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Financial activity and financial awareness of high-school students – case study of the Lublin region

Author(s): Olga Smalej-Kołodziej,Zofia Kawczyńska-Butrym,Radosław Mącik,Viktoriya Pantyley / Language(s): English Issue: 45/2022

Research objective: The article attempts a diagnosis of the financial literacy and activity of consumers in aspects related to financial management, sources of financial knowledge, knowledge of the market offer of banks, and having their own account in the group of young consumers from the Lublin region.The research problem and methods: The group of young consumers constitutes one of the market’s largest and most developing consumer groups and is classified as a particularly vulnerable group. Our study was conducted on a random sample of 261 students aged 17–18 attending the second grade of grammar and technical secondary schools in selected poviats (counties) of the Lublin region, based on the criterion of population wealth.The process of argumentation: Based on the relevant literature and the quantitative survey. The collected data were analyzed using basic analysis methods (such as independence tests and correspondence analysis).Research results: The study showed that more than 70% of young people from the Lublin region have financial resources at their disposal. However, only 16.7% of them attempts to manage their own finances. More than half of them have a bank account, but the knowledge of the market offer targeted by banks at this target group is low. Statistical analyses showed an impact of the cultural capital represented by the mother’s education and place of residence on the financial activity of the youth.Conclusions, innovations, and recommendations: Young people are often unaware of the market offer addressed to them and rarely attempt to consciously manage their financial resources. Research shows that the young generation has limited opportunities to expand their financial knowledge and, consequently, implement reasonable financial practices. Simultaneously, young consumers are the most promising target group, especially in the context of an ageing society and the low loyalty of individual buyers.

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Cultural tourism, museums and COVID-19 pandemic impact

Author(s): Anna Ostrowska-Tryzno,Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This paper presents some aspects of COVID-19 impact on cultural tourism and on the museum sector. Museums are closely linked to cultural and heritage tourism, considered a significant at- traction.The tourism sector is among the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural tourism is not an exception. In 2020 around 95% museums around the world were closed – according to government sanitary regulations. The aim of the research was to identify the impact of COVID-19 disease on cultural tourism (measured by a number of visitors in the most popular museums in 2019 and 2020) and museums’ adaptation to the sanitary restrictions during the pandemic time. For a few decades museums have tried to enhance their digital activities such as online educa- tional programmes, online collection display, online exhibitions, live events, learning programs, brochures, podcasts, social media and virtual tours. These activities and various projects became especially important during the lockdown caused by the pandemic outbreak, as many museums continued their missions during the pandemic. Some museums have reopened (with strict limita- tions defined by sanitary restrictions), but many institutions remain closed. It shows how crucial IT innovations are. The paper concludes with some reflections on museums’ offer during the pan- demic time and cultural tourism prospects in the post-pandemic time.

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KULTURNO NASLEĐE U PROSTORIMA MEŠOVITE STVARNOSTI

Author(s): Milena Jokanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2022

The last several decades can certainly be recognized by increasingly frequent and innovative approaches in the interpretation and use of cultural heritage in the context of cultural and creative industries, i.e. creative economy. At the same time, accelerated technological development and the wide availability of devices such as mobile phones and tablets, along with the growing production and use of VR glasses and headsets, which very easily move us from physical to virtual reality, have led to a more frequent presentation of heritage using new media. Thus, such initiatives could be recognized as a special branch of creative industries that responds to the needs of new generations of digital natives and increasingly present transmedia communication. The application of modern augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) reality technologies in the presentation of cultural heritage contributes not only to the preservation of heritage, but also to the strengthening of the tourism offer, and increases the accessibility and visibility of many sites. The aim of this paper is to examine the potential for the interpretation and presentation of Serbian heritage in mixed reality spaces through a brief overview of the previous application of the above technologies in the cultural heritage sector and an analysis of selected examples. Special emphasis is placed on the study of the Holograd XR (mixed reality) platform for creating virtual spatial narratives and new forms of communication at the border between the physical and digital world.

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The Assessment of Students’ Satisfaction in the South-Eastern European Countries: An Alternative Approach for Evaluating the Quality of Higher Education

Author(s): Dimitar Nikoloski,Gjorgji Mancheski,Marjan Angeleski,Evis Kushi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2013

In this paper we assess the student satisfaction as an alternative approach for evaluating the quality of higher education. For this purpose we have carried out a survey on representative samples of students in two universities: “St. KlimentOhridski” (Macedonia) and “AleksanderXhuvani” (Albania). According to our empirical analysis, study programs generally meet the students’ expectations and they are more satisfied with the obtained theoretical knowledge rather than the gathered practical skills. Furthermore, they are generally pessimistic or uncertain about their future labour market perspectives which can be considered as a reason for pronounced intention to continue education after graduation.

