Социальная ответственность: трансформация исследовательских подходов в контексте “общества риска”

The notion of social responsibility which is sufficiently detailed elaborate by modern social science is applied nowadays increasingly frequently as long as it is characterize various aspects and spheres of social life. Renewed interest in the concept today is connected with sociologist’s attempts to interpret current social situation - the condition of postmodernity described by uncertainty and risk which are escalated by global economic crisis. Vital need to conceptualize social responsibility under such conditions is appeared in a new context shaped by risk society. Evolution of social responsibility concept from classical - settled in modernity - to perceptions relevant to risk society is traced back in the article.Понятие социальной ответственности, достаточно подробно разработанное современной социальной наукой, сегодня применяется все чаще, поскольку характеризует разнообразные стороны и сферы социальной жизни. Актуализация интереса к данному понятию сегодня связана с попытками социологов осмыслить сложившуюся социальную ситуацию - состояние постсовременности, характеризующееся неопределенностью и риском, обострившимися в связи с мировым экономическим кризисом. В таких условиях появляется насущная необходимость концептуализации социальной ответственности в новом контексте, сформированном обществом риска. В статье прослеживается эволюция понятия социальной ответственности от классических - установившихся в эпоху модерна - к адекватным обществу риска представлениям

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Priority Cultural Heritage Structures in the Philippines

At the end of 2013 two catastrophic events occurred in the Philippines: the M 7.2 earthquake in Bohol and the strongest ever recorded Typhoon Haiyan, causing destruction across the islands of Cebu, Bohol and the Visayas region. These events raised the need to carry out a multi-hazard risk assessment of heritage buildings, many of which were irretrievably lost in the disasters. Philippines’ Department of Tourism engaged ARS Progetti S.P.A., Rome, Italy, and the Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics (CCCPET), University of Sto. Tomas, Manila, to undertake the “Assessment of the Multi-Hazard Vulnerability of Priority Cultural Heritage Structures in the Philippines”, with experts from University College London, UK, and De La Salle University. The main objective of the project was to reduce the vulnerability of cultural heritage structures to multiple natural hazards, including earthquake, typhoon, flood, by: (i) prioritizing of specific structures based on hazard maps and historical records; (ii) assessing their vulnerability; and (iii) recommending options to mitigate the impacts on them. The paper presents the methodology introduced to determine the seismic risk these heritage buildings are exposed to. All the selected cultural heritage structures are under the jurisdiction of the National Museum Commission of Philippines and of the National Commission for Culture and Arts

Tailoring 3D single-walled carbon nanotubes anchored to indium tin oxide for natural cellular uptake and intracellular sensing.

The ability to monitor intracellular events in real time is paramount to advancing fundamental biological and clinical science. We present the first demonstration of a direct interface of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (VASWCNTs) with eukaryotic cells, RAW 264.7 mouse macrophage cell line. The cells were cultured on indium tin oxide with VASWCNTs. VASWCNTs entered the cells naturally without application of any external force and were shown to sense the intracellular presence of a redox active moiety, methylene blue. The technology developed provides an alluring platform to enable electrochemical study of an intracellular environment

Classical and Non-classical Rationality in Social Cognition: the Problem Definition

The contemporary social thought identifies the shaping of rationality centered around new principles. The article offers the analysis of the major trends of the given process emphasizing the heuristic value of non-classical rationality

Ethnic identity in a globalizing world (on the example of the Republic of Chad youth)

The identity questions have become one of the leading topics in the contemporary social science due to the emergence of a number of problems that complicate self-identification processes in the (post) modern society. The new status of the modernity - ‘fluid’ - has led to the fact that identity as a result of membership in a social group lost its static nature: everyday every individual has to take responsibility to choose his life direction and, respectively, to change his identification as a member of a specific community. Globalization has also changed the process of ethnic identity formation, which, on the one hand, turns into a protest aiming at preserving one’s uniqueness in a globalizing world; on the other hand, ethnic identity is a result of the already accomplished globalization revealing all its transformations. Thus, aggravation of interethnic conflicts related to the identity issues is most common in multiethnic societies. The article presents the results of the empirical research of the ethnic identity of young people in Chad. The interviews conducted by the author revealed the leading type of ethnic identity among young people in Chad and its specific features in new life conditions

Social responsibility: the transformation of research approaches in the context of the “risk society”

The notion of social responsibility which is sufficiently detailed elaborate by modern social science is applied nowadays increasingly frequently as long as it is characterize various aspects and spheres of social life. Renewed interest in the concept today is connected with sociologist’s attempts to interpret current social situation - the condition of postmodernity described by uncertainty and risk which are escalated by global economic crisis. Vital need to conceptualize social responsibility under such conditions is appeared in a new context shaped by risk society. Evolution of social responsibility concept from classical - settled in modernity - to perceptions relevant to risk society is traced back in the article

‘Protodesign’: The genesis of design, or a few things that changed the world

The concept ‘design’ that has recently become popular in everyday discourse and among social scientists has not received an unambiguous interpretation. The ambiguity of the concept is due primarily to the complexity of the interpretation of very diverse social practices, the history of which can be traced to the earliest cultural practices of the humankind. This gives the design a universal character and exceptional significance: through the prism of this concept, we can trace the evolution of human culture as a whole. Thus, the study of the concept ‘design’ in the article is based on this theoretical background and emphasizes its basic feature - projectivity genetically related to the project thinking as an essential attribute of human activity. The logic of the article corresponds to the sequence of the main historical stages of the project thinking formation marked by specific inventions. Such an approach allows us to trace the evolution of the design revealing its genesis in the connection with the key moments of the industrial development and scientific and technological revolution as well as the most important social events that contributed to the development of the modern society urban environment and predetermined its social structure

Adaptation of Students to University Milieu: A Social-Phenomenological Analysis

Phenomenological sociology, due to its specific approach to the study of society, has become the theoretical and methodological basis for analyzing a number of social phenomena, conventionally termed as “subjective”. To these phenomena we refer adaptation — a complex social-psychological process, involving the individual’s immersion into a new socio-cultural milieu and, consequently, initiating ambiguous shifts in personal development. The article describes the results of the research carried out in April, 2012 and focused on adaptation processes characteristic for PFUR students, with the analysis relying on the depth interview method within the framework of this theoretical paradigm