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The author seeks to illustrate the situation regarding breastfeeding and new born care from the perspective of two generations of mothers in two selected periods. She monitors the ethnological aspects of changes in this field and its perception in the lives of two generations of mothers. She also studies the status of breastfeeding in society and its promotion, or alternatively its relegation to the background on favour of formula feeding. Interpreting the results, she attempts to answer the questions why such situation existed, what factors contributed to it, and how mothers themselves interpreted and analysed the reasons for this situation.
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The author examines the formation of every generation of artists that has contributed to the shaping of Slovak professional theatre. In the late thirties, a generation of young artists already trained at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Drama entered the world of theatre and gradually replaced the founding generation around the director Jan Borodac. Although their formative process was not completed until after World War II, they had a decisive influence on the development of Slovak theatre until the 1960s. At the turn of the 60s and 70s, for the first time a new generation stepped forward not only as an alternative to the efforts of their senior colleagues, but also on the basis of consensus and unity. Between 1968- 1971 a group of actors, directors and others involved with the Divadlo na Korze (Theatre on the Corso) laid the foundations for a new artistic program that was later extended, modified and directly or indirectly accepted widely among theatre artists during the seventies and eighties. The fourth generation of theatre artists should logically have followed, but the social changes have brought the withdrawal of the theatre from its previous positions in the social hierarchy. Only an increased interest of commercial TV companies in the production of original Slovak TV series and the renewed public interest in such production gives us some hope that a new artistic program as a platform for a new generation of theatre artists might appear recently.
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The author analyses development of the Slovak professional theatre after World War II from the perspective of emerging generationally related art teams of the theatre makers. He notes that generational manifestations have always been conditioned by social situation because the basic attributes of this concept are the uniformity of opinion and the ability to strongly articulate civic and artistic views in controversy and confrontation with the prevailing social atmosphere. The sixties brought along a release of social tension and at this period quite a number of university-trained young theatre artists active in theatres were stepping up against a strong group of older artists, who after years of schematism showed remarkable vitality and were able to absorb many elements of modern theatre. The first full-valued generational theatre was the theatre company Divadlo na korze. In the seventies, a tendency towards a generational theatre was to be found especially in theatres in Trnava, Nitra and Martin, but in all cases these were repertory theatres with staging production varying from generational proclamations of "otherness" to mainstream pieces. Generationally clearly defined theatre was given the opportunity to develop only after social upheaval in 1989.
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The authoress reflects upon whether a literary scholar may find Kazimierz Wyka's rather traditional concept of generation any useful. According to the said concept, generation is a symbol of difference, novelty, and besides, the change direction for the historical-literary (and, historical) process. She points out to troubles some contemporary scholars (Pawel Rodak, Danuta Zawadzka, and herself) encounter with the term, if so defined. She turns 'generation' as a reality-describing category into a notion requiring being reviewed and reinterpreted. Thus, she has singled out of the Wyka concept two styles of thinking proving mutually incoherent: the German humanities tradition of 19th century (from Hegel through to Ranke and Dilthey), and, Karl Mannheim's sociology which took shape in the late 1920s/early 1930s. The former refers one to the grand story of modernity and its main character, i.e. history, making of the generations labelled 'historic', and of their leaders, 'carriers' and symbols of change, youth-and-novelty, and breakthrough in the historic process. In this concept, generations emerge from critical events, in order to testify to the momentousness of those events and their own role in them. According, in turn, to the sociological concept, not only do generations boil down to a 'piled-up' history but they also tend to get arranged 'across' the history: amongst peers by date-of-birth, whatever makes them different, or even extremely different, from one another is more important than things because of which they get united (unconscious emotional responses to events). These differences include various, consciously manifested, attitudes toward one's own time, as different as their source intellectual traditions, class origins, etc., can be. This concept has it that generations are such moments in history where the synchrony and differentiated diachronies, the present and other times, get intersected. Those elements of the Wyka concept, incoherent as they are, overlap with some of the peculiar events of the latter half of 20th century as well, including the accelerated generational change and the decomposition of a hierarchical culture (with a centre and some authorities), which causes that subsequent generations of young people tend to live, as it were, beside one another, proving more similar to tribes or subcultures with no mutual tights whatsoever than to generations understood in terms of the Wyka concept. The authoress does not formulate any unambiguous conclusions; rather than that, she poses questions whilst pointing to the need of having the term, as once introduced by K. Wyka to literary science, redefined and/or reinterpreted.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2013
