Alcohol consumption takes place in society and because of society. The “social” aspect of this phenomenon gives a meaning that manifests itself in the framework of interaction. This paper discusses ...basic problems of previous sociological approaches to alcohol consumption: (1) focus on a problem-oriented approach – drinking and alcoholism, (2) abstract empiricism of alcohol consumption, and (3) unclear theoretical background for a sociological approach to alcohol consumption. Focusing exclusively on alcoholism or excessive drinking neglects a number of social dimensions inherent in alcohol consumption. Therefore, when considering this phenomenon in sociological terms, clear theoretical-methodological starting points should be established in order to understand the social consumption of alcohol. The main objective of this paper was to provide a basic paradigmatic and epistemological framework for the development of a sociology of alcohol consumption. The paper starts from the assumption that two theoreticalmethodological principles should be considered: methodological individualism and methodological situationism. Each of these approaches has certain advantages and disadvantages, but in further conceptualising the paradigmatic foundations of the sociology of alcohol consumption, the paper proposed a two-level approach, that is, a synthesis of methodological situationism and methodological individualism. However, this synthesis does not constitute a theory of the sociology of alcohol consumption, but a framework for a sociological approach to the phenomenon, as well as the possibility of overcoming the problems presented in the sociological analysis of this topic.
Konzumacija alkohola događa se u društvu i zbog društva. Društveni kontekst tom fenomenu
daje smislenost koja se manifestira u okvirima interakcije. U ovome radu razmotreni su
osnovni problemi u ...dosadašnjim sociološkim pristupima konzumaciji alkohola: (1)
fokusiranost na problematično pijenje i alkoholizam, (2) apstraktni empirizam konzumacije
alkohola i (3) nejasna teorijska podloga za sociološko bavljenje konzumacijom alkohola.
Fokusom isključivo na alkoholizam ili pak ekscesivno pijenje zapostavlja se niz društvenih
dimenzija koje konzumacija alkohola uključuje. Stoga, u sociološkom promišljanju tog
fenomena valja odrediti jasna teorijsko-metodološka polazišta kojima bi se razumjela
društvenost konzumacije alkohola. Osnovni cilj ovoga rada bio je pružiti osnovne
paradigmatske i epistemološke okvire za razvoj sociologije konzumacije alkohola. Rad
polazi od pretpostavke da za razumijevanje samoga fenomena valja u obzir uzeti dva
teorijsko-metodološka načela: metodološki individualizam i metodološki situacionizam.
Svaki od tih pristupa karakteriziraju određene prednosti i mane, no u daljnjoj
konceptualizaciji paradigmatskih osnova sociologije konzumacije alkohola (u ovome radu)
predlaže se dvoetapni pristup, odnosno sinteza metodološkog situacionizma i metodološkog
individualizma. Ta sinteza, ipak, ne predstavlja teoriju društvenosti konzumacije
alkohola, ali daje okvire sociološkog pristupa fenomenu kao i mogućnost nadilaženja
predstavljenih problema u okvirima sociološkog bavljenja tom temom.
Abstract In this paper, it is argued that the economy as a social system is a conditio sine qua non to the environmental observations of the other social systems. Economic code of payment or ...nonpayment pre‐code environment, observed from the other social systems (for example, politics and science). By using this approach, the paper discusses the ways in which capitalism as an economic program is interpreted by other systems most of the time as the conditio sine qua non for their own autopoiesis regarding ecological challenges. It is debated that green capitalism is a form of a functionally differentiated economic system which is made as a conditio sine qua non for the other systems observation of ecological challenges. In the time dimension, money as a medium of economic system (and payment or nonpayment) comes first, and with it, tries to determine the ways other systems can observe ecology ‐ and it is successful.
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Liku i djelu Roberta Torrea bilo bi pogrešno pristupiti na klasičan način. Učinili bismo tako nepravdu čovjeku koji je zazirao od strukturiranosti životnoga svijeta. Kada bismo ga pokušali uklopiti u ...pravilnost i uniformiranost, izgubio bi se neumoran duh čovjeka koji je filozofiju živio punim plućima. Torre je bio čovjek anarho-liberalnih ideala. U toj se slobodi od stege kompromisa društvenosti može odgonetnuti njegov istinski profil. Odupiranjem otuđenju koje se raznorodno nameće, ostajemo sami u jednoj od dviju krajnosti – u nihilizmu usamljenosti ili mudrosti samoće.
Social integration and its role on a population's general health is an oft-debated concept; primarily through the sub-field of social epidemiology. This research takes the concept and correlates it ...with some aspects of physical and psychological well-being of the individual. However, there is a lack of the research discussing the roll of social integration in the addiction rehabilitation, especially in regard to alcoholism treatment. With that in mind, the main goal of this article is to discuss and identify the connection between the perception of social integration and the process of alcohol addiction treatment in the Clubs of Treated Alcoholics in Republic of Croatia. A discussion about the following subject is based on the theoretical redefinition of the Parsons Theory of a Sick Role. A synthesis of the empirical and theoretical level of analysis is constructed through the research, which has been conducted on the case of Clubs of Treated Alcoholics in Republic of Croatia. Through the convenience sampling method, there were 255 participants. Results have been showing a statistically significant connection between the sense of belonging in the rehabilitation group and the perception of the treatment success. Participants of the study who were more integrated in the rehabilitation group have found their treatment more successful.
