Education is seen as an investment in ‘human capital’, and providing children with a good education is considered to be key to securing their future and their success in life. This article analyses ...how these discourses on education affect young people in the context of the dismantling of public services and growing social uncertainty. Surveys on youth in Slovenia in the late 1990s and 2000s indicate that children are exposed to the pressure of academic success very early in their lives. The article examines the symbolic meaning of academic achievement, the importance of school success in the educational path in post-socialist Slovenia, and its influence on teenagers’ self-understanding and identity construction. The analysis is based on short narratives written by secondary school students about their experiences with school (under-)
achievement. The wider social context is clarified based on some research and statistical data. The analysis leads to the conclusion that striving for school success is a response to the neoliberal process of individualising responsibility, which is also reflected in ‘truths’ about the importance of early child care for later academic achievement—these ‘truths’ can be understood as normalising discourses, which have an important influence on the construction of the self and the parent-child relationship.
This article analyzes discomfort about sexuality expressed in formal education. It draws on Foucault’s analysis of sexuality as a privileged object of biopolitics (the object of regulation, ...surveillance, and discipline) and the most instrumentalized element in power relations in the Western world. Related to this is also the pedagogization of child sexuality, which even today is still characterized by ambiguities and discomfort. The author concludes that silence about non-hetero-sexualities and the biomedicalization and physicalization of (homo)sexuality are the most common and obvious symptoms of discomfort about (homo)sexuality in Slovenian schools. These manners of treating sexuality are usually interpreted as neutral, but the author interprets them as strategies of conflict avoidance which in fact support a heteronormative social order and (implicitly or explicitly) even legitimize the exclusion of all who cross the boundaries of ‘normal heterosexuality’. They strengthen prejudice, motivate ignorance, and can even be used as an excuse for violence. The article points out that education does not provide a magic formula since it cannot foresee its own effects due to the complexity of social relations and the nature of the education process (e.g. Millot, 1983).
Predmet obsežnega in natančnega preiskovanja Lilijane Burcar so procesi in oblike institucionalizacije patriarhata v kapitalizmu, politike, ki so v socializmu zrahljale institucionalni patriarhat, ...ukrepi, s katerim ga postsocialistične države ponovno vzpostavljajo, ter učinki pozasebljanja oskrbovalnega in varstvenega dela na družbenoekonomsko državljanstvo žensk.
Trust in an individual physician and its contradictions Introduction: This article analyses the essential contradictions in the phenomenon of trust and the dilemmas this creates for empirical ...Research on health and the health care system. The trust a patient places in their physician (and--though more rarely--in the health system itself) is generally regarded as an important factor in the patient's health; hence, a crucial research problem is the question of which factors influence a patient's trust. Methods: In this article, we analyse the attitudes regarding the role of the state in health care - the analysis is based on Slovenian public opinion surveys (1995-2007). In the second part of the analysis we focus on an analysis of the influence of experience with medical institutions and medical personnel, the respondents' subjective evaluation of their own health and a group of sociodemographic factors relating to social inequality (Slovene public opinion, SPO 2001/3). Results: Similar to the results of numerous other empirical studies, our research shows that these factors only partially explain trust in an individual physician. At the same time, we find a relatively large difference between trust in an individual physician and trust in the health service. Conclusion: We explain the results by means of the contradictions and multidimensionality of the phenomenon of trust itself and the quandaries in the conceptualizations of trust. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Prispevek obravnava razumevanje političnega pri Simone de Beauvoir. Politika kot kolektivno organizirano javno delovanje je bila namreč eno glavnih področij njenega delovanja, pa tudi esejističnega ...in teoretskega dela, zato je indikativno, kako redko se tematizira njen prispevek k politični teoriji. Osnovni izhodišči njenega razumevanja politike in političnega sta enakost (razum je enakovredno porazdeljen med vse) in imperativ, da se je krivici (zatiranju in izključevanju) treba upreti s transgresivnim kolektivnim delovanjem, ki spodjeda zatiranje. Njeno razumevanje razmerij med specifičnim in univerzalnim je relevantno tudi za aktualne polemike o identitetnih politikah: Simone de Beauvoir predpostavlja hibridnost subjektivitete, zavrača predpostavko o substancialnosti identitet in stabilnih skupnostih ter poudarja različnost izkušenj marginaliziranih in zatiranih, hkrati pa priznava pomen skupnih izkušenj v mobilizaciji političnih bojev. Da bi bilo mogoče odkriti, kar je zatiranim skupno, in na tem skupnem oblikovati skupne boje, je potrebna refleksija sistematičnega proizvajanja in reproduciranja krivice.
