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Hipokryzja i narracja symboliczna w polityce

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Śledzińska K.

Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe

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2012

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vol. 32

113-122

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Modern civilization changes have pointed out the necessity of redefinition of basic mechanisms that create the public space. When it comes to defining problems, the first idea generally, is to announce „the end” of certain values. So as it is claimed, there has already been the end of the history and the end of human. We are also experiencing the end of politics at the moment. However, the praxis sphere cannot disappear. It is the sphere of human activity that politics belong to. In this context, the necessity of arranging and organizing the public space would not also disappear. New standards for political actions are desirable. There is a new model of power, a new model of society, a new model of communication and a new model of symbolic narration and role of the politician – hypocrite. What is more, reflection upon reality determines the nature of changes and supports creating process of political tools, identification of new, political rationality – based on its well known standards. The article is an attempt to pre-reflection indicating a need for recognition of the present, methateoretical, broad contexts, as well as combining the past and present experiences.

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Large cities in Poland in face of demographic changes

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Gołata E., Kuropka I.

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

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2016

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vol. 34

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issue 34

17-31

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The growth of rural population, to the detriment of cities in Poland is caused mainly by agglomeration processes, including suburbanisation. Consequently, intense and sudden changes in demographic structure of large cities and surrounding regions are observed. The paper presents demographic changes in the largest Polish cities. The aim of the study was to verify whether the phenomenon of population aging was more distinct in large cities than in surrounding municipalities. We also aimed to answer the question of how changes in demographic processes should shape the social policy pursued by authorities in large cities. Discussion covers activities rising out of demographic challenges to meet the needs in the field of “services” for children and increasing demand for ventures related to care for the elderly. The analysis includes selected areas of the education, health care and social assistance fields.

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Myth, Utopia, and Political Action

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Mendel I.

Human Affairs

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2007

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vol. 17

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issue 2

209-219

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Starting from the premise that some form of "reality transcendence", i.e. the ability to imagine a different reality and reach out for the (un)thinkable, is necessary for political action, the aim of this paper is to analyse the concepts of myth and utopia elaborated by Georges Sorel and Karl Mannheim and to examine their possible contributions to a theory of political action and social change. By comparing the role the authors assign to rationality and irrationality in human affairs, methodological and conceptual differences between Sorel's and Mannheim's approaches to the political are illustrated. It turns out that due to its immunity to critique Sorel's concept of the social myth is highly problematic. Mannheim's concept of utopia, on the other hand, culminates in a technocratic understanding of the political. Though both approaches emphasise the collective dimension of political action, they ultimately exhibit elitist understandings of the political.

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Changing Narratives: Civil Society as a Condition of Balanced Governance in Contemporary Taiwan

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Kościański A., Chang C.-M.

Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 16

25-46

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The article delivers an extensive view on the genesis and development of civil society in Taiwan, and presents the results of the analysis of a role that civil society in Taiwan plays in the shaping of institutional order, co-governance (local and national), the intermediation and representation of the individual (also summed in group interest) as well as the public interest in relation to the other actors of the social system (the state, the market and family). Taiwanese socio-political transformation is a model example of the transition from authoritarian rule into a democratic system. Conglomeration of socio-economic prerequisites lays as the basis for specific political culture of Taiwanese society, which not only has a significant impact on the participation of different groups of citizens in the public sphere, on their position in the social and civil dialogue, but primarily on their relationships with state institutions.

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From Medicine to Poison: Discursive Shifts in Nineteenth-Century Opium Advertisements in Small Town Newsprint in the United States

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Burns A.

Stan Rzeczy

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2021

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issue 2(21) Socjologia historyczna

169-203

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Before sweeping legal changes in the United States in the early twentieth century, opium and other psychoactive substances were publicly available and advertised in various media. This article analyses rhetoric relating to opium and opiate products in advertisements through the dynamic consideration of available newsprint advertising and adjacent news stories from a single community and geographic area, Sandusky, Ohio, between 1825 and 1909. The results illustrate non-linear trajectories for opium-based patent medicines from banal to heroic, to useful negation, to poison. The findings include deceptive ads fashioned to look like tragic news stories, non-opiate patent medicines, and local sanitaria promoting liquor and opium cures. This research illustrates the systematic use of print advertising content for micro-historical social analysis within a local context, providing depth to an otherwise forgotten social phenomenon.

