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STUDENTS FROM BIALA PODLASKA TOWARDS THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES AND NATIONS

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Romanowicz W.

Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne

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2007

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vol. 13

173-184

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The article talks about the attitude of students in the Biala Podlaska region towards neighbouring countries and nationalities. Two major groups of factors are considered: the level of knowledge about neighbouring countries and the declared level of attention to the problems of particular countries. The research material clearly shows that the youth from the Biala Podlaska region is mainly interested in well-developed countries and that it perceives neighbouring nations in traditional and stereotypical way.

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SEARCHING FOR THE LIMITS OF COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY. THE DEBATE OVER JEDWABNE IN 'GAZETA WYBORCZA'

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Ciolkiewicz P.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2004

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vol. 48

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issue 1

123-141

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The following text contains the results of the analysis of the public debate, regarding the massacre in Jedwabne, which appeared in the newspaper 'Gazeta Wyborcza'. Initially, the author presents the general outline of the debate (the phases of the dispute, the areas of the controversy, the mechanisms of discourse). Next, basic analytical categories are presented which appeared as a result of the examination of articles, which were published in this daily paper. Moreover, significant attention is paid to the problem of collective responsibility which focused very prominently as a result of the Jedwabne controversy. Finally, the author concentrates on the particular qualities of the debate entailed in 'Gazeta Wyborcza'.

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THE GENDER IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF MEMORY IN THE CRISIS MOMENTS OF HISTORY; THE WOMEN'S STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL (Genderna identychnist' i konstruiuvannia pamyati kryzovykh momentiv istorii: zhinocha stratehia vyzhyvannia)

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Sukovata V.

Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)

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2009

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issue 2

67-95

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian women's autobiographical narratives, whose youth has concurred with the war and post-war periods of the Soviet history. The methodology of research is based on principles of gender theory, oral history and the philosophy of everyday life. The qualitative methods of analysis of interview are used by the authoress. The purpose of research is: reconstruction of the sources of women's identity forming in the Soviet (Stalinist) period, the ways of their sexual individualization under conditions of the totalitarian authority, correlation of personal and public events in women's memory of the senior generation. The result of research is: description of different strategies of the women's individualities' adaptation to the requirements of the totalitarian authority, which can be defined as: a 'protest type' (critical in relation to official values), a 'romantic femininity' (adapting to official gender requirements), a 'flirting with the authority' (aspiring to become a 'part' of totalitarian authority). Each of these strategies assumes a physical survival in conditions of totalitarian culture by breaking, or, on the contrary, preservation of individual system of moral values.

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Rolnictwo ekologiczne jako zawod i powolanie.

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Bielski P.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2009

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vol. 5

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issue 3

1-152

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This is the first sociological study of development of organic farming in Poland, based on interprative paradigm and methodology of grounded theory. The basis of the study form 27 narrative and unstructured interviews with organic farmers from many regions of Poland, direct observation and content analysis of publications on organic farming. The central question is about the essence of organic farming. Is it a profession like any other or a social movement? What are the distinctive factors that can help in differantiating an organic farmer from the 'conventional' one? What factors form the social world of organic farming, what kind of arenas of disputes emerge?

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Životní dráhy prvorodiček po třicítce: proč mít dítě později?

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Bartosova M.

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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2007

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vol. 8

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issue 2

75-80

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The qualitative research is focused on the population of women who had their first child after thirty (in the case of no influence of medical problems that should lead to their prior childlessness) and observes, with the aid of grounded theory, if the women consider their motherhood delayed and how they define the reasons, which caused their having a child at that age. The following paper summarizes some substantial findings from an actual research. As the research has shown, motherhood after thirty is defined by women as both delayed (they became a mother later, than they had primarily intended) and non-delayed (they had a child when they wanted it). The essential criterion for planning and timing of having a child in both cases is the negotiating among partners and (dis)agreement over motivations and expectations of men and women. In general, there is an evident influence of cultural and value changes on timing of motherhood in the Czech Republic, which implicates the change in traditional life cycle and emergence of the new life stage (c. among 20-30 years of life) when young adults remain childless.

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AGRICULTURE IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MIRROR

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Perepeczko B.

