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Agentic Thinking About Others Makes Them Closer

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Piotrowski J., Wojciszke B.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2015

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vol. 46

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issue 4

523-534

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A substantial amount of research showed that agency (concerning goal attainment) and communion (concerning relationships maintenance) are two basic dimensions of content in social cognition. Based on the well-supported idea that people typically think about themselves and close others in agentic rather than communal terms, we tested the hypothesis that agentic (but not communal) thinking about unknown others makes them subjectively closer. This hypothesis was confirmed in four experiments differently priming agentic versus communal thinking on others. As predicted, increases in closeness resulting from the agentic thinking about others were constrained to cognitive load conditions where participants were occupied with a parallel task. We conclude that the agentic content of thoughts about others serves as an intuitive, heuristic cue of their psychological closeness.

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Agency versus Communion as Predictors of Self-esteem: Searching for the Role of Culture and Self-construal

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Wojciszke B., Bialobrzeska O.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

469-479

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Two hypotheses concerning the relative importance of agentic versus communal traits as predictors of selfesteem were tested. The perspective hypothesis assumed that self-esteem is dominated by agency over communion because self-perceptions are formed from the agent (versus recipient) perspective. The culture hypothesis assumed that self-esteem is dominated by communal concerns in collectivistic cultures and by agentic concerns in individualistic cultures (echoed by individual differences in self-construal). Study 1 involving three samples from collectivistic countries and three from individualistic ones found that self-esteem was better predicted from self-ratings of agentic than communal traits, with the exception of collectivistic women for whom the two predictors were equal. Study 2 primed the interdependent or independent self and found self-ratings of agency to be better predictors of self-esteem than self-ratings of communion, with the exception of interdependence priming,where the two predictors were equal in strength.

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The rise of the discourse on children’s right of self-determination. The case study of Early Childhood Education and its construction of children as agents in education

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Farini F., Scollan A.

Language, Discourse & Society

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2022

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vol. 10

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issue 1

13-25

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This article discusses a study that explored the intellectual and ethical foundations of the discourses on children’s right of self-determination, starting with a critical examination of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989). Whilst the ambiguous position of children and children’s rights in society that underpins the UNCRC is acknowledged, the article argues that a shift towards the positioning of children’s as agents has been developing since the 1990s. For instance, this is demonstrated by the development of Early Childhood Education as a pedagogical discourse based centred on children’s right to play an agentic role in shaping their educational experience. As discussed in the second part of the article Early Childhood Education lends itself as an informative case-study for the development of a discourse on children self-determination towards a mainstream status. Early Childhood Education positions young children as agents who can make choice and can construct valid knowledge. Paraphrasing Freire’s description of critical pedagogy, in the discourse of Early Childhood Education the emphasis on children’s agency constructs a view of education from children, for children, for adults.

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Reframing Patient’s Autonomy in End-of-Life Care Decision-Making: Constructions of Agency in Interviews with Physicians

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Buscariolli A., Vesala K. M.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2021

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vol. 17

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issue 2

70-87

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In the research literature, critical viewpoints question the idea of patient autonomy as a robust basis for approaching end-of-life treatments. Yet physicians express distinctly positive attitudes towards patient autonomy and advance directives in questionnaire studies. In this article, we unravel taken-for-granted assumptions about the agency that physicians use when evaluating patient autonomy in end-of-life care. We use Goffmanian frame analysis to analyze semi-structured interviews with eight Finnish physicians. Instead of measuring standardized responses, we explore in detail how distinct evaluations of patient autonomy are made through approving or reserved stand-taking. The results show that the interviewees reframed patient autonomy with the help of biological, medical, ethical, and interaction frames. Through such reframing, the patient’s agency was constructed as vulnerable and weak in contrast to the medical expert with the legitimated capacity to act as an agent for the patient. Further, end-of-life treatment decisions by the patient, as well as the patient’s interests appeared as relationally defined in interactions and negotiations managed by the physician, instead of attesting the sovereign agency of an autonomous actor.

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Agencja ds. Współpracy Organów Regulacji Energetyki

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Szafrański A.

Studia Iuridica

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2017

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vol. 72

375-396

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The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has been established in 2009 in the Third Liberalization Package of Energy Sector. The Agency became fully operational in 2011. After 5 years of its functioning the Author presents his opinion on general issues like legitimacy of the European Union regarding the tendency of creating new European agencies (among them ACER) and the problem of the common belief in rule of experts in the typical field of politics. Subsequently the paper handles the history of setting up the Agency and the description of its bodies and competencies in order to present the achievements of ACER within 5 years of its work. The Author concludes with positive statement: ACER meets its goals, encompassing the principle of subsidiarity and helping the Commission and National Regulatory Authorities in realizing the aim of establishing the common energy market in European Union.

