This article is de\ oted to the analysis o f discourse by a cultural justification study of basie cognitive stereotypes. Any cognitive stereotype has ethnic and cultural specificity, which manifests itself in the reflection o f the real world and one national-cultural community. This article provides a definition o f the kinds o f cognitive attitudes - attitudes and judgments - of this pattem, branded and marked by national interpretation o f concepts. Stereotypes-judpment is a jtereotyped model, an intersection of basie concepts of discourse. The theoretical and methodological models of study discourse offered in the article is confirmed by the analysis of the cognitive stereotype: “Russians are afraid in the world o f sport and do not love” - one of the dominant Russian sports discourses.
The presented study compares a link between two constructs: “individualism – collectivism” and values. The first construct takes into consideration horizontal and vertical orientation (equality and hierarchy respectively) (Triandis). The description of the second construct accounts for nineteen types of values located on two bipolar dimensions: “conservatism – openness to change” and “self-transcendence – self-enhancement” (Schwartz). The question about the relation between types of values and described horizontal and vertical orientations of individualism and collectivism is posed. The sample consists of 368 students. The results show that the differentiation of mentality on the “individualism – collectivism” dimension with its horizontal and vertical orientation is linked to the differentiation of types of values on the “conservatism – openness to change”. After accounting for horizontal “individualism – collectivism” and vertical “individualism – collectivism” and their relation to the second dimension of type of values (self-transcendence – self- enhancement) the results are not consistent.
The presented study compares a link between two constructs: “individualism – collectivism” and values. The first construct takes into consideration horizontal and vertical orientation (equality and hierarchy respectively) (Triandis). The description of the second construct accounts for nineteen types of values located on two bipolar dimensions: “conservatism – openness to change” and “self-transcendence – self-enhancement” (Schwartz). The question about the relation between types of values and described horizontal and vertical orientations of individualism and collectivism is posed. The sample consists of 368 students. The results show that the differentiation of mentality on the “individualism – collectivism” dimension with its horizontal and vertical orientation is linked to the differentiation of types of values on the “conservatism – openness to change”. After accounting for horizontal “individualism – collectivism” and vertical “individualism – collectivism” and their relation to the second dimension of type of values (self-transcendence – self- enhancement) the results are not consistent.
This empirical research intends to analyse the use and functions of the image of an angel in advertisements. The aim of the article is to follow the modifications and adaptations that the image of an angel has gone through during centuries, and to find out whether the portraying of angels in advertisements would allow us to draw conclusions about people’s contemporary beliefs and values in Estonia as well as elsewhere in the world. The analysis is based on about 50 advertisements that have mainly been produced during the last ten years.
The central category in the life of the Prussian bourgeoisie was work and this opinion is accepted by the admirers of the notion of the Prussian mentality. In the case of the Prussian state, work ethic was implemented primarily by the educated middle class, as the economic middle class was poor and did not have its own clear habitus. The Junkers were related to militarism, as the most important feature of the Prussian nobility, but also to social training, and great organizational successes. Moreover, the social, economic, cultural and ideological superstructure contributed to the creation of the mythology of the Prussian state and dynasty. The most important value for officers was honour which was adapted from the nobility. The traditional, military instrument of its defence was duels. Prussian virtues included also: progressiveness, modernity (understood as overcoming the state order), selflessness (unconditional dedication to the state), aggressiveness, tolerance, the rule of law and equality before the law, obedience, discipline, awareness of one’s duty, dignity, defence of one’s independence, personal restraint, frugality, respect for public property, incorruptibility, honesty, respect for education, courage and bravery. Moreover, the image of Poland and Poles in Prussia played a crucial role in the mental orientation of Prussians. A negative image of Poles, the metaphor of “polnische Wirtschaft”, co-created the modern German national identity in Prussia as their opposite.
The article analyses the Mystical Autobiography by Marianna Marchocka, showing the significance of her work for the research into the history of the female mentality in the Old Polish era. The main issue was to relate monastic life to the basic ideal of a woman as a wife and mother.
The article investigates grammatical means with the help of which the categorical opposition of telicity/ atelicity is expressed in the Russian and Polish languages with the projection on the mental characteristics of their speakers. Grammatical category of aspect is put in the center of the investigation, with the help of which the internal time as qualitative characteristics of action performance is expressed, as against to the external time which is expressed by grammatical meanings of the category of verb tense. It is asserted that the prevalence of telic verbs in speech practice of the Russian and Polish languages proves the importance of the quality of an action, bringing an action to possible endpoint for the Slavic people.
