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Management – from Epistemology by Methodology to Social Practice of Academia Cognitive Challenges in Management Science 21

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Sułkowski Ł.

Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie

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2015

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vol. 16

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issue 2

111-119

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The aim of the article is to present cognitive challenges in the area of management. Researchers and reflective managers still work on the identity of management belonging to the social sciences. The paper depicts the connections between cognitive problems (from the epistemological point of view), management methodology and social practice. Management sciences are parts of historical discourse and because of that epistemological and methodological levels have an impact on social practice. The main concern of this paper is the role of the management scientist, consultant and teacher. The analysis suggests that academic teacher and researcher are social roles with a character that can be called universal. Practitioner is associated rather with pragmatic aspect of management science. Practitioners are often regarded as managers, but their roles in the organisation might as well be non-managerial.

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Scientific knowledge and social practice in health psychology: A discipline at the crossroads

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Sęk H., Kaczmarek Ł. D., Ziarko M.

Nauka

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2017

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issue 3

PL

Health psychology was founded as a response to social needs for better understanding and regulation of psychological aspects of biological, mental, and social well-being. Despite initial enthusiasm and optimism in its early days, three decades of development yielded results that are disappointing to many scholars in terms of health psychology practical meaning. Thus, in this paper we review several challenges for health psychology. We believe that health psychology might benefit from revival of aims and values that distinguished the discipline at its onset such as bio-psycho-social perspective that has been narrowed to somatic illness in recent days. Second, more integration is needed in theory and terminology to eliminate overlapping concepts labeled with different names. Furthermore, social practice would benefit from greater responsiveness of health psychologists to new technologies. Finally, health psychology is likely to derive benefits from more general well-established perspectives on diffusion of innovation in social practice. We conclude that health psychology as a practice-related scientific discipline is likely to regain its initial momentum once these problems are solved and novel areas of scientific exploration are identified.

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Why bother getting involved? Commitment and mobilisation within current climate and environmental movements

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Nørholm Lundin A.

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses

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2021

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vol. 22

23-40

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The present article analyses mobilisation in climate and environmental movements as a social practice. The research questions concern why people take part in said movements, and how this makes sense to them, in relation to the specific context. The study aims to understand participation on several levels, thus filling knowledge gaps regarding the cross-section of civil society, social movements and Bourdieu’s theory of social practices. The empirical study consists of two cases of current climate and environmental movements. The first case concerns local groups and networks mobilised to preserve forests and parks. The second case concerns local and global climate strikes and manifestations. The reasons for taking part in such movements are found on several levels. Firstly, the explicit concerns and cares, as well as frustrations, trigger the commitment. Taking part is a way to handle the crisis in a way that makes sense personally. Secondly, previous experiences, education and professional life enable a sense of belonging and a sense of being able to take part. Thirdly, the socialisation that takes part within the social practice contributes to an increased commitment. In the stories about previous and coming actions, values and traditions – of the right ways of doing and being – a practical sense/habitus for this social practice is reproduced. The conveying of concerns in public is understood and explained as a ritualised practice, contributing to the commitment, as a key resource.

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Understanding the role of metal within the Late Bronze Age community at Mycenae: challenges and potential approaches

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Aulsebrook S. J.

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

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2020

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vol. 29(2)

239-266

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It has been widely argued that metal played a decisive role in the development of Mycenae, which became one of the foremost centers on the Late Bronze Age Greek mainland. Yet, little is understood as to how metals were integrated into the lives of the inhabitants. Most scholarship has concentrated on the relationship between the ruling class and metal artifacts, drawing much of their evidence from the Linear B archives and top-down models of trade, society and internal redistribution that are increasingly considered untenable within the study of other aspects of Mycenaean life. This paper introduces a new project designed to investigate this issue by using a practice-orientated approach based around object biographies to study the use of metal across the entire social spectrum of the Late Bronze Age community at Mycenae (approximately 1700–1050 BC). The decision to take such an approach is justified through the presentation of a case study, based upon hitherto unpublished previous research, that examines the unexpected rarity of gold vessels in the Palatial period archaeological record from the perspective of social practice; its purpose is to demonstrate how the holistic use of evidence from multiple sources, as envisaged in this new project, can help overcome the difficulties inherent in the study of the use of metal in past societies.

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More than linguistic needs and more than one perspective: Reconstructing perspectives of pupils with linguistically and spatially discontinuous school biographies and drawing implications for all school stakeholders

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Daase A., Rozum N., Rubinets V.

Glottodidactica

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2023

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vol. 50

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issue 1

55-75

EN

In the article we argue for a reconstructive and subject-oriented approach to data collection and analysis in order to reconstruct perspectives of pupils with linguistically and spatially discontinuous school biographies as a basis for needs analysis. The paper takes an in-depth look at a narrative interview with such a pupil using the Documentary Method. Based on the analysed interview passage and with recourse to the praxeologically extended sociocultural theories of SLA, we derive initial implications for schools with pupils with migratory experiences. One crucial assumption is that, in order to create better educational opportunities for children with migratory experiences, school staff need to systematically develop contingency competence. By contingency competence we mean the sensitivity and awareness of the principal openness of human life forms and their diverse possibilities for linguistic, material, and practical expression. Conclusions are drawn on what the required competencies contain and how an inclusive school can be created.

