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Causing non-contractual damages according to Albanian law

Amantia Levanaj, Besmira Arshiaj · Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania
This study is mainly focused on handling the causing non-contractual damage, achieving a theoretical analysis of its constituent components as fault, causal connection, unlawful act or omission and damage compensation. Non-contractual liability is provided by our civil code, defining it as at fault …
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Workplace Bullying Scale: The Study of Validity and Reliability

Nizamettin Doğar · Çukurova University, Turkey
The aim of this research is to adapt the Workplace Bullying Scale (Tınaz, Gök & Karatuna, 2013) to Albanian language and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 386 person from different sectors of Albania. Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis dem…
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Some consideration about the gender violence in two States of Eastern and Western Europe

Ignazia Bartholini · University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
The purpose of the essay is to overcome interpretative dualism between Italian people and Serbian people about gender violence against women. In a comparative approach it will find elements of continuity between the decline of male domination in Italy and the decline of patriarchal power in Serbia a…
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From tolerance to the secular State in Italy

Renata Tokrri · Faculty of Law, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. …
The discourse on tolerance began over two centuries ago and yet is still unfinished. Was Voltaire in 1763 with his “Treatise on Tolerance”, condemned religious intolerance persuaded by religious fanaticism of the judgment of the Court of Toulouse. Although the idea of tolerance was born in Europe, i…
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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…
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With and beyond Max Weber: The process of rationalisation

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
At the basis of the lasting, even growing, fascination of Max Weber as man and thinker there are probably two reasons. First, there is an essential reason: Weber tackles a central theme, still today at the heart of our concerns, and to which he returns in all his works, more or less directly - the n…
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Technical Change and Social Revolution

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…
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Max Horkheimer: The struggle against total Bureaucratization

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
In July 1973, at the age of 78, Max Horkheimer passed away In the Swiss town of Montagnola. If not the founder, he has at least the most important director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, from which the famous name “Frankfurt School” is derived. Actually, if we ca…
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Culture and Counter-culture

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
A curious paradox must be faced at the very outset: nothing is perhaps more culturally inclined than the various counter-culture movements. In other words, writing and working against the prevailing culture amount to an essentially cultural enterprise. Culture seems to be inescapable. A supposedly d…
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The case of Italy: Between tradition and Modernity

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
If it were possible, just for an instant, to forget the sufferings and worries of the everyday, if, in other words, it were possible to distance ourselves and somehow see ourselves from outside, I think we should have to agree with Goethe’s confession: «I have the great advantage of being born in an…
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Intellectuals and society

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
If one conceives of modern society as a society that strives to free itself from the hand of tradition and conventional wisdom, then it seems difficult to overestimate the role of the intellectuals. Undoubtedly, the concept of the intellectual. It’s an am…
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Artificial neural networks in forecasting tourists’ flow, an intelligent technique to help the economic development of tourism in Albania.

Dezdemona Gjylapi, Veronika Durmishi · University “Pavaresia” Vlore, Albania
Tourism plays an important role in many economies and contributes greatly to the Gross Domestic Product. In the past eight years, the number of tourist arrivals in Albania has increased rapidly, which resulted in increasing the number of tourist nights and revenue from tourism. Tourism also provides…