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** VERA ** =VRATUŠA(-ŽUNJIĆ)= **STUDYING & TEACHING SOCIOLOGY**
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 My //**immediate**// //**motive**// for constructing this mirror home page was to be able to //**individualize my response to the cyber age imperative.**// It compels practically each contemporary academician to make her/his syllabuses, professional biography or CV, as a rule strictly separated from personal experienced biography in socially structured contexts which we can only partially choose and control, as well as scientific and specialist bibliography available on the Internet, especially when the servers of the original home page or of the Belgrade University Faculty of Philosophy Moodle Sociology Courses sites are not available (at present they are being transfered to the new server at @http://moodle2.f.bg.ac.rs/course/index.php?categoryid=3. Such //**personalization**// and //**spreading of**// //** internet open source publishing **// is not possible on an official University site.

Another Important **//medium and long term reason//** for input of effort in this home page project is the goal to //**innovatively benefit from the complex use of this visum **// to the sociologists' cyber society. Firstly, to enrich myself through //**interactive exchange**// of information and views, and, secondly to enjoy the fruits of a possible success in the //**quest for**// **//collaborators in the participative research//** of alternative development strategies of human society among colleagues sharing similar general and concrete research interests.

The brief summary of my //**official site**// biography, if it existed at the time I created this wiki, would probably sound like this: "Born in 1951. in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Studies of sociology finished in 1974 at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. At the same Department obtained MA degree (1979A in bibliography), Ph.D. degree (1991A in bibliography), in 1997 the position of the Associate Professor and in 2013 possition of the Full Professor instructing Introduction to Sociology I, Introduction to the Theory of Society , Theories and methods of society research, Sociology of knowledge (and never activated Action Research ), presently in process of transfer to a new server at @http://moodle2.f.bg.ac.rs/course/index.php?categoryid=3. Published a monograph //Development, Religion, War// (1995BM in bibliography), //Transition: Where From and Where to? I// (2012 in bibliography) and numerous contributions to books and essay collections(B), interactive digitalised textbooks and practicums for electronically supported courses (EL), articles in journals (J) and on the Internet (W), scientific reviews and critical comments (RC), papers presented at the world and European conferences of international professional and scientific associations (IC). They are all dealing with sociology of knowledge inspired historic contextualization of sociological theories and corresponding methodologies, and application of findings of longitudinal comparisons and of critical analysis of different local, national, regional and global strategies of social, economic, political and cultural development in mitigation and prevention of socially generated war complex disasters, through participatory action research promotion of democratic and creative participation in strategic decision-making by all affected. Some of the reactions to my writings can be found in the "cited texts (C)" section of the bibliography. Retired in December 2014. with resolve to continue sociological research of strategies of social development mostly within the community of members and friends of the nternational Sociological Association's Research Committee 10 on Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, of which I have become in 2017 the life long member.

