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Cultural conditioning of the labour market in Saudi Arabia

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Odrowąż‑Coates A.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2015

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issue 1(31/2)

185-198

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The present work concerns an anthropological outlook on the political consequences of corporate and economic migration to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and labour market segregation. The complexity of cultural codes and the clash of customs are discussed in the paper, which is based on a two‑year period of sociological field research conducted in the KSA by the author. The ethnographic materials are enriched by discourse from daily Saudi papers and other international publications. The study contains an insight into race and ethnicity as seen by Saudis themselves and also allows a deeper understanding of the power distribution in this particular modern Islamic society. In the climate of the European economic crisis, the sustained demand for highly qualified migrant workers in the KSA provides a lucrative alternative for specialists across market sectors and this often involves their families. In light of the globalised market, many corporations run multi‑billion dollar contracts inside the Kingdom and relocate their own work force to achieve business goals. The need for specialists and for cheap manual labour from abroad is a direct result of the Saudi education system, together with the work ethic amongst the majority of Saudi nationals, which is heavily influenced by the cultural and sociological consequences of the Wahhabi interpretation of the Quran. This interpretation has a major impact on Saudi society and on migrants, particularly women. The social order is widely supported and successfully reproduced through a united message present in education, the national media and local mosques. Concerns over ethnic divisions are focused on conflicting ideologies, represented in the interactions between newcomers and the indigenous population.

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Lewą naprzód. Ideologia i walka klas u młodego Zygmunta Baumana

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Czapnik S., Duda K.

Nowa Krytyka

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2015

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issue 34

123-142

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This paper shows the analysis of the Zygmunt Bauman’'s thought in his marxist period (1960s). Article starts with Bauman’'s statement on importance of social sciences and humanities in the building of socialist Poland’'s Peoples Republic. Then author analyzes category of „ideology”, a four main modern ideologies: conservative, liberal, ideology of christianity and communist. Next chapter is focused on the issue of class warfare. This paper contains also general characteristics of terms „alienation” and „commodity fetishism” in Marxian thought. Young Bauman was communist and radical follower of the marxism. In conclusion, author in short underlines, that ideology could be helpful in scientific enterprise, but only, if thinker is consciously choosing ideology and knows its strong and weak sides.

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Aspects of Ethnicity, Class and Religion in Case of Slovak Immigrant Communities in the UK

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Rozenfeld J.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2013

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vol. 10

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issue 1

35-61

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Since 2004 several tens of thousands of Slovaks arrived in the United Kingdom. A number of Slovak communities have emerged that bear the characteristic marks of diasporas. This paper displays an analysis of these immigrant groups based on online surveys and interviews. Questions of integration versus assimilation are discussed in the light of class, religious affiliation and ethnic identity.

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The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing

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Hardy J.

Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology

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2015

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vol. 6

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issue 11

7-25

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Guy Standing's book The Precariat has had a significant impact in stimulating a debate about the changing nature of work across the broad sweep of the global economy. He advances the notion of precarious workers, originally put forward by Italian autonomist Marxists, to suggest that they constitute a new and separate class. This article reflects on the notion of precarious work and addresses the temporal, historical and analytical weaknesses manifest in many accounts by proposing a political economy synthesis. The discussion takes place through the theoretical lens of embeddedness that takes seriously the structures and institutions of capitalism and the agency of workers individually and collectively. First, it is argued that two key influences on the structural embeddedness of precarity are the spatiality of capitalism and its endemic tendency to crisis. Second, the temporal and institutional embeddedness of precarity is discussed in historical and comparative context. Third, the agential influence on embeddedness is examined with regard to the possibility of the self-organization precarious workers and their potential for forging solidarity with other groups. The article concludes that precarious work is intrinsic to capitalism and therefore the precariat cannot be understood as a class in itself. The implications of this for activists is that solidarity needs to be forged between all groups of workers in order to organise for decent and stable employment.

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“WE COULD SING BETTER SONGS THAN THOSE”: DRINK IMAGES IN WILLY RUSSELL’S PLAYS

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Klepuszewski W.

