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NETWORK SOCIETY: University students and new technologies. Relationships between the use of new digital technologies in the process of mass communication and social interaction of the young generation

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Durzewska M.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2015

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vol. 16(2)

28-50

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The focus group interview conducted among students at Adam Mickiewicz University inPoznań who were born in the early 1990s indicates the students’ attitudes towards reality, aswell as approaches and methods of using modern information technologies used for communicationand obtaining information (mainly the Internet). Contrary to general opinionsof contemporary youth, the 1990s generation has not lost perspective and is able to makereasonable assessments. Young people consciously use technical goods and critically evaluatethe behaviour that exceeds social norms or common sense. They prefer personal contactwith other people rather than contact via telephone, SMS messages or the Internet. They seethe advantages of the Internet, such as access to information, knowledge and entertainment,facilitation of functional, professional and private contact, as well as noticing the hazardsresulting from excessive and mindless use of the Internet and other legal threats related tothe medium. For them, new communication technologies are a useful tool for communicating.However, young people have language problems consisting of a difficulty in expressingthemselves which results from abbreviated forms of expression used in the mass media.

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Interrelation between Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) and Social Capital: Conceptual Framework

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Dvalishvili T.

Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne

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2018

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issue 4

27-47

EN

This article tracks the definitional debates on social capital to demonstrate the many-sided nature of it. Referring to the relational nature of social capital, this paper regards it as an output of cross-border cooperation. The basis of social capital is social interaction, and cross-border cooperation facilitates and reinforces it in equal measure across national borders. Therefore, this article considers cross-border cooperation as one way to generate formal/informal, linking, bonding, bridging, transnational and other varieties of social capital.

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Miejska ulica jako przestrzeń życia politycznego - między ładem cenzury a żywiołem buntu

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Błahut G.

Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

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2015

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vol. 15

EN

This paper regards the urban street as social space, where different symbolic interactions occur between individuals and groups of people. The established social and political order within this space happens to be disturbed by different forms of protest. An article attempts to compare the course of riots in former times to those at present. The comparison implies that the functional grandness of the urban street belongs to the past. This is mainly caused by new legal regulations restricting freedom of assembly and the new tele-electronic media space, and by a deepening division of the Polish society into different groups of interest, and its consequent inability to consolidate. An indirect cause also is the new order and mentality developed in democratic societies and by a consumeristic lifestyle.

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SPOŁECZEŃSTWO SIECIOWE: Młodzież akademicka a nowe technologie. Zależność między korzystaniem z nowych technologii cyfrowych w procesie masowego komunikowania a społeczną interakcją młodego pokolenia.

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Durzewska M.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2015

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vol. 16(2)

28-50

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The Effect Of Omitted Spatial Effects And Social Dependence In The Modelling Of Household Expenditure For Fruits And Vegetables

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Łaszkiewicz E., Dong G., Harris R.

Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe

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2014

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vol. 17

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issue 4

155-172

EN

As is well known, ignoring spatial heterogeneity leads to biased parameter estimates, while omitting the spatial lag of a dependent variable results in biasness and inconsistency (Anselin, 1988). However, the common approach to analysing households’ expenditures is to ignore the potential spatial effects and social dependence. In light of this, the aim of this paper is to examine the consequences of omitting the spatial effects as well as social dependence in households’ expenditures. We use the Household Budget Survey microdata for the year 2011 from which we took households’ expenditures for fruits and vegetables. The effect of ignoring spatial effects and/or social dependence is analysed using four different models obtained by imposing restrictions on the core parameters of the hierarchical spatial autoregressive model (HSAR). Finally, we estimate the HSAR model to demonstrate the existence of spatial effects and social dependence. We find the omitted elements of the external environment affect negatively the estimates for other spatial (social) effect parameters. Especially, we notice the overestimation of the random effect variance when the social dependence is omitted and the overestimation of the social interaction effect when the spatial heterogeneity is ignored.

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Symbolically Mediated Interaction and Perspective-taking: A Social-relational Perspective on Social Cognitive Development

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Tunc D. U.

