Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lediana Xhakollari Author-Workplace-Name: University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Shkoder, Albania Author-Name: Adelina Kakijab Author-Workplace-Name: University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Shkoder, Albania Author-Name: Entela Xhakollari Author-Workplace-Name: State Inspectorate of Market Surveillance, Tirane, Albania Title: ”Emotional intelligence and workplace stress of Albanian academic staff” Abstract: Emotional intelligence is a very important aspect of human life. It has implications at many areas of life including educational and professional ones. On the other side, stress has become an important feature of our day to day lives. Occupational stress occurs when the employees experience aversive or unpleasant emotional states in their work place. Occupational stress among university employees is a global phenomenon and has traditionally been regarded as low. In recent years, the Albanian university sector has undergone large-scale organizational changes. The current study investigate the overall level of emotional intelligence and work stress among the academic staff of Higher Education Institutions in Albania, and the relationship between these two variables. The data are collected during September 2019, through an on-line questionnaire, including Schuttle Scale of Emotional Intelligence and Workplace Stress Scale. A total of 183 academic staff of Albanian Higher Education Institutions participated in this study. The study findings indicate that almost half of academic staff experience a moderate level of workplaces stress and the other half a low level of workplace stress. The majority of academic staff have a high level of emotional intelligence. There is a significant negative relationship between emotional intelligence and workplace stress of academic staff. Implications, limitations and recommendations of this study are discussed. Classification-JEL: I10, I12, I22, I23 Keywords: Intelligence, emotion, emotional intelligence, stress, workplace stress, academic staff Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 6-23 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Emotional-intelligence-and-workplace-stress-of-Albanian-academic-staff.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:6-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alina Maria Breaz Author-Workplace-Name: ”Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad, Romania Title: " Attitude towards persons with disabilities and their satisfaction in work " Abstract: Social help contributes not exclusively to helping individuals with inabilities to incorporate into work, yet additionally to keeping up a good atmosphere and a fitting environment at work, which are key components of the representative's expert fulfillment. The examination loaned 28 individuals with handicaps who had an employment for in any event a half year. The subjects were asked a poll worked out of 6 inquiries that concerned associations with partners, managers, work fulfillment, and the longing to change their work environment. The outcomes acquired show that work fulfillment is basic to remaining at work for a more extended time. This fulfillment is straightforwardly affected by the disposition of partners and managers towards the individual with incapacities who is being helped. Classification-JEL: I10, I12, I14 Keywords: Attitudes, workplace, people, social, disabilities Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 24-35 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Attitude-towards-persons-with-disabilities-and-their-satisfaction-in-work.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:24-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriela Motoi Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "Disability and poverty: from EU Regulations to National statistics. A comparative analysis: Romania-Bulgaria" Abstract: Despite the EU social policy documents and strategies which and also adopted by the EU Member States, many persons with disabilities do not have equal access to health services, education services and/or employment opportunities; they do not receive the specific services they need, being, thus, excluded from the activities of everyday life. In some European societies, people with disabilities are unable to find a job, their difficulties varying from the accessibilities that the community and employers have to provide to them, to the employers mentalities related to their employment. However, for a person with disabilitites, having a limited access to employment may put her/him in a high risk of social exclusion and poverty. The secondary data that we will analyse in this article will highlight the fact that in Romania and Bulgaria, the quality of life of persons with disabilities, is much lower than the European average, the activity limitation, conditioned by a state of health or difficulty in carrying out the daily activity is high, the access to medical and social services is limited, and, thus, the quality of life is low, which can lead us to the conclusion of an existing vicious circle (disability and poverty). Classification-JEL: I10, I12, I18, I38 Keywords: EU social policy, disability, poverty, material deprivation, activity limitation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 36-46 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Disability-and-poverty-from-EU-Regulations-to-National-statistics.-A-comparative-analysis-Romania-Bulgaria.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:36-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sorina Poledna Author-Workplace-Name: Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Title: "Working with involuntary clients, an analysis from the probation counsellors professional competencies perspective" Abstract: The persons under supervision of the probation services represent, together with those with custodial sentences, the perfect illustration of the concept of involuntary client, i.e. the one who ends up benefiting from the help/assistance of a specialist not as a result of his own decision, and/or awareness of the necessity of such help, but as a result of a legal mandate. This aspect determines and explains the specific profile of this category of beneficiaries of the intervention activities and programs in the correctional space. In accordance with this reality, the specifics of professional relationship and of the work carried out by the probation counselors with the supervised persons are also configured. This text aims to present on one hand the obvious and less obvious implications of nonvolunteering and on the other hand, some of the dimensions of the professional competencies of probation counselors required in such a type of professional interaction. A series of aspects are followed that describe the adequacy of the competencies of probation counselors to the contents of the professional role, for creating awareness opportunities of their own problems by the offenders under supervision, and developing individual resources through which the development of motivation for change and the dynamics of the transition from the state of involuntary client to that of a motivated and involved beneficiary in the helping process, take place in order to make a prosocial change of behavior. Classification-JEL: K14, K40, K42 Keywords: Probation, involuntary clients, professional competencies, correctional interventions, probation counselors, rehabilitation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 47-55 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Working-with-involuntary-clients-an-analysis-from-the-probation-counsellors-professional-competencies-perspective.