Acta Neophilologica

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2018

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vol. XX/1

145-154

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Willy Russell is an example of a writer whose popularity and critical reception is not extensively reflected in serious studies. There is a noticeable tendency to appraise rather than analyse Russell’s work. The aim of the present article is to dissect the function of drink images in the context of class-related issues Russell thematises in his plays.

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Intersektionalität und Literatur

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Dörr V. C.

Studia Germanica Gedanensia

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2022

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vol. 46

11-22

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Intersectionality, i. e. the interweaving of race, class, gender, etc., above all in discourses of exclusion of others and especially minorities, is frequently seen as an identity-political moment. It is often claimed that the above (and other) categories cannot be separated in or even before the analysis. Here it is suggested that, at least when considering intersectional phenomena in literature, the categories should be conceptualized as separate and only subsequently analyzed for their synthetic interplay.

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Intersektionalität, also die Verschränkung von race, class, gender etc. vor allem in Diskursen der Ausschließung von Anderen und besonders Minderheiten, wird häufig als identitätspolitisches Moment betrachtet. Oft wird dabei behauptet, dass die genannten (und weitere) Kategorien sich in oder schon vor der Analyse nicht trennen lassen. Hier wird vorgeschlagen, zumindest bei Betrachtung intersektionaler Phänomene in der Literatur die Kategorien als getrennte zu konzipieren und erst in der Folge deren synthetisches Zusammenspiel zu analysieren.

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Kategorie kultury publicznej służące konserwowaniu relacji władzy. Rasa i klasa w kontekście (post)kolonialnym

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Kaczmarek Ł.

Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne

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2014

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vol. 23

7-40

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In the article I intend to describe the way in which “scientific” categories of race and class are invented and transferred into public culture and subsequently instrumented in creating and maintaining imaginaries and practices of colonial and postcolonial power relations. I interpret colonialism and postcolonialism in a very broad context, as a continuum encompassing creation and recreation of the contemporary rules and phenomena that are related to the functioning of nation-state power, which in turn is shaped, as a set of ideas, by discourses of public culture. My arguments derive from anthropological research on social mobility and are illustrated with examples from Jamaica and the USA.

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Interesy klasowe a kwestia narodowa

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Borochow D. B.

Nowa Krytyka

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2017

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issue 38

23-54

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Literatura marksowska poświęcona sprawie narodowej jest bardzo uboga i tym po części daje się tłumaczyć to, iż Socjal-Demokracja dotychczas jeszcze nie ma względem tej sprawy ustalonego stanowiska, jakie sobie wyrobiła we wszystkich innych zagadnieniach społecznych. Dzieło Borochowa tedy wnosi w tej dziedzinie cenny wkład do literatury marksowskiej, gdyż opierając się na obiektywnym naukowym pojmowaniu marksizmu, odtwarza treść i podstawy nacjonalizmu, jego objawów u rozmaitych grup społeczeństwa odnośnie do ich stanowiska w społeczeństwie kapitalistycznym. Dzieło to wydane zostało w 1906 roku i służyło za podstawę dla programu narodowego Żyd. Socjal-Demokracji. W następnych naszych broszurach poruszymy poszczególne zagadnienia tego programu. Wydawn. „Młot”, Warszawa

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Different debtors, different struggles: foreign-currency housing loans and class tensions in Romania

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Florea I., Sandu-Dumitriu M.

Critical Housing Analysis

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2022

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vol. 9

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issue 1

68-77

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Management of foreign-currency household debt in Romania in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 had the effect of deepening pre-2008 class disparities and treated debtor categories differently according to their income. In this article we contribute to the debate on subaltern financialisation by showing how post-crisis credit and housing policies contributed to the fact that today different debtor groups (i.e. by type of credit but also by time of lending) find themselves at opposing ends of the political spectrum based on different class alliances, with those who benefited from the crisis-management polices positioning themselves against those who were the ‘losers’ under these same policies.

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The Sociological Marxism of Michael Burawoy

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Gdula M.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2022

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issue 4(247)

153-172

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Michael Burawoy’s idea of public sociology instigated a heated debate about the purpose of sociological research and bestowed its author an important place among contemporary social thinkers. The article presents the intellectual path that led Burawoy to formulate his well-known idea. Starting from his first book, he developed a coherent and original theory that was indebted to Marxism but was reaching beyond its horizons. Through grounding his conceptual work in sociological field research, Burawoy created his own understanding of such concepts as class, interest or production. By linking the participant observation of workplaces’ local regimes with the global political dynamics of social systems, the theory of sociological Marxism paved the way to formulating the new idea of sociology. Burawoy’s sociology aims at combining a realistic investigation in the interests and dispositions of social actors with utopian imaginaries of contemporary culture.

