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Keywords: League of Nations; 1926-1927; Britain; Single Transferable Vote System
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More...Keywords: Colonel Edmond Mendras; Soviet Union; France and Russia;
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More...Keywords: the course of life; disability; family; environment; a future perspective
This paper focuses on the nature of imperfection of the structure of the course of life of a disabled individual, determined not only by the phenomenon of deficits and limitations caused by the consequences of diseases and random incidents. It has been indicated that the content of the course of every human’s life consists of both the general state of the condition of the psychophysical development of a human being, his or her being prepared properly for performing social roles as well as the universally expected level of competence, a skill of knowing how to behave in difficult situations, a sense of stabilization during puberty and while acquiring important skills and important social and professional competences. What should be regarded as an especially essential element in building a perspective structure of the course of life is an individual contribution from the early school period and adolescence because every person included in a specific circle (e.g. the family, teachers, friends) has an opportunity to enable its own chance at the stage of developing an available strategy of functioning and, by the agency of it, in interpreting personal individual ideas, solu¬tions, observations, feelings, hopes, desires, becoming identified with the surrounding world, overcoming adversities consistently and patiently. Disabled individuals’ activity and consequently a determined collection of individual achievements and accomplishments should be treated as superiorly extraordinary in relation to the everyday reality because in every instance it is an unusually important and measurable factor in learning about the world, communicating with it, self-development and passing on their own achievements (products).
More...Keywords: xenology;allology;xenotopography;topography;alien;alienation;exclusion;phenomenological analysis;Bernhard Waldenfels;
Theoretical introduction to the book overviewing the most recent phenomenological approaches to the otherness with particular emphasis on Bernhard Waldenfels' projects of responsive phenomenology, phenomenology as xenology, and so-called 'xenotopography' (topography of the other).
More...Keywords: journalist profession; journalists’ forms of employment; professionalism; multimedia journalism
This article reflects upon the evolution of the professional status of a journalist. What serves as an introduction to the analysis is the explanation of basic notions: a journalist, the journalist profession, and the characteristics of various forms of employment. Fundamental questions posed in the introduction – concerning the change in journalism and related to the professional identity of a journalist, the need to maintain the quality of the message (objectivism and neutrality), and the valued skill in using modern technologies – are subject to falsification basing on the results of empirical research of the author and other data available in the journalism studies literature. In the context of the logic of the market used in the media (the criterion of cost-benefit calculation), the phenomena of commercialisation and tabloidisation result in professional devaluation of journalists; these phenomena are complemented with cultural elements of the professional environment of journalists revolving around the set of values such as independence, professional success (popularity), and further on – in gradation – the amount of salary. The conducted analysis – pointing to professional devaluation and loss of numerous professional privileges, such as the right to early retirement, the right to additional living space, or the right to additional rest leave – reaches an optimistic point in the final part. Namely, despite numerous professional dilemmas of journalists and ongoing pauperisation in the context of the evolution involving modern technologies, the key values associated with the professional ethos unchangingly accompany and characterise the journalist profession, which is still in the process of transformation and development.
More...Keywords: semantics; valuation; value; semantic category; semantic determination
The aim of this article is a synthetic explication of value as a category of natural languages. The author treats evaluation in the processes of linguistic activity as a kind of semantic determination of the sentence (or text) elements. Using the notions of standard/norm, parameter of categorization, value scale, etc., the author proposes three types of norms (as the reference points in the evaluation processes): ideal, supposed and real. Other issues that are discussed in the article include the content of the evaluation frame and the structure of the category of value.
More...Keywords: rynek lotniczy;linie niskokosztowe;porty lotnicze;
Artykuł poświęcony niskokosztowym liniom lotniczym - ich powstaniu, ekspansji, modelowi biznesowemu, sposobom minimalizacji kosztów (obsługa pasażerów, struktura i wykorzystanie floty, koszty pośrednie i bezpośrednie, efektywność, przychody). Autor bada również wpływ linii niskokosztowych na porty lotnicze.
More...Keywords: porty lotnicze;Polska;popyt pasażerski;ruch lotniczy;prognozowanie popytu;
We wprowadzeniu do artykułu przedstawiono cele powziętej analizy oraz zarysowano problematykę pomiaru i prognozowania popytu na usługi portów lotniczych. W dalszej części zaprezentowano podstawowe kategorie pasażerów korzystających z transportu lotniczego oraz główne narzędzia w analizie popytu na takie usługi. Wyniki analiz empirycznych popytu na usługi trzech regionalnych portów lotniczych w Polsce poprzedziły opis metod prognozowania ruchu w takich przedsiębiorstwach. W dalszej części zaprezentowano projekcje ruchu pasażerskiego w portach lotniczych w województwach pomorskim, wielkopolskim i śląskim. Wyniki analiz uzupełniono opisem spodziewanej mobilności ludności w wymienionych regionach.
More...Keywords: School of Chivalry; University of Warsaw; Corps of Cadets; Stanislavian period
The publication concerns the history of the School of Chivalry (1765–1794). It discusses the issues of the everyday life of the cadets and professors of the Corps of Cadets, the topographical and architectural arrangement of the grounds of the contemporary main campus as well as models of modern education of the School of Chivalry. The authors reconstruct the ideological model proposed by the founders of the School.
More...The study is concentrated on general overview and remarks related to policy on ageing, which nowadays become the policymakers’ respond on the challenges caused by changes in demographic structure. The subjective and objective scope of this policy resulted in appearance of the arguments for its’ treatment as the separate to social policy and independent domain of the public policy. Therefore the discussion was focused on main principles and aims of the policy on ageing with the pointing out the distinctive role of labour law as the leading mean in implementing of indicated principles.
More...Keywords: Roman Michałowski; medieval history; Church history; Christianity in the early Middle Ages; Pope Gregory VII; Dictatus pape
An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.
More...Keywords: bourgeois; money; ruins; sociability; value; life
Th e following article is devoted to the thought of the German sociologist Georg Simmel.It is an attempt at drawing conclusions on the “bourgeois” and “bourgeois sociology”,understood as a certain “culture of life”. Th e author tries to avoid interpreting Simmel’sconcepts as a “classic of late modernity” and instead considers the intellectual eff ect ofSimmel’s work, i.e. attempts to start a refl ection on the post-bourgeois world. Th e mainthemes of the analysis are: sociability, money, life, value, ruins. As a result, the authortries to see in Simmel a daring “partisan thinker”.
More...Keywords: Włodzimierz Perzyński;Spring;Paris;modernist novel;migration;city
The subject of the work are selected spatial aspects of the novel Spring (1911) by Włodzimierz Perzyński. The Paris sequence of the story of the novel, representative of the modernist period in the writer’s work, was discussed. The focus of attention was on the cultural image of Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of contemporary migration processes and poetics of space, examined by the tools of contemporary reflection on the role of space.
More...Keywords: reading culture;Łódź;primary school
The survey aimed at description and verification of the reading culture of the group of teenagers (11 and 12 years old Łódź inhabitants), including evaluation of its scale, and comparison of opinions expressed by the youth and their parents. Both the students and their parents (although in slightly different form) were asked to present their opinions about: attitudes towards reading, reading preferences, their private book collections, as well as the role of parents and other people in shaping their reading habits.
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