Radovi Zavoda za znanstvenoistraživački i umjetnički rad u Bjelovaru

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Authors: Želimir Bertić; Mirjana Telebuh; Gordana Grozdek Čovčić

Continuous increase in senior population is logically accompanied by an increase in the number of retired persons. The retirement adjustment process includes planning and adaptation, which may last up to several years and encompass certain phases an individual ought to pass through. This research aims at achieving a better understanding of the manner in which elderly persons perceive retirement according to sociodemographic characteristics, and at recognising certain factors that are linked with either successful or unsuccessful retirement adjustment. The research involved 186 persons of both sexes, over 65 years of age, from the Bjelovar area, living in their own household or in institutions. A general information questionnaire was drafted, and the MIR Questionnaire for defining differences in the adjustment to retirement according to Atchley's model (2004) was used. The best adjustment to retirement have shown respondents with the following sociodemographic characteristics: 1) according to marital status, persons either married or in civil partnership; 2) according to living arrangements, persons living with their spouse or partner, and those living with their family and other family members; 3) according to place of stay, persons living in their own household.

51-74

Authors: Dragutin Babić

The paper analyses the results of an empirical study (focal group) conducted in the city of Daruvar in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County. The objective of the study was to define the standpoints and opinions of the respondents regarding the primary education of national minorities at a number of levels (teachers, parents, politicians), and concerning several aspects of the educational and upbringing process. The focal points of the study were assimilation and national identity, their interrelation, and the perspectives of individual minority communities. In the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, alongside the Croats, the Czechs and the Serbs who prevail, there coexist relatively numerous national minorities, with their recent history differing from the history of majority nations. Whilst in the last three censuses (1991, 2001, 2011), the number of the Czechs has shown a gradual yet gentle decrease as a consequence of war conflicts and the downfall of the former state, the Serbian national minority has suffered rapid decrease by approximately three times. As concerns other national minorities in the County, the Hungarians and the Albanians remain relatively better represented, though much less than the Serbs and the Czechs. In this County, pupils in primary education belonging to national minorities are the Czechs, the Albanians, the Hungarians and the Serbs. Out of the studied national minorities in the County, the Czechs are the best organized one thanks to several factors – e.g. their numerousness, traditional organization skills, and successful integration into the Croatian society. Every national minority included in the study has, according to their individual reasons, difficulties in the preservation and transfer of national identity; this becomes particularly evident in the younger population. Hence education in general, and the primary one in particular, presents one of the most important factors in preserving specific national features, as well as it is a dam to assimilation.

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Authors: Dubravko Habek

The author presents the processed original archival data on the public-health-related and sociological problems concerning one hundred children – war refugees from the Potkozarje area, who were moved to Bjelovar and the Bjelovar area between the summer of 1942 and 1943, accompanied by the events in the publicist writing and war documentation of that time. The paper will fill the void or offer a solution in the context of doubts concerning the events having taken place during World War Two, and the care for a large number of children at the State Hospital in Bjelovar, where the scarce staff of physicians and sisters of mercy were commendably conducting their mission in difficult wartime and other social and political circumstances.

161-170

Authors: Oksana O. Ayvazyan

The article is devoted to the consideration of sociological foundations of legal education and legal communication as mechanisms of the formation of communicative-legal culture of a person in a modern social and cultural society. The analysis of the formation of the system of legal education in various periods of the development of a sociocultural society, starting from the XVIII century, is presented. During this period, the Slavic-Greco-Roman Academy introduced a course entitled “The teachings of justice, both spiritual and worldly”, the implementation of which involved the application of various Western legal literature in practice; this required skills to translate law books into Russian, in other words communication skills in the legal field. It also indicated that the atmosphere of spiritual crisis caused by various systematic transformations at the end of the XX century, that is, reforms, affects the level of a modern educational system. Various courses in legal education are described, during which the formation of communicative and legal culture of an individual takes place. In addition, the paper notes practical recommendations that contribute to the formation of communicative and legal culture (legal propaganda in the process of communication; legal training and education by means of language and speech; legal communication practice; communicative and legal self-education and re-education through communicative dialogue in the legal field). To summarize, there are conclusions that legal education and legal communication positively influence the formation of a person with communication and legal culture, that is, the basis for building a democratic legal country, a sociocultural society.

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Authors: Iva Rosanda Žigo; Marija Brajković

The paper presents the frequency and the types of media presentation of stories covering the topic of suicide. The word suicide may not be understood separate from either the medical term or the wider social and cultural context. The study has adopted a general point of view, according to which writing about the topic of suicide, provided the editorial staff respects the rules and the ethical code, can be of great assistance. The results of the analysis of the texts covering the topic of suicidal events, which had been published in the weekly newspaper Bjelovarski list in the period 2009–2015, are shown. Our aim is to illustrate to which extent the published texts tend to be of tabloid, sensationalist nature characteristic of the today’s journalism; to show whether journalists respect the guidelines and instructions issued by World Health Organization to the media in the context of tackling this phenomenon; and to indicate to the need of applying a critical approach when writing for the media and the need to raise the level of media literacy of both journalists and readers.

223-223

Authors: Vladimir Strugar

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