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ETHNIC SUCCESSION IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH IN AN AMERICAN TOWN

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Mucha J.
Etnografia Polska
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2004
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vol. 48
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issue 1-2
161-175
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The aim of this article is to analyze a specific case of 'ethnic succession'. This topic emerged in the social sciences in the early 1900s, within the first Chicago school (the Robert Park school). Since that time, many models of succession (drawing upon biological ecology) have been presented. In this paper, a succession in one specific field and one specific place is analyzed: an unfinished process of takeover of a Roman Catholic parish by the rapidly growing Hispanic population from the shrinking Polish American population in the West Side of South Bend in northern Indiana. This process meant also the cultural elimination of the Hungarian Americans from the 'independent' religious life in the town's quarter. In the multicultural contexts, religion is often closely related to ethnicity, and in the well-known theory authored by Milton Gordon, religion is one of three possible bases of ethnicity in American society. In the case discussed here, the two ethnic groups, Hispanics and Polish Americans, belong to the same religious denomination. Moreover, historically speaking, Roman Catholicism has been a very significant element of their ethnic identities. From the recent cultural point of view, however, these are two quite different types of Catholicism. Ethnic succession discussed in this text has important consequences for the cultural features of Catholicism in the whole town. In the article, the local Polish American community and the Hispanic community is briefly presented, and then the 'succession' problems discussed. To the extent it makes sense (and the empirical material is available), the elements of the 'process of passage' and the 'ceremony of passage', important for socio-cultural anthropology, are presented as well.
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'Moral Hazard' in Health Care

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Mucha J.
Polityka Społeczna
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2008
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vol. 35
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issue 3(408)
9-12
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The following article deals with the issue of moral hazard in the health care system. In the case of the lack of immediate payment (or incomplete payment) for health service provided, patients tend to abuse the benefit system demanding extra services which exceed the necessary level in terms of quality. Also, it is a common fact that they neglect to foster individual health responsibilities. The authoress presents different types of abuse in this sphere, roots and consequences of this phenomenon and ways of neutralizing the problem.
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Etnic Relations as a Type of Social Relations in the Contemporary 'Individualistic Macro-sociology'

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Mucha J.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2005
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issue 2(177)
71-106
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After introducing basic concepts of: social relations, individualistic macro-sociology and ethnicity, the author analyzes in great detail Peter M. Blau's theory of intergroup relations and Hubert M. Blalock's idea of ethnic relations. Both of these theories are very important for macro-sociology of social relations and hardly known in this context in Poland. In both cases the author stresses the ethnic aspect of these theories and, in the end, discusses the significance of the 'interactive' approach in sociology of ethnicity, and perhaps in the whole 'macro-sociology of social relations'. The problem of relations between interactions among individual actors on the one hand and large collectivities and relations among them on the on the other is also addressed briefly.
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