Avant

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2019

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vol. 10

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issue 3

EN

It is widely agreed that perspective-taking plays an important role in the development of children’s understanding of themselves and others as social agents with their own beliefs, desires, goals, and representations of the world. However, how perspective-taking is realized and how the ability of perspective-taking develops is a matter of dissensus. The two theories currently dominating social cognition research, theory-theory, and simulation-theory construe perspective-taking as modeling, thus as an individual and inferential process. Interactionist theories prioritize interpersonal interaction but deny perspective-taking a constitutive role by arguing for a basic, immediate understanding of self and others in interaction. Cognitivist accounts downplay the role of interaction, while interactionist accounts overemphasize the role of sub-symbolical processes. What is central to perspective-taking and its development, but missing in either approach is symbolically mediated interaction. The social-relational perspective dating back to Lev Vygotsky and George Herbert Mead cuts across this schism and offers valuable insight into how perspective-taking develops through symbolic activity within a social context. Adopting the basic elements of the social-relational framework, the present work argues that understanding of self and others depends on the development of perspective-taking ability through symbolically mediated interaction. Perspectives are primarily differentiated, assumed, and coordinated within social interaction and subsequently through the individual, cognitive operation of perspective-taking. Symbolic mediation facilitates this transition from the social enaction of perspective-taking to mental construal and coordination of perspectives by transforming the structure of action. Higher order mental processes are not presupposed but constituted by social interaction through the child’s internalization of the perspectival structure of symbolic communication.

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Soužití v městské čtvrti: majorita a Vietnamci v Praze-Libuši

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Sýkora L., Fiedlerová K., Freidingerová T., Svobodová A., Čermáková D.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2016

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vol. 52

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issue 4

475-503

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This article contributes to the discussion of everyday interactions between a settled majority population and new immigrants in an urban neighbourhood with recent experience of immigration. It analyses daily interactions between the majority population and Vietnamese immigrants in one Prague neighbourhood in an effort to identify both tensions and conflicts and conviviality in everyday life, while distinguishing between the stereotypes prevalent in popular discourse and in representations of the Vietnamese and the real practices of economic, social, and cultural interaction. The study seeks to identify the issues and places around which tensions emerge and where everyday conviviality is negotiated and the attitudes that various demographic and socio-economic groups of the local population have towards the Vietnamese presence in the area. The Vietnamese seek to avoid conflict, yet they often report feeling they are not very accepted by the majority population. There is a hidden racism that exists in the attitudes of the majority population to Vietnamese immigrants. However, the paper also documents instances of convivial everyday interactions. While the interactions are characterised by a certain lack of mutual recognition, they do not lead to serious interethnic tensions and conflicts.

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Money and social interaction in Simmel’s "Philosophy of Money" and Audu Wazirin Ɗanduna’s ballad "Tsakanin Ɗan'adam da Kuɗi"

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Ali A.

Studies in African Languages and Cultures

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2017

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issue 51

69-85

EN

The paper juxtaposes the Simmel’s Philosophy of Money with Audu Wazirin Ɗanduna’s ballad and emphasizes a point of convergence between them. It shows that the import of Wazirin Ɗanduna’s popular ballad, Tsakanin Ɗan’ adam da Kuɗi, is akin to Simmel’s schematic-philosophical analysis of the nature or character of money in modern society and how it affects human interactions or, generally, social life. The paper demonstrates that both Simmel and Wazirin Danduna see money in a modern society as an object facilitating our understanding of social life. Simmel and Wazirin Ɗanduna describe money as being characterized by reification, growing individual freedom, a blasé attitude and impersonal relationships. They envisage money as a means fast becoming an end, which informs the greed and heightened craving for money characteristic of human society today. The paper also argues that poetry as a creative work enables us to appreciate the complexity and dynamics of human society and, therefore, the contributions of poets should not be ignored by social scientists for simply not conforming to empirical rituals.