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Characteristics of Female Figures and Memories of Women in Korean Narrative Songs

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Suh Y.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2023

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issue 1

226-235

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This article examines how Korean narrative songs have, since the Middle Ages, formed and transmitted the memories and figures of women. These narrative songs have been created and handed down as labour songs mainly by lower-class women, reconstructing women’s specific experiences and memories. Korean narrative songs in traditional society are mostly concerned with the life of a woman in a male-centred, patriarchal society. The female figures expressed in these songs show how Korean women recognize their social reality. The figuration of women in Korean narrative songs can be categorized into 4 branches according to whether or not adversity is resolved to meet personal or social expectations. The A type (Personal expectations +, social expectations +) and the B type (Personal expectations +, social expectations –) are very rare in narrative folk songs. In the C type (Personal expectations –, social expectations +), the female figure lives according to social expectations or commits suicide. Most Korean narrative songs belong in the D type (Personal expectations —, social expectations –). When her personal expectations conflict with social expectations, the female figure commits suicide or becomes a monk. These female figures continue to reappear in women’s memories and are embodied in narrative songs. This shows the tragedy of women’s lived experiences and their perception of reality in Korean traditional society. The narrative songs were suitable for women’s work because they were lengthy and replaced expectation and frustration with the sequence of events. Women poured out their sorrows by singing narrative songs, allowing them to forget the suffering of hard work. Narrative folk songs still have many implications in Korean society because the status and reality of women still does not match that of the democratic, equal society we believe we have achieved. However, it cannot be denied that narrative songs contributed to the movement towards gender equality in Korean society.

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Teaching styles used by teachers in special and integrated schools

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Rola B.

Szkoła Specjalna

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2018

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vol. LXXIX(4)

245-258

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School has a special role in developing social skills in students with mild intellectual disabilities. It is often the only place where important behaviors and competencies are shaped, and the teacher plays a key part in this process. In this paper, I analyzed teachers’ assessments of their teaching styles by comparing opinions of teachers in special middle schools and in integrated middle schools. These settings follow different educational paths and, consequently, different teaching styles might be used. In the study, I also took into consideration the location of settings (Warsaw and near Warsaw). I used the Teacher Behavior Questionnaire by Grzegorz Sędek (1995). It includes the following dimensions of teachers’ activities in class: encouraging curiosity and creativity, lack of control over the class, criticizing, pushing, demanding faithful reproduction, clarity of expression and movement, stimulating students’ initiative in class, visualization and concretization of the material, and reminding students of the need to learn. The study covered 121 middle school teachers, including 56 teachers in special schools and 65 teachers in integrated schools. The majority of respondents were women (81%). Most of the teachers had 10 to 20 years of service (30%) and were appointed teachers (47%) or chartered teachers (47%). The frequency of behaviors was presented as a percentage analysis. I assumed that the 0–20% range means that the teachers declare that they never show a given behavior, the 21–40% range – that a given behavior is rarely displayed, the 41–60% range – that the teachers sometimes behave in a given way, and the 61–80% range reveals frequent behaviors. The results above 80% indicate a very high frequency of a given behavior.

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Freedom, Self-Determination and Automation: Considering Political Impulses in the Age of Digitalization

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Campbell J. A.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2019

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issue 1

147-158

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The aim of this essay is to examine the long-term evolution of the material reproductive vehicles of society. The fairly continuous trend of economic integration and progressive enfranchisement of the world’s people is indicated, ascertainable even with the emergence from general slavery of ancient times, through feudalism to the modern stage of industrialism and widespread national sovereignties. With greater political expression has come higher degrees and penetration of economic prosperity. Both vicious and virtuous tendencies of automation are considered. The necessary foundation of living labor is recognized.

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„Matka Praha“ a „dcery její“. Diskuse o ženském volebním právu do obce pražské v občanském a dělnickém ženském hnutí mezi lety 1906 a 1909

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Gelnarová J.

Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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2011

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vol. 3

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issue 2

34-58

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The paper deals with the discourse and argumentation of Czech women’s movement on the question of women’s suffrage. It focuses on the example of municipal women’s suffrage and aims to outline how the intersection of class and sex, as categories defining women’s location in the hierarchical power relations, influenced the framing of their argumentation, meaning of the used concepts and their perception of the “enemy”.

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Kilka uwag na temat koncepcji mnogościowych Richarda Dedekinda i Stanisława Leśniewskiego

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Obojska L.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2014

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vol. 59

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issue 1

95-107

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Mereology, is a part-whole theory, also called the theory of collective sets. It was founded in1916 by Stanislaw Lesniewski and this is an alternative theory versus the classical set theory by Georg Cantor. These two theories are usually teamed up together as Leśniewski himself was referring to the concept of the set by Cantor and Cantor is considered the "main" ideologist of the set theory. However, when analyzing the original texts of various authors, it seems that the very concept of a collective set is closer to the idea of Richard Dedekind rather than that of Georg Cantor. It is known that Cantor borrowed some concepts on the notion of set from Dedekind, whose ideas were also known to Leśniewski, however, there is no study on this topic. This work is therefore an attempt to compare some set-theoretical concepts of both of these authors, i.e. S. Leśniewski and R. Dedekind and the presentation of their convergence.

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Résistance. Tezy oporu.

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Bensaïd D.

Nowa Krytyka

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2017

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issue 38

55-77

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Poniższy tekst, który został napisany przez Daniela Bansaïda dla pisma „Viento Sur”, stanowi odważną próbę prześledzenia teoretycznych wyzwań, przed jakimi stoi współczesny marksizm. Zdaniem autora teoretyczna sterylność współczesnej socjaldemokracji i innych wielkich politycznych nurtów może powodować, że marksiści spoczywają na laurach i tylko ortodoksyjnie potwierdzają odziedziczone historycznie tezy. Ale, jak twierdzi, rewolucyjna teoria musi teraz starać się uporać z wielkimi zmianami w świecie, jakie nastąpiły po upadku stalinizmu. Jego rozważania dotyczą współczesnego imperializmu, bilansu Związku Radzieckiego i podobnych krajów, struktury klasowej współczesnego kapitalizmu, nowych nacjonalizmów i tożsamości wspólnotowej, ruchów społecznych i partii politycznych, postmodernistycznych pojęć różnicy i zróżnicowania – i dużo więcej oprócz wymienionych. Jest to tekst gęsty i trudny.

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ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE THEORY OF MAX WEBER

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Tittenbrun J.

Czech Journal of Social Sciences, Business and Economics

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2013

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vol. Volume 2

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issue 3

80-98

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The paper is devoted to Weber’s economic sociology, as presented in his monumental treatise entitled ‘Economy and Society’. The very juxtaposition of the title terms prompts one’s interest in their interrelation, i.e. how the boundaries of the economy as a specific substructure of society as a whole are to be delineated. An element which plays an important role in Weberian notion of economic activity is its treatment as a peaceful one, which the author of ‘Economy and Society’ uses to delimit the area of the economy, in particular, to underline its difference from the politico-legal structure. The distinction between a socio-economic approach to property and a legal one is also applied by Weber, which in his theory is conceived as a central component of the economy. However, according to Weber it is disposal that constitutes the most fundamental component of property. This notion is criticized in the paper on the grounds of indispensable distinction between disposal and benefit, which, it is argued, constitutes the essence of property. It is further argued that it is property relations that Weberian theory of class relies upon. However, this theory includes a controversial concept of social class, which violates the rule of formal elegance and coherence that should pertain to scientific theory.

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Social mobility in China and Britain: a comparative study

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Li Y., Zhang S., Kong J.

International Review of Social Research

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2015

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vol. 5

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issue 1

20-34

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This paper looks at social mobility in China and Britain. It explores whether the rapid economic development in China in the last thirty years has brought its mobility closer to that in Britain. It also examines the effects of China’s household registration system (hukou) on people’s mobility chances. Using national representative surveys in the two countries, we found a convergence in total mobility in the two countries but higher levels of inequality in China in terms of relative mobility. Chinese women faced the greatest disadvantages. The prime driver for social inequality in China was the hukou system. Rural people in China had very limited opportunities for education but even those who had similar levels of education were still very much hampered by the hukou penalty in trying to gain access to advantaged positions. Both societies are highly unequal but China has an additional barrier.

