The analysis of the pre-Christian Baltic culture, in the centre of which there is a pagan religious logic, reveals the issue of credibility of its records. Therefore, the article attempts to review and to verify mythical material directly related to fir tree and pear tree, described by Matthaeus Praetorius (Matthäus Prätorius) in his manuscript “Deliciae Prussicae or Prussian Theater” (Deliciae Prussicae, oder Preussische Schaubühne, the end of the17th century). In parallel with this, the article discusses interpretations by more significant researchers of the 19th–21st centuries who were concerned with Praetorius’s mythical material on fir tree and pear tree. The context of the researches of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries has shown that the researchers of earlier periods did not consider the question of reliability of Matthaeus Praetorius’s mythical material. The present research also allowed to trace the varying tendency of reliability of Praetorius’s described mythical data directly related to fir tree and pear tree.
Convergence is one the main targets of enlarged EU. According to the analysis of the main sustainable consumption and productionindicators, except domestic material consumption, convergence has been taking place in new EU member states over the period ofeconomic growth in 2000–2007. However, as indicated by the results due to the global economic crisis in 2009 differences betweenthe countries have increased: the convergence rate – the coefficient of variation – increased. In overall terms, countries in CEE haveimproved in most cases and converged to the average of the group. However, in terms of sustainable development, convergencenot always indicates positive changes. New EU member states while striving to reach higher economic level should maintain lowerlevels of consumption, waste generation and pollution. Much more attention to energy and resource efficiency and decoupling ofeconomic growth and resource consumption is to be paid.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 73, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 223–238
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The article seeks to reveal the importance of critical evaluation of authority of social workers. The problem of authority and different meanings attached to the role of a social worker are discussed and the practical and theoretical value of the research study is revealed. The article presents the theoretical explanations of the concept of authority and its ethical implications for social work practice at a children day care center. It also discusses the empirical findings of the qualitative case study conducted at the day care center X. The perceptions of its practitioners, what authority of a social worker means and consists of and how to gain it, are peresented. The article includes a detailed description of the specific context of the case study and indicates the selected research methods. The degree of reliability and validity of research study are also discussed. The empirical data of the case study is analyzed and discussed and conclusions are presented.
The article deals with the “theater” of entertainment world as issue of mediated society. Modern Western society can be called a mediated society for a strong impact of new, global media. Under these conditions, society, culture and everyday life is increasingly interpreted using a model of theatre and theatrical metaphors. Theatre is becoming one of the key concepts of the modern Western social categories, such as the use of concepts as simulation or society of the spectacle. Regarding to the wide spread of the new – digital media, especially the Internet, in recent decades of Western society, has increased the consumption of popular culture, one might say, began the era of the entertainment world. This study – one of the first attempts to analyze the philosophical Lithuania entertainment world phenomenon: the genesis, structure, impact on society. This article analyzes the phenomenon of entertainment world: its genesis, structure, impact on society. The objective: to explore the causes and trends of mass spread of the phenomenon of entertainment world in contemporary Western culture as an integral part of a technological breakthrough result of new media. The analysis of the phenomenon of entertainment world aims to: 1) explore genesis, causes and objectives of the world of entertainment as a cultural phenomenon and to reflect critically its forms of thinking and lifestyle; 2) reveal the structure of the entertainment world in twenty-first century society of the spectacle; 3) analyze the influence of the media impact to the entertainment world.
Pirmieji švyturiai buvo paprasčiausi LAUŽAI, uždegti aukštesnėje pakrantės vietoje, kad saviškiai, išėję jūron, rastų kelią namo. Homeras VIII a. pr. Kr. „Iliadoje“ aprašė Trojos karą: „Kai užgęsta saulė – ant kranto uždegami signaliniai laužai.“ Norint, kad laužas matytųsi iš toliau, reikėjo ugnį kelti aukštyn. Net du antikos švyturiai yra „Septyniuose pasaulio stebukluose“ –Aleksandrijos (Pharos) (280–247 m. pr. Kr.) ir Rodo Kolosas (292–280 m. pr. Kr.). Prasidėjus laivybai, nusidriekė jūrų keliai iš Viduržemio jūros, aplink Europą ir iki Skandinavijos. Pakeliui, besiplečiant Romos imperijai, pakrantėse dygo pirmieji švyturiai – Ostia, Genua, La Coruna, Cordouan, Dover, Hook.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 221–236
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The article highlights that a modern society focuses on exclusive body care along with appearance of individuals and especially adolescents. Physical exterior of a person seems to be receiving an increasingly growing attention in everyday life situations, as beauty ideals shift in social environments along with requirements to comply with and pursue them. Research, analyzing body dissatisfaction, has received wide attention in a scholarly environment. Body related dissatisfaction has become a highly relevant issue, as it links to eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa and others, however there is a gap in research analyzing the pedagogical side of such issue. It is highly relevant to be aware of and understand body and body weight related problems because difficulties emerged during the early adolescence might persist during adulthood as well. Research aim – to reveal how adolescents perceive their physique and individual parts of their body and compare these self-assessments based on a gender. In 2012, using a research method of an anonymous survey a total of 1347 adolescents from 8th grades were surveyed. The research uses a questionnaire to study physique related self-assessment, designed by the author. Results obtained from the conducted research allow to conclude that research participants feel more dissatisfied with individual phenotype-dependent morphological and functional features of a body, which can be altered through well-chosen physical exercising. It was identified that research participants are more satisfied with individual morphological and functional features of a body, inherited from parents, i.e. genotype-dependent, which cannot be altered through exercising. Findings also reveal that respondents are mostly dissatisfied with shape, largeness and size of individual body parts as well as muscle weakness. Results also allow to conclude that significance attributed to certain elements of physique is gender-dependent.