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vol. 68
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issue 2
114 – 123
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In Physics II. 4-6 Aristotle deals with the technical concept of chance. Here a number of specific characteristics are ascribed to the chance happenings. At the same time, in his biological works Aristotle presents his notorious theory of ‘spontaneous generation’. Most scholars assume that this theory ought to be in line with the doctrine of chance, as this is presented in his Physics. It is clear, however, that spontaneous generation lacks (at least some of) the features a chance happening ought to have. For instance, spontaneity is not unusual. Here the author ś purpose is to address the exegetical problem at hand, in particular to sketch out an argument according to which the discrepancy between Aristotle’s doctrine of chance and his theory of spontaneous generation is merely an apparent one.
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The goal of the paper is to deal with the issue of a generation representative and to answer the question how the affiliation to a generation was applied to selected authors in the line of Slovak prose written in the 1960s. At the same time there is an attempt to find out whether Milan Zelinka as a late debut author belongs or not to the line mentioned above. The paper is built on the dictionary entries defining „generation“, the history of Slovak literature, critical memoirs, contemporary research into Slovak literature written in the 1960s as well as the literary reflection on Zelinka´s debut of those times. The new concepts became the centre of attention – authenticity, estrangement, absurdity, experiment, everyday life elements, chance, anxiety, loneliness or dehumanization. While looking for a single generational line, having support in the survey named „Hľadanie prózy“/Finding Prose, which was carried out in Kultúrny život (1967), two lines of literature have been found. On the one hand finding and testing new techniques and methods of writing and on the other hand turning to the inner world of a human, authenticity or subjectivization. The book debut Dych/Breath by Milan Zelinka has been classified in the same generation line (Peter Jaroš, Rudolf Sloboda, Pavel Vilikovský, Pavel Hrúz, Ladislav Ballek, Dušan Kužel, Vlado Bednár) for several reasons. His short stories feature notable experiment, grotesque elements, absurdity, bizarre elements, parody, comic situations in order to describe the characters, their estranged, lonely individualities, manifested in the author´s own creative gesture.
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The study deals with the transmission of family memory in three three-generation families of Germans forcibly displaced from Czechoslovakia, in which the oldest generation, the so-called generation of experience, actually experienced the migration movement after the end of World War II. In the study, the family is seen as a specific social framework in which the past is retrieved. Generations are characterized in a biological sequence, with only the oldest “generation of experience” defined by Karl Mannheim. The research of generational family memory focuses on the actor’s reception through an analysis and interpretation of narrative and oral-history interviews with representatives of generations while exploring the way family memory is mediated. Specifically, the authors inquire into the role the memory media play in their materialised form, i.e. artefacts that act as an impulse and source of remembrance narrative, in the process of generational transmission of memories in families. The focus here is on remembrance narratives related to the forced displacement, which thematise material artefacts, with the focus being not only on what artefacts there are in connection with the recollection of this historical process and what stories are related to them, but also the effort to uncover the meaning and the function of these artefacts during family remembrance.
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The aim of this study is to analyse Petr Hruška’s poetry and its reception in Czech literature. The author also concentrates on the fact that the young literary and critics generation have a big problem with perception of poetry such as Hruška’s, because their point of view is deformed. The 30 years old literary generation cannot find the body (key theme in Hruška’s poetry); these authors only try to speak about it. On the contrary, Hruška tries to find such situations in which the body talks with the man. And that is the moment when the man can point it out.
