Društvene i humanističke studije DHS (Social Sciences and Humanities Studies)

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Authors: Damir Matanović, Emina Berbić Kolar

The paper will explore the contemporary position of humanities in the Republic of Croatia with regard to other sciences, especially the STEM area currently occupying the primary position in scientific and professional circles in relation to humanistic and social sciences whose meaning and historical value is lost and / or pushes into another plan. The aim of the paper is to present the contemporary position and reception of humanities in the contemporary Croatian society. Sources of research will include literature, media articles and reviews to fully address the social perception of humanities and offer possible solutions. The purpose of the paper is to raise awareness of the importance and value of humanities in the widest sense of its meaning and point to its unquestionable value as the foundation of the western civilization circle.

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Authors: Aida Džiho-Šator

Postmodern historical novels, do not treat history in a conventional novelistic manner, they instead take the form of a historical novel with the purpose of ironically revisiting the past. The double coding that Linda Hutcheon distinguishes as one of the basic features of postmodernism is thus best seen in the process of historiographic metafiction, and in his novel Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes takes double coding to a form of perfection—the reader is compelled to constantly observe Flaubert as a real historical personality and as Barnes’ narrative construct. In his interweaving of history, literature and theory, Barnes explores and deconstructs the traditional notion of history and the reliability of knowledge of the past that traditional historiography supposedly renders objectively. In this paper we will examine all elements of historiographic metafiction and offer their detailed analysis.

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Authors: Natalija Jovanović

Social sciences and humanities are experiencing the greatest challenges in the era of modern technologies – information and communication technologies. Information technologies (IT) have directly influenced the life and work of every individual. Personal computers have become an integral part of our knowledge and skills in our lives and work. In the second half of the twentieth century, and especially in the twenty first century, education, primarily higher education, has become of great importance both for the social development and for the development and social promotion of individuals. Professional competencies have become crucial for assuming professional roles. The question of the market feasibility of certain types of education is the new dimension of education which is imposed as a standard. As a consequence, the education of programmers, information technology experts, has imposed itself as a state strategy and a market priority. In such circumstances, social sciences and humanities are suppressed as unprofitable, and there arises an absurd question and problem – whether social sciences and humanities make sense and what they should be. In order to analyse this problem and to answer the question on the meaning of social sciences and humanities, one may start from several research questions. Research questions are: is it necessary to develop education exclusively as an information technology education; whether giving an absolute priority to IT education is the answer to the direction in which education is to be developed; whether social sciences and humanities have overcome the concept of education; should both social sciences and humanities be re-assembled so that they can fit into the concept of modern information technology?

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Authors: Gabrijela Buljan, Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić, Goran Milić

Research into the use of conceptual metaphors in the language of science has had a long tradition since new concepts in science are born almost on a daily basis and there is a need to associate them with a linguistic sign that will introduce this concept into language use both inside and outside of the scientific community (Gentner and Jeziorski, 1993, Mičunović , 2012). The results of the research show that students successfully recognized conventionalized metaphorical expressions in the field of science, while tasks with visual input and extracting concepts in the original and target domains had slightly poorer results. The assumption is that those metaphorical expressions that have become part of the broader vocabulary of English are easier to identify precisely because of the ubiquitous scientific discourse that crosses the boundaries of a strictly academic community and mostly through various publicistic scientific and journalistic papers enters the general public discourse.

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Authors: Nehrudin Rebihić

In this paper we follow the poetic development of poetry and prose of Mak Dizdar since 1937 till 1956 year. Since Dizdar made his canonical place in Bosniak and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature with poetic collections (Kameni spavač, Okrutnosti kruga, ect.), a significant corpus of his prose and poetry work remained unexplored in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary periodicals and daily papers. The contribution of this work is reflected in the fact that in it, as far as we know, is the first literary-historical and poetic represents Dizdar’s prose and poetry from that period. This, in fact, testifies the other, almost unrecognized, literary identity of this great poet.

