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The contents of the concepts of social and emotional intelligence are very similar. The question may arise whether they should be considered as one or two different concepts. In our contribution, using results of empirical research, we have made an analysis of the relationship between social and emotional intelligence. We have used the scale TSIS (Tromso Social Intelligence Scale) and the questionnaire...
The dependents of the German minority in Czechoslovakia lost their nationality according to the constitutional decree no. 33/1945. The government took more reasonable attitude towards them after the formation of East Germany in October of 1949. The inhabitants could retrieve their nationality according to statutory order no. 252/1949. There lived about 1 500 Germans in Kosice region. A little part...
Butcher craft belongs to the oldest crafts in history of crafts. It was normal to meet butchers or the butcher masters wherever. Butchers belonged to the honest citizen of the cities and they participated in the city government. Butchers masters created the butchers associations which contained most of butchers. The history of the butchers associations is very interesting and encroaches deep into...
Article deals with the political comeback of Vojtech Tuka, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first Slovak Republic (1939 - 1945). He was a controversial person, a controversial politician of the Slovak history. In 1929 he was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Hungarian government and high treason. After Slovakia became autonomous in 1938, he...
Central Europe was affected by strong anti-Semitic wave after World War II. Slovakia wasn't an exception in this way. Especially its eastern regions had to deal with this problem. That region was affected by war events and its consequences in a large extent (catastrophic social situation, national problems, insufficient food-supply and smuggling). The first anti-Jewish actions happened in Kosice,...
The article reflects various social-cultural contexts of social projection of child. Based on everyday visual culture it points to the changes of collective consciousness of child. Present-day 'disneyfication' leads towards specific social phenomena as for example 'The paradoxon of friendly adultism', which is related to certain risks in upbringing and relationships. The paradox emphasizes the difference...
This article brings a new theoretically - empirical view how the advertisements can influence specific target group - women reading magazines assigned for them and their shopping behaviour. An advertisement in women magazines expects that content sight of these magazines intensify stimulation of women motivation for shopping presented products. We were interested, in our realised research (180 respondents...
The status of German and Hungarian people has changed after the formation of Czechoslovak Republic. The attitudes of German and Hungarian inhabitants who lived in Slovakia were not constant towards Czechoslovak Republic. The most important difference existed between members of the German minority who lived in Bratislava (gathered in 'Karpathendeutsche Partei' (KdP)) and Germans who lived in Spis....
In the first part the authors define so-called orthodox action in Czechoslovakia, which rested in liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church and incorporation its priests and worshippers into Orthodox Church. The first part of the article also presents official and real motives and reason of that event, which destabilized especially social relations in the northeast of Slovakia for the long time. In...
In the period from November 1989 to 2008 new enactment about state of national minorities and ethnical groups was created. Slovak Republic became signatory to international treaties about human rights related to national minorities and ethnic groups. Regularization of the state of national minorities and ethnical groups is made by the complex of articles. The most distinguished is the article about...
The main purpose of this paper is an analysis of the cultural and language problems of the Hungarian minority members living in Slovakia. This question will be analyzed with regard to their own personal perception, evaluation and consideration of these indicators as important factors for preservation of ethnical identity and for future development of it. The authoress utilized relevant results of...
Colonies were result of inner colonization. Inner colonization in Czechoslovakia was one of actions of the Ist Czechoslovak agrarian reform in 1918 - 1938. The main reason of realization the agrarian reform was unequal distribution of land holdings. The major part of the earth belonged to small group of agriculturalists - land lords. Landlords who owned more than 54 ha of earth each, represented only...
One can find only a few short surveys in the regional literature about two small Jewish neighbouring settlements in Matyusfold. On the basis of them one can broadly outline their history. This study analyzes two sources which have not been used in literature: the cemeteries and the civil registers. Findings from these and other sources should broaden our understanding of these communities. The cemeteries...
In the last centuries the cultural development of the Ruthenian population in Slovakia was markedly influenced not only by its geographic position on the crossroads between East and West, by its traditional socio-economic backwardness and political immaturity of its representation, but also by its creative intelligentsia's inclination toward romanticism and their naive reaction for actual problems...
The aim of this study is an empirical analysis of the construction of ethnic identity of Slovaks living in Hungary and Hungarians living in Slovakia. As a consequence of historical and political changes, these two communities assumed a minority status, while their national countries (mother countries) remained the neighbouring countries. On the basis of research conducted in Hungary and Slovakia,...
The aim of this study is to introduce three elements of structural characteristics of business activity - economic organisation with legal entities, private enterprises and foreign investments - in connection to Southern Slovakia and to draw attention to significant regional differences in business activities relating to the state and/or Southern Slovakia. Whilst examining these activities in different...
In 1941 the London Czechoslovak emigration led by Edvard Benes came to conviction that it is necessary to resettle the German and Hungarian population from the post-war renewed Czechoslovakia and the country borders have to be changed to ethnic borders. The population exchange that began in 1947 - with longer or shorter interruptions - lasted to December 1948. 89 660 Hungarians were resettled from...
After the end of the Second World War an extensive movement of certain groups of the population began in the entire Central Europe. These evoke spontaneous efforts to find a new home and life, but also a wide implementation of compulsory and forced migration as a tool of the Czechoslovak residential policy. A part of it was also the unprecedented migration of Gypsies to which the Czech organisations...
The Hungarian minority in Slovakia and its representation play a significant role in the social and political life of Slovakia. Since 1989 the relationship toward this minority from the perspective of the governmental policy has become a barometer of pro-Europeanism and often even pro-democracy of the governmental groups. This is a result of the importance of the issue of national minorities within...
The authors deal with the relationship between Hungarians living in Hungary and their minorities in the neighbouring countries, mainly in connection to disputes about the Hungarian national and supporting policy in the 1990s. The elaboration of the part of the new strategy of national consciousness and national politics pertaining to foreign affairs initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs forms...
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