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Life Stories and Interculturality

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Toldi É.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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2014

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vol. 6

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issue 1

87-104

EN

This article examines two short stories: Teréz Müller’s Igaz történet [A True Story] and József Bálint senior’s Imádkozzál és dolgozzál [Pray and Work]. The argument explores the way the texts reflect on shifts in power in the Hungarian region of Vojvodina, and the way power structures define the relationship between majority and minority in a society that undergoes constant and radical changes. Contemporary historical events of the twentieth century, changes, faultlines, traumatic life events and identity shifts emerge as the contexts for these narratives of the daily experiences of a Jewish merchant family and a farmer family respectively. Thus, the two texts analysed are representative works rooted in two fundamentally different social backgrounds. The discourse about the I is always also about the other; the construction of identity is already in itself a dialogic, intercultural act, which makes it an ideal topic for the exploration of the changes and shifts in one’s own and the other’s cultural identity. Translational processes of transmission are also required for the narration of traumatic experiences. Teréz Müller was the grandmother of the Serbian writer Aleksandar Tišma. Her book is not primarily a document of their relationship; however, it does throw light on diverse background events of the writer’s life and oeuvre. Comparing the experiences of identity in the autobiographical novel of Aleksandar Tišma and the recollections of his grandmother reveals geocultural characteristics of their intercultural life experiences.

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Emotions are not a private matter: Introduction to a special issue on emotions in interpersonal relationships

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Wróbel M., Olszanowski M.

Roczniki Psychologiczne

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2019

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vol. 22

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issue 1

9-14

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Although emotions are frequently treated as highly intimate experiences, much empirical evidence indicates that they primarily play interpersonal functions. Here, we briefly review this evidence and argue that the relationship between emotions and social interactions may be bi-directional (that is, emotions may both influence and be influenced by social factors). The papers included in this special issue illustrate this bidirectionality with examples coming from studies on social judgments, emotional contagion, emotional regulation, empathy, and emotion vocalization. Taken together, these papers show that emotions and interpersonal relationships are inextricably intertwined.

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Multicultural Pedagogy: Strengthening Social Interaction Among Multi-Ethnic Pre-School Children

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Mamat N., Hashim A. T., Razalli A. R., Awang M. M.

The New Educational Review

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2022

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vol. 67

56-67

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This study explored multicultural pedagogy in pre-school education and how it plays an important role in strengthening the social interactions among children. The Multicultural Pedagogy approach in teaching children has established the multi-ethnic (PERPADUAN/Unity) pre-school. It is a qualitative study with data drawn from observation and interview sessions aimed to identify strategies in nurturing social interaction among multi-ethnic children. Through purposive sampling, a teacher with twenty-five children and parents from various ethnicities were selected. This study revealed that practising multicultural pedagogy reflects the diversity of ethnics strengthening social interaction. The teacher exposed the children to the cultures of every ethnic group to ensure they have understood other cultures from different ethnicity. When the children are exposed to the elements of different cultures, a sense of acceptance and tolerance attitude can be fostered. This strategy nurtured national integration, encouraging interactions among multi-ethnic children, stimulating acceptance and tolerance between children and creating a school environment that reflects the diversity of ethnicities. Core multicultural elements have been found in the PERPADUAN/Unity School. Overall findings from the current study provide new evidence illustrating how multicultural pedagogy implemented strengthens social interaction in early childhood education.

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Challenges in remote education: analysis of social interaction, motivation and engagement

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Krzyżak J., Walas-Trębacz J.

e-mentor

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2024

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vol. 104

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issue 2

44-53

EN

This article analyses selected challenges of remote education, focusing on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is divided into a theoretical part, synthetically explaining the key challenges related to remote education: social interactions, students' motivation and engagement, and an empirical part, presenting the results of a survey conducted on 1828 students at the Cracow University of Economics. The empirical research enabled analysis of the impact of selected distance education factors on the level of perceived learning outcomes by students, with a particular focus on social interactions (both between teachers and students, and among students), student motivation, and engagement in remote learning environments. The data was collected through a survey distributed in 2020 and 2022, using the Computer Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) technique via Google Forms. The results indicate moderate improvements in social interaction and motivation over time, with a slight decrease in the perceived effectiveness of remote learning. The literature review and empirical study reveal changes in the quality, motivation, and engagement of interaction, emphasising the need to adjust teaching strategies in the areas considered to increase the effectiveness of remote education. This study enriches the current literature by addressing gaps and providing suggestions for directions of future research, additionally providing practical recommendations for teachers and educational institutions to improve the efficacy of remote learning.

