Asian Journal of Social and Human Sciences

55-66

Authors: Gnabro Ouakoubo Gaston, Vanga Adja Ferdinand, Affesi Adon Simon

This article gives a succinct account of the history of the creation of the city of Abidjan, the economic capital, its settlement, the production of waste of all kinds and their management. Through this research, essential points can be retained. As early as 1965, the State entrusted the management of waste to the African industrial automobile transport company (SITAF). In the mid-1990s, it terminated SITAF's contract for the benefit of other suppliers. Despite the presence of these, the city of Abidjan is plunged in piles of waste that make the living environment unhealthy and whose odors pollute the air. The reasons are social, economic, technical and financial. The socio-political crises that followed (1999, 2002 and 2011) led to massive displacement of several families. Fleeing the hostilities of the war, they came to take refuge in Abidjan where they think they are safe. Waste has therefore increased throughout the city of Abidjan as a result of these migratory movements. The new companies that have taken over SITAF are disorganized, and among them there are informal ones whose owners are struggling to pay their workers. Companies under the authority of the National Agency for Urban Sanitation (ANASUR) for the management of waste do not possess the appropriate equipment to carry out properly the tasks entrusted to them.

75-78

Authors: Nino E. Kakhashvili

The work deals with the importance of Georgian and North Caucasian mountaineers’ sworn brotherhood. Alexander Kazbegi’s writings and newspaper materials have been studied in that regard. The work reviews: the role Alexander Kazbegi gives to the matter of Georgian and Caucasian mountaineers’ sworn brotherhood in his creation and publicism; whether religious diversity was a hindering point for Georgians and Kists in becoming blood brothers and whether this sworn brotherhood was the facilitating tradition for Georgian and Caucasian mountaineers’ good neighborly and peaceful cohabitation or not. According to the studied materials, it is quite clear that Georgian and North Caucasian mountaineers’ sworn brotherhood covers pure relations. Writer’s whole creation or publications clearly reveal that neighbor nations always shared each others’ difficulties. Caucasian people relation with the tradition of blood brotherhood and establishing good neighborly and peaceful cohabitation between them represents Alexander Kazbegi’s greatest desire.

88-97

Authors: Mzia Shelia

The process of ageing of the population of Georgia has been continuing for the last two centuries. At the current stage of demographic development, the process of demographic ageing is determined by an intense emigration of population. The studies carried out have demonstrated that there is no any other country like Georgia which has such clear regional differences in terms of the age structure in the area which is very small. Georgia is distinguished with a vast ethno religious and regional variety of ageing of population that has contributed to an uneven nature of ageing. The presented work covers specifics of ageing of the population of Georgia in the post-Soviet period. In particular, it provides an analysis of the problems caused by an accelerated pace of ageing of population given the high poverty rates. The work discusses some socio-economic problems of the aged population, estimates the demographic changes which may occur as a result of the ageing and identifies the relationship between poverty, migration and ageing in a transitional society as well as the problems relating to the determination of the pension age given the existing demographic dividends. The work provides an overview of the role of intergenerational transfers in the social security of the elder.

3-11

Authors: Vera N. Cherepanova, Yulia V. Putilina, Yulia P. Savitskaya

In this article the analysis of poetry and prose published in the popular student magazine "Siberian student", published from 1914 to 1916. On the basis of the implemented study, an attempt was made to determine the prevailing attitudes, values, moods, and aspirations of Siberian youth in the early twentieth century. Identifies the main topics addressed in published poetry and prose. Among the most common, the following thematic areas: – description of the phenomena and beauty of Siberian nature; – celebration of love to the representative (the representative) of the opposite sex; – reflecting other feelings and emotional States, including passion, excitement, joy, happiness, etc.; – praise certain virtues and human qualities, including bravery, courage, honesty, spiritual purity and freedom; – a description of domestic life, environment, everyday relationships with family and friends on behalf of the heroes of works of art; – an expression of nostalgic feelings and moods: including longing for home, abandoned at the time of study family and friends; – the theme of the First world war, the description of the heroism and courage of the survivors of the ordeal at this time; – storytelling about everyday life of ordinary students; – clothed in a literary form of direct or indirect appeals to the ideological integration of young people in the struggle for their rights. Determined that the various thematic units are often intertwined in the same works. In a substantial part of published stories and poems cover subjects along with a description of the nature of the native land, the chanting of certain human virtues and qualities. Found that the "Siberian student" published in the creativity not only of the Tomsk students, but already famous and popular by the time of writers and poets. However, the big reader's interest and approval published in the Siberian student press works, allowed us to conclude that the literary material, regardless of authorship, in General, reflect the mindset and worldview of the Siberian youth in the early twentieth century.

20-27

Authors: Sergey I. Podolskiy

The paper is devoted to the daily life of the city of Irkutsk depicted in the memoirs of its old-timer, geologist Petr Efimovich Lunenk. The revolutionary activity of his father and his study at the so-called "School of Enlightenment", which can rightly be called an element of the regional "cultural nest", are in the center of his attention. Lunenk depicts the revolutionary life in Irkutsk, the initial period of the Civil War, the transition from the festive perception of the revolution to bitterness of 1918-1919. At the same time, he is particularly interested how the intellectual life of the city continued. He comes to a conclusion that despite the rigid polarization of society into political camps, there were "islands of culture" guided by humanism and not affected by the civil confrontation. Lunenk also describes the influence of the party dictate upon the daily life of Irkutsk citizens after the Civil War. His focus of attention is the NEP and his study at Irkutsk University.