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Philosophy in Times of Regression

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Veljak L.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2016

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issue 2

149-155

EN

In this paper the author tries to explore (or at least to indicate) the problem of the so-cial function of philosophy in the contemporary world. This world is characterized by universal modernization and in the last decades by globalization and unification, but at the same time also by controversies and contradictions which reveal tendencies of hu-man regression and degeneration. Philosophy must remain a study of general and fun-damental nature of a human-produced world. As such philosophy produces potentiali-ties of critical thinking, provides social investigations, and—at least in principle—gives people the power of an adequate understanding of our world, its fundamental character-istics and main tendencies. Thus philosophy is a ground for a reasonable social practice and adequate policies.

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Czy możliwe jest kulturoznawstwo aktywistyczne? Partycypacja w perspektywie filozofii praxis

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Skórzyńska A.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

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2016

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vol. 19

15-40

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The main aim of the paper is to refine and highlight one of the topics of this book, which is the overlap of several different understandings of cultural participation: 1) based on cultural theories and traditional, continental cultural studies discourses, where participation was usually understood as acontribution of the subject to the collective systems of beliefs; 2) based on the “critical theories” of culture, British cultural studies, political philosophy and critique or art theory and practice, where the term participation is often used to explain agrassroot, bottom-up activity, civic participation and acontribution of individuals and groups to public domain, 3) based on the political philosophy and the political practice, 4) based on contemporary theory and critique of art practices, empirical social research of cultural participation. All of these understandings have a lot in common, they are negotiable as well. What differentiates them, possibly, is the concept of social/cultural change which they involve. However, the concept of relation between action, knowledge and beliefs which they assume is far more important. The theoretical perspective, which in my opinion can serve as a way to negotiate these approaches, is modern philosophy of praxis and contemporary theories of social practice. I discuss whether there is apossibility to integrate these discourses in the model of activist research for Polish cultural studies in the context of increasingly intensifying debates around the performativity of cultural research and the need to “came back to the rough ground” of social practice.

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Konsensus i jego brak w Radzie Europejskiej – analiza przypadku reelekcji Donalda Tuska w 2017 r. z perspektywy zwrotu praktycznego

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Ławniczak K.

Rocznik Integracji Europejskiej

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2021

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issue 15

249-261

EN

Both the Council and the European Council are said to operate under “the culture of consensus”, which means that even if they formally can decide on some issues by qualified majority, in practice they rarely do so. This is particularly true of the European Council and so it was surprising to many observers when on 9 March 2017 Donald Tusk was re-elected for a second term as the European Council’s president despite the explicit negative vote of one member state (Poland). This event marked the first time the European Council used the possibility of electing its president by qualified majority rather than unanimously. In this paper I argue that using formal provisions allowing for qualified majority voting in such situations is, far from undermining the culture of consensus, in fact necessary to maintain it. The argument is embedded in the practice turn contribution to political research. Practice turn moves social practices to the centre of researchers’ interest and emphasises the fact that they can be performed more or less competently. Therefore, if a member state performs the “practice of consensus” incorrectly, it cannot expect the norms which constitute the culture of consensus to help it impose its position on other member states. Because the way in which the European Council operates is difficult to access directly, the paper develops its argument by drawing from the ongoing qualitative research on decision-making in the Council (including author’s own field research). It also uses available publicly-available sources relevant to the events of 2017 Donald Tusk re-election to substantiate the argument.

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Zarówno Rada, jak i Rada Europejska działają zgodnie z „kulturą konsensusu”, co oznacza, że nawet jeśli formalnie mogą decydować o niektórych sprawach większością kwalifikowaną, w praktyce rzadko to robią. Jest to szczególnie prawdziwe w przypadku Rady Europejskiej i dlatego dla wielu obserwatorów było zaskoczeniem, gdy 9 marca 2017 roku Donald Tusk został wybrany na drugą kadencję jako przewodniczący Rady Europejskiej, pomimo przeciwnego głosu jednego państwa członkowskiego (Polski). Wydarzenie to oznaczało, że Rada Europejska po raz pierwszy skorzystała z możliwości wyboru swojego przewodniczącego większością kwalifikowaną, a nie jednogłośnie. W niniejszym artykule argumentuję, że stosowanie w takich sytuacjach formalnych przepisów pozwalających na głosowanie większością kwalifikowaną nie tylko nie podważa kultury konsensusu, ale wręcz jest niezbędne do jej utrzymania. Argument ten jest osadzony we wkładzie zwrotu praktycznego do badań politologicznych. Ten nurt umieszcza praktyki społeczne w centrum zainteresowania i podkreśla fakt, że mogą być one wykonywane mniej lub bardziej kompetentnie. Dlatego też, jeśli państwo członkowskie wykonuje „praktykę konsensusu” niepoprawnie, nie może oczekiwać, że normy, które tworzą kulturę konsensusu, pomogą mu narzucić swoje stanowisko innym państwom członkowskim. Ponieważ sposób funkcjonowania Rady Europejskiej jest trudno dostępny bezpośrednio, artykuł rozwija swoją argumentację, czerpiąc z dorobku badań nad procesem podejmowania decyzji w Radzie (w tym badań prowadzonych przez autora). Następnie przeprowadzona zostaje analiza dostępnych źródeł odnoszących się do wydarzeń z 2017 r., związanych z reelekcją Donalda Tuska.