Background. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that can lead to complex psychosocial consequences. Epilepsy can change the social status of persons with epilepsy (PWE) and has an effect on ...their social inclusion as well as their perception of social inclusion. This study aims to explore subjective experiences with social inclusion of PWE in Slovenia. Methods. This study takes a qualitative approach. Eleven semistructured interviews were conducted with eleven participants. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Results. Epilepsy has physical, emotional, and social consequences. Physical consequences of epilepsy are mainly tiredness and exhaustion following an epileptic episode, frequently accompanied by headaches. Emotional consequences are different forms of fear. The main social consequence identified is a negative effect on PWE’s social network, which leads to (self-)isolation and social distrust. Conclusion. PWE experience of social inclusion depends on various psychosocial factors and differs from person to person. The consequences of epilepsy are shown in PWE social contacts and their sense of social inclusion and autonomy.
The purpose of our research is to gain a better insight into what encourages young adults, in particular young women, to enter the teaching profession. The empirical part of the article is based on a ...pilot study including 132 students, with data collection being based on a survey approach using a questionnaire. The research attempts to address the context from which the desired characteristics of pre-service teachers with regard to their future employment arise. We have therefore tried to single out factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career, and to examine pre-service teachers' attitudes towards the reputation of female and male teachers. The data obtained confirm the thesis that the predominance of women in the teaching profession(s) is an effect of the harmonisation of the female respondents' habitus and their perception of the field they are entering. The perception of the teaching profession as a vocation (calling) that can be linked to the concepts of caring, giving and helping also proves to be very important. The data also confirms the thesis that the orientation towards life and work balance is important to our respondents of both genders. (DIPF/Orig.).
Definitions of hate speech as a form of speech that aims to upset, injure and insult do not only emphasize intolerant attitudes and verbal aggression, but the minority status of the social groups ...targeted as well. Despite the acknowledgment of the 'minority status' of social groups, asymmetrical power relations are often overlooked. This particularly concerns cases where the 'minority' status is reduced to a purely numerical relation between the social majority and minority, overlooking the power relations that exist between them. Such a de-contextualization neglects the difference between hate speech and insulting speech, which, in an extreme scenario, can provide a basis for the criminalization of the demands of marginalized groups. This stands in complete opposition to the aim of the regulations of hate speech as proposed by the Council of Europe's definition of hate speech. The present article is a contribution in support of the thesis that hate speech represents a specific form of speech that injures (injurious speech), precisely because of specific material conditions and positions of social groups targeted by hate speech. Hate speech strengthens existing social inequalities. In the analysis, we focus on graffiti with hateful content targeting LGBTQ+ groups and communities, as well as on the practices and tactics of their resistance.
Abortion and the legal regulation of access to abortion are even these days a matter of numerous trivial, scientific and theoretical discussions. The first part of the article aims to present the ...feminist perspective on abortion and the fundamental discrepancies that are thematised in feminist debates. This is followed by an analysis of critical discursive moments that have made the abortion issue visible and stimulated public debates: it focuses on anti-abortion discourses in Slovenia from the mid-1980s to September 2016. The author establishes that these discourses derive from the same interconnected ideological contexts (nationalism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, biologism, anti-socialism, anti-communism), although they have started to grow in number since the early 2000s, together with topics and the audiences to which they are addressed (strategies of the interpellation of women are especially indicative).
In this article the values and life orientation of young people in Slovenia over a
recent 10-year period are analysed. As is the case in the majority of other European
countries, empirical research ...on large samples of various Slovenian youth
populations in 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2000 has disclosed young people's
marked preferential interest in the private and the personal spheres of life,
whereas their interest in politics is slight, as is the degree of trust in existing
political institutions and actors. In Slovenia this trend is usually characterized
as a ‘shift towards privacy’, and being apolitical is one of the
most frequently invoked defining features of the younger generation.In the
author's opinion, these research findings reveal huge changes in
Slovenia's political space–paradoxically, this space has
contracted in comparison to the situation in the 1980s, largely due to a narrower
understanding of politics and political activity.
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