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:47-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriel Pricină Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: " Risk adaptation: A continuous learning process in the context of unrepeatable phenomena" Abstract: Humanity is periodically affected by natural disasters, medical, environmental or military crises with an impact on large sections of the population. The reality observed by the population and the intervention modalities have influenced the way in which the notion of “risk” is perceived. Many everyday events are not taken into account by people, as the negative consequences are less likely to occur. Therefore, the subjectively perceived gravity of the consequences of certain events increases the attention paid to the presumed risks. Situations in which the causal relationship is directly perceptible, such as natural disasters, are usually appreciated. Suspicion and ignorance of risks increase with the imperceptibility of causal relationships or where understanding requires a high level of expertise. In the case of the current coronavirus pandemic, we are dealing with the situation of feeling effects directly (through personal infection or from someone we know) and indirectly through the information collected through the media, without knowing the generating causes. The explanations are heterogeneous, from various sources, unverifiable, often unsupported and scientifically unfounded. The explanations from the scientific world are complex, resulting from the interpretation of a multitude of scientific aspects, each of which is the subject of complex research, and the explanatory mechanisms are not accessible to the general masses due to lack of medical knowledge. If we add to the complexity of medical explanations the explanations provided by media channels by sensory-oriented public sources, manipulation, representation of foreign interests to some states, we find that the current picture of the structure of astounding and disturbing public information is created for a large part of the population it becomes suspicious under the influence of destabilizing messages. This article aims to initiate an approach to know how risks drive the creation of protection strategies in the context of unique or rare phenomena. Classification-JEL: I14, I15, I18 Keywords: Coronavirus, risk management, pandemic, public communication, manipulation, risk reduction strategy, medical crisis. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 56-63 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Risk-adaptation.-A-continuous-learning-process-in-the-context-of-unrepeatable-phenomena.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:56-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ovidiu Florin Toderici Author-Workplace-Name: ”Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad, Romania Title: " Education for children and the new pandemic reality" Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic impacts most on the well-being of families and children all over the world. The study analyses the main consequences on the Romanian educational system, also mirroring the long-lasting social and economic outcomes. Possible social protection measures are identified at the local, national and civil level, as immediate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and for long-term recovery. A coordinated approach is needed to implement policies, programs and interventions for the poor and vulnerable, as well as marginalized groups. There is already a wide range of sectoral policies, programs and interventions aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion, and the experience and tools needed to identify people and areas affected by poverty have been improved in the last years. The societal ideas, concepts, rules, policies have to change because our present and future changed. We now face another major humanitarian crisis: ‘’We the Adults’’ (paraphrasing Kofi Annan’s reference) now face the future of our Children and it will take a joined effort from all of us – from national governments, agencies and NGOs to local communities and caregivers. Promises are not enough, even the world has the necessary resources to back it up, unless the whole society will come together to secure a safe environment through special protection measures for Our Children. Classification-JEL: I12, I18, I21, I24 Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, children, vulnerability, Romanian educational system Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 64-70 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Education-for-children-and-the-new-pandemic-reality.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:64-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Radu-Cristian Petcu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "Migration recollections - memory lines at the border" Abstract: Memory implies both continuity and change, the stable frame of location, but also the process of change and dislocation. Such transition is particularly relevant for approaches in migration memory - they require understanding of context and meaning for identity in bearing the distance between locations (origin and host societies) and in securing purpose of destination in order to achieve continuity, in two dimensions, identity of origin and identity of becoming (or new belonging) which need to be simultaneously accommodated and integrated. By agency of migrants and conditions and regulations of access into receiving societies, these dimensions are markedly connected at the border. Borders are found along the path of displacement, transition and orientation. Whether reception policies include cultural awareness or civic education approaches, strict vetting or a whole range inbetween, the transition needs to be documented and governed also from the perspective of the migrant. A memory which is uprooted from its initial location or migrating to a new environment needs aids to support coherence for identity. The way in which migration and its transition process are realized and managed leaves a defining imprint on the mode the migrants represent and commit the change to memory; both the image of the transition and the idea of a future destination (aspirations, ideals) are mapped into memory next to the embedded initial location. Society of origin and host society are both locations of memory; at the moment of transition, the former lies with self experience, the latter with a projected dimension of self. Borders are sites of memory, but of memories divided: polity memory and migrant memory. The role of any integration policy is to allow and make them meet purposefully, and not to widen the gap between them. Classification-JEL: J60, J61, J15, J17 Keywords: International migration, borders, memory, change of displacement. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 71-78 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Migration-recollections-memory-lines-at-the-border.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:71-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Livia Dana Pogan Author-Workplace-Name: “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania Title: " Mapping integration. Understanding immigration" Abstract: Each historical period was confronted with population movements across territories, displacements that were not always peaceful. Nowadays, peoples’ positioning in a certain area and the movements between territories are related to concepts as nation, country, citizenship, and migration, all performing within a given formal framework. Besides this preestablished setting, a series of soft, cultural aspects, individual abilities, beliefs systems, attitudes, perceptions, values, all together shape such issues regarding both emigration and immigration. When analyzing migratory flows, Romania can be clearly defined as an emigration country, after the revolution of 1989. Nevertheless, a phenomenon started to gain terrain in the last years, as more people, from diversifying countries are coming to Romania. Immigration could be seen as bringing both advantages and disadvantages, challenges and opportunities to the host country, thus both facets of the coin must be addressed. Therefore, the core concept when discussing immigration is “integration”, as a smooth and successful immigrant integration process brings gains for the receiving country (brain gain, counterbalancing the demographic decline or the lack of workforce, contributions to the national budget, for example) and for the immigrants also. Considering the above-mentioned issues this paper aims to provide a theoretical framework that fosters immigrants` integration measuring and understanding. Thus, integration levels and dimensions are presented, doubled by an analysis of the factors that can determine or moderate integration. Classification-JEL: J60, J61, J70 Keywords: immigration; integration; integration dimensions; attitudes towards immigrants. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 79-86 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mapping-integration.-Understanding-immigration.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:79-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liviu Toader Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania / Constanța Probation Service, Constanța, Romania Title: " Institutional policies and strategies on the social reintegration of persons deprived of their liberty " Abstract: The phenomenon of crime, the method of sanctioning and the effectiveness of the criminal sanctions applied, associated with the vast process of social reintegration of persons deprived of liberty, although are current and represent a constant in the legal and social fields, for both theorists and practitioners, are quite little known by civil society. The process of resocialisation of persons deprived of liberty is a constant concern for the creators of criminal and social policies who seek to identify the most viable measures by which the state can intervene in preventing and combating criminal recidivism. As a special form of crime, recidivism is one of the most serious social problems facing contemporary societies. Using a figure of speech, we can appreciate that, just as some vices and unwanted behaviours, such as: "tobacco use and alcohol abuse seriously harm health", we similarly argue that, in the absence of sustainable and predictable public policies, "criminal recidivism seriously harms the community". The study presents the main public strategies and policies adopted and implemented at national level, in terms of social reintegration, trends of evolution, as well as a number of incidental social dysfunctions. Thus, the efficient functioning of the probation system, the reduction of overcrowding in prisons, the promotion of a viable strategy for the social reintegration of persons deprived of liberty and the financing of predefined programmes through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, in areas of interest such as correctional services and the strengthening of the rule of law, are prerequisites for combating criminal recidivism and maintaining community safety. In conclusion, we say that the social reintegration of criminally sanctioned persons is an area of interest for society that requires increased attention, by developing an effective regulatory framework, with an institutional system appropriate to the needs of this vulnerable category, but also by involving members of the community. Classification-JEL: K14, K40, K42 Keywords: public strategies and policies, crime, recidivism, social reintegration, vulnerable category, community safety. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 87-99 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Institutional-policies-and-strategies-on-the-social-reintegration-of-persons-deprived-of-their-liberty.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:87-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrada Tobias Author-Workplace-Name: Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Title: " The worthy employee: Serious leisure through alternative forms of spirituality" Abstract: The analyzes undertaken in the present study focus on those who have adopted a new lifestyle, strongly centered around self-development through recreational practices. Also, the interest of the research was directed towards the way in which leisure became a new type of work for some of the employees of large corporations. As recent research shows, a significant portion of employees feel the pressure to outdo themselves and build an impressive career. Precisely to maximize their chances of success, individuals become more flexible, more creative, more autonomous and more motivated to improve their skills. As my fieldwork has shown, in order to be able to survive the increased competition, employees are in a continuous work with their own person, which can lead to frustration, anxiety and insecurity. In this context, individuals seek support and, at least some of them, identify them in recreational practices that resonate with alternative forms of spirituality. In order to understand how alternative forms of spirituality have entered the area of recreational practices and how leisure has become a new type of work, I began to participate in various spiritual development programs existing in Romania. Classification-JEL: J22, J24, J28 Keywords: Employee, neoliberalism, serious leisure, spirituality, self-development. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 100-109 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-worthy-employee.-Serious-leisure-through-alternative-forms-of-spirituality.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:100-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simona Rodat Author-Workplace-Name: Adventus University, Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences, Cernica, Romania Title: " Gender-based inequalities and discrimination in professional careers: An overview" Abstract: The unbalanced gender-specific division of labour emerged as early as the end of the nineteenth century, when women work was exploited and underpaid in the wage market. The gendered professional inequalities between women and men continue to persist even today. The present paper aims to provide an outline of the main concepts used for analysing gendered inequalities in professional careers and to delineate the most significant explanations regarding this phenomenon. Besides gender stereotypes and gender roles, other terms which conceptualize the gender-based inequalities and discrimination in professional careers are addressed, such as gender pay gap, horizontal segregation, evaluative discrimination, vertical segregation, glass ceiling, sticky floor, and gender status beliefs. Furthermore, there are discussed both theoretical economic approaches, which emphasize the role of human capital and explain discrimination of women in the labour market by the expectations on their lower productivity, and theoretical sociological approaches, which highlight other aspects, such as differences in power, social and cultural norms and values, and take into consideration the importance of social capital, social interactions and networks, and social closure in professional career and ascension. In the last part of the paper the key aspects of the debate are emphasized and some remarks about the necessity of larger, more integrative and practice-oriented researches in this regard are made. Classification-JEL: J16, J70, J78 Keywords: Gender inequality, gender pay gap, gender-based discrimination in professional careers, human capital, social capital, gendered organizations Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 110-118 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Gender-based-inequalities-and-discrimination-in-professional-careers.-An-overview.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:110-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alina Doina Ionescu (Dascălu) Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: " Psychosocial dimensions of school failure " Abstract: If we start from the premise that the role of school is to train the student in relation to a social ideal, and the school fulfills an obvious socialization function, it follows that school failure is the failure of socialization in the school space. This failure can be interpreted both as a cause and as an effect of school dropout. The inability of the environment to provide the student with a supportive framework that meets his needs and to which he can adapt, causes him to give up attending school. Of course, in this situation, we discuss school dropout as a result of a personal decision of the student, motivated to give up the fact that he cannot adapt to the school environment. In this article, we aim to find out which are the individual and social factors that make school failure possible and how the two categories of factors are correlated. We will critically analyze a series of models in psychology and psycho-sociology, then we will highlight the importance of negative socialization in peer groups, as an important predictor of school failure, and we will finally discuss the issue of school phobia and methods of intervention in this condition. Classification-JEL: I20, I21, I26 Keywords: School failure, school dropout, school absenteeism, negative socialization, school phobia, psychopedagogical intervention. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 119-125 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Psychosocial-dimensions-of-school-failure.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:119-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Teodora Kaleynska Author-Workplace-Name: “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Title: "Book Review: Gabriela Motoi, Michaël Bourgatte (coord.) Les politiques d’éducation au numérique en Europe. Former des citoyens connectés, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, 121pp. ISBN: 978-2-343-19830-9" Abstract: This paper is a review of the book Les politiques d’éducation au numérique en Europe. Former des citoyens connectés, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, 121pp. ISBN: 978-2-343-19830-9, coordinated by Gabriela Motoi and Michaël Bourgatte Classification-JEL: Y30, I28 Keywords: Les politiques d’éducation au numérique en Europe, Former des citoyens connectés, book review. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 126-127 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Book-review.-Les-politiques-d%E2%80%99e%CC%81ducation-au-nume%CC%81rique-en-Europe.-Former-des-citoyens-connecte%CC%81s.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:126-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cristina Ilie Goga Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: "Book Review: Gabriel Nicolae Pricină, Exodul conștiințelor din viața socială. Elemente ale culturii violenței [The exodus of consciences in social life. Elements of the culture of violence], Bucharest, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 2017, 255 pp., ISBN: 978-606-31-0348-3" Abstract: This paper is a review of the book Exodul conștiințelor din viața socială. Elemente ale culturii violenței [The exodus of consciences in social life. Elements of the culture of violence], Bucharest, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 2017, 255 pp., ISBN: 978-606-31-0348-3, written by Gabriel Nicolae Pricină. Classification-JEL: Y30, K40 Keywords: The exodus of consciences in social life, Elements of the culture of violence, book review. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 128-130 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Year: 2020 Month: December File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Book-review.-Exodul-cons%CC%A6tiint%CC%A6elor-din-viat%CC%A6a-sociala%CC%86.-Elemente-ale-culturii-violent%CC%A6ei-The-exodus-of-consciences-in-social-life.-Elements-of-the-culture-of-violence.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:4:y:2020:i:2:p:128-130