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Narrative Agency and Structural Chaos. A Biographical-Narrative Case Study

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Filipkowski P.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2019

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vol. 15

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issue 4

268-290

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The article is an analysis of a single case-a biographical narrative of a Tri-City resident who enters adulthood at the beginning of political transformation in 1989, and whose life path turns out to be an unintentional, dynamic journey between various professions, social worlds and structural positions. This creates a complicated and ambiguous biographical pattern which does not fall into either the socio-economic promotion of the “winner” or into the degradation of the transformation “loser.” The reconstruction of this pattern reveals the hero’s great resourcefulness and entrepreneurship, but also the fragility of the structures stabilizing his life and the volatility of life orientation points. The binder of this biography turns out to be, above all, reflexivity and, what I suggest calling, the narrative agency of the narrator, who can transform his structurally dispersed and chaotic life experiences of the time of transformation into a very original story, making him a strong subject of his own fate. This, however, creates the inevitable tension between the experienced or lived life, life history and the narrated life, life story, prompting us to again pose the question about the commonly assumed, although differently defined, correspondence between the level of reality and the level of its linguistic (in this case-autobiographical) representation.

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Gender, Embodiment, and Self-Regulation: Surveillance in Canadian Intercollegiate Women’s Distance Running

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Carey C.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2022

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vol. 18

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issue 2

28-47

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This article draws on data collected through semi-structured interviews with intercollegiate cross country and track athletes to investigate how female distance runners experience their sport concerning gender and embodiment. The runners identified gender as affecting their sport by way of shorter distances for women’s races, heightened involvement of coaches in corporeal matters such as diet and weight, as well as sex verification policies. Distance running was also specifically identified as a sport that intensifies societal pressures for women to be thin. Drawing on Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power, this paper explores how dominant discourses on gender and the body are reproduced within distance running through a combination of structural and cultural practices. However, the paper also highlights resistance to cultural ideals among female runners, calling for a more dynamic understanding of disciplinary power that accounts for individual agency.

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Polityka kosmiczna Polski in statu nascendi

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Woźniak A.

Świat Idei i Polityki

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2017

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issue 16

405-423

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Celem artykułu jest analiza działań władz polskich dotyczących tworzenia polityki kosmicznej RP. Przedstawiona została aktywność przestrzeni kosmicznej w XX w. oraz rozwój współpracy z organizacjami międzynarodowymi. Przeanalizowano umowy dwustronne i możliwości nowych form działań, a także podmioty prywatne jako współtwórców polityki kosmicznej. Wskazano zadania w procesie tworzenia polityki kosmicznej Polski, podział kompetencji, wykorzystanie możliwości związanych z programami opcjonalnymi. Ponadto zaprezentowano reformę sposobu zarządzania, finansowania poprzez wybór kilku płaszczyzn działania oraz przyjęcie hierarchii zadań kluczowych dla państwa, aby zagwarantować skuteczną realizację założonych projektów.

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the actions of Polish authorities regarding the creation of the Polish space policy. Activity in space in the twentieth century and development of cooperation with international organizations were presented. Bilateral agreements and the possibility of new forms of action were analyzed as well as private entities as co-creators of space policy. Tasks in the process of creating the Polish space policy, the division of competences, the use of optional programmes were indicated. There is also a presentation of management reforms,financing through the selection of several levels of action and adopting the hierarchy of key tasks for the state, to ensure effective implementation of the assumed projects.

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“Forward and Backward”: Actants and Agency in Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”

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Sawyer R.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2021

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vol. 24

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issue 39

105-119

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This essay presents a posthumanist reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, two plays which feature a scientist/magus who attempts to control his environment through personal agency. After detailing the analogy between the agency of posthuman figures and the workings of computerized writing machines, as Katherine Hayles has proposed, my essay shows how Kott’s writing, especially his notion of the “Grand Mechanism” of history, anticipates the posthumanist theories that are currently dominating literary assessments. His critique of The Tempest makes this idea perfectly clear when he disputes the standard notion that Prospero represents a medieval magus; he instead argues that Prospero was more akin to Leonardo DaVinci, “a master of mechanics and hydraulics,” one who would have embraced revolutionary advances in “astronomy” as well as “anatomy” (1974: 321).

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Nawiązanie stosunku służbowego z funkcjonariuszami Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego i Agencji Wywiadu. Charakter prawny mianowania – wybrane aspekty

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Gacek P.

Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego

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2020

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vol. 12

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issue 22

98-119

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Głównym celem artykułu było wprowadzenie do zagadnienia dotyczącego prawnego charakteru mianowania, o którym mowa w art. 48 Ustawy dnia 24 maja 2002 r. o Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego oraz Agencji Wywiadu, w kontekście nawiązania tego stosunku. Artykuł poświęcono analizie prawno-porównawczej stosunku służbowego z mianowania oraz stosunku pracy z mianowania, co pozwoliło na wyraźne rozgraniczenie dwóch rodzajów stosunków prawnych. Elementem odróżniającym stosunek pracy z mianowania od stosunku służbowego z mianowania jest to, że w pierwszym przypadku oprócz stosunku administracyjnego musi współistnieć stosunek pracy. W drugim – stosunek pracy nie istnieje. W przypadku stosunku pracy z mianowania jej stronami są odpowiednio pracodawca i pracownik, podczas gdy tych konstrukcji nie da się zastosować per analogiam do stosunku służbowego. Stronami tego rodzaju stosunku zatrudnienia mogą być jedynie: funkcjonariusze Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, Agencji Wywiadu lub innych formacji zmilitaryzowanych oraz podmiot zatrudniający. Wskazanie tych elementów pozwoliło pokazać różnice między tymi dwiema konstrukcjami prawnymi. Postulowano, aby te dwie wyżej wymienione instytucje prawne zostały ponownie zdefiniowane przez prawodawcę. Nomenklatura stosowana dotychczas w doktrynie nie jest bowiem jednolita.

