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RURAL YOUTH STUDYING AT THE NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY IN TORUN

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Wasielewski K.
Wieś i Rolnictwo
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2004
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issue 1(122)
126-138
EN
In the result of the change of political and economic system in Poland the problem of social inequalities has receded into the background, attracting little attention of contemporary researchers. This has led to a situation where it is even difficult to determine the percentage of young people from rural areas that study at Poland' universities. It is obvious that the place of residence is one of the most important factors determining the individual's access to education. It is not only interesting from the scientific point of view but also socially important to establish from which groups of the population the present university students come and how the process of their allocation to individual faculties looks like. Among the tendencies observable at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun one seems to be particularly noteworthy - young people from rural areas most often study at departments which attract fewer candidates or at departments which are considered to be traditional and less prestigious. Young people from urban areas, in turn, study mainly at departments that are currently fashionable, popular and offer good prospects for finding a well-paid job in the future. Difficult exams and strong competition from other candidates are not an obstacle for urban youth.
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RURAL INTELLIGENTSIA - ITS ORIGINS AND MATERIAL SITUATION

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Wasielewski K.
Wieś i Rolnictwo
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2005
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issue 3(128)
117-130
EN
For a long time the rural community had not been able to ensure education to its own members and to create a sufficiently attractive offer for those of its few members who had managed to become well educated. This situation did not change even during the early period of People's Poland when masses of young people from rural areas were given a chance to raise their social status or in the later years when the children of peasants and workers were ensured privileges in access to university education by means of a system designed to eliminate significant inequalities in the educational chances of various social groups. It is not surprising then that throughout the post-war period (until the year 2000) the rural community had a negative migration balance and that young people constituted the category of the most frequently migrating inhabitants of the rural areas. According to the results of various analyses, such migrations resulted in the outflow of talented and active people who did not see any prospects for a better future in the countryside and could not accept the conditions prevailing there. In the result of these and many other processes the Polish rural community was in a deep crisis at the time of the change of the political and economic system in Poland. The rural community is generally considered to be a serious barrier hampering the transformation process. The need for changes in the rural areas does not evoke any serious reservations at present. These areas require the introduction of essential changes from without and from within, the latter being immanent changes that have its source in the local community itself. The changes from within are particularly important since they release in a natural way human capital hidden in the rural areas. However, to make this capital work people able to shoulder the process of the rural population's activation are needed. It seems that rural intelligentsia has a particularly great role to play in this respect. Who are the people forming this group? What is their place in the structure of the rural community? What does their material situation look like? What were the circumstances that made them settle in the countryside? Do they feel to be a part of the rural community? This paper represents an attempt at providing answers to these questions.
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SOCIAL DIVERSITY OF THE UNIVERSITY. RURAL AND URBAN YOUTH AT UMK UNIVERSITY IN TORUN

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Wasielewski K.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2006
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issue 1(180)
119-154
EN
The pluralisation and democratisation of the university (level) education system in Poland is the reason whereby university education for a lot of youth coming from families of lower social status and lower cultural capital has become freely available. At the same time, it means that universities are now becoming different, not only in case of the quality of teaching or a division of departments and faculties, but also in case of social and environmental origin of students. As it occurs, this fact determines the way of studying, social activity or economic behaviour, which nowadays are particularly underestimated dimensions of social inequalities having noticeable consequences after the graduation. Results of the research conducted in the university presented in the article prove that students coming from different environments (a village versus a city) are different from each other not only in the matter of social status or a financial situation but, first of all, in the matter of activity at studies' duration and importance given to academic education. The effects of such differences can be following: a different location in a social structure and a job market and in a consequence - reproduction or deepening of these currently existing inequalities.
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