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The paper discusses the findings of a studv into the structure of consumption of alcoholic beverages by school youth in Bochnia. The findings reflect the situation in that sphere in 1990 as compared to 1913 and 1967. The choice of Bochnia as the area to be examined, and also of the years 1913 and 1967 as the basis for comparisons, was not accidental. Available are the findings of a study of consumption of alcoholic beverages by school youth of that town conducted in 1913 by a district school superintendent J. Ciembroniewicz, and also of a 1967 study conducted by J. Bardach from the Research Center of the Main Board, Social Anti-Alcoholic Committee headed by A. Święcicki. Most of the Bochnia school youth examined in 1990 have the same regional background as the persons examined in 1913 by J. Ciembroniewicz and in 1967 by J. Bardach. Since 1913, and then since 1967, certain cultural and moral transfomations have taken place; yet the changes do not seem to be tooo extensive, the mores so as there was no increase in migration of the population in the discussed area. A possible explanation of this rather low mobility is that, during the decades  covered by this paper, no large undustrial plants were built in Bochnia which would attract people from various regions of Poland, with their different cultural and moral patterns, acting towards transformation of the town’s original social structures. On the other hand, the local industrial plants, the Metallurgical Processing Factory and the Salt Mine in particular, as well as trade and services were developed enough to offer a sufficient numer of workplaces to the  population of Bochnia. In 1913, J. Ciembroniewicz examined 2098 young persons not older than 14. His report makes no mention of the numer of schools included in the  survey, stating only that youth from all types of schools were examined. 1231 boys and 867 girls were the respondents of a questionnaire survey. The extend to which this sample was representative cannot be appraised today for lack of detailed data as to the total school population in Bochnia in 1913. The material gathered by J. Ciembroniewicz should be seen as sufficiently extensive to evaluate the structure of  consumption of alcoholic beverages by the Bochnia school youth of those days. The 1967 study was a questionnaire survey of a sample of children from forms 5 – 8 of all Bochnia elementary schools, aged 14 at the most. The sample  consisted of 1314 persons; 1199 quetionnaires were submitted to analysis. Examined in 1990 were all children of forms 5 – 8 of Bochnia elementary schools present at school on the day of the survey (absent were e.g. the sick children). The sample consisted of 1500 persons, and 1437 questionnaires were analysed (the remaining 63 were rejected for various defects). The basic purpose of the study was: (1) to define the changes in drinking habits and the structure of consumption of alcoholic beverages during the 20th century, and (2) to show the socio-educational effects of the parents’ drinking on the shaping of their children’s attitudes towards alcohol. In all three studies, a questionnaire was used to gather data. The 1990 questionnaire was designed so as to include questions the same as or similar to those asked on 19l3 and 1967. The questionnaire used by J. Bardach, however, was not a verbatim repetition of that prepared by J. Ciembroniewicz. New questions were added, and some of those original were reformulated for precision or written in the modern language. The 1990 author took similar steps. The questionnaires were distributed to the children who wrote their answers by themselves. The findings were as follows:            (1) In 1990 as compared to l967, and in 1967 as compared to 19l3, the proportion of school youth who drank alkoholic beverages went down in Bochnia. This is true for boys and girls alike. In 1913, the proportion of girls who drank nearly equalled that of boys but proved much lower both in 1967 and in 1990.             (2) Considerable changes also took place in consumption of the separate alcoholic beverages. In 1990 as compared to 1967, and in 1967 as compared to 1913, consumption of both beer, wine, vodka was the decrease. The only exception here is a slight growth in the consumption of beer in 1967 as compared to 1913. Generally speaking, however, the proportion of beer drinkers was 2 times lower, and that of vodka drinkers – over 3.5 times lower. This drop between the years 1913 and 1990 was particularly marked in the case of girls: consumption of beer was over 4 times lower, of wine – over 2 times lower, and of vodka – nearly 6 times lower in 1990 as compared to 1913.             (3) Also the frequency of consumption of alcoholic beverages by the youth went down. The later the study, the smaller the proportion of both boys and girls who drank alcohol often and very often. The above concerns respondents of all age groups. (4) In general, the highest proportion of boys always drank in the company of their parents. The exception here is the 1967 sample: the boys then drank most often with their peers. In 1913, 1967, and 1990 alike, the proportion of boys who drank in the company of their parents went down with age. A similar trend was found in the case of boys who drank in the company of other adult family members. What grew with age, instead, was the proportion of boys who drank in the company of their peers, on their own, or together with adults from outside their family. As regards girls, in 1913, 1967, and 1990 alike, most of those who at all drank alcoholic beverages did it in the company of their parents. Striking among both boys and girls is the high proportion of young persons who drank in the company of their peers or on their own. This trend was particularly marked in l967 as compared to 1913. This finding is  the more important as in the case of this group, the role of the family as controller of the alcohol-related habits and particularly the type and amount of alcohol consumed was largely reduced.             (5) In l9l3, 1967, and 1990 alike, most boys drank on church holidays, at festivities, weddings, celebrations of baptism, and parties, that is occasionally. (6) As for the yoith’s contacts with drinking persons, the situation proved much different in 1990 as compared to 1967 and 1913. In 1967 and 1990, 2 times as many boys as in 1913 saw a drink parent or older sibling. In the case of girls, this difference between l9l3, 1967, and1990 is greater still. *      *     * The findings of the 1990 study manifest the occurrence over the years of advantageous changes in the drinking habits and structure of consumption of alcoholic beverages among children up to 14 in small towns.  Interestingly enough, there is a continuous discrepancy between two groups of data: in the period 1913‒1990, there was a regular  decrease in the proportion of young persons who had drank alcohol at least once before the survey while the general extent of alcohol consumption was on a constant increase. These data correspond with national findings which show that today, about 50–60 % of young persons in the discussed age group drink alcohol. In the age15 to 18, as many as over 80% of Polish youth accasionally drink alcohol. The general social knowledge on the harmful effects of drinking is much more extensive today than it was in the early 1900’s. At present, hardly  any mothers use an  alcohol-soaked cloth to calm their babies; hardly any parents treat their thirsty children to a beer during harvest; hardly any fathers have a drink with  their small sons. Such practices did take place earlier in our century. Even if they drink themselves, the parents and educators of today are aware of the threats involved in drinking and try hard to delay the children’s first encounter with alcohol. With the child’s growing criticism, the discrepancy between the adults’ opinions and their actual drinking habits noticed by juveniles makes the latter reach for alcohol. Another factor that greatly contributes here is the reduced authority of the family and the growth of importance of a peer group. All these processes are not intensified until puberty, that is after the age of 14. This is not to say, however, that alcohol consumption at its present level is low. After all, the 50 to 60% of  children aged up 14 who at least occasionally drink alcohol constitute a very high proportion.
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The present article falls into two major parts. The title of the first part, “Listening to music as the creator of youth identity”, gives a partial answer to the question “Why listen to music?” One listens in order to create one’s identity. The empirical evidence presented in the first part, which explores the preferences of school youth in Estonia in relation to whether they listen to overly loud music and to music of various styles and whether they tolerate silence, refers to different ways of creating one’s identity, as well as to the mental health of our society. It appeared from our empirical research that listening to music features as number one in the lineup of daily activities of the school youth: it is valid both when they assess the time they dedicate to activities and when they are ranking their areas of interest. Many teenagers like to listen to music with volume turned up, and this has medical consequences. The physical consequence is that their hearing suffers damage. The mental consequence is that their relationship with one another and with the world suffers damage, which manifests itself in alienation, consumerism, and fusing in entertainment. All this is accompanied by fear of silence, which can be explained as a consequence of temporalizing or creating selfhood not from one’s own potentiality (Zeitigung). We can also say that fear of silence expresses the fear of one’s own vacuity and illusiveness. Teenagers claim that their “self” is either totally or partly formed by their musical preferences. As it appeared from the research, classical music encourages being silent and alert to silence and this is also valid for jazz and traditional music. Pop and dance music are not related to creating one’s own “self”, nor to being alert to it – these music styles allow only illusory feeling of affinity with oneself and with the world. While listening to rock music, one’s connectedness to oneself and to the world is ambivalent, comprising some features from both configurations named above. Talking about people who prefer pop and dance music, we can observe paradoxical connections between the person, the music they listen to, and the world around them. The more they seem to relate to the world by the omnipresence of the music and by listening to it, the less it actually is the case, because pop music that has been alienated from individuality as such is not capable of reaching the body of the one who listens to / hears it. It will not become a constituent of their personal space, even though they are convinced that the respective style of music is their true self. The listener of pop music does listen to it, but obviously does not hear it, because this style of music tends