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„Wspólnota parkingowania”. Praktyki parkowania na osiedlach wielkomiejskich i ich strukturalne konsekwencji

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Smagacz-Poziemska M., Bukowski A., Kurnicki K.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2018

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issue 1(228)

117-142

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Celem artykułu jest analiza konsekwencji, jakie dla szerszego porządku społecznego niosą praktyki związane z parkowaniem w przestrzeni wielkomiejskich osiedli. Procesy społeczno-przestrzenne na osiedlach mieszkaniowych są analizowane z perspektywy teorii praktyk społecznych oraz relacyjnej koncepcji granic i różnic społecznych Fredrika Bartha. Badania terenowe prowadzone na czterech osiedlach mieszkaniowych w dwóch polskich miastach metodą studium przypadku doprowadziły do odkrycia, że praktyka społeczna nazwana przez nas parkingowaniem jest jednym z głównych obszarów życia sąsiedzkiego. Składające się nań wiązki działań i wypowiedzi układają się w trwałe wzory relacji o charakterze organizacyjnym, normatywnym i klasowo-warstwowym, które prowadzą do kształtowania wspólnot parkowania w ramach osiedli.

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The main aim of the article is the analysis of the consequences of car parking practices in the urban housing estates for wider processes of social structuration. The authors examine socio-spatial processes from the perspective of the theory of social practices and Fredrick Barth’s relational theory of social differences and boundaries. The analysis is based on the material gathered during ﬁeldwork in four housing estates in two Polish cities. The conducted case studies have revealed that a social practice of parking is one of the major spheres of neighbourhoods’ social life. The practice consists of arrays of doings and sayings which compose relatively stable patterns of relations. These, in turn, have organizational, normative and class consequences, which constitute “communities of parking” in the estates that can be called parkinghoods.

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Zwrot praktyczny w studiach europejskich – założenia i możliwości zastosowania

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Ławniczak K.

Rocznik Integracji Europejskiej

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2022

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issue 16

47-59

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Seeking for new research approaches becomes ever more intensive in European studies, following the promise that “another theory is possible”. One of such approaches is practice turn. This paper presents practice turn as not simply a call for more field research but a far more ambitious theoretical and methodological move. It shows how practice-oriented research differs from other approaches and what it offers the researchers studying the EU. Research concerning the decision-making processes in the Council of the European Union serves as an example to demonstrate solutions which practice turn delivers to certain problems and limitations inherent in this area.

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W ostatnim czasie w studiach europejskich coraz intensywniej poszukuje się nowych podejść badawczych w myśl hasła „inna teoria jest możliwa”. Jednym z nich może być zwrot praktyczny (practice turn). Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje ten zwrot jako ruch teoretyczny i metodologiczny daleko wykraczający poza podkreślenie znaczenia badań terenowych w studiach nad UE. Pokaże on, co wyróżnia badania skupione na praktykach i co oferują one badającym UE. W szczególności, na przykładzie badań dotyczących podejmowania decyzji w Radzie Unii Europejskiej, artykuł wskazuje rozwiązania, jakich zwrot praktyczny dostarcza dla niektórych problemów, jak również wyjścia ze ślepych uliczek, charakteryzujących obecnie ten obszar.

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Serial jako element praktyk społecznych

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Sokołowski Ł.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2011

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vol. 55

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issue 2-3

187-208

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The purpose of the article is to show how the TV-series — one of the most important forms of television production — is incorporated into the daily routines of the spectators. Michel de Certeau perspective of applied sociology of everyday life and critical reflection on everyday life is used as a theoretical framework. In the case of TV-series, the routines can take a form of: (1) “logging in” and “reading”” TV-series, (2) movement and sociability routines, and (3) discursive development of received meanings. “Soap opera experience” consists mainly of linguistic practices cultivated while watching the series, which is a modern form of storytelling, socializing, which changes the audiences’ view of reality, its social framework for evaluation and interpretation. A viewer is critical and active; they use consumption processes as an excuse to construct their own meanings and narratives, and negotiate the meaning of what is presented to them.

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