The philosophists’ of security drawbacks result from their shallow (superficial) pragmatism and a lack of profound reflection on mentality. Intellectuals, philosophers (the only mentioned L. Kołakowski and A. Neher), sociologists, psychologists, and theologians notice some treats (risks) resulting from the attraction to the modern civilization, democracy, reason, and from fascination of some shallow ethical systems, questionable political systems, sophisticated manipulations of religious ideas and the new trends of spirituality. They require to broaden their knowledge, to monitor changes of mentality and give tips which, in their opinion, should either prevent all dangers or lead to a situation of social stability.
Prezentowany poniżej tekst dotyczy analiz światopoglądu w zakresie konceptu Inności młodego pokolenia Polaków. Poddano analizie wypowiedzi studentów. Przedmiotem analiz jest obszar kategoryzacji Inności w zakresie motywów, założeń i intencji. Za pomocą metody badawczej zogniskowanego wywiadu grupowego zebrano opinie, które analizowano w kierunku założeń i kategoryzacji czynionych przez badanych. Kluczem operacjonalizacji danych zebranych w procesie postępowania badawczego nie jest analiza treści wyrażanych opinii ale przewidywanie kategorii mentalnych organizujących myślenie i decyzje, budujące ich stosunek do imigrantów. Podłożem teoretycznym przeprowadzonych badań jest teoria standardu kulturowego Krzysztofa J. Broziego oraz teoria kontaktu międzykulturowego.
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The following text deals with analyses of the worldview regarding the concept of the Otherness of the young generation of Poles. Students’ statements were analysed. The subject of the analyses is the area of categorization of the Otherness in terms of motives, assumptions and intentions. By means of the focus group interview method, opinions were collected and analysed in terms of the assumptions and categorization made by the respondents. The key to operationalisation of the data collected in the research process is not to analyse the content of the opinions expressed but to predict mental categories that organise the thinking and decisions that build their relationship to immigrants. The theoretical basis of the research is Krzysztof J. Brozi’s theory of cultural standard and the theory of intercultural contact.
It was studied the essence of social and cultural metaregulatives and features of the impacts on their areas of historical and common technologies of educational activities. They function as the base of specific types of thinking and behavior; the programs of social action of ethnic and political sociums, as well as of outstanding personalities. In technology of education, which are established in the society of its history as the forms of everyday life of the ethnos, metaregulatives are present in the forms of traditional values, which are components of public consciousness. They are often represented in the forms of mythological, religious, sensual and artistic images. Theories and technologies of educational activity, which was developed in socium, typically focused on metaregulatives as on their internal ideals, principles and main goals. Metaregulatives are mental components of human activity, that arised in the process of socio-cultural development of socium. Those are the objects of human faith and believes, reflectiones and discussiones. In their functional parameters, the metaregulatives are the information programming components of activity, which are able to integrate and reinforce or weaken conventional regulatory. Metaregulatives have been in socio-cultural sphere, technology of education, mentality, values, norms, ideals, personality types of life activity. The implementation of metaregulatives in the regulatory functions deals with the contradictions in the sphere of needs and interests of the individual. It is due to the choice in the field of motivation, with the clash of the utilitarian and moral motives. The metaregulatives are able to exist in sensual, imaginative, rational, conceptual forms. They also exist in linguistic and non-linguistic forms of communication, in which are indicated by appropriate symbols. In the field of metaregulationes the development and degradation of the individual and humanity are realized. In this field is implemented freedom of expression, of choice, of decision making. This is the field of socio-cultural transformation of the biological individual in cultural identity, in the Person. In any society the metaregulatives are the objects of the purposeful and professional education. Professional and institutionalized technology of education is focused on the development of means of pedagogical influence on the world of the metaregulatives, to stimulate the effective assimilation of every person, or the restrictions of their regulatory influence.
In the article the problem of the peculiarities of the assimilation of historical material by the students at the lessons of History in special school in the process of work with printed texts is analyzed. The learning of the scientific sources (V. Bondar, A. Kapustin, L. Petrova, G. Pleshkanivska and others) affirms the difficulties with that the senior students come across while assimilating historical knowledge. The aim of our research there is investigation of the peculiarities of perception of historical material by students with disabilities in the process of their work with the printed text and the determination of the conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the assimilation of historical knowledge by senior students of special school. Analysis of the level of mastering material of historical character was made on the example of studying of section «Emergence of Ukrainian Cossacks», the topic «Zaporizhzhya Sich». The analyses of received data concerning the level and the peculiarities of the assimilation of the historical material by the eighth graders at the lessons of History let us make the following conclusions: - senior students with disabilities in the process of studying the course of History in Ukraine in special school orientate in the historical material; - the difficulties that students experience are related to the primitive level of mastery of the logical apparatus (formation of the device of comparison, analysis, abstraction, generalization), with the insufficient development of causal thinking; - while working with the printed text senior students can master the text they read, remember its succession, with the help of the teacher make the plan-guide; while doing this the students working with the text cannot always estimate the historical fact, realize its development and consequences. Not all the students cope at the given period with reading the paragraph of the textbook, they are passive at making the plan-guide; - effective assimilation by the students with disabilities of the historical material at the large degree depends on those pedagogical actions, methods and devices that provide the qualified assimilation of the historical material at the lessons of History.