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Book review. Oliveira-Monte, Emanuelle K. F. (2018). Barack Obama is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Papadimitriou M., Psilaki V.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 1

EN

Barack Obama is Brazilian by Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte suggests an interesting and original attempt to highlight the interconnections between political humour, race and gender, a stimulating area of study in humour research. The book explores the ways Brazilian media portrayed the former US president with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. The election of an African-American president to the office of the most powerful country of the world had a tremendous impact on the collective unconscious of the African Diaspora worldwide and especially in Brazil; it also led some analysts to postulate that the US was entering a new post-racial era. President Barack Obama emerged as an open sign, as a symbol of hope and change not only in the US but also globally. This provocative monograph, an interdisciplinary study on comparative race relations, analyses Obama’s shifting portrayals and investigates how the election of the first black US president complicates Brazilians’ own racial discourses. The main question, around which the whole book is articulated, has to do with the meaning of Obama’s victory to Brazil, a country in which almost 54% of the population is of African origin. Did Obama’s victory eventually confirm or challenge Brazil’s racial relations imaginary?

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Seksualność intersekcjonalnie. Spotkania, dyskusje, badania

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Struzik J.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2014

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issue 4(215)

235–253

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W artykule autorka podejmuje problematykę połączenia perspektywy queer z analizą intersekcjonalną poprzez podkreślenie konieczności włączenia do studiów nad seksualnością wymiaru społeczno-ekonomicznego. W dwóch pierwszych częściach artykułu prezentuje krytyczne odczytania obydwu tych perspektyw odwołując się między innymi do analiz Stevena Seidmana i Rosemary Hennessy. W części trzeciej włącza pojęcie metronormatywności i przedstawia wyniki badań sytuacji społecznej lesbijek żyjących na terenach wiejskich w Polsce (na podstawie badań w ramach projektu „Niewidoczne (dla) społeczności”).

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The author underlines the necessity of connecting queer perspectives with intersectional analysis through bringing the social-economic dimension into sexuality studies. In the first two sections entitled, Queer perspective and intersectionality and Class and sexuality, respectively she presents critical readings of both perspectives drawing on the analyses from Steven Seidman and Rosemary Hennessy, among others. In the third section she includes a discussion of the concept of metronormativity and presents the results of research on the social situation of lesbians living in rural areas of Poland (on the basis of a study done within the project „Invisible (to) societies”).

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Cultural conditioning of the labour market in Saudi Arabia

Lewą naprzód. Ideologia i walka klas u młodego Zygmunta Baumana

Aspects of Ethnicity, Class and Religion in Case of Slovak Immigrant Communities in the UK

The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing

“WE COULD SING BETTER SONGS THAN THOSE”: DRINK IMAGES IN WILLY RUSSELL’S PLAYS

Intersektionalität und Literatur

Kategorie kultury publicznej służące konserwowaniu relacji władzy. Rasa i klasa w kontekście (post)kolonialnym

Interesy klasowe a kwestia narodowa

Different debtors, different struggles: foreign-currency housing loans and class tensions in Romania

The Sociological Marxism of Michael Burawoy

Characteristics of Female Figures and Memories of Women in Korean Narrative Songs

Teaching styles used by teachers in special and integrated schools

Freedom, Self-Determination and Automation: Considering Political Impulses in the Age of Digitalization

„Matka Praha“ a „dcery její“. Diskuse o ženském volebním právu do obce pražské v občanském a dělnickém ženském hnutí mezi lety 1906 a 1909

Kilka uwag na temat koncepcji mnogościowych Richarda Dedekinda i Stanisława Leśniewskiego

Résistance. Tezy oporu.

ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE THEORY OF MAX WEBER

Social mobility in China and Britain: a comparative study

Book review. Oliveira-Monte, Emanuelle K. F. (2018). Barack Obama is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Seksualność intersekcjonalnie. Spotkania, dyskusje, badania