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Questions related from Arvydas Guogis
Usually older universities' lecturers have opinions about the different generations of students - what are they?
06 June 2019 9,152 1 View
Usually universities' people pursue the careers of lecturers and researchers at the same time - what is more pleasant and why for You personally? Or, may be, both?
06 June 2019 410 6 View
Social dialogue has a long history of achievements, at least in Europe. Is it not a phenomena of the past? What do You think about its future?
12 December 2018 2,297 3 View
S. Huntington's theory of "clash of civilizations" is well known in social and humanitarian sciences. Is this theory valid nowadays?
10 October 2018 960 2 View
Neoliberalism is perceived as the opposite to effective social policy and administration. However, there are several countries (as Switzerland in the West and Estonia in the East) which pursue...
10 October 2018 4,640 13 View
Nowadays social and, especially, humanitarian sciences are losing influence. If You agree with this, can You describe the reasons for that?
10 October 2018 2,866 1 View
If You make all three possible scenarios - bad, average and good - what is then a prediction? How can You predict everything possible? In my understanding prediction has to be much narrower and...
11 November 2016 9,514 2 View
There is a lot of "old good" practise in social services. But what new progressive innovations can You describe in social services?
08 August 2016 8,866 2 View
Don't You think that capitalism as a system is rather contradictory because of its aspirations for good services and cheating at the same time?
08 August 2016 423 3 View
It seems that social events nowadays get accelerated with such speed. Often they leave no time to think enough or reflect. Do You have the same feeling for social writing, researching or lecturing?
08 August 2016 3,239 1 View
Central and Eastern European countries after relatively good results during the last 25 years have diminished the distance from Western Europe economically and socially. Is it possible for them to...
08 August 2016 7,231 3 View
Societal inequalities in general have bad connotations, especially when the social exclusion appears. More and more processes in societies widen the gap between elites and masses. Can elitism have...
05 May 2016 8,481 4 View
Welfare states of XX-th century had at least diminished inequalities. What can You tell about inequalities question in the XXI-st century?
05 May 2016 9,413 1 View
Some people joke that every change is one or another form of innovation. Do You agree with them?
03 March 2016 9,342 3 View
Non-technological changes and innovations is not the same. How would You define the changes and innovations?
03 March 2016 9,121 2 View
Am I right that the Nordic countries (based) have only few ISI indexed social sciences journals?
03 March 2015 6,026 1 View
Although many happenings are self-evident in the daily life, many theoretical works in social sciences lack empirical arguments. Could you recommend one or another empirical research for the theme...
03 March 2015 1,284 8 View
Explanations by many authors about development of welfare societies and criticism of welfare state show the shift from welfare state's discourse to welfare society's. What is Your opinion about...
02 February 2015 9,615 2 View
Participatory (collaborative) research as an effective research mehod is known from Brasilian researcher Freire's times. among marginal groups. Do You think such kind of research is possible in a...
02 February 2015 9,505 10 View
The wars are bad instruments for problems resolution. Nevertheless people in various countries still believe in wars. Recent Russian-Ukrainian war has shown that evidently. Why the people still...
09 September 2014 4,452 2 View
Looking to Russian politics in Ukrainian affairs in 2014 and other war initiatives around the earth nowadays it seems that the world has not learned the lessons from its wars history. Why the...
09 September 2014 9,162 3 View
Ukrainian crisis and other developments in Russia have moved this country to an unfriendly policy. Do You think Russia will cope with its problems by such aggressive policy?
09 September 2014 9,305 5 View
Sometimes it is said that globalization is for the winners and glocalization is for the loosers. Can there be winners from globalization in traditional industries, traditional services and...
08 August 2014 4,031 6 View
Switzerland in the West and Estonia in the East have many better social indicators than many of their neighbours who declare more pro-social policies. Both countries are not the cases of...
08 August 2014 4,102 3 View
Postmodern times differ much from modern era in relation, also of research, to truth and relativism problems. What, in your understanding, is the problem of truth in societies and social sciences...
08 August 2014 9,666 5 View
There is understanding of deviations and marginal groups as of "obstacle" or the "burden" for economics, usually more left-wing thinkers understand that after temporary social assistance or care,...
08 August 2014 8,273 4 View
It seems at present that Russians are not so much frightened about their diminishing economic and social indicators for the aim of war. Is, in Your opinion, this assumption true or wrong?
08 August 2014 4,152 1 View
One of youth unemployment reasons is considered the negative attitude of Y-generation towards stable and monotonous places of work. They are good everywhere with exception and outside their direct...
08 August 2014 8,312 3 View
As the time goes mass media enrolls more and more into the low-quality short-sighted image and sensations based journalism. You see vividly the serious decline of journalism in television...
07 July 2014 1,833 8 View
In my native country, Lithuania, the younger and older generations are opposed over state social insurance / private pensions funds problem, over modern information and knowledge based instruments...
07 July 2014 589 5 View
Vary rarely journalists are having real social competencies about exclusion fighting methods, social work techniques, social security efficiency measures, etc. How can they improve their social...
06 June 2014 1,988 1 View
From my point of view 20-30 years ago it was possible to take any social sciences journal. to read and understand enirely at least half of its articles and to use it in Your own work. But now the...
06 June 2014 3,943 2 View
Very often sustainable development problems are left for natural sciences only, such as ecological, global warming problems, etc. What is your view of sustainable development from sociological,...
06 June 2014 3,119 12 View
In modernist era methodology of social sciences was believed to be used for seeking scientific truth, better understanding, right posing of questions, in many cases - creation of set of rules and...
05 May 2014 2,296 10 View
Creation of normative models in social sciences was one of the essential features of modernist era. But is it still possible in post-modernist times?
05 May 2014 6,811 3 View
Normative models were widely used in social sciences during modernist era. Can they still be created and used in post-modern times?
05 May 2014 5,189 3 View