https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/issue/feed Analele Universității „Dunărea de Jos” din Galați. Fascicula XX, Sociologie / The Annals of ”Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. Fascicle XX, Sociology 2024-12-17T10:47:32+02:00 PhD. Rariţa MIHAIL rarita.mihail@ugal.ro Open Journal Systems <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">ISSN:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> 1842 - 6492 (print), 2734-6765 (online)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Frequency:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> annual (2006-)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Subjects covered:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> sociology, social work, social politics, anthropology, political studies, social change, social movements, cultural studies, statistics, social history, social economy</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">Contact:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> revista.sociologie@ugal.ro</span></p> https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7110 Employment and Unemployment in the South-East Region of Romania – Comparative Analysis by Development Regions (2020-2023) 2024-12-14T17:31:20+02:00 Elisaveta DRĂGHICI elisaveta.draghici@ugal.ro <p>The paper presents the result of the research based on the analysis of official statistical data on employment and unemployment characteristics at the level of the South-East Development Region and the comparison with the other development regions in Romania. The aim is to highlight the level of the development of the South-East Region in the reference period 2020-2023. In order to achieve this goal, an analysis of the demographic and occupational picture, an analysis of the evolution of employment and unemployment and the identification of the sectors of activity that have attracted the labour force were carried out. The conclusions of the study show that the South-East region needs economic and social policies to increase its attractiveness to the population, all the more so as there is an increase in the number of immigrants. &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7111 Academic Mobility: Economic, Social, and Cultural Challenges 2024-12-14T17:36:16+02:00 Rarița MIHAIL rarita.mihail@ugal.ro <p>The development of a knowledge-based society, the liberalization of trade, and the increase in foreign direct investment have led to the internationalization of research and development activities and the enhanced mobility of human resources in the fields of science and technology. Globally, there is unprecedented competition for talent, making it a vital strategy for advanced economies and a major aspect of globalization. On one hand, the specialized literature discusses academic mobility not as an end in itself but as a means to contribute to the training of students, intellectuals, (future) researchers, teachers, directors, and the global citizens of tomorrow. On the other hand, the emigration of researchers and higher education staff is seen as a complex phenomenon, part of the brain drain, which must consider global developments. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the significance of the brain drain concept must be understood through the complementarity of various aspects it encompasses, including: the emigration of individuals with higher education; a significant number of highly qualified emigrants; emigration from developing or underdeveloped countries to developed countries; the effects of the emigration of specialists on both the source and destination countries; the international mobility of students, researchers, experts, and other professionals; the positive effects generated by return migration (investments, trade, technology, human capital); the low level of remittances; the direct impact on the source country, especially in professions with a significant social impact, such as doctors, teachers, and researchers. Thus, the phenomenon of highly skilled personnel emigration must be addressed within the context of global talent competition and policies to encourage the international mobility&nbsp;of&nbsp;researchers.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7112 The social status and educational role of the teacher in the digital age. Implications for students' motivation for their teaching careers 2024-12-14T17:39:28+02:00 Cristina BUTNARU-SANDACHE cristina.butnaru@ugal.ro <p>The development of technology, culminating, in recent years, with the immersion of AI in the formal educational space, has undoubtedly generated a number of notable, positive outcomes as a result of the use of these tools in teaching. On the other hand, access to such technologies, as well as the specific, student-focused nature of many of them, has created a wave of doubts and concerns: do students still need teachers, what happens to the role and responsibilities of the teacher if information has become so easy to access and artificial intelligence seems to have capabilities that can substitute this role in its traditional exercise? Given the other factors that may affect students' decisions to pursue a teaching career - the depreciation of the social status of the teacher, the alternative of better paid professions, the prospect of the effort required by continuing education and professional development - we wondered whether all this can have enough influential power. What makes them convinced or doubtful about this professional perspective? Therefore, we carried out a fact-finding research in which students of the study program for psycho-pedagogical training were challenged to reflect on: motivation for the teaching career, perception of the social status of the teacher in the present day, the educational role in the "competitive" relationship with AI.