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Ethics has been one of the main fields of Zygmunt Bauman's in­terests for the last two decades. His papers considering this topic have a considerable impact on contemporary humanities. The idea of 'the moral party of two', developed by the Polish sociologist, contributed to the development of ethical thought and, for example, influenced the new trends in the debate on post-modernity. On the othe hand, this concept has been widely criticized, which is one of the issues discussed in this paper. The author demonstrates that if Bauman's ethical concepts are considered in the context of the foundations of his sociology, and account being taken of the way of writing distinctive for this sociologist, certain controversial aspects of post­modern ethics could be evaluated as functional. Another aim of this paper is to present the evolution of Bauman's ethical thought, which can be seen as twofold. On the one hand, it is the considerable enlargement of the part the individual responsibility is given in Bauman's thought, on the other - his including in the ethical thought the reflection on the role of the political structures in the settings of the collective rules. The author emphasizes that by making such changes Bauman does not deny the constitutive features of his idea of morality, but supplements it and tries to adjust it to the current socio­cultural changes.
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The last Australian government review on rural education reveals that staffing schools continues to be a challenge. To examine this problem, the paper draws on data from semi-structured interviews with pre-service teachers undertaking rural school placement. The aim is to address rural school staffing through a bi-dimensional social justice approach by drawing on a politics of distribution and recognition. While distributive justice has always been at the centre of the problem, it is argued that a solution might also encompass a politics of recognition that puts “place” as a significant category to understand the complexities of rural staffing.
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Due to remarkable transformations of the social reality, the concept of justice has been rediscovered in political discussions at the beginning of the 21st century. One of the objectives of the paper is to present Miller's model of a fair distribution as articulated in his book 'Principles of Social Justice' (1999). In this model the communitarian justification of the principles of social justice as well as their subject-matters are reformulated. Another objective of the paper is to show the relevance of this approach in solving social problems represented by hypothetical local situations.
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The authors claim that poverty existed in the world since time immemorial. Recently however, we can observe the growing differentiation in Western societies: there are sparse groups with very high income and multiplicity of the 'new poor' - the unemployed as well as these who are employed in a second-rate, low-paid jobs. The situation on this difficult labour market is further worsened by the influx of migrants as the army of the unemployed in-waiting. The increase in the number of the new poor in the globalizing world poses new problems for the politicians. Novel ideas are needed to ameliorate both the economic condition of the Third World countries - the place of origin of many among the new poor, as well as the situation of the new poor (called sometimes the Fourth World) in the First World countries..
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The article examines the issue of social justice. It highlights the shortcomings of reflections on justice based on the assumption that the extent of social justice is constrained by the boundaries of a nation state. The paper emphasises the necessity of modifying normative models of justice with regard to the process of globalization. The author’s reasoning is based on the current cosmopolitanism, especially on Darrel Moellendorf’s critical appraisal of the ideas of John Rawls. The aim of this paper is to analyse the specific lines of argumentation of selected theorists of justice they choose in clarifying the nature and origin of the commitments of global justice.
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(Polish title: Zasada sprawiedliwosci spolecznej w promowaniu inicjatyw obywatelskich w ruchu hospicyjnym w opinii czlonkow rodzin podopiecznych hospicjum). This paper addresses the issue of social justice in promoting civic initiatives as instanced by hospice fellowships in the opinion of patients' families. The principle of justice decides about the shape of social order, therefore it is strictly connected with state activity with regard to law-making and public institutions. The hospice movement is anchored in local communities; it takes responsibility to help the dying to live a dignified life of the human person. Now the state's task, of whichwe speak in the first part of the paper, is to provide such conditions that civic fellowships could take and develop palliative support. The second part of the study presents some opinions of the patients' families with regard to civic initiatives. The analysis has shown that most of the closest relatives of the terminaly ill treat the fellowships that help the dying as an effect of social initiatives. Any activities that make up multidimensional support, voluntary activity, and various organisational forms of supportive centres have been defined as the most important manifestation of civily liberty.