Wieś i Rolnictwo

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2005

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issue 3(128)Supp

80-87

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The complex of the Polish society's views on the subject of agriculture is marked by ideology. The place that rural areas, agriculture and persons working in agriculture occupy in social awareness is far more important than the role that agriculture plays in the generation of GDP or in the incomes of farmers' families. In the light of nation-wide representative surveys, views concerning agriculture are incoherent, naive and often false. On one hand, these views reflect the feeling that harm was done to agriculture and farmers in the more and less distant past and is being done also in the present situation and, on the other hand, they reflect the tendency to overestimate the role of agriculture, the conditions existing in agriculture (such as the quality of soils and qualifications of farmers) and the results achieved in agriculture (high labour productivity, ecological products). They also reflect the prevalent conviction that agriculture may be the locomotive of Poland's economic development. The ideologically-marked and emotional approach of the Polish people to the problems of agriculture can be attributed to many factors: the rural roots of the Polish society, the fact that agriculture has become a 'dressing for the wounds' of Polish transformation, which eases unemployment and poverty, and to the information campaign preceding the referendum on accession to the EU, which concentrated chiefly on agriculture. The favourable changes in the picture of Polish agriculture have occurred also under the influence of its environmental, social and cultural functions.

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AMERICAN MODELS OF CONSUMPTION

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Grzeszczyk E.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2004

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vol. 48

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issue 4

125-146

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The aim of the paper is to analyse the models of consumption which have evolved in the American culture. In the course of the history of the American society several such models co-existed, some of them have always been popular, others emerged at a specific moment of history and evolved into specific forms. Three dominant models of consumption in American culture are discussed: the puritan model (formed under the influence of the protestant ethic), the veblenesque model (consumption as a way of signalling social status) and the model of contemporary hedonist (based on the theory of Colin Campbell). Additionally, each of these models has some variations. The authoress describes certain social groups whose patterns of consumption are characteristic for a given model. The criterion used for differentiating the afore-mentioned models is the dominant motivation inducing an individual to consume in a specific manner. The models of consumption described by the authoressr are characteristic not only for American culture but also for the cultures of advanced capitalism. One can also observe certain analogies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, undergoing the process of transformation.

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Imigracyjny charakter społeczeństwa hiszpańskiego

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Biernacka M.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2011

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issue 3(202)

161-191

PL

Hiszpania należy do tych państw europejskich, które charakteryzuje wysoki odsetek imi- grantów. Stanowi on dziś powyżej 12% populacji, a wskaźniki rozrodczości przybyszów są znacznie wyższe niż ludności rodowitej. Artykuł przedstawia etapy kształtowania się hiszpańskiego społeczeństwa imigranckiego, dane dotyczące imigracji, sondaże postaw ludności do przybyszów oraz badania imigrantów. Imigracja przesunęła się w Hiszpanii ku centrum dyskursu publicznego, podkreśla się konieczność podejmowania działań ułatwiających integrację imigrantów w oparciu o symboliczny wymóg poszanowania zarówno dla obyczajów goszczących, jak i obyczajów przybyszów. Stosunek do ludności przybyłej stanowi o pra- womocności pozycji politycznych, z oczekiwaniem wobec głównych graczy politycznych inicjowania pomocy imigrantom i budowania prodemokratycznych postaw. Z drugiej strony, w społeczeństwie oraz życiu publicznym obecne są postawy antyimigranckie, zwłaszcza wobec nasilenia się bezrobocia i dotykających Hiszpanię problemów gospodarczych.

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The article is dedicated to the immigrational character of the Spanish society, with the official numbers of immigrants having already exceeded twelve percent of the total population. The author presents the reversal of the tendency from massive emigration to immigration, phases of the immigrational society, current data on immigration, research on problematization of immigration and attitudes in the society towards immigrants. Immigration has shifted towards the core of public discourse, numerous activities are undertaken in order to facilitate integration of immigrants into the society, accompanied by the symbolic requirement of respecting the customs of both the hosts and the newcomers. The attitude towards immigrants is at the core of legitimacy of political positions, the major actors are expected to declare democratic attitudes and be open to otherness, as well as to initiate actions for the benefit of immigrants. However, researchers also observe antidemocratic attitudes in the society and public life which enhance in the period of economic crisis and unemployment.

