Ki áll a sikeres nő mögött?

Author(s): Beáta Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

There is an often cited phrase stating that ‘behind every successful man there is a woman’. There is hardly any popular or academic contribution which disagrees with this statement. Research findings offer sufficient evidence that male managers rely on more social support than women. Life course research indicates a less sacrificed private life in terms of intimate partnership, becoming a parent or time spent parenting in the case of male managers. This paper will focus on what it is like the other way round, i.e. who is/are behind successful women, and what kind of social support can female managers rely on? Even though several research studies have focused on the social support of highly qualified women in Western countries, there is a striking deficiency in exploring specific difficulties female professionals face in Central and Eastern European countries. This aspect highlights the novelty of the present research. The above described question will be answered through the analysis of twenty interviews carried out with highly positioned women managers in 2014–15. The interviews explore the blurring boundaries between work and private life, and also the perceived social support. Similar to the research findings of earlier investigations, women underline the importance of emotional support, paying attention and listening to the respondents, besides, the work around the family members, mainly children is highly appreciated. At the bottom of the hierarchy they list household-related tasks, which can be outsourced and purchased in the market sphere rather easily. Female managers confront stereotypical gender expectations regularly, which they heavily criticize, yet still very often reinforce and reproduce.

THE RELATION BETWEEN PRESCHOOLERS’ QUALITY FAMILY TIME AND THEIR LEVEL OF SOCIAL SKILLS

Author(s): Ioana Boghian,Elena Dubina / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

The existing curriculum gives family, respectively parents, the role of active partners in the children’s education. For a long time, it was believed that educational institutions carry full responsibility for a child’s education, the family being regarded as the beneficiary of the schools’ activity. But, the truth is that family cannot be separated from the school’s educational context. The role of parents does not stop when the child is admitted to the educational institution, but it changes in terms of approaching the child, given the latter’s new status and in full agreement with what happens in the educational environment. The role of parents in building social interaction skills at a child may be identified in terms of cause, as well as effect. On the one hand, this means that family interaction defines a child’s social interaction potential and, on the other hand, a child’s general developmental state is indicative, to a certain extent, of the family background. In this paper, we shall try to identify the relevance of quality time spent by the child in the middle of his/her family and the child’s social interaction skills. The methods we have used are the open-ended questionnaire and observation.

THERAPEUTIC STORIES BETWEEN EVALUATION AND INTERVENTION IN FAMILY AND CHILD SOCIAL WORK

Author(s): Gabriela Irimescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The paper proposes to unravel stories as an alternative method in social work intervention by featuring stories as an instrument of evaluation, an intervention technique, a way of creating a therapeutic atmosphere and, not least, as a linchpin for change. Each story has a “moral” conveyed in various ways; sometimes it is visible, some other times it is disguised or barely insinuated. This value of stories makes them usable in family and child social work: they have an exploratory role, of understanding a situation, of describing a process experienced by families and children or that they will experience, or of finding a solution for a particular situation. Stories must be adapted to the life situation of child and family; they may even be used in the adoption process, to explain to a child what adoption means. They may also be used in the field of foster care, to show the role of foster families and of the biological family, in the process of placing a child in a foster care centre. They may also be used when a child experiences conflicting moments.

Dynamizm sakramentów uzdrowienia w służbie budowania wspólnoty Kościoła

Author(s): Marek Kluz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Pastors of the Church in Poland – inspired by the prophetic vision of the Blessed John Paul – made at the beginning of the third millennium, the completion of the task of the Church that was home for their children. This is the keynote of the three-year National Pastoral Programme at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century. In building a community of the Church’s fundamental role of the sacraments. Of all the sacraments of the Church meet the important role of the so-called sacraments of healing, which is the sacrament of penance and reconciliation and the sacrament of anointing of the sick. They constitute an essential component of ecclesial identity. These are the sacraments in a special way responsible for designing and building the community of the Church. The publication shows that the penance and the anointing are clearly the ecclesial character. Therefore, the Christian faithful fulfillment of all obligations arising from the sacrament of penance and anointing of the leaven of the Gospel is, that makes the Church made present in a community of unity, love and peace. Through fidelity to his vocation and witness of life man reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance and the Sacrament of the Anointing of the adoption of strengthened contributes to the growth of the whole Church and to His holiness. Everything, therefore, what is important in the life of the Church and what gives it the true dimension and meaning, you can find in the sacrament of penance and anointing.