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Ekvivalence a blokové modelování v analýze sociálních sítí

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Diviák T.

Naše společnost (Our Society)

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2017

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vol. 15

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issue 1

27-40

EN

The paper presents to Czech social scientists an introductory review of the concept of equivalence and the method of blockmodeling in social network analysis (SNA). After introducing the central concepts of SNA such as node and tie, along with their basic metrics such as centrality and cohesion, I present the concepts of role and position. These are treated by SNA as clusters of nodes with similar ties, something I juxtapose to algorithms to identify cohesive subgroups of nodes. Subsequently, I define and compare the two most frequently applied types of equivalence - structural, which is strict but broadly applicable, and regular, which is more liberal but has limited uses. Structural equivalence builds on a strict definition of similarity of ties, treating as equivalent only such nodes that have the same ties to the same other nodes. Regular equivalence works with looser criteria and better corresponds with both the theoretical and the intuitive notions of role; this, however, is outweighed by the absence of a unique regular-equivalent solution within a network and by the difficulty to process networks with undirected ties. Regular-equivalent nodes are such that have ties to other mutually equivalent nodes. I present examples to demonstrate the differences between both definitions. In the following section, I discuss measurement of similarity between the different nodes’ profiles of ties (e.g., correlation and Euclidean distance) and possible uses of the standard statistical methods of cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling to detect equivalent classes of nodes within networks. After pointing to the weaknesses of these techniques in network data analysis, I present blockmodeling as a method designed specifically to identify roles and positions within networks. Ischematize the blockmodeling procedure and present its basic terms before comparing classic inductive blockmodeling, which is primarily fit for the purposes of exploration and network reduction, with deductive generalized blockmodeling, which is applicable in testing hypotheses about basic structural characteristics of a network. I bring attention to the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches. Relatedly, I present an application of blockmodeling especially for the purposes of simplified network representation, comparing structural patterns across networks, and testing structural theories. In the following section, I demonstrate specific blockmodeling algorithms based on both structural equivalence (CONCOR and Tabu Search optimization) and regular equivalence (REGE and Tabu Search optimization). Then I verify the adequacy of their resulting assignment of positions to nodes using eta coefficient, Q modularity and correlation of the ideal blocked and the empirical adjacency matrices. In the concluding section, I demonstrate the entire blockmodeling procedure on an empirical case of a small network with undirected ties using the UCINET software tool, including interpretation of results. Finally, I reflect the contemporary position of blockmodeling among leading research approaches in SNA, referring to other empirically oriented studies that demonstrate the broad applicability and utility of position analysis.

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Кластерная модель организации социального партнерства в муниципальной сфере образования

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Romanova O.

Path of Science

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 3(8)

5.1-5.11

RU

В данной статье рассматриваются модели образовательных кластеров, созданных на основе социального взаимодействия образовательных организаций и государственно-частного партнерства. Особое внимание уделяется способам создания такой образовательной сети, которая позволяет не только образовательным организациям получать недостающие для осуществления образовательной деятельности ресурсы и достигать определенных образовательных результатов, но и удовлетворять потребности заказчика образовательных услуг. Рассматриваются различные подходы к формированию модели образовательного кластера, основанного на партнерских отношениях.

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This article discusses the model of educational clusters that are based on social interaction between educational institutions and public-private partnerships. Particular attention is paid to methods of creating such educational network, which allows not only to educational organizations to obtain the missing for the implementation of educational activities and resources to achieve certain educational outcomes, but also to meet the needs of customers of educational services. Different approaches to the formation of a model educational cluster, based on partnerships.

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Społeczne negocjowanie prawa do pomocy. Socjologiczna analiza wybranych przypadków działalności w obszarze wykluczenia

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Kwarcińska K.

