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A preliminary analysis of social innovation in Italy and Latvia

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Marzano G.
Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje
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2017
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issue 39(4)
41-53
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Social innovation is generally regarded as the capacity to respond to emerging social needs through new solutions and models without the primary aim of pursuing profit. Social enterprises, as organizations that apply business strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental wellbeing, are widely engaged in social innovation. In Italy, social innovation appears to be a prerogative of social enterprises, especially of social cooperatives that are a type of non-profit social enterprise ruled by specific regulations. This article is a preliminary report on the specificities of social innovation and social entrepreneurship in Italy and in Latvia. The differences are useful to understand the difficulties that ex-soviet countries are encountering in shaking off their communist past and, at the same time, their potentiality for experimenting new forms of social cooperation.
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Innowacje społeczne są na ogół postrzegane jako zdolność reagowania na pojawiające się potrzeby społeczne za pomocą nowych rozwiązań i modeli, które nie mają na celu osiągnięcia zysku. Przedsiębiorstwa społeczne, jako organizacje, które stosują strategie biznesowe w celu maksymalizacji poprawy dobrobytu ludzi i środowiska, są szeroko zaangażowane w innowacje społeczne. We Włoszech innowacje społeczne wydają się być prerogatywą przedsiębiorstw spo-łecznych, zwłaszcza spółdzielni socjalnych, które są rodzajem przedsiębiorstwa społecz-nego typu non-profit, prowadzonym według określonych zasad. W artykule przedstawiono specyfikę innowacji społecznych i przedsiębiorczości społecznej we Włoszech i na Łotwie. Wskazane różnice są przydatne do zrozumienia trudności, na jakie są narażone kraje byłego ZSRR w procesie odchodzenia od komunistycznej przeszłości, oraz ich potencjału do eksperymentowania z nowymi formami współpracy społecznej.
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PRIVILEGED OBSERVERS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVING TOWN

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Marzano G., Vicedomine R.
Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
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2013
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issue 2
32-56
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At the end of 1960s, the French sociologist Raymond Ledrut claimed that a city is not a juxtaposition of parts, but urban areas show reciprocal relationships in the social space, and differences in urban community affect the character of cities. He speaks about the “image of a city” that is not so much a pictorial representation but the way in which people, inhabitants as well as visitors, talk about a place. The notion of the “character of a city” appeared even in the New Charter of Athens edited by the European Council of Town Planners’ Principles for Planning Cities (1998). This article illustrates and discusses the first results of a research carried out during the years 2011 and 2012, which purpose was to investigate if the inhabitants’ talking about their town can help to bring about the identification of relevant aspects that one regards as the character of a city, a term largely used not only in tourism and travel literature, but also in several scientific works. The research is essentially based on open ended semi-structured interviews with 25 elite persons, living in Udine (a city of about 100.000 people in the northeast of Italy) for at least 25 years, all belonging to the medium-high intellectual class. Interviews’ data has been integrated with information gathered from local literature, local newspapers, official statistics, and web analysis. A mixed research approach has been followed, integrating qualitative and quantitative data, these latter in part extracted from the interviews and in part from the Internet applying content analysis techniques. Our hypothesis was that interviews, if suitably constructed and carried out, could reduce the difficulties of large-scale investigations, allowing the gathering of a large amount of data in a relatively short time. The idea of deriving constructs and thematic topics from the interviews is shared by Denis Royer (2013). Our methodological hypothesis is presented and discussed, underlying that, in our research, the interviews have led us to the identification of some relevant aspects that contributed to represent the character of Udine. For example, a questionnaire would hardly have allowed to highlight the compartmentalization of Udine city’s life and unearthed the seemingly tolerant climate that reigns in this city.
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TOPICALITY OF CYBERBULLYING AMONG TEENAGERS IN RUSSIA AND LATVIA

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Boronenko V., Menshikov V., Marzano G.
Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
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2013
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issue 2
84-104
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Cyberbullying can be defined as an aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or herself. A similar definition is worked out by the Information Technologies Group of the Center for International Development at the Harvard University and, in virtue of its generality, it complies with the notion of cyberbullying used by many researchers in Europe, Australia and the USA. The geographic scope of the present article is focused on Russia and Latvia, with some references to East Europe countries. An intriguing indication arises from our investigation: in spite of the daily topicality of cyberbullying among teenagers of Russia and Latvia, in these countries are not any or just few significant scientific researches on cyberbullying and cyber violence. Starting from the above observation, this article presents some reflections on the topicality of cyberbullying and on the absence of adequate scientific and practical feedback in Russia and Latvia. The article is divided into two main parts: the first part is devoted to the cyberbullying context in Russia and Latvia, while in the second one the authors provide some considerations about a possible relationship between cyberbullying and culturally historical heritage in post-communist countries. The methods used in the research: analysis of scientific literature and media materials from English, Russian and Latvian scientific and media space, secondary analysis of sociological surveys’ data, cluster analysis and correlation analysis. The results of the research show that the main reasons of cyberbullying paradox in the teenager population of Russia and Latvia are the following: historical heritage of violence from totalitarian political regimes when state powerful persons were cruel and boorish in their daily practice; collective – even “herd” – societal culture where people are divided on “ours” and “non-ours”. The solutions of the problem suggested by the authors are the following: 1) conceptual and complex understanding of current situation; 2) taking into consideration cultural context; 3) target managing of social networks in schools; 4) non-using of cruel and terror methods. The core idea of the paper – the main premise of the success of anti-bullying policy is that non-bullying behavior has to be psychologically, socially and economically beneficial in the society as a whole.
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Future changes in the labor market

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Grewiński M., Marzano G., Kawa M., Lizut J.
Edukacja Humanistyczna
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2020
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issue 1
9-34
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New technologies have thoroughly penetrated into our everyday life, affecting leisure, interpersonal relationships, science or business. Many permanent and radical changes in the labour market have been experimented in the last twenty five years which have transformed work organization, management processes, personnel policies, as well as the workplace design. Nevertheless, new technologies not only offer revolutionary, but also pose some serious problems. An effort is needed to understand the future technology trends and develop strategies to support the changes in the labor market.
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Nowe technologie przeniknęły do naszego codziennego życia, wpływając na czas wolny, relacje międzyludzkie, naukę czy biznes. W ciągu ostatnich dwudziestu pięciu lat nastąpiło wiele trwałych i radykalnych przemian na rynku pracy, które zmieniły organizację pracy, procesy zarządzania, politykę personalną, a także kształt miejsca pracy. Niemniej jednak nowe technologie nie tylko oferują rewolucyjne rozwiązania, ale także stwarzają pewne poważne problemy. Konieczne jest podjęcie wysiłku, aby zrozumieć przyszłe trendy technologiczne i opracować strategie wspierające zmiany na rynku pracy.
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