Telewizja, słodycze i zdrowie. O sprawczości dzieci i napięciach w praktykach życia codziennego w kontekście programów promocji zdrowia

Author(s): Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 58/2016

In this text I present the results of research conducted as part of the project “Health in the opinions of children – childhood studies perspective” conducted by the Interdisciplinary Team for Childhood Studies at the University of Warsaw. The main goal of the project is to uncover the meanings young children (between 8 and 11 years of age) attribute to health, or the lack of it. I show how children, as social actors, cope with the modern demands regarding the body and their own new position as being responsible for passing knowledge about good eating habits and healthy lifestyles. I also present children’s definitions of health and their understanding of unhealthy behaviour. One of the main subject of children’s stories, next to the rather obvious associating health with sports, and eating fruits and vegetables, turned out to be the TV set, computer and other electronic devices. There-fore I ask about the meaning children give to media in the context of health. I focus on how they connect them to health, and on what linking the practice of TV watching with the subject of health tells us about the concepts of health and body. I also show how including television, computers and tablets in the health discourse is a result of a non-dualistic understanding of the body by children. For children health is inextricably linked to morality, education, and aesthetics. Even though the in­terviewed children adopt many of the narrations on health distributed by the educational institutions, and they seem to know how to eat and live healthy, they create health narrations of their own and on their own grounds. On one hand they are submissive receivers of the health promoting programmes (they know what is healthy), but on the other hand they stay members of their children’s tribe, who realize their childhood by practicing what is considered unhealthy and “non-adult”. The research gives us a picture of a divided child. A child that knows what to do to be healthy, but at the same time doing “unhealthy” things, which is allowed by the status of being a child.

Co jedzą Polacy, czyli o jedzeniu z perspektywy stratyfikacji społecznej. Recenzja książki Henryka Domańskiego, Zbigniewa Karpińskiego, Dariusza Przybysza, Justyny Straczuk, „Wzory jedzenia a struktura społeczna”, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsza

Author(s): Aleksandra Mijalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 58/2016

Jakość życia osób z niepełnosprawnością

Author(s): Kazimierz Jacek Zabłocki,Waldemar Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Multiple concepts and approaches regarding disability have been created throughout the centuries, which is reflected in different fields of study such as philosophy, medicine, pedagogy, sociology, political science, theology, and psychology. It can be assumed that the development of these disciplines has laid the foundation of the concept of disability, thus creating the model of perceiving this condition. It is every human’s responsibility to make progress through the fulfillment of their life tasks and social roles in accordance with the legal and social standards. In this regard, a question arises on the extent to which a person’s disability affects the quality of their life. The life quality of disabled people is typically impacted by numerous factors. Next to parameters such as physical health, mental health, or functional factors, it is also influenced by a variety of micro-social and macro-social aspects, including the family situation of a disabled person, the economic situation in their home country, the existing legal regulations, and the specific social policies. Furthermore, the prevalent social attitudes toward the disabled are an equally important determinant of the quality of their life. People with disabilities are equal members of society and deserve to be fully included. However, suitable conditions need to be created to provide them with the hope for a dignified life and efforts need to be made to support them.

Niepełnosprawność, młodość a aktywność zawodowa w świetle badań dotyczących młodych osób niepełnosprawnych w województwie podkarpackim

Author(s): Monika Struck-Peregończyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 60/2017

Young disabled people are in a special situation in the labour market as in their case two factors limiting the chances of getting employment coincide: young age and disability. Employment seems to be of a particular importance for this group as (in addition to providing financial independence) it helps to build self-esteem and attain adulthood, i.e. leave family home and start a family. The article discusses issues related to the labour market participation of young disabled people (aged 18–29 years): characteristics of their employment and the reasons for inactivity and unemployment. The analyzed issues also include motivations of young disabled people to take up work and their attitude towards their young age and disability as factors differentiating chances in the labour market. The presentation of these issues was based on the data from the last National Census and the results of the research conducted by the author, which focused on the situation of young disabled people in the labour market in Podkarpacie region. The article ends with recommendations on how to promote the activity of young people with disabilities.

Znaczenie konsumpcji w życiu studentów. Analiza porównawcza opinii studentów krajów Grupy Wyszehradzkiej

Author(s): Monika Żak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 61/2017

The subject of this article is an analysis of the results of research which were conducted among students from the Visegrad Countries. This is part of a larger research project which explored issues related to the economic awareness of the young generation. The attitude to shopping and to consumption in general is one of the elements that create the economic awareness. The author will present the conclusions about students’ consumer attitudes. These attitudes – contrary to popular opinion – as the results of this research has shown are quite rational. The young generation has a rational attitude to consumption and adjusts the scope, frequency, and ways of meeting their various needs to the resources and capabilities which they have.

