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Transferuri educaţionale intrafamiliale: de la imobilitate la mobilitate

Author(s): Roxana-Mihaela Vasiliu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 15/2015

Social mobility represents one of the major research topics in sociology of education literature, especially in relation with the role of education in mediating the process of intergenerational mobility. The purpose of the paper is to identify some patterns regarding the relationship between generations from an educational perspective, in order to observe the changes that are being made in different types of families, using data from a sociological quantitative study conducted on a sample of 820 students in upper secondary schools from Iasi city. The results indicate the fact that there are differences of perspectives related to the investments in education, and these aspects are determined especially by family characteristics/background. At the same time, the main wish of the family regarding the future of the next generation is to receive a higher level of education (the perception of education as an upward way, in order to overcome/maintain the social condition).

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Relaţiile dintre dieta vegetariană, sănătatea fizică şi starea de bine subiectivă: studiu comparativ

Author(s): Filomela Elena Murguleț / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 15/2015

The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationships between dietary patterns (omnivorous vs. vegetarian), physical health and subjective well-being. There were 66 respondents, of which 37 omnivores, 14 pesco-vegetarians and 15 vegetarians. They completed a protocol with four standardized questionnaires. Participation was voluntary, based on informed consent. Responses given to the first questionnaire revealed a healthy dietary style among pesco-vegetarians and vegetarians. The frequency of self-reported morbidity was low. Thus, less than a quarter of all respondents reported that they had been diagnosed with a somatic chronic disease (e.g., osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, asthma or hypertension). However, almost three quarters of the cases with a chronic medical condition were represented by the omnivore respondents. Compared with them, both vegetarians and pesco-vegetarians obtained a significantly lower mean for body mass index and higher means on the perception of their healthy dietary habits as well as on satisfaction with their own dietary style and physical health. Furthermore, compared with the omnivores, vegetarians reported a higher mean on the satisfaction with their own lives. There were no significant differences in self-esteem and depression. Some limits of the study and directions for a future investigation are discussed. The results suggest that vegetarian diet may have benefits not only in terms of somatic functioning and physical health, but also in subjective well-being.

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Aspecte psihosociale ale infertilităţii: o trecere în revistă a literaturii

Author(s): Roxana Dumitru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 15/2015

Infertility is a global issue impacting individual functioning and well-being as well as social indicators. Infertility is conceptualized as a major life crisis involving loss and grief. For the majority of couples, infertility is experienced as a chronic stressor which requires different coping strategies. The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of what is known about the psychosocial aspects of infertility. Fertility rate and infertility prevalence as well as social and cultural facets of infertility-related phenomenon will be reviewed. Topics will also include: the relationship between infertility and psychological stress, gender differences in coping with infertility as well as the impact that infertility has on couples’ lives.

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Determinants of willingness to help

Author(s): Gábor Hajdu,Júlia Anna Koltai,Luca Kristóf,Bori Simonovits / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

We analysed determinants of willingness to help using a factorial survey approach (n=405 individuals, n=5937 vignettes). We tested the effect of situational characteristics and how characteristics of the bystander and the person in need influence willingness to help in hypothetical situations within the framework of a cost-reward model. We found that the situation itself has the strongest effect: willingness to help was strongest when the net gain of helping was positive, whereas it was weaker in situations when the cost of helping and cost of not receiving help were equal. These results provide support for the cost-reward model of helping and illustrate that the factorial survey approach could supplement or in some cases replace more widely used experimental methods (laboratory or field experiments).

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Dyskursy katastrofy klimatycznej

Author(s): Lucyna Kopciewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2021

The aim of the article is to discuss the most important discourses that define the climate catastrophe: denialism, sustainable development, deep ecology, apocalyptic discourses and the concept of deep adaptation. These discourses are analyzed as narratives about the identity of people living in the times of globalization of environmental threats.

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Czy następuje schyłek ekoterroryzmu?

Author(s): Krzysztof Izak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 26/2022