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The main research aim of this article was to introduce problems concerning legal character of nomination, based on the Article 48 Act of 24 May 2002 The Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency, in the context of establishing this service relationship. This article was devoted to a comparative analysis of legal service relationship have been proved with the nomination of the official employment relationship to the nomination which allowed a clear demarcation of the boundary existing between the two types of legal relations. An important element that distinguishes employment business relationship with the nomination and the service relationship with the nomination is that in the first case next to the administrative relationship employment relationship must coexist. In the latter case the employment relationship does not exist. On the other hand, in the case of business relationship with the nomination its sides are respectively the employer and the employee, while these structures cannot be applied per analogiam to the service relationship with the nomination. Only officer of the Internal Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Agency or other militarized formations and employing entity can be a party to the employment service relationship. Highlighting these elements inter alia allowed to show the differences between this two structures of law. It was postulated that the two above-mentioned legal institutions should be redefined by the legislator. The nomenclature used so far in the doctrine is not uniform in this respect.

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Wybrane uregulowania prawne dotyczące zwalczania korupcji

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Chodak P.

Journal of Modern Science

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2019

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issue 1(40)

213-234

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Jednym z podstawowych elementów dających gwarancję dla skutecznego przeciwdziałania korupcji jest skuteczne prawo. Dobre prawo to bezpieczeństwo i niezakłócony rozwój jego obywateli, to również gwarancja bezpieczeństwa oraz poczucie sprawiedliwości społecznej. Formułowanie dobrego prawa to zadanie bardzo trudne i wymaga prowadzenia równoległych działań na wielu płaszczyznach funkcjonowania państwa oraz zaangażowania wielu struktur i organów. Problem korupcji stanowi duże zagrożenie dla prawidłowego funkcjonowania Polski. Najczęściej korupcja występuje jako zjawisko, problem etc. Korupcja to przede wszystkim przestępstwo, to łamanie prawa, to oszukiwanie państwa i obywateli. Korupcja to najczęściej „przestępstwa inteligentne”, które wymagają precyzyjnych przepisów. Należy pamiętać, że samo prawo – nawet najlepsze – nie wystarczy, żeby skutecznie zapobiegać korupcji i ją zwalczać. Aby działania te były skuteczne, muszą dobrze funkcjonować odpowiednie służby powołane do zwalczania tej formy przestępczości, w szczególności: Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne, Policja, Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, Krajowa Administracja Skarbowa, Straż Graniczna, Żandarmeria Wojskowa, Prokuratura i Sądy.

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One of the basic elements that guarantees effective anti-corruption is effective law. The problem of corruption is a great threat to the proper functioning of Poland. Good law means security and undisturbed development of its citizens, it is also a guarantee of security and a sense of social justice. Formulating good law is a very difficult task and requires conducting parallel activities on many levels of state functioning and the involvement of many structures and bodies. Corruption is a big problem. Most often, corruption occurs as a phenomenon, a problem etc. Corruption is above all a crime, it’s breaking the law, it’s cheating the state and citizens. Corruption is usually an intelligent crime that requires precise regulations. It should be remembered that even the best law alone is not enough to effectively prevent and combat corruption. In order for these activities to be effective, appropriate services should be well functioning to combat this form of crime, in particular: Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, Police, Internal Security Agency, National Tax Administration, Border Guard, Military Police, Prosecutor’s Office and Courts.

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Agentic Thinking About Others Makes Them Closer

Agency versus Communion as Predictors of Self-esteem: Searching for the Role of Culture and Self-construal

The rise of the discourse on children’s right of self-determination. The case study of Early Childhood Education and its construction of children as agents in education

Reframing Patient’s Autonomy in End-of-Life Care Decision-Making: Constructions of Agency in Interviews with Physicians

Agencja ds. Współpracy Organów Regulacji Energetyki

Narrative Agency and Structural Chaos. A Biographical-Narrative Case Study

Gender, Embodiment, and Self-Regulation: Surveillance in Canadian Intercollegiate Women’s Distance Running

Polityka kosmiczna Polski in statu nascendi

“Forward and Backward”: Actants and Agency in Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”

Nawiązanie stosunku służbowego z funkcjonariuszami Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego i Agencji Wywiadu. Charakter prawny mianowania – wybrane aspekty

Wybrane uregulowania prawne dotyczące zwalczania korupcji