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2006
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vol. 55
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issue 2
279-288
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The authoress presents the issue of the Ukrainian dialect of the San river region in the aspect of modern development. The material presented was collected from the oldest and the youngest representatives of the Ukrainian dialect in the villages of Kalników, Gaje, Nienowice and Chotyniec in Poland (Podkarpackie Voivodeship). In the past centuries, the region was inhabited mainly by the population of the Ukrainian origin. Nowadays, the inhabitants of these villages live in the vicinity of Polish dialects. The article is concerned with phonetic features of vowels and consonants, and rules of their articulation. The phonetic and lexical changes that occur in the dialect were shown on the basis of the differences in the pronunciation of the older, middle-aged, and young generations.
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The paper deals with the intergenerational arguments between the authors of Surrealism (along with their generation critics) and the representatives of the older generation, Ján Poničan in particular. An attention is paid especially to the issue of anti-fascist attitudes of the Surrealists as regards the almanac “Áno a nie” and their relationship with Janko Kráľ as a source of inspiration. Particular extracts of the contemporary polemics were used to trace the ambivalent attitudes of the both sides involved in the intergenerational argument, which shows that the problem in question is not black and white and can be viewed in different ways. What is important is the explicit declaration of youth by the Surrealist poets, which can directly be linked to the emblematic motif of youth and desire in Surrealism as well as the opposition stance typical of all the Avantgarde movements.
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The subject of the paper is the generation relations in the context of the Hlasist movement, which is seen as one of the modernist phenomena in Slovak society at the turn of the 19th century. The differentiation of the political spectrum, which was brought by the two Hlasist generations, meant introducing new opinions on the arts and culture and also reflection on the images and ideas of Slovak society. The goal of the analysis of particular articles and essays published in two chosen periodicals (Národnie noviny, Hlas) and contemporary private correspondence of the individuals involved is to grasp the literary and historical process of the generation exchange at the first stage, define the relation with the domestic literary tradition (on the axis accepting – compromising – confronting – rejecting) and to show the fact that the generation relations of the individuals involved and their contemporaries are much more layered and complicated than it may seem at the first sight.
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The ICCS 2009 international research studies how young people in various countries are getting ready to take on their civil roles in the 21st century. This study shows a research on the attitudes of 14 year old Slovak pupils (sample of 2970 respondents) to Europe and to the European Union. The goal was to find answers to the following question: „What is the attitude of Slovak pupils to Europe and to European Union?“ The attitude of Slovak pupils to the Europe and the European Union is very open, they are interested in EU affairs and appreciate EU‘s contribution to the development of the Slovak society in all monitored areas.
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The paper is an attempt at a sociological research outlook on the realities of John Paul II generation. The author draws the conclusion that the multigenerational John Paul II generation is a community of people sharing the same attitudes that were shaped by joint experience of a historical event, i.e. the life and teaching of Karol Wojtyła, in particular the pontificate of John Paul II as well as the mystery of the death of the Holy Father. The Pope had influence on the shaping of the world view and attitudes of those who describe themselves as “John Paul II generation”. The generation constitutes a social circle rather than a huge human aggregate. The circle is formed by people who – under the influence of John Paul II – directed their lives in a specific way, and for whom his teaching is by no means indifferent, and his model of life an example of a truly Christian life. This community, which can be referred to as „the community of spirit” shows an intensive spirit of faith and comprises people of different ages.
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Memory of the Second World War has since mid-20th century been an important element of the identity of European nationalities and a factor creating national myths. The article points to differences in depictions of this cruelest of wars, the domination of the victim discourse and two apparently contradictory though in fact mutually dependent tendencies: on the one hand, the writing anew of the history of particular nations, and on the other hand, the opening up of national historiographies onto a transnational, European or even global perspective. Differences in the knowledge on war, transmitted between generations, are presented through comparative studies conducted in eight European countries. Concluding remarks refer to the public debate on the museum expositions devoted to war events and enforced migrations.