to overpower the type of person who lacks both the perception and the knowledge that they exist in this world. These three significant components in the process of listening to music – the listener, music, and the surrounding environment – are linked by illusory meanings and connections through pop and dance music. The answer to the question how this paradoxicality can altogether occur is found in the second part of this article and is first and foremost based on Martin Heidegger’s lingual-philosophical thinking. The paradoxicality of the development of human identity with music as intermediary is explainable with the paradoxicality of being-in-the-world. A person’s being-in-the-world is coincidently being-one’s-self (Selbstsein) and being-with (Mitsein). A person’s being is taking root and is accomplished within his language and via his language, and this is what elicits the lingual tuning of the world and the perception of the human being. Whether it is the aspiration for substance or the fear for it expressed in our lingual being depends on our own choice – whether we prefer silence or idle talk; whether we wear the fake dress of idle talk or transform the whole world into homeland, using the language filled with silences. Just like any other language, music with its embedded silences can support a person who is alert to silence on their journey into themselves. In case music as language is spoken too loudly, it can divert the person on their journey to themselves and they can get trapped in a network of unreal meanings void of content, which is rather difficult to escape from. Hence language as such unconditionally links the phenomena of loud talk, listening to overly loud music, being silent, silence, human being, and becoming-one’s self or journey towards oneself. The second part of this article reveals the content of the connections between the abovementioned phenomena and scrutinizes in a more detailed way the Dasein-language (die Sprache des Daseins) and Heidegger’s language of becoming-one’s self (die Sprache des Er-eignisses). Why listen to silence? As it transpired from the research, tolerance of silence and love for silence, as well as the urge to listen to overly loud music can be explained with the particularity of the process of a person’s becoming-one’s self or the journey towards oneself, one’s relation to language as such and one’s capacity to be receptive to the world and alert to the talk of silence. The capacity to listen to silence and understand the talk of silence teaches one to transcend one’s boundaries, to be one’s self so that one can comprehend being, and to reach the understanding of being as such. While Heidegger claimed that a human being is a way, we claim that a human being as such is a combination of many intertwined ways which are endlessly gyrating in their togetherness. It apparently depends on several factors of being-in-temporal-existence which of these ways will be dominating at any moment of a person’s life. This metaphor is also valid when analysing the school youth’s mode of listening to music as a phenomenon. People are not inclined to listen to just one style of music – even during one certain period of life they listen to various styles of music. Which of these styles will be affecting the person most relies apparently on how they position themselves in the wholeness of being as such – the liminal value of which is infinity. Openness and ampleness or narrowness and closeness of a human being’s identity also depend on the latter.
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This paper attempts to present the sociolinguistic situation of the multilingual youth from Lithuania and Ukraine, with a particular focus on the function of the Russian language examined from the angle of emotional language behaviours and the Russian-Polish confrontation related to translation of a cultural text. The material basis is the results of a questionnaire survey carried out by the authors among students of schools with Polish as the language of instruction in Vilnius, Lviv, and Horodok in 2018. The comparative analysis covered the linguistic self-assessment of the representatives of two student environments and models of verbal expression of positive and negative emotional states. The analysis of the cultural and linguistic competence was performed on the example of a translation of Russian marked reduplicative expressions. As a result of the analysis, it can be stated that Russian is perceived and used by the surveyed multilingual youth as the most expressive language code.
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Poland’s youth are changing in a dynamic way, in short intervals, in various ways and in different social environments. This article presents the selected results of sociological research undertaken four times over the years 1988-2017 on nationwide samples of Poland’s youth attending secondary schools. It was conducted using a distributed questionnaire, meaning that we provided questionnaires to students who were present on a given day in classes at school. Youth religiosity was diagnosed according to several basic parameters: confessional and religious self-identification, young people’s attitudes towards the dogmas of the faith, and religious practices, both in static and dynamic cross-sections. The current status of the religiousity of secondary school youth and its transformation in 1988-2017 indicates accelerated processes of secularisation in Polish society. The thesis about the accelerated “secularisation creeping in” is becoming increasingly more legitimate.
