and central public administration have the imperative to stop this phenomenon with particularly dangerous consequences for the whole society and last but not least, they have to take into account the fact that the size of the phenomenon remains unknown. A particularly important role in the situation of children whose parents are going to work abroad is the public social service which has the obligation to verify that the person who will take care in the absence of the parents meets cumulatively the conditions imposed by the legislation in force.

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  14. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 215-221

    The communication between the media and tradition

    • Bianca Teodorescu
    Keywords
    celebrations; anthropology; communication; Christmas; Easter

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    Teodorescu, B. (2017). The communication between the media and tradition. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 215-221. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-215-221.pdf

    Abstract. This article is based on the communication of traditional celebrations in Romania nowadays and how the media are influencing the perception of people over them. People are encouraged by the media to discover new ways to celebrate popular celebrations like Christmas or Easter in a more modern way, different from the traditional ways. When people are thinking about Christmas, they are seeing joy, family gathering, tree, presents and of course, the appearance of Santa Claus. Few people are thinking about the birth of Jesus Christ. Thus, they need a better communication between them and the media. People have to understand the importance of keeping the Romanian traditions alive and to pass them from a generation to another. If celebrations as Christmas or Easter are the most popular in Romania from two points of view: sacred and profane. The period before these celebrations is marked by the media and its power to generate new ways of celebration even at the village, which is the most traditional space from Romania. It is a constant need in keeping the traditions alive in the present.

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  15. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 222-231

    Values as an object of study for the American and the French sociology. A review of F. Znaniecki’s and R. Boudon’s perspectives

    • Gabriela Motoi
    Keywords
    values; goals; axiology; norms; attitude

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    Motoi, G. (2017). Values as an object of study for the American and the French sociology. A review of F. Znaniecki’s and R. Boudon’s perspectives. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 222-231. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-222-231.pdf

    Abstract. Even if the notion of "value" is studied for many disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, management, communication sciences, there is not one unitary perspective on this concept in the social sciences. Why it is important to study values? Because, we are living today in a society where everything is changing rapidly, with permanent changes in the economic, demographic, technological or social level, changes that have a strong effect on the individual (implicitly, his social role) on the family he is part of the work he does (implicitly, his job). It is, therefore, important to analyse the set of values for each generation, because the changes brought by the post-modern society have also been translated into values and there are values that can be found to a person who is a part of the "Millennials" and not to another person who is part of the "Generation X". The article is presenting the most important theoretical perspectives on the concept of value. Even if there are a lot of sociologists who have studied it, this article is presenting, in a comparative way, two perspectives of two important scholars from American and French sociology. Even if Znaniecki and Boudon have lived in different periods of time (the beginning and the end of the XXth century) we may find a lot of similarities in their perspectives, especially on the topic of the "classical debate" between relativism and realism.

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  16. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 232-240

    The historical roots of the concept of opinable

    • Stefan Vladutescu
    Keywords
    opinable; opinion; consideration; faith; appreciation

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    Vladutescu, S. (2017). The historical roots of the concept of opinable. Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 232-240. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-232-240.pdf

    Abstract. This study proposes conceptualizing the idea of opinable as a vector of convergence for the idea of opinion, for the idea of opinion, for the idea of consideration, for the idea of faith (in the main sense of consideration) and for the idea of appreciation. The founder's historical background is revealed in what Xenophan, Parmenide, Protagoras, Plato and Aristotle call doxa (opinion).

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  17. Volume 4 · Issue 2 · 2017 · pp. 241-243

    Tilea, M., Duta, O.A., Resceanu, A. (Eds.)-sustainable and solidary education. Reflections and practices (2017)

    • Aida Cornelia Stoian
    Keywords
    book review; sustainable education

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    Stoian, A. C. (2017). Tilea, M., Duta, O.A., Resceanu, A. (Eds.)-sustainable and solidary education. Reflections and practices (2017). Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 4(2), 241-243. https://sserr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-2-241-243.pdf

    Abstract. In this work, the authors address different contemporary aspects from the point of view of education for sustainable and solidary development, a fundamental component in forming active and responsible citizens in the third millennium. Specialists from prestigious European academic institutions converge their efforts to offer a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective on this type of education, aimed at proposing a unitary point of view, reflected in a series of ample and coherent theoretical and empirical studies.

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