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Authors: Mirela Karahasanović

Understanding the intellectual history of the modern concept of education is incomplete if Plato’s perception of the paideia is excluded. Unified state education, a unique educational principle, a step-by-step educational process, the selection of citizens through education towards a certain profession are just some of the consequences which could be recognized even today. In terms of Ancient Greece, Plato can be called the reformer of traditional paideia. The role of the traditional paediatrician Plato is expressed through the ontological foundations of education, which also gives the rise to his social foundation. In order to bridge the gap between political power and philosophical knowledge, Plato postulates a common political and educational goal, which are united in a moral norm. The consequence of the decadence of education is also the consequence of the decadence of politics. According to this, education is born by all the burden of political as well as cultural life of the policy. Leaded by philosophical knowledge, it is a kind of constitution of the state, but also the only way to bridge the gap between human existence and its essence, realized in it and ,therefore, realized to the world of immortality. Therefore, the social context of education is impossible to fully understand if its ontological and logical foundation is excluded.

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Authors: Tomislav Vidačić, Anita Jeličić, Jelena Blaži

The basis for preparing for the crisis is the crisis communication plan. It must provide accurate emergency response. The aim of the crisis communication plan is to protect the reputation and image of the organization, and shape the perception of the public about the organization and its role in the crisis. The construction of a crisis communication plan is greatly facilitated by the use of reference models. Reference models are a good foundation to see the most common practice of the process of building a crisis communication plan in public relations services in organizations. Building a reference model is a set of processes and as such can be modeled as a series of activities. Building a communication plan is a predictable and routine set of activities. But, by definition, the crisis is an unpredictable and sudden event that seriously threatens its reputation with the organization, company, party, institution, person, and therefore crisis, cannot be considered predictable and routinely. In solving crisis situations other than predictable routine steps, there are also non-routinely difficult predictable activities requiring great flexibility and great knowledge, hence the ability to adapt to a situation, in a way that recognizes the need and responds to the demands of the task. This component of organization is very difficult to model with the existing BPMN notation, as it is designed to model repetitive, routine activities. For this reason, it is necessary to include notation for modeling individual cases that describe unpredictable, non-routine activities with a view to building a more detailed reference model. CMMN (Case Management Modeling Notation) of OMG Group allows the construction of such models (OMG,2017). In this paper, the reference model of the process of constructing a crisis communication plan is expanded with elements for describing unstructured and unpredictable activities. We use this CMMN notation which is intended to describe unstructured jobs and activities in organizations, where individual activities depend on the development of the situation and on certain decisions. The result is a more precise reference model of the process that more credibly describes the sequence of activity of building a crisis communication plan.

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Authors: Mirna Marković

Academic staff is the most important resource of the university, and as such determines its success in meeting the traditionally defined mission: building and disseminating knowledge aimed at breeding, training and upbringing the most important resource of the society - people. For this reason, any unplanned voluntary departure from a university can be understood as a waste of intellectual capital that is not easy to compensate. Although each departure cannot necessarily be characterized as dysfunctional (certain departures are desirable, such as temporary departures in the function of mobility in the academic community, but also the departure of incompetent employees or those who do not want or cannot adapt to the organizational culture and climate of the university), can often be recognized as a symptom of the employee’s dissatisfaction that the organization often fails, intentionally or not, to identify. In addition to the obvious consequences of dysfunctional departures, from those directly perceptible and measurable (e.g. problems in organizing teaching and mentoring student work, costs associated with the process of finding adequate substitution, etc.) to less noticeable (e.g. reducing satisfaction with the workload of the remaining academic staff, greater exposure to stress caused by work, more negative organizational climate, etc.), research suggests that even thinking about possible leaving the current job can have significant effects on organizational effectiveness. An employee who is preoccupied with thinking about leaving the organization is more inclined to psychologically distance himself from the immediate social environment (working colleagues and associates), is less motivated, and less willing to effectively contribute to the operations of the organization he is working in. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the possible contribution of perceived changes in the working conditions caused by the metamorphosis of the traditional model of the university into a corporate model, to academic staff thinking about leaving the job, and even academic careers. In this context, special attention will be paid to defining the role of the university management in maintaining (restoring) the climate of confidence as a prerequisite for the academic staff’s positive reception of any changes in the working conditions, a positive evaluation of work, and an optimistic consideration of the certainty of residency in the current job. The emphasis is on the academic staff’s trust in the perseverance of the academic community to protect the traditional values of the academy, its autonomy and dignity in the society. By maintaining a climate of trust, investing in the development and accumulation of the psychological capital of a university, and by building a positive psychological contract between the academic staff and the management, it is possible to create conditions for introducing change that will be perceived as meaningful and necessary, even when initially negatively connotated.

