“COMMODITY IN GENERAL” AND THE GLOBALIZING MODERN TOTALITARIANISMS

Autorica se osvrće na knjigu Daga Strpića Karl Marx i politička ekonomija Moderne, posebno na dio u kojem je autor prezentirao znanstvene rezultate svojih istraživanja o primjenjivosti Marxove kritike političke ekonomije iz perspektive robne proizvodnje na teorijskoj razini “kapitala općenito”. Skreće pozornost i na Strpićeva razmatranja o uzrocima pojavljivanja različitih oblika globalizirajućih modernih totalitarizama (političkih i korporacijskih), koji se mogu prepoznati i u suvremenom neoliberalnom poretku, unatoč tome što se on teorijski i ideološki legitimira kao liberalan i što je načelno zadržao svoj oblik modernog razvoja.The author reflects on Dag Strpić’s book Karl Marx and the Political Economy of Modernity, in particular on the part in which Strpić laid out the scientific results of his research into the applicability of Marx’s critique of political economy from the viewpoint of commodity production on the theoretical level of “capital in general”. Furthermore, she draws attention to Strpić’s discussion of the causes of appearance of various forms of globalizing modern totalitarianisms (political and corporate), which can also be recognized in the contemporary neo-liberal order. This is so in spite of the fact that the latter is legitimized theoretically and ideologically as liberal, and that, in principle, it has retained its form of modern development

The dinamics of reforms developement in Macedonia and its approach towards European Union

Democracy is a form of governing of today's modern state, while democratization is a process of regime change from authoritarian ortotalitarian to establishment of liberal democracy. As a political phenomenonit is a transformation that lasts long period of time. Democratic consolidation is longer than the democratic transition and it can last several decades by encompassing the cultivation of democratic values for the eliteand the wider population, as well as the legitimating and fully institutionalizing the new democracy. The process ends with the competition of this consolidation. The democracy in Macedonia is young, unformed and non-stabilized; therefore it is still fragile and unsustainable

Tihomir Cipek i Josip Vrandečić (ur.), Hrestomatija liberalnih ideja u Hrvatskoj

Prikaz knjige Tihomir Cipek i Josip Vrandečić (ur.), Hrestomatija liberalnih ideja u Hrvatskoj, Disput, Zagreb 2004, 384 str

The contribution of research on expertise to understanding of expert thinking

Ekspertiza se određuje na osnovu visokog nivoa ovladanosti znanjima i veštinama u različitim oblastima ljudskih dealtnosti (nauke, umetnosti, sporta i drugim manje formalnim domenima). Ovaj rad bavi se razmatranjem doprinosa empirijskih istraživanja ekspertize razumevanju prirode ekspertskog mišljenja. S tom svrhom sačinjen je pregled i analiza nalaza relevantnih istraživanja ekspertize različitih pristupa i paradigmi. Obuhvaćena su istraživanja koja se odnose na izučavanja eksperata, izdvojenih na osnovu njihovih izuzetnih postignuća u različitim domenima (apsolutna ekspertiza) i istraživanja koja se zasnivaju na poređenju eksperata i početnka (relativna ekspertiza). Razmatrana su istraživanja različitih paradigmi: psihometrijske i kognitivističke paradigme, kao i novog izdanka - paradigme koja se zasniva na određenju darovitosti kao ekspertize koja se razvija. Rezultati istraživanja pružaju empirijski utemeljena saznanja o karakteristikama mišljenja eksperata i usaglašeno ukazuju na to da znanje čini srž ekspertize. Odlike ekspertskog znanja iskazuju se preko količine i organizacije znanja, vladanja dubinskim sadržajima i sistemima znanja, što omogućava prepoznavanje pravila, modela i setova informacija, korišćenje znanja u daljem učenju, u prepoznavanju i rešavanju različitih problema. Možemo zaključiti da nalazi istraživanja ekspertize čine jedan od oslonaca u konceptualizaciji pojma ekspertskog mišljenja. Oni značajno doprinose sagledavanju načina na koje znanje oblikuje mišljenje i razumevanju mehanizama ispoljavanja znanja u mentalnim procesima eksperata.Expertise is determined based on the high level of mastery of knowledge and skills in different areas of human activities (science, art, sports and other less formal domains). This paper explores the contribution of empirical research on expertise to understanding of the nature of expert thinking. For that purpose we have compiled an overview and performed an analysis of the findings of relevant research on expertise based on different approaches and paradigms. We have included the studies that researched experts singled out based on their exceptional performances in different domains (absolute expertise) and the studies based on comparing experts with novices (relative expertise). We have analyzed the studies using different paradigms: psychometric and cognitive paradigms, as well as the new offshoot, the paradigm based on viewing giftedness as developing expertise. Research results provide empirically grounded findings on the characteristics of expert thinking and consistently point to the fact that knowledge is the core of expertise. The characteristics of expert knowledge are operationalized via the quantity and organization of knowledge and the mastery of deep contents and knowledge systems, which enables the recognition of rules, models and information sets, as well as the use of knowledge in further studying, detecting and solving different problems. It can be concluded that research findings on expertise are one of the foundations in the conceptualization of expert thinking. They significantly contribute to obtaining an insight into the way in which knowledge shapes thought and into understanding the mechanisms of demonstrating knowledge in the mental processes of experts

Odnos kamniške partije do Katoliške cerkve v prvih povojnih letih

The article presents the attitude of the Communist Party towards religious communities on the local level in Kamnik in the first post-war years, particularly the attitude towards the Catholic Church and partly towards Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were the most active non-Catholic religious community in the area. Compared with other areas in Slovenia, the Party’s attitude towards the Church in the Kamnik area was slightly less conflictive in the post-war period; however, we can see the Party’s strong tendencies for controlling the Church and its members and for limiting the Church’s social influence

Darko Polšek, Sudbina odabranih

Prikaz knjige Darka Polšeka, Sudbina odabranih: eugeničko nasljeđe u vrijeme genske tehnologije, ArTresor Naklada, Zagreb 2004, 454 str