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Młodzież polska zmienia się w dynamiczny sposób i to w krótkich odstępach czasu, w rozmaity sposób, w różnych środowiskach społecznych. W niniejszym artykule zostały przedstawione wybrane wyniki badań socjologicznych zrealizowanych czterokrotnie w latach 1988-2017, na próbach ogólnopolskich młodzieży uczęszczającej do szkół średnich. Zostały one przeprowadzone za pomocą ankiety rozdawanej, czyli przez przekazanie kwestionariuszy uczniom obecnym w danym dniu na lekcjach w szkole. Religijność młodzieży została zdiagnozowana według kilku podstawowych parametrów: autoidentyfikacje wyznaniowe i religijne, postawy młodzieży wobec dogmatów wiary, praktyki religijne, zarówno w przekroju statycznym, jak i dynamicznym. Obecny kształt religijności młodzieży szkolnej i jej przemiany w latach 1988-2017 wskazują na przyspieszone procesy sekularyzacyjne w społeczeństwie polskim. Coraz bardziej staje się uprawniona teza o przyspieszonej „pełzającej sekularyzacji”.
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Nieustający proces globalizacji, gwałtowny postęp cywilizacyjny, technologiczny stawia przed współczesną szkołą liczne, bardzo trudne zadania związane z przygotowaniem młodego człowieka do zmieniającego się świata. Czy współczesna szkoła radzi sobie z tymi wyzwaniami? Jakie są oczekiwania dzisiejszej młodzieży wobec szkoły XXI wieku, zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do nauczyciela i organizacji oraz zadań szkoły. Artykuł ten poświęcony jest analizie badań diagnostycznych dotyczących oczekiwań uczniów klas VII szkół podstawowych wobec współczesnej szkoły.
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The constant process of globalization, the rapid civilizational and technological advances confront the modern school with many difficult tasks, like preparing youth for a changing world. Does the modern school deal with these challenges? What are the expectations of current youth in relation to the 21st century school, especially in relation to the teacher, organization and the tasks of the school? This article is devoted to the analysis of diagnostic research on the expectations of 7th grade primary school students towards a modern school.
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Autor analizuje kilka kwestii związanych z szeroko rozumianą seksualnością człowieka postrzeganą w perspektywie wartości i norm prorodzinnych o proweniencji katolickiej. W badaniach socjologicznych, których wyniki są omawiane w niniejszym artykule młodzież szkół średnich ustosunkowała się do wybranych postaw i zachowań negatywnie ocenianych w katolickiej etyce małżeńsko-rodzinnej, jak: współżycie seksualne przed ślubem kościelnym, stosowanie środków antykoncepcyjnych, niewierność małżeńska, rozwody i przerywanie ciąży. Zmiany, jakie dokonują się w sferze intymności, są bardzo wyraźne. Znaczna część młodych Polek i Polaków znajduje się w sytuacji dysonansowo-stresowej. Nie ma zgodności pomiędzy osobiście uznawanym i praktykowanym systemem wartości a systemem wartości wynikającym z religii. Część katolików żyje według reguł i norm, które nie mają legitymizacji w religii katolickiej. Trzeba jednak podkreślić, że socjologowie o orientacji empirycznej częściej interesują się kwestionowaniem i przekraczaniem norm moralnych niż ich treścią czy uznaniem społecznym i zbyt pospiesznie mówią o permisywizmie i relatywizmie moralnym.
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The author analyses several issues related to the broadly understood human sexuality perceived in the perspective of pro-family values and norms of Catholic provenance. In sociological research, the results of which are discussed in this article, high school students responded to selected attitudes and behaviours negatively evaluated in Catholic marital and family ethics, such as: sexual intercourse before church marriage, use of contraceptives, marital infidelity, divorce, and abortion. The changes taking place in the sphere of intimacy are clear. A significant part of young Poles is in a dissonant-stressful situation. There is no correspondence between a personally recognised and practiced value system and a value system derived from religion. Some Catholics live according to rules and norms that have no legitimacy in the Catholic religion. However, it should be emphasized that sociologists with an empirical orientation are more interested in questioning and transgressing moral norms than in their content or social recognition, and they speak too hastily about permissiveness and moral relativism.
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W niniejszym artykule zwrócimy uwagę na trzy kwestie: na rodzinę jako wartość podstawową i priorytetową wśród wartości codziennych oraz na plany młodzieży zawarcia związku małżeńskiego. Przeprowadzone analizy socjologiczne opierają się na wynikach sondaży opinii publicznej i rezultatach badań socjologicznych zrealizowanych w pierwszej i drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Rodzina i szczęśliwe życie rodzinne znajdowały się w XX wieku i w pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku na pierwszym miejscu wśród celów życiowych Polaków, należała do najwyżej cenionych wartości. W procesie przyspieszonej transformacji społeczeństwa polskiego sukces czy kariera zawodowa stają się poniekąd osobliwą wartością życiową młodych Polaków, do pewnego stopnia konkurujących z wartością rodziny. Wśród młodzieży szkolnej około 60% badanych jest zdecydowanych w przyszłości zawrzeć formalny związek małżeński. Przeprowadzone analizy socjologiczne opierają się na wynikach sondaży opinii publicznej i rezultatach badań socjologicznych, zrealizowanych w pierwszej i drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku.
