Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Gabriel Stoiciu
Title: Social media as a community incubator
Abstract: The emergence of the Internet and, consequently, of social media brought into the area of human interaction a set of transformations with a historical dimension. In the last ten years, the information society has become an expanding reality. There are countless possibilities for communication and exchanges of ideas, including among scientists, such as: forums, blogs, social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), text, audio and video conferencing applications (WhatsApp, Windows Live, Skype, etc.). The main objective of this study is to highlight, through the ethnographic method (observation and interviews), the study of the initiation and organization of virtual communities that manifest in the public space through protest movements. It aims also to point out the role that socialization platforms have in forming spontaneous solidarities and in shaping the civic engagement.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/352/311
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File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: social media; virtual communities; protest movements; Facebook; #REZIST
Pages: 3-10
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4191
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4191

Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Sebastian Fitzek
Title: The difficulties of Romanian families with elderly people in care (a diagnosis of the Romanian elderly who are at risk)
Abstract: The difficulties of families in Romania that have elderly people in care are the main subject of this analysis. The research is part of the exploratory and diagnosis area of a specific social work theme with multidisciplinary implications. The Romanian society nowadays faces an unprecedented aging process. The need for a diagnosis and for proper questions contributes to the understanding of a complex phenomenon that, in many situations, goes beyond a simple picture of the figures. The main statistical data was extracted from the PHC (Population and Housing Censuses), Eurostat, NSI (the National Statistical Institute of Romania, for demographic, social, and economic indicators), while Eurobarometers and secondary studies relevant for the diagnosis of the quality of life in the case of the elderly have been used for subjective data. Besides the descriptive and explanatory approach of social phenomena related to the elderly groups in Romania, I have chosen an approach of the statistical indicators relevant to this topic that I introduced in the analysis.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/354/312
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File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: elderly; aging; family; vulnerabilities; risks; violence; aggression
Pages: 11-27
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4192
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4192

Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Zohurul Islam
Author-Name: Rakib Hossain
Title: What matters for the effectiveness of a training organization? Evidence from BPATC
Abstract: Organizational effectiveness is the concept of how successful is an organization to achieve its goals in what the organization intends to serve or produce for its customers. Organizational effectiveness is more important for non-profit organizations or service providing organizations that primarily depends on their performance. The objectives of this study are to identify factors and their influence on organizational effectiveness. A structured questionnaire survey was conducted to get information and valid data. The study has nine independent variables and each variable was measured at least by three items. The consistency of the items has measured the reliability of the variables through Cronbach Alpha and found most of the variable items were very consistent. This study has also developed nine hypotheses. A multiple regression equation was performed for testing relations. Among the nine independent variables along with ‘organizational effectiveness’ as the dependent variable, it is found that three hypotheses were accepted according to standardized beta values with a considerable level of significance. Accepted hypotheses are related to ‘motivation’, ‘integrity’, and ‘empowerment’. The ANOVA results highlights a significant relationship and explains as 79.50% (p<.05) of the total variance. Thus, the results of this analysis indicate that variables can explain about 80% of the organizational effectiveness. However, the small size of the population and quantitative results are some limitations of this study. Besides, this study was limited within faculty, who were engaged in training activities and very limited staff who were engaged with training programs.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/355/313
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File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: organizational performance; leadership; motivation; integrity; BPATC
Pages: 28-45
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4193
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4193

Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Radu-Mihai Dumitrescu
Title: The approach of medical malpractice phenomenon within theoretical framework of medical sociology
Abstract: The medical malpractice represents a phenomenon which is more and more debated in the Romanian society; its connection with a series of other phenomena as those of the migration of physicians or decrease of physicians’ credibility in the eyes of the public opinion can represent individual research subjects. The medical care has become a more complex process both by the social and economic developments (digitalization, technological development, demographic changes) and by the awareness at social level concerning the weak points and lacks the care systems. The higher costs of the medical care, the change of the physician - patient relationship, the ease access to online information, the unequal distribution of resources for health, the social inequity concerning the cares for health represent subjects from the area of medical sociology. The sociological approach of processes and phenomenon related to the medical treatments represent a useful systematic approach for their understanding or for the development of some adequate social policies. The objective of this paper is the identification of the ways in which the phenomenon of medical malpractice is represented in the theoretical field of sociology.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/356/314
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File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: medical malpractice; sociological theories; sociology of medicine; content analysis
Pages: 46-79
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4194
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4194

Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Angelica Hîrju
Title: The significance of the psychotherapeutic process:  An analysis of clients' and psychotherapists’ perspectives
Abstract: Studying the perceptions of the therapists and the clients on the meaning of psychotherapy is important because through them one can grasp some of the realities of therapy that cannot be studied through conventional quantitative research. Reintroducing a phenomenological perspective may further ease our understanding of psychotherapy in general. In this study, the action of giving significance to one’s experience is used to describe the perceptions of the psychotherapists (N=137) and the clients (N=103). The analysis used in the study, a version of grounded theory research, revealed that when it comes to the significance given to therapy, psychotherapists and clients tend to have similar opinions. The categories found in the clients verbatim were self-knowledge, personal development, answer, help, healing and others and in therapists’ responses were: self-knowledge, healing, solution, personal development, change and others. The different themes were help for the clients and change for therapists. The difference in the analysed categories is a conceptual one, psychotherapists tending to be more idealistic in their meaning giving process than clients.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/357/315
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: psychotherapeutic process; clients’ perspective; therapists’ perspective; psychotherapy meaning
Pages: 80-95
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4195
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4195

Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Mona Bădoi-Hammami 
Author-Name: Corina Colareza
Author-Name: Luciana Mihai
Title: The impact of the information revolution on raising the children of housing institutions in Romania
Abstract: We live in a time of speed, when everything is rapidly changing around us. Not long ago, mobile devices were fiction, and we would only see them in movies, while here we are now, living in a period of voice and video calls through a ‘mobile phone’ device. This device represents a real technical revolution, especially through the modern applications that open up – for us and our children – areas that were difficult to access earlier, such as science, sports and other, more negative media, like pornography sites. We have been able to easily segment and categorize search engines, but how could we classify social networking sites and apps? It is difficult to say whether they are bad or good, the reason for this being that the problem is not in its programming but in its users. Children are in danger because of the Information Revolution we are experiencing, especially two categories of them – the first category includes children of families where parents work for a long time, both or one of them, or those missing from home for a significant period of time. In this category, parents may sometimes avoid mistakes by addressing the danger to their children and thus protecting them, while the second category includes orphaned and abandoned children, or children that for various reasons find themselves in social protection centers and do not benefit from any such protection. These mentally and physically healthy children, due to their presence in these centers, are vulnerable, and we can diagnose them with a special sort of disease (‘social centralization complex’) because they suffer psychologically from their abandonment, their presence in these centers and the absence of adoptive chances. Regardless of the quality of the services offered in said placement centers, this mental complex remains, which creates a weak point with a profound impact on the rest of the lives of the respective children. To overcome their reality, children rebel against everything that surrounds them, and if they can conceal reality, then they do so by any means necessary. Due to the facts that these children do not have a strong educational base and that it is difficult to compensate for their lack of a familial atmosphere, the impact of the Information Revolution on them is strong, and trying to find solutions in order to avoid or correct the negative effects in various personal areas is a necessity.
Publication-Status: Published in "Journal of Community Positive Practices", 4 2019
File-URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/358/316
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2019
Keywords: information revolution; housing institutions; placement centers; electronic learning methods; abandoned children
Pages: 96-107
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Number: 4196
Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:4196