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The authoress of this article focuses on the theoretical framework of the concept of care as a critical category of social inequality in order to outline possibilities for a redefinition of the relationship between work and care. Gender inequalities as well as inequalities that are based on other social categories, such as class, ethnicity, nationality, geopolitical location, marital status, and so on are incorporated in the social organisation of care which retrospectively reinforces them. Feminist debate has thus far formulated demands for the recognition of caring persons mainly at the national level, but the authoress of the article, referring to Arlie Hochschild and Allison Weir, shows that the current challenges of global capitalism point to the need to articulate these demands in a transnational context and to embed care in the discourse of transnational justice. She critically addresses the challenges that efforts to attain recognition for caring persons by including care as a labour-market activity are confronted with owing to the current changes in the social organisation of care under global capitalism, which involves among others the employment of marginalised groups of women and women immigrants in the caring professions. Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, the authoress formulates two normative criteria for reconceptualising care as a social engagement without subjecting it to the logic of market valuation.
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The subject-matter of the paper is particular set of questions, linked to the concept of social aiming of private law, and also the following question, which is the capacity of the private law to absorb legal regulation of the social model. The paper is focused mainly on the development and actual situation of the social models of the member countries of European Union and on the development, actual situation and future tendencies of European social model as regulatory system. Last but not least, the contribution is aimed also at the characterization of the principles and regulatory rules, used by the private law concept, esp. at their ability to support the implementation of the social model(s) into the legal regulation.
Annales Scientia Politica
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2018
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vol. 7
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issue 1
77 – 85
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Social justice as one of the basic principles of social policy is a relative phenomenon that can be interpreted differently in space and time. The research paper addresses the content framework of the social justice phenomenon in the optics of the socio-political-economic specifics of the theory and practice of the axiological systems of Western civilization. The main aim is to identify the understanding of social justice by the power government of the Slovak Republic through the mechanisms of valorisation of old-age pensions in the time horizon of 2010 – 2018.
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A strongly recommended conclusion in sociology about trends in class inequality has been summarised by Goldthorpe as a high degree of 'temporal constancy and cross-national communality'. This conclusion, here called 'the stability thesis', was first challenged by Ringen in 1987 and again, on more methodological grounds, by Ringen and Hellevik in two papers published in 1997. These challenges resulted in a process of debate and reassessment. It is now possible to sum up and conclude. The stability thesis rests on empirical results from odds-ratio readings of mobility table data. The authority of this methodology is re-examined in terms of normative significance and statistical validity. Mobility table data which have generated stability thesis findings are reanalysed with the standard gini-index methodology in the study of inequality, then yielding different findings which contradict the stability thesis. The main conclusion is that the stability thesis can now be considered overturned.
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Social justice, as a fundamental value of social policy, is a permanent object of the study of political theory and practice both in the historical and the contemporary context. The presented research paper addresses the content framework of this phenomenon through its specificities in the political-philosophical-axiological plane on the basis of selected economic indicators in terms of their secondary analysis. Its main objective is to identify the axiological understanding of social justice by relevant governmental entities and their coalitions in the Slovak republic and Hungary through valorisation mechanisms of retirement pensions between 2016 and 2019.
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The purpose of this research was to define the role of perceived nature (origin and size) of resources in processes of allocation. Based on the ideas of Lewicka (2001) and Wojciszke (2005), I predicted that resources perceived as produced will be distributed according to the equity principle (size of the input) whereas distribution of resources perceived as "found" will follow egalitarian criteria (equality or need). I also pre¬dicted that choice of the preferred allocation rule will be influenced by the size of resources (limited versus unlimited). In a representative, national study (N = 1018), 1 tested the effects of origin and size of allocated goods on four distribution principles: equity, needs, equality, and physical effort. In line with predictions, both objective nature of resources and subjective perception of their origin influenced allocation preferences. A series of path analyses partially confirmed the expected structure of interdependences between the number of psychological factors (egocentrism, feeling of deservingness etc.).
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