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In this article, we will delve into two key aspects: the family as a fundamental and prioritized value within everyday values and the aspirations of young people regarding marriage. The sociological analysis is grounded in the outcomes of public opinion surveys and research conducted in the first and second decades of the 21st century. Throughout the 20th century and the initial decade of the 21st century, family and contented family life consistently held the top spot among the life goals of Poles, standing out as one of the most cherished values. However, in the course of the accelerated transformation of Polish society, success or a thriving professional career is emerging as a distinct life value for young Poles, competing to some extent with the significance attributed to family. Notably, around 60% of respondents among school youth express a commitment to formal marriage in their future plans.
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Defensive education influences the shape of future civic attitudes as well as defense potential, deciding about the strength and power of the state. The content of the article concerns defensive education of school youth and students in Great Britain. The aim of the article is to present selected forms and areas of defense education of school youth and students, and to indicate at the same time some similarities and differences. In Great Britain, defensive education is seen as an important educational and training process for school youth. In addition, it plays a special role in shaping young people’s patriotic and civic attitudes.
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Edukacja obronna wpływa zarówno na kształt przyszłych postaw obywatelskich, jak i na potencjał obronny, decydując o sile i potędze państwa. Artykuł dotyczy edukacji obronnej młodzieży szkolnej i studentów w Wielkiej Brytanii. Jego celem jest przedstawienie wybranych form i obszarów edukacji obronnej młodzieży szkolnej i studentów oraz wskazanie przy tym na pewne podobieństwa i różnice. W Wielkiej Brytanii edukacja obronna jest postrzegana jako ważny proces kształcenia oraz szkolenia młodzieży. Ponadto odgrywa szczególną rolę w kształtowaniu postaw patriotyczno-obywatelskich młodych ludzi.
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The article presents the phenomenon of excessive use of mobile phones,that takes the form of a new cyber addiction, termed phonyholism.. The author focused primarily on the problem of the possibility of becoming addicted to this device. He presented symptoms of phonoholism and negative consequences for the health and psychosocial development of school youth in the context of risky behavior. It also emphasized the need to distinguish diagnostic criteria from phonoholism. In the article the author also pointed out the role of family and school in counteracting this phenomenon.
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W artykule przedstawione zostało zjawisko nadmiernego korzystania z telefonu komórkowego, określanego jako fonoholizm. Autor skoncentrował się głównie na problematyce związanej z możliwością uzależnienia się od tego urządzenia. Przedstawił objawy fonoholizmu oraz negatywne konsekwencje dla zdrowia i rozwoju psychospołecznego młodzieży szkolnej w kontekście zachowań ryzykownych. Podkreślona została również potrzeba wyodrębnienia kryteriów diagnostycznych fonoholizmu. W artykule autor wskazał także na rolę rodziny oraz szkoły w przeciwdziałaniu temu zjawisku.
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The aim of the work is to determine the asymmetry and functional symmetry, which concerns handedness and footedness of children aged 11–13. The research covered 955 girls and boys from the Lubuskie Voivodeship. The material was collected in 2016–2017 by the author. The research tool was a questionnaire about specific activities performed by the respondents. The collected ma-terial was developed statistically, the number of individual symmetries, asymmetries in specific activities and their point value were calculated numerically and as a percentage.
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Celem pracy jest określenie asymetrii i symetrii funkcjonalnej, która dotyczy ręczności i nożności u dzieci w wieku 11–13 lat. Badaniami objęto 955 dziewcząt i chłopców z terenów woje-wództwa lubuskiego. Materiał został zebrany w latach 2016–2017 przez autorkę. Narzędziem badawczym był kwestionariusz ankiety dotyczący określonych czynności, które wykonywali badani. Zebrany materiał został opracowany statystycznie, wyliczono liczbowo i procentowo udział poszczególnych symetrii, asymetrii w określonych czynnościach oraz ich wartość punktową.
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