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Cilj je rada analizirati fenomenologiju međuodnosa nacionalnoga i kulturnoga identiteta u hrvatskom i prikazati načine na koje ukotvljenost nacionalnog i kulturnog identiteta u hrvatskom društvu ...generira percepciju pojedinca prema individualnom izričaju hrvatstva. Da bi se uopće moglo govoriti o ovom procesu bitno je definirati odnos kulturnoga i nacionalnoga identiteta u Republici Hrvatskoj. Taj odnos karakterizira dualnost utjecaja. Kulturni identitet bitna je sastavnica izgradnje nacionalnoga, koji određuje smjer kulturalne dinamike. Fenomenološka razina teorijske analize u fokus stavlja internalizaciju identitetskih sastavnica. Kako je svijest uvijek intencionalna, odnosno intendira predmet, valja proučiti načine shvaćanja izgradnje individualnog identiteta kroz zalihe koje se kolektivno pružaju. Takva vrsta konstrukcije, odnosno internalizacija kolektivnih pretpostavki, pretpostavlja relativnu neovisnost aktera u konstrukciji vlastite zbilje – pojedinac je slobodan formirati značenje, ali to značenje stvoreno je unutar određenoga konteksta i okvira. Taj kontekst na sebi svojstven način stvara esenciju znanja danu na raspolaganje. Osnovni problem sa znanjem nacionalnog i kulturnog identiteta jest taj da je to znanje omogućeno u dvije dominantne varijante. Pojedinac svoj identitet konstruira kroz varijantu zalihe znanja, dominantnu (ili dostupnu) kroz njegov život. Takav proces ostvarenja osobe disperzira nacionalni identitet. U fenomenološkom smislu, sama koncepcija Hrvata i hrvatstva na razini pojedinca pluralna je i dvosmisleno definirana.
This paper aims to analyse the phenomenology of the interdependence of national and cultural identity in Croatian society and present how the empowerment of national and cultural identity in the Croatian society generates an individual expression of being Croatian. To be able to speak about this process, it is essential to define the relationship between cultural and national identity in the Republic of Croatia. A duality of influence characterises this relationship. Cultural identity is an essential element of the construction of a national, which determines the direction of cultural dynamics. The phenomenological level of theoretical analysis of the mentioned phenomenon places the internalisation of the identity constituents into the focus. As consciousness is always intentional, or intent on an object, it is necessary to study the ways of understanding the building of an individual’s identity throughout the collectively provided stocks of knowledge. Such type of construction or internalisation of collective assumptions presupposes the relative independence of the actors in the construction of their reality. Relative independence as a term stems from the inability to separate the action from the structural frameworks on issues of identity. An individual is free to form the meaning, but that meaning is created within a particular context and frame. This context inherently creates the essence of available knowledge. The basic problem with the knowledge of national and cultural identity (in the broader sense of the culture) is that this knowledge is enabled in two dominant polar variants. An individual constructs his identity through a variety of knowledge supply, dominant (or accessible) through his life. Such a process of realising a person dispels a national identity. In the phenomenological sense, the very conception of Croats and being Croatian at the individual level is plural and ambiguous.
This paper aims to analyse the phenomenology of the interdependence of national and cultural identity in Croatian society and present how the empowerment of national and cultural identity in the ...Croatian society generates an individual expression of being Croatian. To be able to speak about this process, it is essential to define the relationship between cultural and national identity in the Republic of Croatia. A duality of influence characterises this relationship. Cultural identity is an essential element of the construction of a national, which determines the direction of cultural dynamics. The phenomenological level of theoretical analysis of the mentioned phenomenon places the internalisation of the identity constituents into the focus. As consciousness is always intentional, or intent on an object, it is necessary to study the ways of understanding the building of an individual’s identity throughout the collectively provided stocks of knowledge. Such type of construction or internalisation of collective assumptions presupposes the relative independence of the actors in the construction of their reality. Relative independence as a term stems from the inability to separate the action from the structural frameworks on issues of identity. An individual is free to form the meaning, but that meaning is created within a particular context and frame. This context inherently creates the essence of available knowledge. The basic problem with the knowledge of national and cultural identity (in the broader sense of the culture) is that this knowledge is enabled in two dominant polar variants. An individual constructs his identity through a variety of knowledge supply, dominant (or accessible) through his life. Such a process of realising a person dispels a national identity. In the phenomenological sense, the very conception of Croats and being Croatian at the individual level is plural and ambiguous.
Kroz istraživanje stavova o marihuani i obrazaca njene upotrebe među zagrebačkim studentima u radu se preispituje analitička upotrebljivost Hirschijevih i Beckerovih mehanizama društvene kontrole ...devijantnosti. Prikazani su rezultati kvantitativnog istraživanja kojim se željelo utvrditi razlikuju li se korisnici od nekorisnika u sagledavanju teoretski formuliranih mehanizama društvene kontrole upotrebe marihuane – dostupnosti, tajnovitosti, privrženosti, predanosti, uključenosti, uvjerenja i moralnosti. Pokazalo se da se korisnici od nekorisnika razlikuju jedino u dimenzijama moralnosti i uvjerenja te da i jedni i drugi tajnovitost promatraju kao još uvijek važan mehanizam društvene kontrole upotrebe marihuane. Percepcija ostalih mehanizama ne sugerira njihov utjecaj na stavove i prakse konzumiranja marihuane među studentima i ostavlja prostor za razmatranje upotrebe marihuane u terminima društveno podnošljivog oblika devijantnosti.
This paper examines the analytical usability of Hirschi’s and Becker’s mechanisms of social control of deviance for the phenomena of using marijuana in the population of students in Zagreb. The results of a quantitative study that aims to determine whether users differ from non-users in their perception of theoretically formulated mechanisms of social control of marijuana use - availability, secrecy, attachment, dedication, involvement, beliefs, and morality are presented here. It has been found that users and non-users only differ in dimensions of morality and beliefs, and that both groups perceive secrecy as an important mechanism of social control for marijuana use. The perception of other mechanisms does not suggest that they influence the attitudes and practices of marijuana consumption among students, and leaves room to consider the use of marijuana in terms of socially tolerable forms of deviance.
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