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7113 Meaning and Cultural Interaction in Society 2024-12-14T17:43:15+02:00 Iulian GRIGORIU iulian.grigoriu@ugal.ro <p>The idea that we want to promote in this article is that the meaning of a society stems from its culture, and the "sociological imagination" is an explanatory factor of the dynamics in relation to Meaning and culture within a society. With this objective in mind, we analyze the contributions of classical sociologists such as Auguste Comte, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer and Thorstein Veblen. From these thinkers' approaches to the structure of society, historical change and the evolution of human typologies, we will draw evidence and arguments to support the thesis that the meaning of a society, while not deterministic, is the result of cultural interactions between individuals, closely related to the style and 'sociological imagination' that C. Wright Mills speaks of. Through the prism of this concept, we will understand how individual biography and collective history intersect, how meaning and culture cannot be seen as isolated phenomena but must be analyzed in relation to social and historical processes. The "sociological imagination," mediates how individuals relate their personal experiences to larger social forces, giving them a clearer vision of their place in the world. What is at stake in the present article is to demonstrate that meaning is not a natural given but emerges as a social construction. Culture is also shown to be a vehicle through which societal meaning is manifested and negotiated. Here again we want to make a link between social structure and historical change, with the idea that complex, open societies offer multiple possibilities for individuals to assert themselves, with a variety of ways of giving meaning to life. Meaning and culture are dynamic processes that evolve in close connection with social, economic and political structures. In the modern world, on these coordinates, the balance between rationalization and a meaningful life becomes a central challenge of life.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7125 Theoretical Approaches Regarding the Concept of Organizational Culture 2024-12-17T10:04:27+02:00 Valerica CELMARE valerica.celmare@ugal.ro <p>This article proposes a theoretical approach to the concept of organizational culture. The study makes a foray into defining the concept of organizational culture and reviews the elements of organizational culture identified in the literature. The concept of organizational culture is presented diachronically, captured in the vision of the great classics and the contemporary vision. Clarifying this concept helps understand the perspectives that the organizational culture analyst will address in his research approach and for students who become familiar with the organizational environment.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7128 Change of habitat- change of mentality at the time of the Haussmannian breakthroughs in the second half of the nineteenth century 2024-12-17T10:15:26+02:00 Daniel Lucian GĂLĂŢANU dgalatanu@ugal.ro <p>This research aims to analyze the fundamental transformations of Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century, at the time of the Second Empire. Of course, we will not study these transformations with the eyes of a professional architect&nbsp;or a specialist in urban planning but with the "civilizationist" aim of someone who wishes to popularize the Great French culture and civilization. It is this period that is of most interest because it is to the Second Empire and to the Baron de Haussmann that Paris owes its brilliance and its power of cultural and romantic seduction today because it is this Prefect of Paris who took charge of the heaviest works of urban planning, systematization, the fight in favor of general hygiene, and a change of air and perspective in the old French capital, at the time mentioned above. Everything that was modern, from the capital's water supply to the bathrooms of every house and apartment (it was the time of the "sewerage" campaign), to the gas illumination of all Paris, to the grand boulevards thanks to which the French capital is renowned to this day, to modern urban planning and, above all, to the graceful new (late nineteenth century) Art Nouveau architecture that produced the Parisian masterpieces, we owe the whole to Baron d'Haussmann. It was him who dared to disembowel the old medieval Paris to adorn it with the brilliance of twentieth-century modernity; it was him, in fact, the man who changed the mentality of all by offering them a new habitat.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7129 Improving the learning competences in the higher education - Digital tools and socio-human sciences 2024-12-17T10:18:00+02:00 Carmen ALEXANDRACHE carmen.alexandrache@ugal.ro <p>The digital environment tends to have more and more importance in the human life. Whether it's through virtual realities, global connectivity, data exploration, or technological innovation, the digital applications offer endless opportunities for exploration and growth. Consequently, the digital skills are essential for the future of society, in general, and for actual education process, in special. This paper proposes a new educational perspective that bringing the social and human sciences and digital environment. Having intention to analyse this corelation, we propose some educational solutions as follows: the integrated curriculum, the practical intervention which can be applied in the higher education in special, the methodological recommendations, the digital tools and technologies, the students researching competences that can be improved using the digital environment. The paper results underline the necessity of using digitalization for develop the learning and teaching in the social and human field. But our results can be very useful for the educational interventions in the schools, in general.