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O tak zwanym patriarchalizmie polskiej wsi

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2021

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vol. 116

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issue 4

14-27

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‘Patriarchy’ is one of many terms frequently applied in the studies of the Polish countryside (its culture and people’s mentality). Perceived as self-evident, the notion hardly ever comes with an in-depth justification for its use. At the same time, ethnographic literature, classical rural sociology, diary materials, monographs, and linguistic data offer no evidence to support the claim about patriarchy in rural areas. While Polish society, part of which was rural, and the attitude of the Church as a rule could be described as patriarchal, rural communities developed mechanisms and customs that contradicted this general profile. Based on a review of arguments from various sources, the author draws a different conclusion and proposes its justification. As suggested by contemporary humanities and, more broadly, social sciences, dichotomous categories may hinder the theoretical analysis of reality, making a search for new, less dualistic but more adequate, concepts necessary. In view of the above, the term ‘patriarchy’ should not be used unquestioningly as a strictly ideological epithet.

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Humanistyka: jej prawa i powinności

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Artes Humanae

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2016

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vol. 1

EN

Contemporary humanities, as always, are in danger because of three factors: market, politics and bureaucracy. But for humanities in the country like Poland there is one more risk: lack of intellectual autonomy. Polish humanities were ever interested much more in western novelties than in their own traditions. Thereby now, as usual, they take the role rather of travelling agents for foreign ideas instead of creating original theories and narrations by themselves which would make it possible for their culture, society and country to come into prominence.Achieving independence of thinking is the first purpose for Polish present-day humanities.

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Współczesna humanistyka, jak zawsze, jest zagrożona przez trzy czynniki: rynek, politykę i biurokrację. Ale nauki humanistyczne w kraju takim jak Polska są w niebezpieczeństwie jeszcze z jednego powodu: braku intelektualnej autonomii. Polscy badacze zawsze interesowali się dużo bardziej nowinkami z Zachodu niż ich rodzimą tradycją. To dlatego, jak zwykle, pełnią rolę raczej komiwojażerów cudzych idei, zamiast samodzielnie tworzyć oryginalne teorie i narracje, które nadałyby znaczenie ich kulturze, społeczeństwu i krajowi. Osiągnięcie niepodległości w myśleniu jest najważniejszym wyzwaniem dla dzisiejszej polskiej humanistyki.

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A Hundred Years of Village Monographs in Poland. Jubilee Reflections

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Polish Sociological Review

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2008

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vol. 160

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issue 4

499-512

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Monographs of local rural communities played an important role in Polish sociology until the 1970s. They had been preceded by numerous sociographic descriptions and social surveys made already in the first half of the 19th century.Numerous critical remarks made about classical (descriptive, encyclopedic) monographs, which stressed that such accounts lacked a representative character and provided no material for formulating general conclusions, that they represented a synchronic and not a diachronic approach and contained redundant details, were justified. However, the best monographs in Polish sociology met all the strict methodological requirements and their most important value was a reliable description of social reality, which has been neglected since the moment of the popularization of research conducted with the help of questionnaires that concentrate mainly on the analysis of the respondents’ awareness. Traditional monographs seem to represent an interesting approach to scientific investigations, even from the point of view of present dilemmas in social sciences (the postulated restraint on the part of the author, incoherence of culture, the researcher’s ethos, science’s non-involvement in temporary matters). Therefore, it is worth examining this inconsiderately abandoned genre of sociological literature.

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Polish Migrating - from Globetrotting to See-sawing

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Eastern European Countryside

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2009

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vol. 15

5-22

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Polish rural migrations are a permanent phenomenon with specific features. They are a temporary yet indefinite type of departure from the social and topographic ‘peripheries’ to similar ‘peripheries’ of the receiving country, a group rather than an individual process of nominating migrants, their mutual movement to a chosen country and staying in ethnic cliques ("ghettoes"), finally the lack of a clear innovative effect and even the stagnation and retraditionalism of the environment they return to. These phenomena were described in detail by Polish rural sociologists during the inter-war years and current research confirms the constancy of the pattern established at that time. The similar behaviour of migrants and social consequences of toing and froing to earn money suggest the constancy of their conditions (particularly the peripheral situation of Poland in Europe and the dual development of Polish society and economy).

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Od wiejskich festynów do organoleptycznej koncepcji kultury

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2013

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issue 1(94)

7-21

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Contemporary cultural phenomenon and the type of their receipt uncover that applied up to now ideas are faulty. More and more we have to do witch texts that their receivers do not pay attention to signs and values but to sensual qualities. “Return to things” and “neomaterialism” are popular slogans in contemporary humanities but without conviction that it means necessity of resignation prevailing foundations (for ex. understanding or interpretation) and forces us to acceptation rather naturalistic ideas. Describe of enterprises which are popular on rural and in small towns in Poland shows us that this change is important and unavoidable.