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Jacy wolontariusze tworzą zmianę społeczną? Badanie porównawcze grup wolontariuszy pracujących z osobami niepełnosprawnymi

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Smulczyk M.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2014

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issue 2(102)

83-102

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The aim of the study was to compare two groups of volunteers who work with people with disabilities: volunteers working in organizations led by social innovators and volunteers who are not affiliated to such organizations. The results show a different picture of both groups in the area of the declared value, objectives and attitudes towards people with disabilities. Volunteers working with social innovators have lower rates of misanthropy, higher individual indicators of social capital, and a higher rate of partnership and innovative attitude. The paper presents guidelines how to work with people with disabilities to maximize their integration into society and create social change.

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Pokoleniowe uwarunkowania opinii na temat przemian politycznych w Polsce po 1989 roku w świetle danych Polpan 1993-2008

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Nyćkowiak J.

Rocznik Lubuski

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2011

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vol. 37

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issue 2

83-98

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The main aim of the article is to answer the question: to what extent the experiences of Martial Law and Polish Round Table Agreement differentiate the opinions concerning political transformations in Poland after 1989 among two categories of respondents. The first category are the people born between 1958-1962, and another one comprises respondents born between 1966-1970. They were selected in accordance with the assumption that experiencing key political and economic changes during adolescence would substantially influence formulating judgements about observed constitutional changes and opinions on the current situation in the country. The data used in the article comes from four rounds of testing POLPAN performed in the years 1993, 1998, 2003 an 2008. By analyzing the information about the respondents who took part in all four rounds of the research, it was possible to trace the changes in their opinions on political and economic transformations, as well as the determinants of the changes. Presented results confirm the thesis of the differentiation of the opinion on political changes determining life chances and the possibility to realize ambitions.

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ATTEMPTING TO REGISTER CHANGES: THE EDUCATIONAL DIMENTION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

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BARANOWSKI M., ODROWĄŻ-COATES A.

Society Register

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2018

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vol. 2

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issue 2

7-10

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When registering the changes affecting our societies, which undoubtedly have a multidimensional character and occur at different speeds, it is impossible to disregard the issue of education. This is especially true in the context of the discourse focusing on so-called cognitive capitalism, creative industries, intangible work, gig/sharing economy, education is an extremely important element of not only “the personal troubles”, but also “the public issues of social structure”, to use C. Wright Mills (2000:8) terms.

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Priestorová diverzita mesta a lokálna pamäť obyvateľov: prípad Bratislava

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Luther D.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2009

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vol. 96

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issue 4

381-394

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The social changes throughout the twentieth century had provoked uneven development of cities within the former Czechoslovakia. Each of the political regimes that alternated at the periodicity of approximately twenty years had marked, through the ideology, not only the ethnic and social profile of the city and its districts, but also their urbanistic and architectonical characteristics, symbolism and the outer appearance of the streets. As a result, important changes occurred in the spatial division of the city as well as the identity of city spaces. The author analyzes the impacts of social changes on the spatial diversity of the city and social composition of its districts from the beginning of the twentieth century, but focuses especially on the processes of transformation of the post-socialist city and its present state. Analyses the role of local memory in the politics of the self-government of the city and in the attitudes and activities of its inhabitants.

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Якість трудового життя: соціологічний вимір соціальних змін

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Новак І.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2012

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issue 2(4)

117-126

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The author, on the basis of the results of the study, assesses the quality of working conditions in Ukraine. This is an argument for social policy to increase their efforts in the area of employment, income, population, development of services and social infrastructure.

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Lifestyle Migration to Bocas del Toro, Panama: Exploring Migration Strategies and Introducing Local Implications of the Search for Paradise

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Spalding A. K.

International Review of Social Research

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2013

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vol. 3

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issue 1

67-86

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Lifestyle migration, the flow of relatively affluent people from developed to developing countries, is characterized by the search for ‘lifestyle’ destinations with warm climates, reduced costs of living, and perceived higher quality of life. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama are three current major lifestyle migration destinations in Latin America. In this article I explore the emergence of this relatively new phenomenon in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Northwestern Panama by discussing the contradiction between lifestyle migrants’ idealized perception of place and local realities. I also introduce the implications of these contradicting versions of reality, and how they play out at the local level. Results show that, in general, foreign residents are attracted to Bocas del Toro as a physical manifestation of globally produced images and perceptions of tropical island living. However, an in-depth exploration reveals contradictions between expectations and reality. I suggest that foreigners exhibit a set of attitudes and behaviors towards their new home that are defined by a shared cultural and economic background that, on the ground, contribute to the creation of emerging markets, land conflicts, and changes in environmental practices. The ensuing narrative is contingent upon tensions between and within social, political, and ecological variables at the global and local levels.

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Czy chronimy system, który nas wyklucza? Tendencja do usprawiedliwiania systemu oraz jej społeczne implikacje

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Potoczek A.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2018

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issue 4(25)

279-289

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According to the System Justification Theory by Jost Banaji people are motivated to defend existing social arrangements, often at the expense of their personal and group interests. It can be seen in legitimation of the status quo, out-group favoritism and in increased system justification among members of groups that are most discriminated by that system. Although large body of research supports this theory, there is also growing evidence that the motivation to justify the system is not universal for all societies. In the following paper author discusses differences in need for system justification between citizens of countries with a long tradition of capitalism and citizens of post-communist countries and their possible political implications.

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Dziecko jako twórca. Wpływ procesu twórczego na rzeczywistość dziecka na przykładzie realizacji projektu dziewczyńskiego „Teatru Mocy”

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Koperska M.

Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media

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2021

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vol. 8

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issue 2

135-150

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Cultural institutions become more and more open to the implementation of inclusive projects aimed at a large and constantly expanding group of recipients-creators. The potential of amateur creativity has also been noticed in the field of theater activity, and thus the understanding of art as a sphere in which only professional artists have a voice has been surpassed. The idea of a theater devoted to children's imagination was anticipated in Poland by a patron of theatre pedagogy, Jan Dorman. Children's theater, drawing on the natural creativity of a child, the unlimited potential of his imagination and the tendency to play, places in the center of the creative process a child, who is not only a performer or spectator, but a committed author of activities – theatrical events. Playing the theater becomes a space for the child's participation, in which his voice has the driving force. Through art, creating an imaginary world, and thus moving in the world of fiction, the young artist develops skills that are necessary for full participation in real social life. Socially engaged theater is based on the assumption that art can be a common act because it is a dialogical meeting in which everyone can express themselves. Theater provokes both reflection and action, it presents a creative dialogue between man and the world. Art understood in this way transcends its aesthetic function, focusing on the process that its creators go through and the change it causes, which goes far beyond the theatrical event. The Girls' „Theater of Power” is an example of theatrical work in which the participation of girls was at the core of all activities. By following the creative potential and unlimited imagination of children, it became possible to get to know their worlds and learn sensitivity to the environment from them. The girls reflected on the school reality and, using the tools of the theater, created an alternative „School for Children”. As a result of this cooperation, the voices of the participants were manifested in a project of the world which was not only directed at children but also created by children.

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Return Migration and Social Change in Poland: ‘Closures’ to Migrants’ Non-Economic Transfers

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Dzięglewski M.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 2

167-188

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The aim of this article is to provide an empirical test of the model of non-economic transfers by migrants such as values, attitudes, behaviours, lifestyles, transnational social networks, know-how, skills and knowledge. The first part of the article discusses the current state of Polish society, identifies the direction of social change in Poland since 1989 and analyses the mutual dependency between social change and migration. The second section offers the analytical model and describes how existing empirical data from official statistics and research reports as well as the author’s own research projects have been analysed. The crucial element of the model is the notion of ‘closure’, defined as any factor that makes the migrants’ non-economic transfers difficult or impossible. Within each of the three categories of closure – socio-economic, cultural and psycho-social – more specific barriers to non-economic transfers are tested, e.g., lack of cohesive policy towards return migrants, social narratives on migration or ‘homecomer syndrome’. The analysis leads to the conclusion that, however difficult the measurement of the impact of return migration on social change at this stage, return migrants’ transfers are accelerating the process of social change in Poland towards the model of well-developed, post-modern Western societies, whereas closures impede this process.

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Everyday activity of rural employees in Siberia

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Artemov V., Novokhatskaya O.

Eastern European Countryside

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2014

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vol. 20

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issue 1

189-210

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The article presents the results of the fifth bi-seasonal survey conducted in 2004- 2005 within the framework of the longitudinal study of the time use, everyday activity and living conditions of the rural population. The study is conducted on a sample group of villages representative of the south of Siberia in rather different historical periods. The emphasis is made on changes that have taken place in the rural everyday life and on the use of time during the last two decades; in particular, in the beginning of the new century. It presents the results of the analysis of the time budgets of working women and working men and their answers to questions concerning the facts of reality, their assessments and values. In the early 2000s the working time of men increased, while their time spent on private plot production and housework decreased. Similar situation was observed in the case of women; however, the time spent on household production increased. More pronounced changes were observed among agricultural workers, especially men (increasing working time and decreasing time of housework, sleep and leisure). On the whole, there was a noticeable redistribution of time between work in the house and household production and work in the agricultural enterprise being the source of the material well-being of the rural family. The male-female difference in the total work load and leisure time has decreased.

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Polityka kanonu a kształtowanie się wielokulturowego społeczeństwa obywatelskiego

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Błeszyńska K.

Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne

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2017

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vol. 30

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Canons in education are social projects nested in a dynamic national tradition. Social and cultural changes as well as challenges of globalization result in changes of educational canons. Challenges of Polish transformation as well as requirements of the future enforce modifications of the current Polish canon of the romantic origin. The suggested changes are following: 1) changes in the meaning: transition from the ethnic meaning of “a nation” category to the civic one; 2) transition from the politics of a cultural domination to the politics of pluralism; 3) transition from communitarian democracy towards liberal democracy; 4) developing of a global, European, civic and intercultural dimensions in education; 5) redefining categories of “patriotism” and “the patriotic education”. The aforementioned changes should apply however evolutionary approach reinterpreting and modifying the contents of the current educational canon.

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Social Remittances and Migration (Sub-)Cultures in Contemporary Poland

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White A.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 2

63-80

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The article discusses how to research the impact of migration on social change in sending countries, without using a development studies framework. It argues for greater attention to the lives of ‘stayers’. A comprehensive approach to migration impact should begin by using mainstream sociological research to identify overall social trends in the origin country, before considering migration as one determinant of change. The case study is social remittances in contemporary Poland. Social remittances are understood to include not just foreign ideas, but also those resulting from migrants’ reflections on their own changing lives. One way to investigate how such social remittances ‘scale up’ to create cultural change is to consider the meso-level of regional migration culture. Taking the example of changing gender roles, I discuss Polish sociological and migration scholarship before presenting my own quantitative and qualitative data on stayers’ opinions about maternal migration. I show how stayers in regions with high levels of migration can become persuaded to condone maternal behaviour which is at odds with traditional views on gender roles and the importance of the extended family. Migration cultures are, however, not so visible in other parts of Poland or in Polish cities. The final part of the article employs the concept of migration sub-cultures – pockets of migration exposure and expertise among particular social groups. Examining the case of Wrocław, a prosperous city which might appear to be untouched by migration influences, I argue that such sub-cultures are probably more prevalent than might be assumed.

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“Crisis, Critique and Change.” Sociology of Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century

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Mucha J., Krzyzowski Ł.

Polish Sociological Review

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2014

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vol. 184

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issue 4

543-552

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Starting in the second half of the 2000s, we experience not one (financial, economic) crisis, but the crises in plural, the multifaceted crisis situation in Europe. The previous, Geneva 2011, ESA Conference took up a very timely and significant, at that time, scholarly and societal, topic of “turbulent times,” in which we had lived for several years. The Turin 2013 Conference was organized is a slightly different situation.Global, including European, crises entered a new stage, but at the same time it seemed that there was a light in the tunnel. Old themes, like neo-liberal politics, economy and ideology, as well as the lost welfare state were very important for the scholars. Critical approach became a standard way of analysis of politics, economy and society, but also of political sciences, economics and sociology. Criticism was not only “negative.” For many speakers and discussants, the recent crises have been a chance to re-evaluate the former institutional arrangements and outline new, more flexible solutions.

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Uszkolnienie marksizmu. Edukacja a zmiana społeczna

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Ciążela A.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica

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2020

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issue 24

50-66

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One of the constitutive assumptions for Marx and Engels’ thought was to criticise the Enlightenment’s idea of revolution in school education. This education, which was an elite right in their time, did not become an object of independent reflection. The workers’ movement identified it with self-education. Intelligence with schooling. The development of schooling pushed towards the transfer of political struggle to the school. Educational policy in countries ruled by authoritarian parties appealing to Marxism and in countries where movements appealing to Marxism had an impact on education became a new problem. The current profound crisis of these phenomena makes us ask questions about the logic of their development and the reasons for the current breakdown.

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Social Remittances and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Embedding Migration in the Study of Society

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White A., Grabowska I.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2019

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vol. 8

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issue 1

33-50

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Our article considers social remittances and social change in Central and Eastern Europe. We show how migration scholarship can be embedded into the wider study of social processes and relations. ‘Social remitting’ sometimes seems to be little more than a slippery catchphrase; however, this article defends the concept. If it is defined carefully and used cautiously, it should help the researcher to think about what, in addition to money, is sent from one society to another and exactly how, thus shedding light on important and insufficiently studied aspects of migration. A close-up view of the processes by which ideas, practices, norms, values and, according to some definitions, social capital and social skills are transferred by migrants across international borders helps researchers to understand more precisely how migration contributes to social change or, in some cases, prevents it from occurring. Our article reviews some of the most interesting arguments and findings presented recently by other scholars and discusses aspects of social remitting which particularly interested us in our own research. The context of our research is social change in Poland: we attempt to understand how migration has contributed to wider patterns of social change since 1989 and exactly how it intertwines with other social trends and globalisation influences. This entails a careful focus on both structural conditions and agency and therefore on social remittances.

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