The prime objective of the article is to reconstruct basic assumptions that accompany the historical anthropology practiced by Piotr Kowalski. The last decade of Kowalski’s work is dominated by that type of studies and therefore they form a conceptionally mature construct that combines lifetime experience of that culture researcher. At first, when entering the field of historical anthropology, Kowalski referred to the textbook patterns of studies conducted abroad. However, it was not long that he proposed his own understanding of research problems in the history of culture. He refers to the category of colloquial thinking schemes and the vision of culture as a structured semiotic chaos. His rejection of the culture viewed as a coherent and organized whole dynamizes the model of historical culture that he accepts. What makes one of the expressions of that trend is the accepting the situational definition of cultural experience and organization of the world. In the last years before his death, Piotr Kowalski applies a multi-variant research model, in which philological, folkloristic, and anthropological competences are originally included into the task of identifying alien historical re-constructed worlds. His final image of the research method or a bundle of research methods reflects the motives crucial for his studies, mostly in the sphere of the tension between the standing and the change, repeatability and dynamization, as well as individualization of reading the world in historical cultures. The subject of his last studies is formed by the civilizational process, understood in its widest scope, happening in the space of cultural constructs, and watched by a researcher in the micro- and macroscale at the same time. What makes a crucial historical source for the research presented in that way is a narrative text.
Cultural linguistics as a modern branch of the science of language exerts a detrimental effect on linguistic research, particularly in methodology. It is justly criticized for deficiency of logic, intuitive knowledge and subjectivity. The empirical method proves that linguistic structures typical of a particular language are not to be identified with a peculiar world view. Language has no creative potential to spawn a world of its own, so the phrase “linguistic mentality” is nothing but a metaphor. There is no asserting parallel relationship between thought and language, nor the dependence of ethnic mentality on a certain language type. Variation in world views prevails over language structures, inasmuch as a variety of ways to express ideas exceeds the number of language types.
The article reveals the specific of the spiritual and value identification in the discourse of media which is defined with the amount of presence of national and cosmopolitan components. The cosmopolitan texts are twice as many, though they carry different cognitive and semantic mechanisms of spiritual and value field model. The quality press represents both national and cosmopolitan components through a rich variety of cultural artifacts involved in existential and intellectual personal reflection. Due to this a high degree of abstraction of national and spiritual meanings is reached with the focus on the most important vital beginnings. The mass editions present national and spiritual meanings through the narrow and expected circle of traditional cultural signs, so they form the identity through copying of national historical symbols and nationally meaning ideas. The cosmopolitan component is objectified through the culture of contemporary consumption as the unifying stimulus.
The article is devoted to Vyacheslav Pyetsukh’s reception of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s satire “The History of a Town”. In “The History of the Town of Glupov in New and Modern Times” and “The Town of Glupov in the Last Ten Years” Pyetsukh develops the motif of irrationality in Russian government and public life. The author also analyzes the semantic and axiological aspects of ‘Russian- ness’ in Pyetsukh’s texts.
The aim of the article is to point to those elements of broadly understood culture that may constitute various obstacles and barriers to the effective development of prosocial attitudes among participants of Polish economic life. The author assumes that the satisfactory education of appropriate civic attitudes – among present and future students, staff and managers, and even consumers and customers – cannot be detached from the cultural context. In other words, if the educational activities are to produce the desired result, they cannot abstain from the v alues, norms, attitudes or behavioural patterns prevailing in a given society. It is important to realise that changes in the sphere of culture are quite limited, and always stretched out in time. The paper attempts to point to the most characteristic features of Polish mentality, grounded in particular in the last decades, that constitute a burdensome legacy of communism. It was then that the antisocial attitudes of selfishness, self-interest, learned passivity, and a lack of motivation or initiative emerged. The author of the paper emphasises that both as a society and its individual members, we have been unable to break free of this legacy. It seems therefore that modern educational activities will not produce satisfactory results until we get rid of this redundant ballast.