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Our civilization: creation of the postmodern man

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Hejjas B.

Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)

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2006

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vol. 24

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issue 2

261-283

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Body culture is adjusted to conditions, demands and expectations of the given age by development and the parallel running of sport and history. However, in the course of time sport was raised into a culture-shaping role by the public, which role has an effect on the society, since as a means of the socialization, it promotes the institutionalization of certain values. Thus, sports in our history always reflect the spirit, the values and the relation of the age, and map the social roles of men and women. We can follow in the course of chronology clearly how sports are determined by history and the society, as well as the formation of new exercise cultures, created as a reaction to changes of civilization. Knowing and acquiring them promotes the adaptation to the conditions of modern society. Qualities required in sports can be successfully adopted and useful in daily life as well, as most of the extreme sports also necessitate those attributes which are required by the principles of market of the 21st century for being successful. Those qualities are as follows: courage, risk taking, responsibility, co-operation, and presence of mind. Since the extreme sports were brought into life by the demands evoked in the course of development of the civilization, we can consider the birth of extreme sports as a reaction to the modernity, and in this sense extreme sports are post-modern. Since the changes in the character of sport always indicate some historical, economic or social changes, there is good reason to assume that a new, post-modern man is born on our age.

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Teoretyczny namysł, praktyczny zamysł. Impresje wokół teorii socjologicznej i metateorii katolickiej nauki społecznej

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Prüfer P.

Społeczeństwo i Rodzina

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2011

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issue 4(29)

62-77

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In the context of the social sciences and humanities outlines the need to create conditions for dialogue between some disciplines. The article presents one such example: the importance of sociological theory and metatheory of Catholic social teaching. Sociological theories are characterized by diversity, the multiplicity of paradigms, ambiguity. Catholic social teaching is alleged to have too much theory and homogeneity. Assessment relating to both theoretical areas is difficult, but not irrelevant. Good theory provides a basis for properly conducted empirical research. Both in sociology and in Catholic social teaching, the same principles of methodological correctness, and fidelity to its own autonomous methods and research processes. Being different does not exclude dialogue and cooperation for a better understanding of human nature as individuals and as social beings.

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W kontekście nauk społecznych i humanistycznych zarysowuje się potrzeba stworzenia warunków do dialogu pomiędzy niektórymi dyscyplinami. Artykuł przedstawia jeden z takich przykładów: znaczenie teorii socjologicznych i metateorii katolickiej nauki społecznej. Teorie socjologiczne cechuje różnorodność, wielość paradygmatów, niejednoznaczność. Katolickiej nauce społecznej zarzuca się nadmiar teorii i homogeniczność. Ocena odnosząca się do obu obszarów teoretycznych jest trudna, jednak nie pozbawiona znaczenia. Dobra teoria daje podstawy dla właściwie prowadzonych badań empirycznych. Zarówno w socjologii jak i w katolickiej nauce społecznej obowiązują te same zasady poprawności metodologicznej, wierność własnym i autonomicznym metodom i procesom badawczym. Odmienność nie wyklucza dialogu i współpracy na rzecz lepszego zrozumienia natury człowieka jako jednostki i jako istoty społecznej.

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Nepříliš harmonická realita. Rodičovské kombinace práce a péče v mezích genderové struktury současné české společnosti

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Krizkova A.

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)