Prakseologia

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2012

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issue 153

185-214

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The article deals with the phenomenon of social exclusion, and speciﬁcally with the differential access of people and groups to aid given by mainstream society, and the rise of a category deﬁned as “the excluded among the excluded”. The starting point for the current analysis is the observation that aid does not reach to the same degree all members of society who need it. Aid is rationed and distributed among the recipients according to non-accidental rules created by communities. These rules are constructed with consideration given to material and technical limitations, but they also reﬂect social awareness of who and how should be helped. The aim of this article is to answer the question of how deﬁnitions of the situations which lead to granting or taking away of the right to aid are established, which social actors gain control over social deﬁnitions of the situation of need and help, and what the consequences of this control. I use the case study method to analyze the practices of NGOs which address their actions to people and groups afﬂicted by different types of social exclusion.

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On Spillikin – A Love Story: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage

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Stamboliev E.

Avant

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2017

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issue 8

EN

The inclusion of media technology in theatrical plays (Saltz, 2013) follows a contingent fascination and entanglement between human actors, technology and automata (Reilly, 2011) on stage. The contemporary play Spillikin – A Love Story places a new digital ‘actor’ in this debate: the humanoid robot as a socially interactive agent (Breazeal, 2002; Fong, Nourbakhsh, & Dautenhahn, 2003) and caring companion. This paper discusses the exhibition of sociability through the robot’s humanlike gestures and its ability to decipher human gestures on stage. The aim is to point to the ethical consequences for the audience concerning the robot’s implied autonomy to interact socially.

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On Spillikin – A Love Story: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage

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Stamboliev E.

Avant

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2017

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vol. 8

EN

The inclusion of media technology in theatrical plays (Saltz, 2013) follows a contingent fascination and entanglement between human actors, technology and automata (Reilly, 2011) on stage. The contemporary play Spillikin – A Love Story places a new digital ‘actor’ in this debate: the humanoid robot as a socially interactive agent (Breazeal, 2002; Fong, Nourbakhsh, & Dautenhahn, 2003) and caring companion. This paper discusses the exhibition of sociability through the robot’s humanlike gestures and its ability to decipher human gestures on stage. The aim is to point to the ethical consequences for the audience concerning the robot’s implied autonomy to interact socially.

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The Social Competence of Police Cadets as Sociology Conception

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Kiikov V.

Studies of Changing Societies

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2014

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vol. 2013

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issue 2

64-76

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the definition of social competence and its application in police practice, introduction of the police officer social competence structure, the subsequent description of its components. The efficiency in problems solving, which police officer encounter in daily service, as well as the quality of cooperation between police and community directly depends on the level of social competence development, the interiorization of social norm and values in personality structure of police officer, such as tolerance, respect of human rights, motivation for social interaction, culture of communication, social intelligence, emotionally-volitional stability etc. Therefore, the objectives of educative work in police high school have to include the purposeful formation of social competence as a requirement of contemporary democratic society. Another aspect of social competence formation in police cadets through educational means is utilization of moral potential of education, which is essential in rapidly changing societies for efficient socialization of such professional group as police officers.

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Perception of Fiction for the Development of Personal Meaning at Senior Preschool Age

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Liegeniece D., Freiberga I.

Ad verba liberorum

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2010

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vol. 2

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issue 1

62-78

EN

Fiction encourages the development of a personality if children have grasped the author's idea and the value system on the level of personal meaning. The article presents a theoretical model for encouraging the development of personal meaning related to fiction at preschool age. It is based on conclusions from the areas of phenomenology, hermeneutics, social genetics, social constructivism and art pedagogy as well as studies in cognitive psychology - research in the "theories of mind" about understanding other individuals' mental states at preschool age. The structure of the model is composed of successive stages requiring an interactive introduction of a piece of fiction in a situation topical for children, with the participation of their peers and the teacher. In discussion after the perception of a piece of fiction various experiences meet, associations form, analogies in one's own experiences and those of others are discovered. The processing of the perceived data continues in productive children's activities and they become personified in narrative interconnections: in children's stories about a piece of fiction.The aim of the study is to create a theoretic model for the development of personal meaning in the perception of a fairy tale and prove its productivity by revealing the manifestation of the criteria related to personal meaning in children's stories determining their levels. The study described in the article has been carried out in two stages: the aim of Stage 1 is to create a model for the development of personal meanings in perceiving fairy tales; the aim of Stage 2 is to investigate the productivity of the model for the development of personal meanings and work out criteria for the manifestation of personal meanings in children's stories generalizing them in levels of personal meaning development.Materials and methods include content analysis of stories narrated by children aged 5-6. After analysing the acquired data it is possible to single out several criteria and indicators for the manifestation of personal meaning as well as the levels of personal meaning in perceiving fairy tales. When summarizing the results, it can be concluded that the involvement of a fairy tale into a context topical for children, its interactive perception and social interaction with peers and an adult in a discussion, as well as the portrayal of the perceived information in a productive activity, encourages the development of personal meaning. This proves that fiction may encourage self-regulation of senior preschool children in their relationships with peers that are based on the intentions, experience and understanding of the situation as well as empathy of the other peers.

