The article deals with two problem groups and namely reasons and circumstances accompanying selection of profession by interviewed teachers and their children. To define factors determining selection of profession by teachers themselves there were submitted to analysis motives of selecting the teaching profession and the stage of school education or professional work at which the decision to take up this profession was made. From among many circumstance-conditioning this problem there was taken into account the influence exerted by other people as well as the attitude of parents of interviewed teachers to the decision of their children concerning undertaking work in the education field. In order to determine aspirations and professional preferences of teachers' children there were analysed various types of professions performed by grown up children, types of schools attended by young children as well as aspirations and professional plans made by parents in relation to small children. A special attention was devoted to attitudes of teachers towards continuation of pedagogical work by their children and actually occuring inheritance of this profession.
The article briefly discusses two processes very essential at present and namely: process of women's professional activization and process of teaching profession's feminization making analogy to the interwar period. Detailed analyses concern factors conditioning contents, structures and implementation of these processes. First of all, there are analyzed factors affecting women's professional activization, that is taking of jobs by them outside their home. Next the author analyzes factors determining professional preferences of women and taking of jobs in the teaching profession by them. The causes of these processes were sought in political, ideological, economic, social, cultural, and even biopsychic spheres. Proceeding from the assumption that not all of these factors appear in a given period of time and not all of them exert a similar impact, the author tried to define the role of some of them in the thrity-year period of the People's Poland.
The paper deals with an ethical disposicion, which is an ability to perceive ethical aspects of the reality as a rudimental part of the human being’s moral awaraness. It is assumed, that the recognition of ethical propensity will allow to understand dissimilar explanations of the same events and social facts by different people, which complicate or even hinder social communication. The characteristic of individual’s predilection has to base on describing those spheres of appearances in which they present themselves, and those that are beyond the range of people’s moral reflection. To better understand a notion of the ethical predilection introduced, an opposition was made to the adjacent in meaning, but not identical conceptions of moral sensibility, moral consciousness, morals and intuition. With reference to the investigation on the social conditions of moral cognition, research methods and techniques are presented. They were employed in the attempts to search for the groups and categories of higher or lesser abilities of seeing moral aspects of the reality. An assumption was made, that a moral predisposition is revealed in the moral choices made by the respondents, also in their opinions. It is connected with a better moralization, viz., higher ranking on a Likert’s scale of morality, of elevated moral principles and prosocial orientations of the people investigated.
Theoretical part of this article includes presentation of a few chosen ethical positions, which may variously imply moral decisions: natural law, utilitarianism, consequentalism, deontology and ethics of obligations prima facie. Empirical part presents results of questionnaire research made on 100 students of sociology and 170 students of medicine on the subject of their opinions on: abortion, euthanasia, transplants from the dead and embryos, cloning of cells and persons, genetics engineering, contraception and pre-natal tests. The research results lead to analysis of explanations of decisions of students. They represented two main ethical positions: consequentalist and deontological one, with the majority of the first position.
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