P6-0194 — Annual report 2010
1.
Globalization- An Open Sociological Agenda

Critical assesment of how sociology and culturology confronted theoretical and methodological challenges while researching the novel social phenomenon of globalization. The theoretical agenda that is introduced exposes dialectical asnture of involved relationships and in particular such crucial social concepts such as: national, natio-state, democracy, power, kosmopolitism, global governance and other.

COBISS.SI-ID: 42464610
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Cosmopolitanism, patriotism and others: reconstruction of the frames of belonging

A critical analysis of theory of cosmopolitanism which bases the argument on the cases of contemporary reconfigurations of social and state spaces of the nation. The analysis is developed in dialogue with the key sociological-politological contribution of Seyla Benhabib- a key authority in the field of cosmopolitanism.

COBISS.SI-ID: 443364130
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Confronting the concepts of nationalism and the possibility of the single theory of nationalism.

Article deals with the question which theoretical conceptualization in the studies of nationalism offer the most relevant explanations; author confronts some of the most renown representatives of different theoretical models and explores to what extend their research and findings reflect the diversity of nationalism. Article explores whether a single theory of nationalism is possible despite perticularities, inherent to each nationalism.

COBISS.SI-ID: 43848802
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Students from Carniola at the Viennese University in the first half of the nineteenth Century 1804–1848

The research poses question of the role that education, i.e. university study had in the formation of a middle-class society, author is limiting its research to the province of Carniola where Slovenian population represented the majority. This question was joined by others, for instance: which social strata enabled schooling to their children, whether they came from a village or urban setting, what study courses were most frequently chosen by Carniolan students, what was their study performance, what was their level of social involvement in later professional life and alike.

COBISS.SI-ID: 252544512
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Global television, gender and postsocialism: rememorizing the »progress«

In this study, the author investigates the role of memory in in public perception of social progress in relations of gender. The analysis is based on social changes in transitional Slovenia and their ideological impacts on interpretations of sexual liberation of women.

COBISS.SI-ID: 43848546