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Twarz i inne wyznaczniki dynamiki interakcyjnej w kontekście kulturowym

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Bogdanowska-Jakubowska E.

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium

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2016

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vol. 1

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issue 1&2

EN

The subject of the study is the concept of face (self-image of a person) and its role ininterpersonal contacts. The social meaning of face depends on a cultural context, particularly on values that dominate in a culture and on the nature of social relations which occur there.In Western cultures face is regarded as the main indicator of the dynamics of social interaction.It does not play an equally significant role in all cultures, however. The present article aims at presenting the main indicators of interactive dynamics in Anglo-American and Polish cultures.

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Przedmiotem pracy jest pojęcie twarzy (wizerunku własnego jednostki) oraz jego rola w kontaktach międzyludzkich. Społeczne znaczenie twarzy uzależnione jest od kontekstu kulturowego, a w szczególności od wartości dominujących w danej kulturze oraz od charakteru relacji społecznych tam występujących. Twarz uważana jest za główny wyznacznik dynamiki interakcji społecznej w kulturach zachodnich. Nie we wszystkich kulturach, jednak, pełni ona tak ważną rolę. Celem pracy jest przedstawienie głównych wyznaczników dynamiki interakcyjnej w kulturze anglo-amerykańskiej i polskiej.

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NETWORK SOCIETY: University students and new technologies. Relationships between the use of new digital technologies in the process of mass communication and social interaction of the young generation

Interrelation between Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) and Social Capital: Conceptual Framework

Miejska ulica jako przestrzeń życia politycznego - między ładem cenzury a żywiołem buntu

SPOŁECZEŃSTWO SIECIOWE: Młodzież akademicka a nowe technologie. Zależność między korzystaniem z nowych technologii cyfrowych w procesie masowego komunikowania a społeczną interakcją młodego pokolenia.

The Effect Of Omitted Spatial Effects And Social Dependence In The Modelling Of Household Expenditure For Fruits And Vegetables

Symbolically Mediated Interaction and Perspective-taking: A Social-relational Perspective on Social Cognitive Development

Soužití v městské čtvrti: majorita a Vietnamci v Praze-Libuši

Money and social interaction in Simmel’s "Philosophy of Money" and Audu Wazirin Ɗanduna’s ballad "Tsakanin Ɗan'adam da Kuɗi"

Life Stories and Interculturality

Emotions are not a private matter: Introduction to a special issue on emotions in interpersonal relationships

Multicultural Pedagogy: Strengthening Social Interaction Among Multi-Ethnic Pre-School Children

Challenges in remote education: analysis of social interaction, motivation and engagement

Ekvivalence a blokové modelování v analýze sociálních sítí

Кластерная модель организации социального партнерства в муниципальной сфере образования

Społeczne negocjowanie prawa do pomocy. Socjologiczna analiza wybranych przypadków działalności w obszarze wykluczenia

On Spillikin – A Love Story: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage

On Spillikin – A Love Story: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage

The Social Competence of Police Cadets as Sociology Conception

Perception of Fiction for the Development of Personal Meaning at Senior Preschool Age

Twarz i inne wyznaczniki dynamiki interakcyjnej w kontekście kulturowym