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Creating - through educational influence - value systems of mentally handicapped students is a very important and demanding task. The research undertaken by the authoress was an experimental one. The original educational programme 'Discovering the world of values' was introduced into the experimental procedure as an independent variable. Research covered 120 students from schools for children mentally handicapped in a slight degree. Educational influence substantially changed value systems of students from the experimental group. Intrapersonal values (responsibility, diligence, truthfulness) and universal values (family and love) became the top values in their hierarchies, while interpersonal values turned out to be less important. In the value systems of the examined students there dominated such values as 'family' and 'love'; other values made up coherent but not very durable structure, which indicates that those hierarchies were 'flattened'. It means that there are very small differences in rank between the values occupying consecutive positions in the hierarchy, and in favourable circumstances they can easily lose their position and be replaced by other values.
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The aim of the theoretical analysis and empirical results presented in this study was to gain a better understanding of an important problem of the adolescence stage, namely, of adolescents' attempts at defining the concept of their own lives. The theoretical analysis was focused to reveal the relations between adolescents' psychical development (particularly that of thinking, personality and social development) and the formation of concepts concerning their own lives. The empirical research undertaken was to give a more precise definition of such basic elements of the concept of their own lives as: adolescents' value system, preferred life-styles as well as their life planning and goals. An original conception of research was also put forward concerning adolescents' concept of their own lives, the aim of which was to highlight those elements as well as to define the relations existing between them. It deserves mentioning that this pioneering study is the first attempt of conjointly investigating the values, life­styles and life goals of adolescents as well as it being the first attempt of examining the correlation existing between them. This is the first attempt at conducting such research to date. There is a need for further research to be carried out on larger and more diverse groups of adolescents in order for it to be more authoritative.
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Commodification of social relations, i.e., extension of the number of goods and services which become commodities and can be sold on the market is one of the main characteristics of the post-communist transformation and modernization in Poland. The rules of this commodification are, however, unclear and ambiguous, which in turn blurs the borders between subsystems of society, produces the low level equilibrium between the deformed market, inefficient democracy and private informal social networks and leads to many tensions and pathologies. It also disintegrates the cognitive and normative system of society and weakens the social legitimization of the new order.
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Changes in the contemporary world are manifested by shifting from society-oriented attitude to a more individualistic approach, from responsibility to self-accomplishment, from cooperation to freedom and competition. In view of the changes towards individualism, the problem of cooperation among junior high school students entering adulthood, so far neglected in educational studies, has been approached. The article searches for prerequisites of the relation between individualism versus collectivism and the readiness of an individual to cooperate. Individualism is related to the self-orientation, whereas collectivism means „towards others” attitude. Theoretical analyses are completed with the analysis of a section of research on treating adolescents' orientation on individualistic versus collectivistic values as a factor differentiating cooperation under task situations. It does not mean, however, that adolescents stopped appreciating collectivistic values. This tendency complies with the decisions made by other authors. The hypothesis about the difference in results concerning cooperative behaviours depending on a particular orientation, namely on individualistic and collectivitis values, has not been confirmed. At this level of the analysis there are no grounds for concluding whether the individualistic or the collectivistic orientation is more in favour of cooperation. It is probable that cooperation involves both individualistic as well as collectivistic values. It is in agreement with the views of other authors that individualism and collectivism can co-exist. The considerations in the paper are a reason for seeking possibilities of joining personal interest of an individual with pro-community cooperation, which is an important issue in terms of conceptualisation of the vision of the community as well as in terms of the undertaken educational activities for young generation.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of value system of Polish society in the 1970s. After establishing that Poles are the 'federation of primary groups united in a national community', the author formulates the sociological vacuum thesis: Poles strongly identify with their family and friends and the next community, they strongly identify with, is nation. In between these two poles the vacuum spreads covering institutions and groups other than family and friends (e.g. professional groups). The author emphasizes frustration as a feature of Polish society, in which axiological standards significantly differ from reality (the examples of the socialist and democratic values support this argument). He contends simultaneously that the possibility of generalizing about value system of Polish society as a whole stems not so much from the lack of internal differentiation in particular clusters of values (such differentiation exists), as from the experience of vast social change that has resulted in the disappearance of previous value formation centers and has not led to the emergence of the new ones.
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