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Margarita Shopova
INFORMATION ASPECTS OF THE STATISTICAL STUDY
OF CRIME
Summary:
Crime is a phenomenon that has a high cost for society and seriously threatens the normal development of society as well as personal inviolability, the property, honour and dignity of citizens. This paper presents some basic aspects of the statistical study of crime. It explains the nature of crime as an object of statistical study. The major sources of information are discussed together with the problems of information provision. The system of statistical indicators is described in detail as a way of characterizing registered crime. The possibilities for the statistical study of latent crime are clarified and some characteristics when analyzing the antisocial behaviour of juvenile offenders are also discussed.
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Kamen Kamenov
BEHAVIOUR AND RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN
SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Summary:
The study reviews an issue that is both topical and universal - human potential and its development for the public welfare. This multi-aspectual issue is, of course, reviewed from our point of view. Our priority was to answer answer the following questions:
- What unites us?
- What makes us different?
- What makes us human?
- What is hidden behind the social curtain of behavioural acts related to our social potential?
In ten sections we have tried to explain the behavioural acts that create an atmosphere of ambiguity and complicate social structure relationships.
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Dimitar Kanev, Venelin Terziev
BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS: DEVELOPMENT, CONDITION AND PERSPECTIVES
Summary:
The study examines the place of behavioural economics in the structure of economic science and the practice of state regulating. The thesis that neoclassicism is an appropriate normative approach for analysing human behaviour is defended but the comparative advantages are on the side of behavioural economics in the answers of descriptive, diagnostic, prognostic and perspective issues. It tracks the historical roots, the ideas of behavioural economics for the limited rationality, will and egoism are presented in short as well as the contribution of behavioural approach to the state’s intervention ideology and practice. The libertarian paternalism idea and its role for the transformation of ‘a state of wealth’ into the ‘new paternalistic state’ that is increasingly gaining clear outlines are presented.
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Kamen Kamenov
THE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT – A SOURCE OF SOCIAL ACTIVITY OR A FACTOR FOR MOTIVATED PASSIVITY
Summary:
The study relates success, the role of personal and professional skills and teamwork on the one hand to the importance of collaborative environment on the other. The components of the collaborative system are of particular importance for the success in achieving the common goals. Moreover, even when personal and professional skills are of very high quality and the team is efficient, its actual performance may deviate in varying degrees from the expected results because of the collaborative environment. It is a source of social activity because it modifies the behaviour of the team members. The study examines the relation between collaborative environment and motivated passivity. An emphasis is put on its role and importance for individual’s deficit of ideas. In this respect the study examines two main issues - education and communication and the shortcomings of institutions and the social environment. It defines the specific problems that underlie the deficit of ideas, which is related to motivated passivity. This in turn affects the efficiency of the social system. The study provides guidelines for implementation of changes to overcome motivated passivity as a social phenomenon.
