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Students satisfaction with the online teaching process

Aresan Denis, Laurentiu Tiru · West University of Timisoara, Romania
This study is about student satisfaction in the online teaching process. The pandemic situation forced us to move the educational activities in the online environment for the safety of all its participants. The methodological design is the quantitative one, the research method used is the sociologi…
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Locus of control and culture of poverty. An appraisal of Lawrence M. Mead’s ideas in ‘Culture and Poverty’

Seth Oppong · University of Botswana: Gaborone, South-East District, …
Lawrence M. Mead presented an interesting argument as to why poverty exists in the United States. He problematizes the culture of the poor of which ethnic minorities over-represent. By referring to the geographic regions from which these ethnic minorities came from, he globalised the quest…
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Global Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Access - GIDBEA. The Architecture of A New Different

Lisa Coleman · Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategi…
The article asserts the need for organizations to adopt intentional and transformative Global Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Access (GIDBEA) practices, to ensure their future readiness. The research developed reaffirms the benefits of GIDBEA strategies in identifying gap areas and navi…
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Introductory Remarks on Ideology and Sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this paper is that the eventual decline of ideology would pave the way to personalism and piece-meal policy-making. In this respect, sociology should analyze the process of social evolution while the ideological goals tend to concentrate on the middle-range and distant future.
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Hopeful Provocations for a Dialogue with Critical Pedagogy

Shirley Steinberg · University of Calgary, Canada
In respect for the tentative ways of knowing critical pedagogy, I choose not to define the notion, but rather discuss it from my point of view. It is easier to begin by discussion on what critical pedagogy is not: Critical pedagogy is not prescriptive way of teaching. It is not t…
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The gender perspective for a changing city. Time, Space and Covid in Milan

Francesca Zajczyk · University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
The city has become a space of diversity. To be sustainable, inclusive and less unequal, urban policy and policies must therefore take these differences into account.In this moving film, the female component represents a fundamental aspect. For a heavy cultural question, in Italy there has been…
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The road to hell is paved with good intentionality

Carin Knoop · Executive Director at Harvard Business School Harvard U…
The dislocation of the Pandemic caused social convulsions around the world. The middle and ruling classes seem to have rediscovered humans – essential workers, employees, members of underrepresented minorities, and children.In our rush to atone our sins and redress imbalances, we are not stopping to…
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The Undemocratic Future of 21st Century Liberal Democracy

Fernando Lopez · University of California, USA. Global and International…
What is the future of liberal democracy? Is the “liberal” ingredient of 21st century democracy compatible with its “demos”? Are developed democracies more equalitarian and less stratified than other regimes? Or are present day democracies evolving into something different that needs a new definition…
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Second-Language Learners from Collectivistic Societies own Self-Efficacy Effects on Performance and Self Perception of Career Success.

Carlos Parra, Nanci Geriguis · La Sierra University, California, USA
In reference to cultural patterns in collectivistic societies, teaching and learning are greatly influenced by the teachers’ collectivistic or individualistic cultural orientation (Kaur & Noman, 2015). However, in dealing with both audiences and their teaching platforms, a chasm appears bet…
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SMEs’s potentials of Research and Development and the European Union Prospective. A Literature Review

Loreta Isaraj · Sapienza University, Italy
SME-s role in the economic development and economic structure is changing drastically, as it is gaining new dimensions the role they have as social agents. This becomes particularly present in the paradigm shift of the EU funding schema and priorities, for member and candidate states, indi…
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No Capitalism Without Nationalism

Zlatko Hadžidedić · Center for Nationalism Studies, Sarajevo, BiH
Most theories of nationalism labelled as ‘modernist’ tend to overlook the fact that the phenomenon to which they vaguely refer as ‘Modernity’ is defined by a single, very precise and consistent socio-economic system, that of capitalism. However, this fact makes nationalism and capitalism, rather tha…
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The Eagles Belt: The Unsuspected Stage of the Great Power Competition

Emanuel Pietrobon · InsideOver,Il Giornale, Osservatorio Globalizzazione, O…
The Balkans are one of the main stages of the so-called Cold War 2.0 between the United States and the Russo-Chinese axis, but, to a greater extent, they are also an important battlefront of the broader great power competition, a hegemonic confrontation fought by a number of European and non-Europea…