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The significance and influence of religions and confessions on the formation of nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Antonio Pehar · Herzegovina University, BiH
The article deals with the religious and confessional identity of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Ottoman and then the Austro-Hungarian authorities, and it is trying to define the elements of nationality in their identity. The reasons for initiating the rounding-up of three n…
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Book of Changes: Cosmological and Anthropological Metaphors in Chinese Philosophy

İlknur Sertdemir · University of Ankara, Turkey
Ancient Chinese history holds a quality which has syncretized traditional thought with its cultural wealth unified of mystical and mythological figures in the background. Such that classical documents, which had begun to be written before Common Era, has directly influenced the political regime, edu…
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Ajdukiewicz and the Notion of Conceptual Apparatus

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
The Polish philosopher Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz adopted the notion of “conceptual apparatus”, which is very similar to the idea of “conceptual scheme” put forward by Donald Davidson, Willard V. Quine, Nicholas Rescher and others. Ajdukiewicz’s theses are, in this regard, very important a…
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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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Are the United States still the «God’s Country»?

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
Arriving to the «new world» across the Atlantic Ocean from England, the Founding Fathers, as an act of thankfullness to God’s guidance, called the United States the «God’s Country». On the other hand, serious scholars would call them the «unfinished country» and quite a few political scientists woul…
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Typology of think tanks: A comparative study in Finland and Scotland

Neil Freshwater, Markus Mykkänen · Queen Margaret University, Scotland, UK
This paper provides a comparative analysis of current Finnish and Scottish think tanks and reviews how think tanks in these countries have evolved, how think tanks seek to influence decision making and engage with their stakeholders. To address the ways of influence this paper looks how Finnish and …
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The culture of modern public administration. The case of Greece.

George Aspridis, Louisa Pouliana · University of Thessaly, Hellenic Open University (HOU),…
The period stretching from 1974 till now has been characterized as the most stable period of the political and administrative history of Greece. However, the appropriate organizational culture which can contribute to the creation of a strategic vision for Greek public administration has not yet b…
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COVID-19 and Social Control

James Chriss · Cleveland State University, USA
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought into relief and tension the delicate balancing act modern governments must strike in assuring individual liberties of its citizens, while at the same time dealing with infectious diseases and other public health risks. It is not clear how best to strike t…
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The new Italian emigration between necessity and choice: “Cordless workers” in Athens

Grazia Moffa · University of Salerno, Italy
Statistics show that the new Italian emigration presents a plurality of directions: alongside the resumption of flows in the direction of the more traditional destinations, there are now migratory currents in the most diverse directions, including areas that are weak or lagging behind Italy. This no…
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Language and Idealism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In the philosophical inquiry adopted by logical empiricists, analysis of scientific language becomes something similar to a metaphysical endeavor which is meant to establish the bounds of sense, and this stance may be easily traced back to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On the oth…