The purpose of the article is to briefly characterize ecoterrorism, which is based on a specific ideology. Some of the content proclaimed by its promoters might merit support were it not for their overly dehumanizing rhetoric, and especially the practice motivated by it. The phenomenon of ecoterrorism, or environmental terrorism, is associated with the use of violence by extremist pro-environment groups and radicalized individuals. Ecoterrorism is divided into pro-environmental terrorism and pro-animalism. Environmental terrorism can also be divided into terrorism by environmentalists and terrorism by animal rights activists. The greatest development of ecoterrorism has occurred in the United States. Animal Liberation Front, ALF was the most dangerous pro-environmental organization, while the group with the most members was Earth First, EF! Violence by eco-terrorists has occurred in many countries on our continent, most notably in the United Kingdom. The ideology of ecocentrism, which motivates the activities of many groups in the West, has penetrated Poland, but in our country it has not had much influence on the activities of organized groups of environmentalists and individuals. On the other hand, incidents of violence were recorded in a series of events directed against specific companies and institutions that threatened the environment. The research shows that there is a slow but steady decline in the number of ecoterrorism incidents worldwide. It is too early to predict its decline, but there is certainly evidence of declining violent activity. Several circumstances contribute to the downscaling of aggressive environmental activities. Above all, there has been an increase in the environmental awareness of societies and governments. A large impact on the decrease in the number of ecoterrorist events is also due to the tightening of legislation, as well as the activities of environmental organizations.

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Is there a decline in ecoterrorism?

Author(s): Krzysztof Izak / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2022

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Attitudes towards the risks of climate change: contributions from a Chilean exploratory case study

Author(s): Bárbara ORMEÑO CORONADO,Natalia ROMERO HERNÁNDEZ,Lisbeth SIMÓN ORTIZ / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Aim: The alteration of the planetary climate, mainly because of human activity, could trigger ecological, economic, and social impacts capable of disrupting the forms of life on the planet. In this context, the influence of psychosocial factors on the environmental awareness and the way in which these factors can for support pro-environmental behaviors is researched on the example of students from a Chilean university. Design / Research methods: Transactional exploratory mixed research. Bibliographic review and application of a survey to the community of a Chilean university (n=134). The process consisted mainly of two stages: (1) literature review and (2) survey application. Conclusions / Findings: The reviewed authors agree that people exhibit pro-environmental behaviors when they are sufficiently informed about environmental problems, have a favorable attitude towards them and can generate effective qualitative changes that do not cause significant difficulties later on. The results of the survey applied to the university sample show that the respondents can perceive the damage of global warming and have pro-environmental behaviors in greater proportion compared to the bibliographic data reviewed. The results are exploratory; however, they provide a focus for future research in this context.Originality / Value of the article: This article offers an updated perspective on perceptions in relation to climate change and pro-environmental behaviors, based on the case study. Additionally, it offers a proposal for the intervention of university educational plans.

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Uncovering the determinants of environmentally-friendly apparel purchase intention in Indonesia: Incorporating environmental concern and knowledge into the theory of planned behavior

Author(s): Nosica Rizkalla,Elissa Dwi Lestari,Boby Arinto,Purnamaningsih Purnamaningsih,Niken Sulistyarini / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The clothing industry is a high-growth industry that is attractive to be occupied by the business. However, behind its appeal, this industry brings harmful impacts to the environment. The fashion industry is considered the 2nd most destructive industry in the world. Environmental damage due to industry occurs not only in the production process but also in consumption and disposal. As the growth of this industry cannot be separated from consumer intervention, efforts to improve the environmental impact caused by this industry also require consumers’ role. Consumers can improve the environment through their consumption choices, such as replacing the usual products with more sustainable products. Therefore, it is essential to discover what factors can encourage consumers to consume more environmentally friendly apparel. This study intends to explore consumer motivation in deciding to buy environmentally friendly apparel by applying the extended theory of planned behavior. As an extension, this study includes two additional variables, namely environmental concern and environmental knowledge. This study involved 407 respondents who have followed some environmentally friendly apparel brands. The collected data would then be analyzed with smartPLS 3.0. The result of the study showed that all variables are proven to be significant in influencing consumers’ purchase intention for environmentally-friendly apparel, except for environmental concern, which influence is indirect through attitude. The result of this study gives new insight into what shapes the intention of buying environmentally-friendly apparel.

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ZASADY Z ROCHDALE W OBECNEJ DZIAŁALNOŚCI POLSKICH KOOPERATYW SPOŻYWCZYCH

Author(s): Małgorzata Jolanta Zbyrowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The aim of this article is to verify the real application of the classic Rochdale Principles of Cooperation in the current activities of Polish food cooperatives. On the basis of an ordered logit model, factors that have a significant impact on the applicability of the above-mentioned principles had been identified. The author's participating observations and literature research allowed for the formulation of a research question with a historical and organizational dimension. The empirical part of this study had been prepared on the basis of data collected via the survey. Synthetic conclusions have been formulated using quantitative analysis methods.

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A klinikai kórképen túl: bizonytalanság intolerancia mint transzdiagnosztikus sebezhetőség

Author(s): Ibolya Kotta / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2023

With the outbreak of the pandemic and then the Russian-Ukrainian war, history once again confirmed that our belief in security is an illusion, a self-delusion. How to face these uncertain times? Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) refers to an individual’s inability to accept the occurrence of negative events and tolerate the unpredictability of life. It is a psychological disposition, a general psychological (transdiagnostic) vulnerability associated with excessive and inflexible behaviour that stems from a set of catastrophic beliefs about uncertainty and its consequences. Showing encouraging scientific results in promoting the tolerance of uncertainty, the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can provide adequate inspiration to cope with the challenges ahead.

