Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues

From the Editors

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gunduz — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:27:27 +0000

Dear Readers,

It is the great honor for us to publish sixth volume, second issue of Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues.

Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on sociological issues. The scope of Global Journal of Sociology: Current Issues includes, but is not limited to the following major topics as Child, Youth and Old Age, Communication and Art, Culture and Changes, Deviance and Social Control, Economy and Development, Education, Ethnic Relations, Human Rights and Collective Good, Gender and Human Rights, Identity, Image and Social Cohesion, Localization and Globalization, Organizations, Professions and Work, Political Sociology and Law Issues, Social Security and Public Health, Sociology of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Population and Migration, Sociology of Religion, Collective Behavior and Social Movements and Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Studies.

Adaptive management, national health strategies and emergency situations, informing citizens, building trust and evaluation of the scholar fatigue phenomenon among teenagers topics have been included into this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2016 Volume.

A total number of nine (9) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of four (4) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.

We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gunduz

Editor – in Chief

Adaptive management: from ecology to public administration

Madalina-Cristina Gogu — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:27:27 +0000

Plants, organisms, and the environment in which they live influence one another, and on this relationship depends the survival of a species. Man recently started paying special attention to ecology: this fact has led to the development of adaptive management as an answer to the unpredictable development of the species and has also highlighted the importance of protecting the environment. This paper presents a theoretical and a practical perspective on the adaptive management which is applied in ecosystems and shows the possibilities for implementing adaptive management in public administration, thus transforming it into an adaptive administration with added use of adaptive administration theory. The aim of this work is to approach adaptive management from a historical point of view and to follow its transference from ecology to public administration. The expected result is that public managers will develop new methods to manage public administration for the benefit of the citizens.

Keywords: ecosystems, public administration, adaptive management

Emergency situations, adaptive management and national health strategies

Madalina-Cristina Gogu — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:27:27 +0000

Terrible natural disasters or dangerous human activities endanger the life and health of the population. The increased frequency of these events prompts the population to exert greater pressure on public managers to rethink, to innovate, and to adapt management in the field of health to the ever-changing environment. The National Health Strategy and the National Strategy for Preventing Emergency Situations are the instruments that manage the life and health of the population in dangerous situations. Managers in the fields of health and emergency situations could develop new ways to manage strategies and public institutions by applying adaptive management in order to better protect the life and health of the population. The aim of this paper consists in presenting that, by applying strategic and adaptive management in the public sector in the fields of health and emergency situations in Romania, public managers can better serve the needs of the citizens.

Keywords: public administration, national health strategy, emergency situations, adaptive management

Informing citizens, building trust and promoting discussion

Catalin Vrabie — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:27:28 +0000

Where information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. In today’s society, information is increasingly at hand. Today, via Internet, anyone has access to it. In the online environment, news channels are flooded with updates – most of them being takeovers of official Web sites of the institutions involved. Their huge numbers and increased dynamics demolish any attempt to build confidence in the government source. A few decades ago, the citizen had television as the main source of information. Soon after the number of TV channels has increased, was observed a decrease regarding the television consumer’s confidence in the information provided this way. Before that, the newspaper and the radio went through similar stages. Today Internet is facing it. This paper proposes the realization of a conceptual framework for online delivery of information from the public environment to the citizens, businesses and other government institutions – as part of a success model regarding the public administration’s communication with the environment it addresses to.

Keywords: web platform, new media, information delivery channel

The evaluation of scholar fatigue phenomenon and some factors that cause it on a group of teenagers from Iasi

Adriana Albu, Raluca Mihaela Hodorcă, Ionut Onose, Magda Negrea, Irina Crăcană — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:27:28 +0000

Scholar fatigue should be carefully evaluated to be able to interfere when needed. Goals: the evaluation of differences/similarities regarding fatigue at pupils studying at different. High schools. Material and methods: the study was done on a group of 237 teenagers studying at 3 different high schools in Iasi: Sport high school (75 teenagers), Music High school (73 students) and Grammar School (89 students). The pupils had to fill in a questionnaire regarding the emersion of fatigue. The results were analysed using the Pearson CHI Square test. Results and discussions: in 45.99% of cases, students are often tired, the calculated differences being statistically significant for a p<0.01 (f=4, χ²=15.500), fatigue being often acknowledged by Grammar School teenagers. The phenomenon appears in the middle of the week (48.10% ,p>0.001 f=4, χ²=20.862) and at midday (43.03%, p<0.01, f=4, χ²=11.738). The statistically significant differences show a high frequency of positive answers for Grammar School students. One of the factors favouring the appearance of fatigue is the small number of sleeping hours (6-7 hours -75.94%). The calculated differences are statistically significant for a p<0.001 (f=4, χ²=21.716) and show a high frequency of teenagers who sleep a little at Grammar School. Conclusions: the appearance of fatigue is different for each highschool, which enforces an exact knowledge of the features of teenagers’ loads.

Keywords: highschool, scholar load, insufficient sleep.