Między strategią a przypadkiem – postrzeganie karier przez młodych pracowników

Author(s): Aleksandra Piekarska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 61/2017

In this article, the author considers the role of non-linear careers in the initial period of professional life. The non-linear careers are defined as not systematic and not always foreseeable path, which do not run through homogenous spheres of professional activity but fit well into the space of contemporary, global labour market and provide solutions to adapt to liquid modern reality. The basic issues, faced by the author, are non-linear careers seen as a means of exploration and used to build a portfolio of professional experiences by young people if they are implemented. Are they deliberately planned or are they the result of economic pressure. What is the attitude of youth and young adults to the non-linear character of the career, whether this kind of career path is considered to increase the chances on the labour market or not? The reflections are supported by the analysis of the results of survey conducted among non-stationary students. The starting point of the presen­ted research is the results of earlier exploratory analyses conducted by the author. This allowed to distinguish two main models of nonlinear careers: first model in which is used unrelated knowledge and skills and the second based on a single core competence which is used in various sectors. Isolated models are used in the research presented in the article to determine the type of career of the respondents. The career path of the respondents is also analysed in terms of the intention of the occupational activities undertaken as part of career management.

Subiektywna jakość życia a zasoby kapitału ludzkiego mieszkańców miast poprzemysłowych

Author(s): Agnieszka Michalska-Żyła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 61/2017

The aim of this article is to show the impact of resources of human capital (education, physical health and mental wellbeing) on shaping the subjective quality of life of inhabitants of the five post-industrial cities which are located in Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Hungary and Turkey. An attempt will be made to answer the question which of the resources of human capital significantly differentiate the level of quality of life of the respondents and what are the similarities and differences between the studied communities. The results of the research show that the selected human capital resources are rather weak models explaining the differences in the subjective quality of life of the examined populations although the level of the influence of this variable system is diversified in the communities of different cities. Human capital resources cannot therefore be regarded as universal indicators of the subjective quality of life in a group of surveyed post-industrial cities. The component of human capital that differentiated the assessment of one’s own life the most was psychic wellbeing, but its significance also varied.

Uniwersalność postrzegania jakości form życia współczesnej rodziny

Author(s): Joanna Żeromska-Charlińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2012

In many societies, family plays crucial role in socialization of individual, being simultaneously the reference group with that individual most identifies. Civilization development of societies, economical and political problems impact of family transformation. Its diversity can faster or slow down transformation of family, what confirms thesis, that family constitute social autonomy and also some kind of social miniature. In that environment so essential for human being emerges disturbances. The genesis of family pathology can be found out in developmental disorders of its members (children, parents, grandparents) and in the whole family system with its predominant subsystem. If in the family will be fixed rigid models of interaction and the family will reveal little of flexibility in the relation to transforming of live context, so it can become the pathology family and this can entail appearance of disturbances in the functioning of the whole family system and its individual members – spouses, children. Appearance of pathology in the family does not have to determine of its breakdown. Significant role of strategy pathologisation play illnesses, addictions, disordered behaviours. Location of pathology in the structure of family become its constituent playing additional functions for instance: copying with stress, escape from problems. Pathology as a mechanism controlling the family, blocks development of its individual members, does not permit to achieve by them consecutive phases of developmental cycle. Not every family can realise of its educational functions in order to shape certain ideal man, responsible for the present and the future. It is necessary to pay attention for the family system from the perspective of children, furthest exposed for its disfunctionality. The aim of hereby elaboration was the analysis of negative disintegration process of present family, crime growth, alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual deviations, their frequency of occurrence, mass, epidemiological and permanent character.

TOURISM TRENDS AMONG GENERATION Y IN POLAND

Author(s): Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2012

On the basis of empirical studies and available sources, the author presents tourism as undertaken by young Poles from Generation Y, with reference to demographic, and above all generational changes. She focuses on presenting tourism preferences and typical behaviour. The analysis shows that their behaviour is similar to those observed by Generation Y globally. The similarities are also visible in tourism - new, post-modernist trends, such as gap year and internet couch surfing portals, as forms of independent travel organization, are becoming more and more popular. On the other hand, the consumptionist habits of Generation Y (preferences for comfort and entertainment), as well as an orientation towards family and friends, frequently travelling companions, can also be observed.

Rodzina szkołą trzeźwości

Author(s): Piotr Kulbacki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2011

In this paper there are presented several elements of strengthening the educational role of the family, whitch concerns: social and religious socialization, as a basic function of the family; forms of education for sobriety in the family; institutions and social groups that support education to sobriety; problem of education to sobriety in a dysfunctional family. The education to sobriety can not be isolated from the whole process of social and religious education. Formation the virtue of sobriety, backed by a radical testimony of the parents, should penetrate all direct and indirect influences of education.