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7130 Metacognition and wellbeing in education. A literature review 2024-12-17T10:23:47+02:00 Simona ȘUȘNEA susneasimona@mail.com Carmen Mihaela CREȚU carmen.cretu@uaic.ro Cătălina LOMOS catalina.lomos@liser.lu <p>Despite the very large number of publications dedicated to metacognition and well-being, there are very few studies directly aimed to explore the connection between these variables and the possible mediating factors. In this context, the present bibliographic study has the following objectives: a) Identifying the main definitions and conceptual models of metacognition and well-being; b) Highlighting the particular aspects&nbsp; of the educational environment, important from the perspective of the research on metacognition and well-being; c) Identifying the factors that connect metacognition and well-being; d) Identifying the tools available for measuring metacognition and well-being; e) Identifying the methods and directions of action in interventions aimed at developing metacognitive skills and well-being. Based on the existing data in the literature, we conclude that there is sufficient empirical evidence to support the idea that metacognitive skills have a significant positive effect on professional performance both for students and teachers, and indirectly on their well-being. Therefore, additional research is required to elucidate the connections between metacognition and well-being, as well as to develop specific intervention programs for the development of metacognitive skills in school and for raising awareness of the factors contributing to the well-being of students and teachers.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7131 The Fight for Peace – A Topical Discourse, yet Unprecedented in Romania’s Communist Period 2024-12-17T10:26:04+02:00 Pr. Ovidiu Dănuț SOARE ovidiu.soare@ugal.ro <p>The political leaders of the Romanian communist space were so convinced of the veracity of the communist society, which they wanted at any cost to establish in all spheres of activity in our society, that they saw the presence of communism in contemporary society as a revolutionary transformation, as a new society, which would lead to radical changes in the thinking of the broad masses of working people, with repercussions on the whole of humanity. Thus, communist ideology would become the savior of humanity. There would have been no other way. And this revolutionary transformation would have brought both world peace and our national freedom and independence. The Church, on the other hand, used this opportunity to speak about world peace, bringing into the discourse both the benefits of the new society and the Church's own teaching about peace, freedom, philanthropy or salvation. It was a good opportunity for the Church at that time to continue the catechesis of the faithful and to pass on the Christian way to salvation in a society undergoing unprecedented changes.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7135 Disability, a Determining Poverty Condition 2024-12-17T10:47:32+02:00 Diana-Mihaela MALINCHE diana.malinche@ugal.ro <p>This work seeks to identify the relashionships between disability and poverty and also empasizes the importance of disability role globally and the interdependence between disability and poverty. In the contemporary period, the subject of socio-professional insertion, the fight against discrimination as well as the improvement of living conditions for people with disabilities have been constantly addressed by international bodies for the protection of human rights, by public authorities at the national level as well as by researchers in the field of social security so as to reduce the risk of impoverishment, respectively of social exclusion for the people with disabilities around the world. Through the lens of socio-cognitive mechanisms, people are influenced by the perception of an ideal of beauty when interacting with disabled people, who are frequently discriminated against and rejected from a social point of view. When the social rejection of disabled people is the common goal of several individuals, they group into masses of people, thus gaining a great power to reject the disability. People with disabilities face physical, social, economic or environmental barriers to their participation in social life, which can lead to poverty and marginalization and they are more exposed to social exclusion and risk of poverty compared to people with mild disabilities who are not completely isolated from society.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/socio/article/view/7133 Palliative care between necessity and reality. Evaluation of the need for the development of palliative care services 2024-12-17T10:36:27+02:00 Ana BERESCU-BOGOMOLOV ani.berescu@gmail.com <p>Palliative care social work has emerged largely as a specialty health-related clinical social work on a global scale. Palliative care teams are relied upon to support patients and their families as a result of people living longer with serious illnesses and chronic diseases. An essential component of the interprofessional palliative care team are the social workers. In this study, I want to discuss the need for palliative care services to expand across the nation, with a particular emphasis on Galati County. The study's thesis is that because palliative care is currently underfunded and because socioeconomic developments provide significant obstacles, the state must take specific action. Additionally, this paper explains the role of social workers in hospital-based palliative care. It also examines some important statistical data about palliative care in Galati County.</p> 2024-12-14T00:00:00+02:00 ##submission.copyrightStatement##