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Határjelenségek az élő anyagban

Author(s): Gábor Balázsi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2023

Starting from the author’s personal experiences, this article defines transition phenomena as sudden, abrupt changes in one or more observables in response to a continuously adjusted external factor, such as spatial displacement, time, or other factors. Reflecting on the natural transition phenomena of adolescence, birth, and conception, the author realizes that his life has existed continuously for approximately 4 billion years. Therefore, every person’s life history is the history of life on our planet, over which three major natural transitions have occurred: the emergence of cellular life from a nonliving steady-state nonequlibrium system, the emergence of eukaryotic cells, and the emergence of multicellularity. Finally, the societal and personal implications of this view of life are discussed.

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Pro-environmental or pro-social: Which motivation is stronger in the case of charity retailing engagement?

Author(s): Barbara Borusiak,Barbara Kucharska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The aim of the study is to examine the intention to engage in charity retailing using the norm activation model which has been widely used to predict people’s altruistic and pro-social behavior (De Groot and Steg, 2009, 425–449). Pro-social behavior refers to a person’s action that is intended to help other people and consists of a broad range of helping, sharing, and cooperating behaviors. Three forms of engagement in charity retailing were taken into account: buying at a charity shop, volunteering in a charity store, and donating. The current study was conducted in 2019 using the CAWI method on 766 Polish students coming from 16 universities; for data analysis, SEM was applied. We tested two variants of the model. In the first one we connected personal norm, awareness of consequences, and ascription of responsibility with the context of the natural environment protection, whereas in the second the same variables were connected with helping people in general. The findings show that the norm activation model may be applied as a mediator model for explaining intention to engage in shop charity. Both tested models were positively verified — all relations but one were proven to be statistically significant. The only relation which turned out to be statistically insignificant was the relation between awareness of consequences and personal norm. The results show that environmental context increased the strength of the relations between the analyzed variables.

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GODNOŚĆ CZŁOWIEKA FUNDAMENTEM WARTOŚCI PROEKOLOGICZNYCH

Author(s): Sebastian Sobczuk,Beata Wołosiuk / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2021

Human dignity is the foundation that determines the proper relationship between man and the natural environment. Respecting it determines the proper understanding and hierarchy of pro-ecological values. These include respect for the life and health of a person, as well as sensitivity, responsibility, restraint, solidarity, work, courage to be, wisdom. Therefore, human dignity can be considered the highest pro-ecological value, and its implementation should be the basis for all activities aimed at overcoming the ecological crisis. Material and methods: Literature analysis and content selection to obtain synthesis of the discussed issues. Conclusions: Respecting human dignity and the pro-ecological values resulting from it is the best guarantee both for overcoming the ecological crisis that has arisen, as well as maintaining proper relations with the world of nature. From human dignity as the highest pro-ecological value, in addition to the above-mentioned proper hierarchy of pro-ecological values, emerges also the main pro-ecological principle, which can be defined as being someone for others.

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Ekologia: o dom dla człowieka

Author(s): Piotr Jaroszyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 30/2020

At present the notion of ecology is connected mainly with problems regarding threats to the natural environment. The word “eco” presumptively signifies the natural environment. To appreciate the significance of this prefix, “eco,” one should observe its origin in the Greek language. However, the Greek oikos primarily signified the human environment, and less the natural environment. For the Greeks, oikos referred to the organized household, a possession of land and dwelling, implying family and a way of life penetrated by sacrum. In other words, for the Greeks oikos was not reduced to a biological category. Instead, it mainly signified culture, a fact which should be remembered given that Greek culture is a fountainhead of Western Civilization. This background has been marginalized in the modern effort to turn ecology into an ideology (implicit with materialism, evolutionism, dehumanization, and atheism), reducing ecology to a subject of biology. Education will be well-served by restoring a sense of this classical meaning, especially since it implies the study of reasons to foster families. “Oikology” should overtake “ecology.”

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Założenia ideowe i filozoficzne ruchów ekologicznych. Wybrane aspekty

Author(s): Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 30/2020

The article is an attempt to characterization the ideological and philosophical foundations of contemporary ecological movements. It reminds of the semantic confusion we deal with today. There is a different between ecology as a natural science and "ecology" as a kind of ideology. The former explores the relationship between living organisms and the natural environment of their lives. The second one formulates ideological and political programs and is a project of social changes. The text focuses primarily on ecologicalism, that is, on ecological ideologies. The article analyzes the language used by activists of these organizations and their philosophical roots. It shows the intellectual revolution that took place in the environment of ecologists. It was a transition from the so-called "shallow ecology" to the "deep ecology".