On this home page I would like as well to present an attempt at //** self-reflexive **// examination of the **//interdependence between personal and professional//** //biography// //**in a changing social and historic context.**// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I hope dear home page visitor and potential Internet communication and research partner, that you will one day read this ** self-searching autobiography ** demonstrating the **application** of my theoretical and methodological credo in the field of my general <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> research interest in //**sociology of knowledge**// approach to the study of the **//history of//** //**social theories**// and their social embodiment within different individual and collective bearers of //**concepts, strategies and practice of social development**//. This would give me the opportunity to //**l**//**earn** from your **//reaction,//** critical comments, suggestions and your own experience//**.**// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The fact that my //** first **//<span style="color: #ff0033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> //**name**// means //**"faith"**// in Serbian, my mother's tongue, might explain my tendency to express my main standpoint in terms of a **firm belief **that the farthest we can hope to approach to the ideal of the scientific objectivity, is to attempt to //**control our subjective biases**// as much as possible. On the basis of individual and collective self-reflection we should strive to //**become conscious and explicitly state**// to others our own inescapably particular and value ridden assumptions, formed by combination of our **//a)//** //**inborn**//, //**b) socially determined**// and **//c) irreducibly individual//** characteristics. We should at least strive that our approach to research of //**complex**// social processes that interest us be //**holistic and comprehensive**// as well, dialectically synthesizing comparative structural-functional and historic analysis on the //**macro**// level **//from without//**, and biographical, phenomenological and ethnographic methodology on the //**micro**// level **//from within//** . Top of the page <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Please write your comments and suggestions in the discussion part of this page ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aware that//** Internet **// is becoming ever more indispensable **//electronic studying and teaching tool//**, in my role of a sociology professor I am attempting in **cooperation with students** who choose one or more among courses I am moderating at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, to **explore and advance potentials of information technology** **use for the interactive studying and research application of sociology**.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I am therefore **publishing** on these mirror wiki pages first of all the **electronically supported courses** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Introduction to Sociology I, Introduction to the Theory of Society, Theories and methods of society research, Sociology of knowledge and @Action Research <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I am inviting you to **participate in exciting and pioneering work** of setting up and developing of above mentioned and other electronically supported interactive courses using the open source software called "Moodle" at http://lms.f.bg.ac.rs/course/category.php?id=2 presently in process of transfer to a new server at @http://moodle2.f.bg.ac.rs/course/index.php?categoryid=3 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">or right here on this wiki with its additional interactive possibilities.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">This page will serve its purpose if it becomes the //**meeting point**// of colleagues sharing common concrete <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Interest in the of social causes of war complex disaster and their **prevention** instead of their <span class="wiki_link_ext">apology through **transformation** of dominant social relations in direction of democratic and creative **participation in strategic decision making.** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">In order to enable and promote communication, debate and **partnership networking** between students, experts and all affected social actors worldwide concerned with the participatory research of social participation, I have begun to realize the idea of interactive ** Internet forum **construction on this and other themes in the role of founder, organizer and author publisher. Join the Forum and post here your opinions, knowledge and action plans concerning participation, organisational democracy and self-management as theory, research method, social institution and social development strategy, its history, present state, perspectives...and react to postings of others.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Presently I am attempting to bring together colleagues co-members of the Institute for the Sociological Research as well as all other colleagues that might be interested in the <span class="wiki_link_ext">proposition to build a //**common research instrument**// and in multi-national research project. It would enable us to systematically collect, through a form of participative research, //**comparable and longitudinal data**// on attitudes toward the actually dominant forms of social production of complex disasters, and on the preferred forms of the organization of ownership and participation in decision-making social relations in the future.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The concern for this subject matter motivated me to become more active member of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 10 on participation, organizational democracy and self management and one of the of the European Sociological Association's @http://www.dcscrn.org/ in contrast to predominantly observing membership in more theoretically minded research groups. I warmly recommend them to you if you have at the moment similar research focus.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">ACT NOW! IMPLORATION TO THE <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">UN SECURITY COUNCIL <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: france-presse@un.int ; rusun@un.int ; un@fmprc.gov.cn ; uk@un.int ; bulgaria@un.int ; info@cameroonmission.org ; guinea@un.int ; mexico@un.int ; syria@un.int ; ang-un@angolamissionun.org ; chile@un.int ; contact@germany-un.org ; spain@spainun.org ; Pakistan@un.int <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sent <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:44 PM  <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Thank you so far, and please continue to exercise responsibly your duty <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Dear UN Security Council Members, Thank you for not having succumbed so far to the enormous pressure of the representatives of the oil and war industry capital interests and refused to be the accomplice of the cold blooded mass murder. I am pleading with you like millions of people in the world today to continue to realize responsibly your duty according to the UN Charter and to order without delay the immediate stop to this criminal war of aggression. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Today is the fourth anniversary since the same main perpetrators of the crime against peace, began the bombing of Yugoslavia under the pretext of bringing peace and security to everybody living in Kosovo and Metohija. The results are devastating. Under the cover of UN mission and in drastic violation of the Resolution 1244, people of all ethnic affiliations, but mostly Serbs, are being killed and abducted (more than 3000), driven out of their homes (more than 250 000), daily attacked and intimidated. Entire population is falling ill and dying from cancer (more than doubled incidence rate) and other diseases, caused by remains of radioactive and toxic depleted uranium dust and poverty. Entire economy is ruined, centuries old cultural monuments and cemeteries are being destroyed, but arms, drug and slave trafficking are thriving, while the active and former representatives of UN administration participate in illegal privatization of state, social, church and even private property for the benefit of transnational corporations with headquarters in their home countries. The newest evidence of utmost failure of this UN mission is closing down of US and British representatives' bureaus in Pristina out of fear that this time they will be the victims of the same or new terrorists whom they previously supported and presented as freedom fighters. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The consequences of aggression on Afghanistan are also catastrophic and getting worse by day. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Please listen therefore to the outcry of humanity. Demand the immediate stop to the present bombing. Put finally an end to the ordeal of the Iraq people who had been suffering the longest under the genocidal bombs and UN sanctions, that so far took the lives of more than one million children. Then proceed to return all UN missions to the right track of real peace keeping instead of crime and plunder condoning or even promoting. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I am imploring you to courageously live up to your responsibilities defined in the Charter of the UN. The survival of humanity, including your own children, depends on it. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Vera Vratusa