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Growth Mindset versus Stagnation Mindset

Author(s): Georgiana Corcaci / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

This paper delves into the fundamental concepts of a growth mindset and a stagnation mindset, exploring their implications across various aspects of personal and professional development. The dichotomy between these mentalities profoundly influences individuals' attitudes toward challenges, learning, and success. The study aims to elucidate the characteristics of each mindset, examine their impact on decision-making and resilience, and assess how they shape one's approach to learning and achievement. By scrutinizing real-world examples and incorporating insights from psychological studies, this work seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics between a growth mindset and a stagnation mindset. Ultimately, it aims to underscore the significance of fostering a growth-oriented perspective for personal and professional fulfillment

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IL POSTMODERNISMO NEL CINEMA DI DARIO ARGENTO E BRIAN DE PALMA

Author(s): Dejan Malčić / Language(s): Italian Issue: 16/2023

Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and his American counterpart Brian De Palma have both made splendid and illustrious careers as movie directors, constantly flirting with postmodernist notions such as intertextuality and (self-)referentiality, while blurring the lines between high and popular art and culture. Their body of work, independently of qualitative level of individual movies, is always marked by innovation and prone to experimentation. By analyzing four of their essential movies made in the Seventies and Eighties (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Opera, and Phantom of the Paradise and Dressed to Kill), we have tried to determine just what is it that makes them similar, and to see how unique their approach to postmodernism is, but also to examine their relationship to the nature of cinema itself. The chosen movies are unique not just within their own body of work, but within the frames of the world cinema itself. Drawing inspiration from the masters of the past, but also pointing towards the always more complex and postmodern trends, Argento's and De Palma's movies have created, thanks to their wit, intelligence and self-awareness, their own canon, whose repercussions are felt and seen even to this day.

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Od kontemplacji do partycypacji. Poznawczo-semiotyczny status instalacji podczas Nocy Kultury

Author(s): Marcin Trybulec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Street festivals such as The Night of Culture (Noc Kultury) are aimed at fostering cultural participation. The growing popularity of such festivals raises the question, whether The Night of Culture creates an environment facilitating knowledge popularization. The paper explains that The Night of Culture creates an experience of engagement and immersion. The experience of immersion and engagement is grounded in blurring the clear distinction between representational objects and elements of so-called ordinary reality. Since the art installations at The Night of Culture are often designed to be treated as an extension of the physical space in which the participant is located, from the participant’s perspective they lose the standard representational function. The paper explains that blurring the distinction between representation and reality impose serious limitation on treating the installations at The Night of Culture as the objects with a cognitive function.

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Sztuka jako potrzeba kształtowania pozytywnych zmian w przestrzeni społecznej

Author(s): Teresa Wilk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Nowadays we live in an unfavorable multicultural reality that generates a number of difficult situations that society must constantly get used to. This reality requires constant adaptation to it, causing various attitudes and behaviors. The main good for the entire society is the acquisition of appropriate skills and dispositions, so that the everyday world becomes possible to carry out everyday tasks. In search of the positive patterns of behavior and conditions for the desired changes, art becomes helpful, the value and potential of which can contribute to modeling reality and social attitudes. Performing its social and educational functions, art significantly revitalizes social space, it just needs to be given a chance to do so. The aim of the research was an attempt to show the possibility of changes in the life of an individual, his/her attitudes, and in the social space under the influence of the presence of art. In the adopted orientation of qualitative research, such methods of data acquisition as free- -targeted interviews and analysis of the content of the subject literature were used. An important method was also the opinion of artists/experts. The results of the research were presented in the form of the respondents’ statements, which show that the respondents mostly perceive the social and educational functions of art and are able to locate them in the space of social change. By fulfilling its artistic and, above all, social and educational functions, it allows for changes in the everyday functioning of a person, the implementation of his/her attitudes, and the perception of the need to shape social reality through positive own activity. Art is conducive to building social awareness, which contributes to compensating the area of social life. Reaching the recipient, not only allows them to become interested in it but also awakens their sensitivity and willingness to introduce the proposed solutions into everyday social life. It has an integrating and revitalizing function.