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Świat niezamieszkany. Statek niewolniczy i statek kosmiczny „Ziemia” jako modele postkolonialnej ekologii

Author(s): Dariusz Brzostek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The paper focuses on the postcolonial research on the environmental studies in a broader context of shaping the future in the global South. Malcolm Ferdinand’s concept of decolonial ecology is juxtaposed with speculative fiction depicting the space habitats of tomorrow (C. Smith, M. Leinster, K. Boruń, A. Trepka), and the futurological approach to the idea of space colonization (K. Ciołkowski) as well as the Spaceship Earth project (R. Buckminster Fuller). The article discusses a slave ship, Noah’s Ark and Spaceship Earth as the patterns for a postcolonial ecology as well as the modern afrofuturistic practices of decolonizing future and the ‘Africanization’ of the world of tomorrow. In conclusion, the author summarizes the main challenges for the critical, prognostic thinking in the Global South.

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Influence оf Employment Status оn Citizen Preparedness for Response to Natural Disasters

Author(s): Vladimir M. Cvetković / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Consequences of floods that affected the territory of Serbia in 2014 indicated a very low level of preparedness of population to respond to natural disasters. Therefore, the aim of quantitative research is to examine the impact of fear on the willingness of citizens to respond to a natural disaster caused by the flood in the Republic of Serbia. Bearing in mind all local communities in Serbia where floods occurred or where there is a high risk of flooding, the sample was randomly selected consisting of 19 of 150 municipalities and 23 towns and the city of Belgrade. The survey used the strategy of testing in households with the use of a multi-stage random sample. The research results show that the citizens who are employed, in a higher percentage/to a greater extent compared to citizens who are not have taken certain preventive measures aimed at reducing the tangible consequences of floods, would pay funds to an account to help flood victims, would engage in providing help to flood victims in the field, heavy rains make them think of preparedness for response and water level rise, they engaged in preparations for at least 6 months, do not do anything that would raise the level of preparedness to the next level, etc. The originality of the research lies in the fact that in Serbia the research has never been conducted to examine the state of preparedness of citizens to respond. Bearing in mind that the research is based on the territory of Serbia, the conclusions can be generalized to the entire population. The research results can be used when creating a strategy for improving the level of preparedness of citizens to respond.

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DIFFERENCES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF THE POLISH POPULATION

Author(s): Paweł Smoliński,Jadwiga Biegańska ,Stefania Środa-Murawska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Motives: A fundamental tenet of sustainable development (SD) posits that all human endeavors should prioritize ecological safety. This underscores the significance of the knowledge about the ways in which these activities manifest in social attitudes, as an indicator of environmental awareness (EA) levels. Given the relevance of environmental EA, this issue should be examined across diverse communities and social groups, such as urban and rural residents, to catalyze the adoption of SD principles. It is assumed that the concentration of the population and societal structures in urban centers stimulate the development of concepts and solutions that subsequently disseminate to rural areas through urbanization and modernization patterns. Consequently, the potential disparities in EA and pro-environmental behaviors should be analyzed based on community members’ place of residence and economic status.Aim: The objective of this study was to assess differences in EA levels within the Polish population in the context of SD principles, based on demographic and social characteristics, as well as the respondents’ place of residence.Results: The study revealed several connections between attitudes toward sustainability and pro--environmental activities. The identified attitudes were associated with demographic, economic, and spatial factors. The results indicate that EA levels are relatively high among Polish residents, irrespective of spatial distribution. Furthermore, significantly higher levels of EA-related activities were noted among urban dwellers, particularly the young and well-educated. Interestingly, a similar trend was noted among the residents of suburban zones. In contrast, rural inhabitants exhibited lower levels of EA compared to their urban counterparts.

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W poszukiwaniu „ekologii tożsamości” we współczesnej myśli społecznej

Author(s): Jarosław Marzec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1(95)/2024

Presented text in author’s intention consists an attempt to understand the theoretical construction of the ecology of identity. Text tends towards the new direction in developing of growth and broadly inspires from integral theory of development of Ken Wilber as the construction of that category. The ecology of identity can be treated as not often crystalized field upon the integral theory of education. Selfrealisation is viewed as authencity (A. Giddens) and the integrity as grounding the development in the context of theoretical basis of ecology and identity. My voice consists the considerations on the nature of development and identity with the vision of integral theory of Ken Wilber.

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