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">professor of sociology Beograd, Srbia, former Yugoslavia Top of the page

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> POST SCRIPTUM : <span style="color: #000066; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Act permanently in defense of humanityagainst imperialist apologists of " intervention" Video "**There is no humanitarian war**" made at the occasion of the tenth anniversary of NATO bombing can be seen [|here]

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Above imploration to the members of the UN Security Council has proven to be in vain. The people of [|Bosna and Hercegovina], AP Kosovo and Metohija, [|Iraq], [|Afghanistan] are still suffering the effects of crimes against peace performed bu US led NATO imperialistic forces through radioactive bombing assaults from the sky <span style="color: #0f0d0d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and/or the terrorist attacks by their regular and proxy paramilitary forces on the ground, complemented by the "protectorate" institutions impoverishing and terrorizing local population. In the context of global accumulation of capital crisis, the domination over oil, water, rare minerals <span style="color: #070606; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and other <span style="color: #f12611; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">strategic resources hungry financial oligarchy is attempting to <span style="color: #0a0909; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">through execution or preparation of new terrorist aggressions under a humanitarian and anti terrorism and anti separatism pretexts in <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Gaza, [|Lebanon]   <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[|[[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=67&ItemID=11963|Iran]...Libya...Syria...[|Ukraine]...]] Ideological apologists of NATO "humanitarian interventions", in fact genocide and ecocide caused by bombings with radioactive projectiles, like Michael Walzer , together with //ad hoc// Tribunals paid for by NATO member states' financial oligarchy, continue brain washing aggression by redefining as genocide exclusively war crimes perpetrated by one side in the civil wars that financial oligarchy encourages around the world according to the age old imperial tactics to easier attain its occupation and exploitation aims, contrary to forensic evidence and with disregard for suffering of demonized people <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As in the worst days of the League of Nations, present r epresentatives of the United Nations' member states are watching silently its  <span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charter being violated. How many people more have to die, be maimed and contaminated, or driven out of their homes before the more responsible representatives of the world nations resolutely stop further aggression of the would be rulers of the world?!

POST POST SCRIPTUM

Exploited and oppressed of the entire world, think globally, act locally, unite, organize into the fifth international of workers and people against recolonization by the world ruling class, financial oligarchy

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Department of Sociology <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Cika Ljubina 18-20, 11OOO Beograd, Srbija <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">fax: + 38111 - 2639 356 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">phone: + 38111 - 3282-141 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">email until retirement: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">vvratusa@f.bg.ac.rs <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">or permanent emails

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">vvratusa@sezampro.rs <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">vera.veritas@gmail.com

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