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Dwa głosy o kryzysie wiarygodności w psychologii

Author(s): Arkadiusz Białek,Piotr Wolski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

While various shortcomings and flaws in the conduct of research and analysis of results in psychology and other social sciences have been recognized for a long time, recent years have witnessed greater prevalence and wider scope of this criticism. There are also more proposals for improvement. In this article, we focus on selected, key areas of the credibility crisis in psychology. Piotr Wolski discusses those related to the improper understanding and application of significance tests, while Arkadiusz Białek characterizes some of the research practices that undermine the credibility of psychological studies and demonstrates how to counteract them. Although the use of good research practices can improve the reproducibility and replicability of research results, the proposed reform should also encompass the way theories are developed. The discussed proposal for theory development in psychology leads to a series of practical steps. Unlike the hypothetico-deductive model, it starts with the identification and description of the phenomenon. The explanation of the phenomenon formulated through abduction is then formalized in mathematical equations or computer simulations and verified. Adhering to good research practices and proper theory development has the potential to provide psychology with more solid foundations and make it a cumulatively evolving science.

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Czy kryzys wiarygodności w psychologii?

Author(s): Jerzy Marian Brzeziński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The interest in the global result obtained by B. Nosek’s team increased significantly, not only among psychologists, after an article presenting the results of a large-scale international replication of psychological empirical research had been published in Science (cf. Open Science Collaboration, 2015). While 97% of the original research yielded statistically significant results (p <. 05), only 36% of the results were significant in the replication. The author of the present article postulates that this result laid the ground for unjustified generalizations about the methodological weaknesses of psychology as an empirical science. Psychology is an empirical science, but it also has its peculiarities due to the specificity of the subject matter and the method (e.g. Orne, 1962, 1973; Rosenthal, 1966/2009; Rosenzweig, 1933). Equally importantly, psychology is not practiced in social or cultural isolation. Finally, psychological research is bound by rigorous ethical standards/constraints, and psychologists (as well as researchers in other fields) who publish the results of empirical research to be analyzed statistically are constrained by the editorial practices of scientific journals. Journals have an interest only in papers that present statistically significant results (where “p < .05”!), which leads to the so-called file-drawer effect (Rosenthal, 1979). As strongly emphasized by the author, the debate cannot be limited to the statistical significance of psychological research (in particular the power of statistical test which has emerged as a popular trend in recent years). In this article, the author discusses (and presents his point of view) the following problems: 1) the methodological specificity of psychology as an empirical science, 2) the triad of statistical significance (the problematic criterion of “p < .05”), effect size, and the power of a statistical test, 3) the socio-cultural context of psychological research, 4) researchers' failure to follow methodological and ethical guidelines, and 5) possible precautions and remedies.

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Kilka uwag o stanie badań w naukach społecznych. Rozmowa z prof. dr. hab. Jarosławem Górniakiem

Author(s): Jarosław Górniak,Piotr Wolski,Arkadiusz Białek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

A Few Remarks on the State of Research in Social Sciences. A Conversation with Professor Jarosław Górniak

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Two Voices on the Credibility Crisis in Psychology

Author(s): Piotr Wolski,Arkadiusz Białek / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

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A Credibility Crisis in Psychology?

Author(s): Jerzy Marian Brzeziński / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

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Samples in Psychological Research – Conclusions and Recommendations from the Literature Review

Author(s): Joanna Świderska,Magdalena Puchalska,Maciej Grzegorczyk,Zuzanna Szałek,Natalia Nadolna,Martyna Andryszkiewicz,Maria Jastrzębska,Przemysław Szablowski,Maja Śmigrodzka / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

Objective: The goal of the review was to identify the elements occurring in the both survey procedure and sample descriptions and to formulate recommendations for the authors on this basis.Method: The study was conducted following the PRISMA standard. A total of 305 articles by Polish researchers from four journals were analyzed. Critical evaluation have been con- ducted for 230 articles of the analyzed sample, encompassing 295 research descriptions.Results: Analysis revealed that researchers most frequently report the research procedure, sampling method, sample size, form of the research and sociodemographic characteristics, such as: gender or sex and age.Conclusions: The conclusions drawn from the analysis and insights gained from the review led to the formulating recommendations regarding comprehensive methodological descrip- tion of research procedures and samples.

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Wyścig kolonialny. Przedstawienie kolonializmu w grach planszowych

Author(s): Izabela Poręba / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

One of the popular themes of board games is colonialism, both as a historical background for the game’s narrative and as a collection of myths, stereotypes and phantasms of imperial provenance. These in- clude: oriental representations of the Other, privileging the Eurocentric perspective, mythicizing colonization as a civilization development or presenting it as discovering of a “no man’s land”. The article discusses selected board games that implement various strategies of presenting colonial themes and mechanics of economic and strategic games. The aim of the paper was also to indicate the source of misunderstandings as to the validity or invalidity of considering board games in ethical terms.

