Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniela Grignoli Author-Workplace-Name: University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy Author-Name: Ionuț Șerban Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "PROPULSIVE WELFARE FOR THE “RISK SOCIETIES”: A PROJECT FOR SOLIDARITY AND COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL-HEALTH SYSTEM" Abstract: The present work, the result of a reflection on the idea of ​​a propulsive Welfare, is presented as an ambitious project, but deliberately simplified to alleviate reading, aimed at enhancing the diversity of people and rediscovering the solidarity that each territory expresses through a governance that produces social capital useful for maintaining the health of community members. In this perspective and with the aim of extrapolating useful information on social security, the article presents various theoretical and legislative aspects of ”welfare” and ”social health”, but also emphasizes a case study, that was implemented through a practice of international cooperation in the Adriatic macro region. Classification-JEL: D63, I11, I31 Keywords: welfare, risk societies, solidarity, territory, social capital, health, people. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 6-16 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Propulsive-Welfare-for-the-risk-societies.-A-project-for-solidarity-and-communication-in-the-social-health-system.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:2:p:6-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexandra Porumbescu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "SOCIOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONALISM ARGUMENTS IN EXPLAINING EU INTEGRATION" Abstract: Ever since the beginning of the integration process in Europe, at the beginning of the 1950s, a series of theories were elaborated and used in the attempt to explain the evolution of the European construction. Among them, the sociological institutionalism theory brings together arguments derived from economic, social, political and institutional studies aiming to create a framework suitable for highlighting the causes and effects associated with European integration. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways in which the arguments used by the theoreticians of sociological institutionalism have the ability to create a comprehensive analysis of the evolution from the initial founding of the European communities to the European Union construction in the current shape. Classification-JEL: F55, F68 Keywords: sociological institutionalism; integration; European Union; theory. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 17-24 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sociological-institutionalism-arguments-in-explaining-EU-integration.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:2:p:17-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Romina Liçaj Author-Workplace-Name: Tirana University, Tirana, Albania Author-Name: Irida Agolli Nasufi Author-Workplace-Name: Tirana University, Tirana, Albania Title: "SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION TO EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED STUDENTS OF THE SECOND YEAR OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND SOCIAL POLICIES" Abstract: Switching from education to employment for youth is often associated with a long and difficult phase of transition. This study addresses precisely the problems of school-to-work transition between students of the Master of Science in the Department of Labor and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana. It aims to describe the transition situation in which are currently employed and unemployed students of this department and to identify the differences and similarities in the characteristics of this transition between the two groups. This study is a quantitative study and the research strategy used is a descriptive and comparative study. The entire scope of the study is covered by a comparative dimension that analyzes two groups: employed and unemployed students of this Department. The study shows that most of the students, even those who are employed, are still in a situation of transition. Only 14.3% of students had transited to a stable job, 73.5% were in transition and 12.2% had not started their transition. Over 72% of students have worked or continue to work while studying. Most of them worked / still work in a private company. The main motive that drives students to work during their studies is to provide income. As the ideal job, most of them (employed and unemployed) consider opening a personal business. Regarding long-term unemployment, only 17.4% of students are looking for a job for more than a year. The minimum wage under which they would refuse a job is on average 26016.39 lekë. It is interesting that employed students have lower claims on the minimum wage than the unemployed. Among the employed students, most of them work in jobs that fit their level of education. They generally work on a temporary employment contract, have an average working hour per week of 34.95 hours and the average income earned is 37437.5 lek. They are mostly satisfied with their current job but still hope to change it in the future. Classification-JEL: I21, I25 Keywords: school-to-work transition, youth in-transition, transited youth, youth who have not yet started the transition. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 25-38 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/School-to-work-transition-to-employed-and-unemployed-students-of-the-second-year-of-Master-of-Science-Degree-in-the-Department-of-Labor-and-Social-Policies.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:2:p:25-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriel Nicolae Pricină Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES OF URBAN SYMBOLISM" Abstract: This article is based on a research conducted within an European project aimed at developing a strategy for the promotion and fruition of cultural heritage in Dolj county, Romania and the district of Vidin, Bulgaria. Urban area research in the conditions of the globalized societies is limited by the alternation between the general phenomena encountered in all cases in cities and the problems affecting the evolution of cities. The general features eliminate the possibility of an identity profile of the cities, and the solutions offered result from the gross comparison of certain development indicators. Differences between them become dimensions of urban development strategies. But reality has shown that imitation of successful models without a minimum of adaptive effort is not enough. Successful recipes do not provide guarantees for multiplication in different contexts from the point of view of the level of urbanism and different historical experiences. In most cases, the measures and investments made do not bring an increase in the life quality and do not favor social cohesion. The adverse effects are perpetuated over time, and the costs of rebuilding cities as communities become considerable. The study of possible alternatives to understanding the urban environment also brings to the attention of completing the significance of statistical data with meanings resulting from a more complex understanding of the processes specific to the urban environment, as the city represents more than a simple demographic agglomeration. Classification-JEL: R23, R58 Keywords: urbanization, sustainable development, symbols, population, tourism, architecture. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 39-46 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sociological-research-perspectives-of-urban-symbolism.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:1:p:39-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Livia Pogan Author-Workplace-Name: “Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu, Romania Title: "FAMILY AND LABOR FORCE – INDIVIDUAL LIVES, SOCIAL OUTCOMES" Abstract: The increasing involvement of women in work, together with the taking over by various external bodies (others than the family) of tasks related to children growth, care and education, assistance of elderly or the sick ones, have led to new concerns regarding social capital research, deterioration of the family relations and deepening of intergenerational cleavages. Considering these trends and taking into account the fact that the interferences between the profession and the private life are evident, in this paper we propose a secondary statistical analysis materialized in an exploratory desk-research, in which we analyzed the information provided by EUROSTAT, the National Institute of Statistics, the National Commission of Strategy and Prognosis – statistics, reports, studies or other official documents of the national or European forums containing relevant data on changes affecting work and family and the connections between the two. Classification-JEL: J12, J16 Keywords: work, family, demographic change, labor force. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 47-56 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Family-and-labor-force-individual-lives-social-outcomes-1.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:2:p:47-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cristina Ilie Goga Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "ANDREEA MIHAELA NIȚĂ, VALORILE POPULAȚIEI URBANE, VECTORI AI FENOMENELOR ŞI PROCESELOR CULTURALE ÎN SOCIETATEA CONTEMPORANĂ [THE VALUES OF URBAN POPULATION, VECTORS OF CULTURAL PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY], BUCHAREST, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ROMANIAN LITERATURE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2013, 219 PP, ISBN: 978‐973‐167‐174‐1" Abstract: THIS PAPER IS A REVIEW OF THE BOOK VALORILE POPULAȚIEI URBANE, VECTORI AI FENOMENELOR ŞI PROCESELOR CULTURALE ÎN SOCIETATEA CONTEMPORANĂ [THE VALUES OF URBAN POPULATION, VECTORS OF CULTURAL PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY], BUCHAREST, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ROMANIAN LITERATURE PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2013, 219 PP, ISBN: 978‐973‐167‐174‐1, BOOK WRITTEN BY ANDREEA MIHAELA NIȚĂ. Classification-JEL: R23, R58 Keywords: Cultural phenomena, cultural processes, Romania, urban population . Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 57-58 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Andreea-Mihaela-Nit%CC%A6a%CC%86-The-values-of-urban-population-vectors-of-cultural-phenomena-and-processes-in-contemporary-society.-Book-Review.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:2:y:2018:i:2:p:57-58