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Authors: Šejn Husejnefendić

The new media situation restructured the audience’s habits, which in today’s modern communication are rarely called passive. The active audience with a new term “prosumer”, is a reflection of today’s media situation, dominated by communication platforms based on the world wide web and social media. This paper brings information about some current communication habits of young prosumers and future media workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and compares them with the habits of their contemporaries in Austria. The paper attempts to give an answer to the question of how many young people in the advanced European democracies (such as Austria) and those who are trained for the work in the sphere of journalism or in the other media branch differ in some parameters from those who grew up in societies that are still characterized as societies currently in a state of democratic society transition (such as Bosnia and Herzegovina).The paper presents quantitative data on the dominant sources of information for 314 students of journalism and media sciences at the Institute of Media and Communication of the University of Vienna, their media-manipulation content skills, the affinity for commenting on media content, and the evaluation of the effects of civic journalism as well as trust in contents of the same. The identical parameters were studied at the Journalistic Departments of the three universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which134 students participated. The new media situation restructured the audience’s habits, which in today’s modern communication are rarely called passive. The active audience with a new term “prosumer”, is a reflection of today’s media situation, dominated by communication platforms based on the world wide web and social media. This paper brings information about some current communication habits of young prosumers and future media workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and compares them with the habits of their contemporaries in Austria. The paper attempts to give an answer to the question of how many young people in the advanced European democracies (such as Austria) and those who are trained for the work in the sphere of journalism or in the other media branch differ in some parameters from those who grew up in societies that are still characterized as societies currently in a state of democratic society transition (such as Bosnia and Herzegovina). The paper presents quantitative data on the dominant sources of information for 314 students of journalism and media sciences at the Institute of Media and Communication of the University of Vienna, their media-manipulation content skills, the affinity for commenting on media content, and the evaluation of the effects of civic journalism as well as trust in contents of the same. The identical parameters were studied at the Journalistic Departments of the three universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which134 students participated. The results of empirical research provide interesting data on how young students of journalism and communication (and in BiH and Austria) are willing to take risks when it comes to documenting or obtaining information content.

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Authors: Fatima Bećarević

Just as the great themes in literature seamed to be exhausted or at least suppressed, at the beginning of the 21st century disceretly in the focus of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature were introduced novels worldview pointed to the importance of the suppressed ethics of concern, solidarity and acceptance of the Other. They are novels by Bosnian-Herzegovinian writers who talk from the woman’s perspectives about suppressed problems, meaningful relationships, and not accepting the Others. Showing that recent line of female literature becomes more visible, it is also confirmed by rewards for the literary competitions that these authors have recieved, indicating the existence of a certain vision of institutional support. The subject of research in this paper are the novels by Bosnian writers that were awarded by the Foundation for Publishing Sarajevo over past three years: the novel „Life lines“ by Emina Žuna (in 2015.), „Reconstruction“ by Ljiljana Pirolić (in 2016.) and „The name day of St.Katerine Ricci“ by Nada Djerek (in 2017.) Instability, disorientation and the suppression of certain values connect these novels, though the poet’s sensitivities of writers are different, the themes are inconisistent, timely and spatially located in different dimensions, the way they talk about the positions of women in Bosnian society reveals the reliefs of chronotopically afficited and powerful self-reflection of reflected inner worlds. The themes of these novels have not been in the focus of the Bosnian female writing so for and are conditioned by social conjunctures and traditional legacies, represented from the perspective of gendered subject that focuses on the repressed sphere of domesticity and points to the importance of solidarity, care and respect for the Other and different. Using contemporary theoretical knowledge in the area of culture theory, gender and identity in the analysis of these novels, we have pointed out the ways and possibilities of different representations and interpretations of traditional female values such as solidarity and caring.

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Authors: Ehlimana Spahić

Reaffirmation of political economy as a subdiscipline of political science is based on the necessity of finding an adequate scientific and practical framework to overcome numerous challenges arising from the interaction between the political and economic system. Harmonized interaction of these two basic social systems is crucial for the successful functioning of each state. In this context, the author analyzed the capacity of the Balkan countries in achieving state stability, freedom of economy, competitiveness and quality of the business environment. Based on the analysis and the appropriate theoretical and conceptual frameworks of the political economy, the author offers adequate recommendations through which it is possible to improve the interaction between these two fundamental social systems.