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To Whom Does the Knowledge Belong? The Researcher-Researched Relationship and Vulnerability in Refugee Studies

Author(s): Mateusz M. Krawczyk,Joël Kikalage Dieudonné / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Research ethics address concerns related to power imbalances. These dynamics are particularly prominent in refugee camps, where the contemporary ‘protracted’ state (UNHCR, 2004) turns them into quasi-laboratories, where refugees are subjected to scrutiny, measurement, observation, and analysis by researchers, NGOs, and governmental organizations. Researchers typically conduct brief field trips to perform predetermined scientific activities, limiting their comprehensive understanding of the subject under study. Fieldwork conducted in Nakivale Refugee Settlement (Uganda) since 2019 has highlighted an often-one-way communication dynamic between researchers and refugees, where refugees rarely receive feedback on the information they provide. Consequently, refugees develop a lack of trust towards researchers, impacting their subjectivity and self-esteem. They perceive themselves as information providers rather than owners, lacking simultaneous access to that information. The concept of power-knowledge (Foucault 1980) is instrumental in understanding this issue and reflecting on researchers’ responsibilities in studying vulnerable populations.

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Immersing yourself into the world of literary journalism – the interview with Rachel DeGasperis

Author(s): Zofia Przybysz / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2023

Immersing yourself into the world of literary journalism – the interview with Rachel DeGasperis

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Obraz obcego, innego i wroga w sztuce ludowej – analiza wybranych przykładów

Author(s): Michał Kowalik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 36/2023

In the community of the former village, many things from the world around it were a great unknown. Fears born from the fear of the unknown were often transferred to supernat- ural forces, people with specific physical features or diseases, as well as to newcomers from out- side a given community. An important issue for the researcher is how these types of concepts were presented in folk art, and in what areas. Based on the secondary literature and practical knowledge as a folk artist, an analysis (together with the study of selected examples) is offered of the issue of broadly understood otherness in Polish folk art, both in the narrow sense refer- ring to other people and in the broad sense including demonic beings embodying certain hu- man features or forces of nature. Although folk art largely focuses on decorative, ritual, and religious functions, we can also find representations of, for example, the devil, a witch, or Jewish neighbours, i.e. of various categories of otherness. With the development of knowledge, images based largely on stereotypes slowly disappeared, becoming at most a part of the local folklore, treated as a relic of old times or a harmless tradition. Focusing on the issues of otherness in folk art allows for a better understanding of folk culture, which in various forms persists to this day, as well as of how certain thought and social patterns are adapted and processed by folk artists.

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SCHYŁEK DYSCYPLIN: ZMAGANIA W POLU CZY O POLE SOCJOLOGII?

Author(s): Grażyna Woroniecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

In this article, I present an attempt to analyse the current situation of sociology in the context of the distinctive features of the discipline, comparing four areas in which it functions: an educational area, a research area, a career promotion area and an administrative and a legal one. In the educational area, I present the effects of the Bologna process and the competition for educational offers between universities and faculties. In the research area, I focus on theconcept of the classicist episteme (Foucault), from which the disciplines emerged (taxonomy) and the late modernist horizon of science “outflowing” from the framework of the academia and disciplines. In the area of professional promotions, I illustrate the efforts of the community to validate inter- and transdisciplinary work, along with the accompanying ambivalences. Finally, in the administrative and legal area, I interpret the statutory provision for the possibility of obtaining a doctorate in the field of science, and not in a scientific discipline. The research material on which I base my conclusions comes from two sources: from several years of ethnomethodological and hermeneutic studies on reviews of doctoral and habilitation theses, and from 22 years of experience as a member of Scientific Councils awarding scientific degrees.

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CONFLICT AND FACILITATION BETWEEN WORK AND FAMILY ROLES AND GOAL REALIZATION IN ENTREPRENEURS

Author(s): Kinga Łagowska,Mariola Łaguna,Ewelina Purca / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Entrepreneurs running their businesses usually pursue goals associated with work and family functioning. The efficiency of goal realization in these two areas of activity varies and may depend on balance between the two domains. The study aimed to answer the question of how interplays between the work and family domains (work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict, work-to- family facilitation, and family-to-work facilitation) were related to the realization of work and family goals in entrepreneurs. It also tested if sex was a moderator of these relationships. A total of 246 entrepreneurs participated in the study; they were married or in stable non-marital relationships. Structural equation modeling showed that family-to-work conflict is negatively related to work goal realization and family goal realization, and work-to-family facilitation is positively related to family goal realization. Sex does not moderate the relationships analyzed. The study provides insight into the relationships of conflict and facilitation to goal realization in people running their businesses.

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