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Chociaż migracje Polek cieszyły się dużym zainteresowaniem naukowym, szczyt rozwoju badań genderowych dotyczących wyjazdów zagranicznych objął przede wszystkim doświadczenia kobiet migrujących w latach 80. i 90. XX w., aż do pierwszego pięciolecia poakcesyjnego (2004–2009). Soczewka pokoleniowa oznacza, że badanymi były przede wszystkim migrujące Polki z pokoleń baby-boomers i X. Dekadę później migracje kształtują biografie Milenialsek, jednak wyróżniające je doświadczenia mobilności nie są szczegółowo eksplorowane poza kontekstem rynku pracy. Opierając się na materiale empirycznym z projektu „Paczki przyjaciół i migracje” (2016–2020), w artykule analizujemy wzory migracyjne wykształconych Polek z pokolenia Y. Pokazujemy decyzje mobilnościowe Milenialsek oraz śledzimy relacje między płcią a rolami społecznymi w życiu osobistym i rodzinnym młodych kobiet. Wskazujemy na nowe wzory migracji „mobilnego pokolenia wyboru”, a także stwierdzamy, że o ile pewne relacje i role rodzinne Milenialsek uległy transformacji, o tyle sprzężenie mobilności z macierzyństwem zdaje się mniej podatne na międzypokoleniową zmianę.
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While many studies have focused on the international migration of Polish women, the main wave of gendered research has covered the experiences of women who went abroad during the 1980s and 1990s, up until about five years after EU accession (2009). As such, from a generational stance, existing studies have investigated the mobility paths of Baby-Boomers and Generation X. Today migration shapes the biographies of Polish women from Generation Y (i.e. Millennials) who have traits that potentially differentiate them from mobile women in the past and in areas beyond the labor market. Drawing on empirical material from “Peer-groups and Migration” study (2016–2020), we analyze international mobility pathways and migratory decision-making processes of educated women from Gen Y and investigate how mobility intersects with gender and social roles in family/ personal life for Millennials. We argue that the „mobile generation of choice” engages in new forms of migration. Although certain family roles have changed among migrant-Millennials, the motherhood/mobility junction remains less prone to generational shifts.
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An intention of this paper is to present results of empirical research into the lingual-communication behaviour of the Slovak youth in Slovakia and Hungary. This research was conducted in both countries during the 2010. The investigation focused on spoken expressions of the Slovak language in surroundings which are typical for the application of the written language as a form of a social contact in the school – with friends, peers and in family. The referential framework of this article consists of three analytical levels: - analysis of a knowledge degree of the Slovak and Hungarian language (in the case of the Slovak language its lingual appearances are analysed), - inter-generation relations of the lingual communication, - analysis of mutual contexts (dependence on identification signs).
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The article reflects on the role of mobility within transition to adulthood process. It will present the results of research focusing on the transitions to adulthood of representatives of the generation born at the beginning of the 1980s in Poland. This boom generation experienced both the transformation from a communist to a capitalist state, as well as the joyful and hopeful moment of Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004. Post-2004, faced with high unemployment, the representatives of this age cohort decided to leave Poland en masse in search of employment opportunities. Based on biographical interviews with young Poles born in the early 1980s and living in Poland, the article reflects upon the meaning of mobility and migration experiences in their young age. What was mobility impact on different transition to adulthood trajectories – employment, family or independent living? How has it affected the concept of adulthood? In the article, the mobility experience will be looked upon through the lenses of theories of youth studies, which is a recent trend in analyzing young people’s mobility or migration. The article points to the three meanings of mobility: mobility as an experience of semi-independence, mobility as time to gain adulthood, and mobility as a celebration of youth. As the experience of this cohort is unique in the historical sense, it is also exemplary for the growing importance of mobility in transitions to adulthood.
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