There is the one of the biggest problem in the world- not sustainable development of countries, regions. The governments of different countries were trying to solve economical differences between some countries and regions only using economic measures in last century. It should be noted that economic development orientations and concepts cannot satisfy the humanity’s needs and they have only a limited application spectrum in environmental protection studies. The situation supposes the necessity to propose new approaches and to define the essence of economic theory, its potential role and tasks, in solving issues related to critical human existence and civilization survival in the future. Sustainable development is based on three dimensions: economic development, social development, and environmental protection. But still there are big scientific problem – how to change mentality of people through the world? How to find measures that would be understandable for everybody? How to change people thinking to use less? How to explain for managers of organizations, that to be sustainable – to be successful? These and other questions were analyzed in this article. The aim of this paper is to describe benefit of sustainable development in organizations. Object of research – sustainable organizations. The tasks of the article: to analyze the concepts of sustainable development in organizational level; to analyze concept of sustainable organization and to show benefit for organizations to sustainable. Used methods are- the analysis of scientific articles, comparison, and observation.
Wherewith actualisation of health promotion as an important aspect in the context of public health maintenance, the questions which are connected to public joint responsibility in their health maintenance and improvement attain even greater importance. Taking into consideration the insufficient health quality of Latvian population which ranks Latvia in one of the last places among the European countries, actualisation and implementation of individual responsibility dimension in the health care financing model, is viewed as a possibility of improvement of the current situation. The research overlooked the approaches of individual responsibility integration in health care models employed by the developed countries, classifying those several parameters, established the insufficient Latvian population involvement level which is characterised by large health influencing harmful habit prevalence and low involvement level in illness prevention measures, as well as marked the main challenges and possibilities, introducing individual responsibility dimension in Latvian health care financing model which are referred to both increasing the payment solidarity and lifestyle and behaviour changes.
Aurelija Mykolaitytė. Kuršių nerija lietuvių literatūroje: kultūros atminties paradigmos. Monografija. Kaunas: Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2018, 179 p.Aurelijos Mykolaitytės monografijoje iškelta ir svarstoma problema reikšminga filologijos mokslui, kultūros istorijai ir lituanistinių tyrimų raidai. Tai fundamentalus, išsamus, įžvalgus mokslo darbas, populiarinantis ir reflektuojantis Kuršių neriją, lietuvių literatūrą, mažai žinomus ir nutylėtus visuomenės bei kultūros istorijos momentus. Knyga aktuali, kadangi Kuršių nerija, jos bendruomenė, tos vietos ženklai per visą Lietuvos istoriją buvo vertinami nevienareikšmiškai dėl kultūrinių, ideologinių, kitokių atskirtumų, specifiškumo. Autorės pasirinktas tyrimo būdas pagrįstas, leidžiantis analizuoti darbo objektą ir diachroniškai, ir sinchroniškai. Pirma, Kuršių nerijos topografiniai ženklai, atminties įrašai literatūroje nagrinėjami nuo seniausių iki naujausių laikų. Antra, aiškinamasi, kaip tam tikru laiku nutikę įvykiai (kuršių išnykimas ir kt.), reflektuojami tekstuose, susijungia ar atgamina kolektyvinę atmintį bei panaikina laikiškumo įspūdį. Aurelija Mykolaitytė knygoje bando atsakyti į keletą klausimų: Ar Kuršių nerija yra Lietuvos dalis, žvelgiant dvasinio tautos sąmoningumo aspektu? Kiek ji Didžiajai Lietuvai sava? Kuo ji savita ir ypatinga? Kaip tam tikro kolektyvo priimamas Kitas – kitoks, mažesnis – įvairiais istorijos laikotarpiais? Kaip žmogus suvokia save ir savo aplinką, kaip ši aplinka veikia individualius pasirinkimus? Ką mums šiandien teigia Kuršių nerijos mitas ir tikrovė per literatūrą ir kultūrą?
Innovation is not only an economic mechanism, or a technical process. It is primarily a social phenomenon in which the motivation and participation of employees are determinants of success in the process. Hence, many authors emphasise the social dimension of innovation. The paper summarizes the conclusions of the studies conducted among employees from Polish companies on identification of “soft” determinants of innovation processes in the organization, such as human resources, innovative climate and culture conducive to innovation.