<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Statement of problem: The rate at which children are maltreated is one of the most sensitive measures of demographic, social, and economic conditions. Maltreatment may differ markedly in terms of an area’s socio-demographic and economic makeup and this phenomenon needs to be studied in a structural context. This study employs a social disorganization perspective to identify the most reliable structural factors of child maltreatment for children aged 10 to 18 years in Valcea County. Method: ICAST-CH, an instrument developed by the International Society for Prevention Child Abuse and Neglect in order to assess child maltreatment’s rates in a unitary way in different countries. It was applied to 1142 children in Valcea’s urban areas. Results: child abuse is positive correlated to high rates of community violence and negative correlated with community resources. The parents’ education and occupation status is involved in explaining high rates of child abuse in different manners. Conclusion: the urban areas are diverse spaces in terms of variables that influence child abuse. Future studies in the subject of structural child abuse would need to be done in more urban areas in order to find some additional patterns of the phenomenon.</abstract>

Urban Communities as a Social Space for Child Abuse

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Civil society has proven outstanding capacities of involvement in the 2004 general elections in Romania and put a remarkable pressure on the political society. This paper aims to discuss the consequences of such involvement for both the political and civil society. We also investigate the conditions that have favoured a successful challenge of the main political actors by the most visible civic advocacy organizations. Further, we inquire how deep can an actor from the civil society go into the lands of the political society. In the end, we weight the achievements and the failures of civil society’s active involvement in the game of elections.</abstract>

National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Political Science Department, 6 Povernei, 71124 Bucharest,

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Department of Sociology and Social Work, 2-4 Lucian Blaga, 550169 Sibiu,

Civil Society in the 2004 Romanian Elections: Watchdog, Involved Arbiter or Political Actor?

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The aim of this article is to examine the educational theories and practices of ancient Greece, to investigate a few of the explicit links that the modern Greek state has made to these and to discuss some of the more implicit parallels that can be discerned in the present Greek educational system. To some extent, it will be an investigation of the contemporary traces that remain from the ancient civilisation. Furthermore, it will be examined how the Modern Greek state achieves political ends through its attempts to embody in the citizen the reconstructed values of a glorious past, while characteristics of ancient Greek educational systems, still existing in the Modern Greek educational system, will be discussed.</abstract>

Reflections of Antiquity in the Greek Education of the 20th Century

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The article presents a general evaluation of the higher education system under reform in Ukraine with examples of some higher education institutions in different regions, and demonstrates basic tendencies and regularities which typical of all the institutions that are undergoing similar processes of reform. The process is heavily influenced by the so-called “human factor”, by investigating the participants’ opinion. The empirical data presented in this paper demonstrate how lecturers and students understand the reform process in different ways.</abstract>

The Reformation Process in Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions According to the Credit-Module System: Evaluation by Lecturers and Students

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