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Celem artykułu jest wskazanie na elementy szeroko pojętej kultury, które stanowić mogą różnego rodzaju utrudnienia i bariery w skutecznym kształtowaniu postaw prospołecznych wśród uczestników życia gospodarczego w Polsce. Autor wychodzi z założenia, że satysfakcjonujące kształcenie odpowiednich postaw obywatelskich – zarówno obecnych, jak i przyszłych studentów, kadr pracowniczych i menedżerskich, a nawet konsumentów i klientów – nie może być oderwane od kontekstu kulturowego. Innymi słowy, jeśli podejmowane działania edukacyjne przynieść mają pożądany rezultat, nie mogą abstrahować od dominujących w danym społeczeństwie wartości, norm, postaw czy wzorów zachowań. Należy przy tym zdawać sobie sprawę, że dokonywanie zmian w sferze kultury jest dość ograniczone i zawsze rozciągnięte w czasie. Artykuł podejmuje próbę wskazania na najbardziej charakterystyczne cechy polskiej mentalności, ugruntowane zwłaszcza w ostatnich dekadach, które stanowią uciążliwą spuściznę komunizmu. To wówczas wykształciły się antyspołeczne postawy egoizmu, prywaty, wyuczonej bierności, braku motywacji i inicjatywy. Autor referatu podkreśla, że zarówno jako społeczeństwo, jak i poszczególni jego członkowie nie do końca potrafiliśmy zerwać z tą spuścizną. Wydaje się zatem, że współczesne działania edukacyjne nie przyniosą w pełni zadowalających efektów póki nie pozbędziemy się tego zbędnego balastu.
The article analyzes the current problems of raising children in the modern Ukrainian family. The role of parents in shaping the moral and ethical values in children is discussed. The expediency of use of the historical experience on moral and ethical education of children in modern family is argued. A dedicated family as the most sustainable, socially and spiritually significant institution in the moral education of the younger generation is characterized by a number of factors, which form peaceful relations between family members and promote its harmonious moral development. Actively working on a study of family Institute, the author provides important specific recommendations for the process related-family education on moral and ethical values of the modern Ukrainian teachers and psychologists. Another important aspect of the lighting of the Institute of childhood in the traditional culture of the Ukrainians is labor. The purpose of the article is to study the historical experience of moral and ethical education of children and to prove the feasibility of its implementation in the life of a modern family. It is pointed out that true education of the younger generation is seen in Christian values, which are stable foundation of moral and ethical education of children. Thanks to clearly defined moral orientations, the child may develop as a conscious personality in his actions and deeds. Such a person cannot be influence by negative information, which provide modern mass media: Internet, TV, press. In life this person will be culturally-conscious and will not copy his peers or idols with a negative attitude towards life. It is also important to note that Ukraine’s aspirations to build a civilized, democratic and humane society requires revision, the attitude of state institutions to the family, its moral and material well-being, becauseone of the priority directions of the state policy in Ukraine should become an effective family policy. The content of family policy should be comprehensive and reflect the relations between the state and the family in the main spheres of the society. At the same time, it should focus on specific family problems associated with the implementation of its main social functions (reproductive, economic, educational). In connection with this matter clear differentiation of family and social policy in relation to general and specific problems of family, raising legal awareness of families, children and youth about their rights should be given.
The article offers a discussion of those historically conditioned features of identity and mentality of the three East Slavic nations (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians) and Poles which had an impact on the attitudes of the societies in question in the past and – most importantly – which still shape them today. The author focuses particularly on socio-cultural and class factors, as well as those related to the existence (or absence) of state structures, i.e. attitudes to authorities. Over the last two centuries, Belarusians and most Ukrainians moved from links with Western culture towards the inclusion in the Russian (orthodox) community. As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution, both societies lost their primary elites, and the new ones emerged following the social advancement of peasant masses. The new elites have become more other-directed, more inclined to build vertical power structures, more active in primary groups, and less open to grass-roots processes of social self-organization. Ukraine, which is breaking away from this pattern, is currently experiencing social tensions.
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Tekst jest poświęcony omówieniu tych historycznie uwarunkowanych cech tożsamościowo-mentalnych trzech narodów wschodniosłowiańskich (Rosjan, Ukraińców i Białorusinów) oraz Polaków, które wpływały niegdyś i zwłaszcza obecnie oddziałują na postawy opisywanych społeczeństw. Zwrócono uwagę głównie na uwarunkowania społeczno-kulturowe, klasowo-warstwowe oraz związane z istnieniem (bądź nie) struktur państwowych, zatem stosunkiem do władzy. Białorusini i większość Ukraińców ewoluowali w ciągu ostatnich dwóch wieków: od związków z łacińskim kręgiem kulturowym do włączenia się do wspólnoty rosyjskiej (prawosławnej). Oba społeczeństwa utraciły w wyniku rewolucji bolszewickiej pierwotne elity, a nowe powstały w wyniku awansu społecznego mas chłopskich. Stały się bardziej zewnątrzsterowne, nastawione na budowę pionowych struktur władzy, mało podatne na budowę oddolnych procesów samoorganizacji społecznej, aktywizujące się w ramach grup pierwotnych. Zrywająca z tymi uwarunkowaniami Ukraina przeżywa wstrząsy społeczne.
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