Dzieciństwo z niepełnosprawnością – problem realizacji praw dziecka niepełnosprawnego w praktyce społecznej

Author(s): Grażyna Mikołajczyk-Lerman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 62/2017

Childhood with disabilities is certainly an “old” problem that causes specific social consequences, but in the face of the growing rights of the child, including the disabled, new challenges emerge. A human rights-based approach takes into account and accentuates the child’s identity as a citizen and his rights as a modern concept of childhood (Corsaro, Jenks 2008; Prout, James 1997). Children in this new approach have become active participants in the social construction of childhood (Kwak, Mościskier 2002). The rights of the child are treated as an integral part of the human rights of every human being, including children with disabilities. Dissemination of the rights of the child as a citizen makes it possible to expose difficult experiences of physically and / or mentally handicapped children and young people. The experiences of young people with disabilities provide insights into what they think about education, health care and social policy. Most of these are negative experiences that confirm the exclusion of children and young people with disabilities practically from all walks of life, but it must also be stressed that the group of young people with disabilities is heterogeneous and their experiences are not always only negative (Davis 2004). This article deals with the situation of a child with a disability and his or her family, focusing on the specific difficulties that become involved and consequently hinder, and sometimes even prevent, the realization of their rights.

Зависимост на регионалния БВП от инвестициите: емпиричен анализ чрез класическа производствена функция

Author(s): Venelin Boshnakov,Iva Raycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The paper presents selected results from empirical analysis of the interrelation between the regional levels of investment and GDP. Classical models of production functions areestimated after their double-log transformation into linear regression equations. Annualdata for the years 2000-2015 measured at NUTS-3 regional level is utilized in respect ofthe district employment, GDP, and the regional investment measured by the expenditures on fixed assets acquisition.

Miłość małżeńska a życie rodzinne i wychowanie dzieci

Author(s): Andrzej Bohdanowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2010

Relations between conjugal love, family life and raising children seem to be of great importance. Firstly, love must be a foundation of a relationship between spouses. It must be noticed, however, that sexuality perceived not only as a source of procreation plays an extremely important role in the marital covenant since it contributes a lot to establishing a marital community of love. Secondly, an irrevocable bond which is created between spouses in the Sacrament of Matrimony becomes a gift for their children. Yet, this spousal community has to be cherished and developed on a daily basis – only then will it bear fruits and give happiness to both spouses and their children.

Recenzja: Zagrożona młodzież. Ujęcie kompleksowe dla pracowników poradni, nauczycieli, psychologów i pracowników socjalnych

Author(s): Waldemar Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2003

The review of: J. Jeffries McWhirter, Benedict T. McWhirter, Anna M. McWhirter, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, Zagrożona młodzież. Ujęcie kompleksowe dla pracowników poradni, nauczycieli, psychologów i pracowników socjalnych, tłum. H. Grzegołowska-Klarkowska, A. Basaj, Państwowa Agencja Rozwiązywania Problemów Alkoholowych, Warszawa 2001, ss. 528.

Rodzina profilaktyką przestępczości

Author(s): Waldemar Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2001

Rodzina źle funkcjonująca (występują w niej m.in. niewłaściwe postawy rodzicielskie) może przyczyniać się do rozwoju nieprzystosowania społecznego. Najgroźniejszym przejawem nieprzystosowania są zachowania przestępcze. Rodzina dobrze funkcjonująca charakteryzuje się pozytywnymi postawami rodzicielskimi, a zachodzący w niej proces wychowania opiera się na mądrych i roztropnych zasadach pedagogicznych. Ta druga rodzina w sposób naturalny spełnia funkcje zapobiegawcze wobec zachowań zagrażających porządkowi społecznemu.

Посебна заштита жене и материнства у радном законодавству Републике Српске

Author(s): Gordana Milović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2015

Тhe family is the basic unit of society and is entitled to full economic, social and legal protection. The work on a detailed manner handled provisions of the Labor Law of the Republic of Srpska governing the special protection of women and motherhood. The rights of women in employment and during pregnancy are covered in the paper, as well as rights during maternity leave and after the expiry of maternity leave. Special attention was paid to the work of the compensation pay and protection from termination of employment for women during pregnancy and maternity leave. The author is analyzing the provisions of the Labor Law of the Republic of Srpska pointed incomplete and inadequate legislation. Also, the author has tried to propose de lege specific legal solutions. Given that for a long time preparing a new Labor Law is necessary to regulate special protection against dismissal to a woman during pregnancy, maternity leave and part-time work for women special care or child care.