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2007

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vol. 8

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issue 2

60-67

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Authors: Krizkova A. Title: Source: Gender, rovne prilezitosti, vyzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research) year: 2007, vol: 8, number: 2, pages: 60-67 Keywords: Discipline: Sociology Language: czech Document type: ARTICLE Publication order reference: Abstract: Work-life balance is a popular topic both in European and gradually also Czech sociology and in European strategies for employment and for dealing with population ageing. The article explores the topic of work-life balance from a theoretical perspective, in the context of contemporary European and world sociology, and from an empirical perspective, on the basis of a representative sociological survey of a population of parents conducted in 2005. The hypothesis of the pressure people experience to combine work and a family and gendered culture (Van der Lippe, Jager, Kops 2006), which puts the Czech Republic in the ranks of not very progressive countries in terms of gender equality, is verified in this survey, because, even though the majority of parents claimed that they are able to combine work and a family, there are nonetheless clear structural obstacles stemming from the design of public policies and institutions, which obstruct this balance. The Czech labour market is not parent- or family-friendly, and parenthood (especially motherhood) is a handicap in the Czech labour market. Work-life balance is not the subject of any public or political discussion, and consequently Czech parents do not usually have a comprehensive view of the problem and regard it as serious. Mothers and fathers know that combining work and family is the reality of their lives and at the same time a private problem that they try to solve by means of various strategies.

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MANUEL CASTELLS' THEORY OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY AS AN EXAMPLE OF NON-DETERMINISTIC AND NON-LINEAR CONCEPT OF THE SOCIAL CHANGE

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Kryszczuk M. D.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2004

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vol. 48

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issue 4

3-35

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Article provides a general framework of Manuel Castells' theory of the Network Society which is successively presented in his three-book series entitled: 'The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture'. The concept of the Network Society refers to general social change which reflects on technological transformation connected with rapid diffusion of ICTs, a process popularly conceived as 'informational revolution'. This explains why we start with the notion of 'informational society' and 'knowledge-based society' terms introduced by such economists like Machlup and Porat, and subsequently popularised by Bell, Ginzberg, Naisbitt, Drucker, Toffler and Masuda. Nowadays we have observed an immense stream of research that is concentrated on social, economic, political and cultural consequences of rapid digitalisation (e.g. Social Informatics). In the field of the Informational Age and its cultural consequences, Manuel Castells stand for the most important theoretician.

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MICROFINANCE: AN ALTERNATIVE TOOL FOR ALLEVIATING ROMANY POVERTY IN THE MARGINALIZED REGIONS (Mikrofinancie ako alternativny nastroj na riesenie problemu chudoby romskeho obyvatelstva v marginalizovanych regionoch)

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Zelinsky T.

Sociológia (Sociology)

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2011

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vol. 43

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issue 1

57-88

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There is a gap in the microfinance literature on micro savings as a form of microfinance; and their impact on clients, micro enterprises, households, communities, and financial institutions. Microfinance arises as a new tool in developing as well as developed countries. It is widely known since the 1970's and often connected with the name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. The aim of the paper is to analyze effects of micro savings programs on well-being of poor households participating in micro savings program in Eastern Slovakia. According to the results active and successful clients perceive positive change in level of their household management and they perceive their ability to manage household better than unsuccessful clients. Furthermore, active and successful clients perceive positive subjective change in quality of living and they perceive higher level of overall quality of living than unsuccessful clients. Based on a sample of 112 households from three towns (Ostrovany, Stara Lubovna and Moldava nad Bodvou) subjective perception and objective change in well-being of households are assessed and it is argued that the programs have positive effects on poverty and contribute to poverty alleviation.

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Przeklady prac Niklasa Luhmanna na jezyk polski

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Winczorek J.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2011

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vol. 7

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issue 2

54-71

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The paper discusses the translations of Niklas Luhmann's works to Polish and presents social factors influencing their scope and nature. The findings are further interpreted in the light of a systemic theory of translations, based on the sociological concepts of Luhmann himself, as presented in the paper.

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Firlit-Fesnak G.

Polityka Społeczna

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2007

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vol. 34

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issue 11-12(404-405)

19-23

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The paper presents research and didactic achievements of the Institute of Social Policy of Warsaw University, one of the oldest academic centers which educates students in the sphere of social policy and does the research in the field of social policy, understood as a science and a form of public activity. The text introduces into the very idea of the jubilee and presents the activities which the team of the Institute undertook to celebrate its 30-th anniversary. The work presents the origins of the Institute and its creators, characterizes its research achievements in the past 30 years, presents the evolution of didactic programs, forms and partners of scientific and didactic cooperation in Poland and abroad. It also presents persons and institutions important for the development of the Institute and its achievements. Finally the paper includes plans for the future of the Institute as the academic centre influential for the development of the science of social policy.

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