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Polska wieś: w poszukiwaniu brakującego punktu widzenia

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Studia komitetu przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju PAN

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2011

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issue 133

67-87

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Polish Countryside in Times of Transition: Myths and Reality

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Polish Sociological Review

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2010

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vol. 168

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issue 4

575-594

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Any attempt to recapitulate research findings on the countryside during the transition period should not neglect the prevailing view of the countryside in sociology. The systemic transformation in Poland did not bring a parallel transformation in thinking within sociology. The prevailing paradigm is that of modernisation, i.e. an anti-rural view which sees the countryside as an inferior sector, doomed to adapt to current trends: to communist rules before 1989 and to market economy and civil society rules at present. Numerical data for the last 60 years, reflecting the essential social and economic transformations in the countryside and agriculture, suggest a viewpoint which is different from the prevailing one. The agrarian segment has not been undergoing a transformation but, rather, desolation. The latter is a consequence of another modernisation paradox experienced by Poland after 1989, i.e. transformations effectively financed by the countryside and implemented at the expense of the country’s rural areas.

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POLSKIE MIGROWANIE W PERSPEKTYWIE DŁUGIEGO TRWANIA I ROZLEGŁEJ PRZESTRZENI

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

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2012

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vol. 38

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issue 2(144)

39-56

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Migrations of rural people have long tradition and specific characteristics in Poland. They arę incomplete, cyclical and they uphold traditional forms of life. The main effective cause is here the character of great-area economy, where centre countries take advantage from countries on periphery (specially - their labour force). These aims were imminent in Nazi plans named "Grossraumwirtschaft" (H. Kahrs) and the same are inherent in present plans of European integration (D. Diner). Each time the basic condition is to remove small landholders from their property and change them into 'wandering workers'.

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Socjologia ciała, czyli (póki co) teorie dekoracyjne

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2017

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issue 4(227)

189-208

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Socjologiczne zainteresowania ciałem określane są głównie przez tzw. paradygmat kartezjański. Zakłada on, iż wszystko w społeczeństwie i kulturze (a więc także ludzkie ciała i przedmioty materialne) posiada tylko arbitralnie nadane cechy. Takie stanowisko neguje istnienie uprzednich znaczeń fizycznych oraz cielesnych, do których odwoływała się późniejsza fenomenologia i na które zwracają uwagę antropologowie (Paul Willis, Kirsten Hastrup). Tego rodzaju teorie koncentrujące się na opisach społecznych i kulturowych rekonstrukcji ciała Bryan Turner nazywa „teoriami dekoracyjnymi”. Słuszność jego krytyki potwierdzają inni badacze, którzy upominają się o renaturalizację badań społecznych i humanistyki (Doris Bachmann-Medick, Jürgen Habermas, Ted Benton i Ian Craib). Pojawiające się współcześnie prace badaczy polskich i zagranicznych pozwalają oczekiwać zmiany obowiązującego w socjologii paradygmatu na materialistyczny, ucieleśniony, a więc naturalistyczny.

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The sociological interest in the body is deﬁned mainly by the so called Cartesian paradigm, which posits that everything in society and culture (including human bodies and material objects) has only arbitrary qualities. This position negates the existence of prior physical and embodied meanings, which have been studied by late phenomenology and which have been studied by anthropologists (Paul Willis, Kirsten Hastrup). Such theories, focusing on descriptions of social and cultural reconstructions of the body, have been called “decorative theories” by Bryan Turner. The validity of this critique is conﬁrmed by other researchers, who call for a renaturalization of social research and the humanities (Doris Bachmann-Medick, Jürgen Habermas, Ted Benton, and Ian Craib). Recent work by Polish and international scholars allow us to expect a shift in the current sociological paradigm towards one that is materialistic, embodied, and thus naturalist.

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Culture: Meanings and Values or a Multisensory Orgy?

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Bukraba-Rylska I.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2013

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issue 6(99)

32-53

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The article presents a unusual take on the subject of culture not from the point of view its internal, abstract, immeasurable, yet accessible to cognition content, but from the point of view of its vehicles, or artifacts. The author of the text placed language among the most important external manifestations of culture and focused on how the relationship between language and culture works in practice. The article is divided into three parts, each focused on a different aspect of this relationship. The first one presents a series of theories on meaning and the material and immaterial manifestations of culture as discussed in the humanities. The second one is devoted to physical and corporeal meanings of language. The author presents observations in the field of semiotics which were initiated in the classical era and experimentally confirmed in twentieth-century studies. The third part of the article focuses on the issue of meaning as a biological phenomenon. The author deliberates on the meanings in language that stem from the sounds of words, articulation, and their psychological dimension.

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Sami sobie o sobie. Przedzjazdowa ankieta Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego

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Bukraba-Rylska I., Cześnik M., Grabowska I., Kaczmarczyk M., Kowalewski M., Miś L., Nowicka-Franczak M., Słaboń A., Szczepański M. S., Śliz A., Konecki K. T., Sułek A.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2023

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vol. 67

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issue 2

231-284

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O tak zwanym patriarchalizmie polskiej wsi

Humanistyka: jej prawa i powinności

A Hundred Years of Village Monographs in Poland. Jubilee Reflections

Polish Migrating - from Globetrotting to See-sawing

Od wiejskich festynów do organoleptycznej koncepcji kultury

Polska wieś: w poszukiwaniu brakującego punktu widzenia

Polish Countryside in Times of Transition: Myths and Reality

POLSKIE MIGROWANIE W PERSPEKTYWIE DŁUGIEGO TRWANIA I ROZLEGŁEJ PRZESTRZENI

Socjologia ciała, czyli (póki co) teorie dekoracyjne

Culture: Meanings and Values or a Multisensory Orgy?

Sami sobie o sobie. Przedzjazdowa ankieta Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego