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The article presents in-depth information about the issue of the social capital of Silesian students. The text begins with the short description of the addressed problem. In the first part classical concepts of this issue – Pierre Bourdieu’s, Robert D. Putnam’s, James Coleman’s and Francis Fukuyama’s – have been recounted. The reader gets to know about three fundamental definitional aspects of the social capital: trust, relational networks and reciprocal norms. In the next part all essential information about the social capital of Silesian students have been presented, based on the results from the author’s master’s thesis research. It has been highlighted that the social capital of academic youth is at a very basic level.
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M. Olson w „Logice działania zbiorowego” zauważył, że działania jednostek na rzecz grupy często stoją w konflikcie z ich egoistycznymi interesami. Utrudnia to podejmowanie działań zbiorowych i powoduje, że optymalne z punktu widzenia całej grupy rezultaty niekoniecznie są osiągane. Z tego względu, teoria wyjaśniająca mechanizmy podejmowania działań zbiorowych ma doniosłe znaczenie. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest teoretyczne wyjaśnienie zachodzenia działań zbiorowych na gruncie współczesnego instytucjonalizmu, a przede wszystkim myśli E. Ostrom.Niniejszy artykuł ma charakter stricte teoretyczny. Objaśniono w nim założenia teorii racjonalnego wyboru I i II generacji i przedstawiono, w jaki sposób przekładają się one na mechanizmy działań zbiorowych. Współczesna teoria działań zbiorowych E. Ostrom rozwija koncepcję działającej jednostki o elementy wyjaśniające interakcje i długookresowe relacje pomiędzy podmiotami – normy, instytucje i kapitał społeczny. Dzięki temu jest w stanie spójnie opisać instytucjonalizację sytuacji działania zbiorowego i może być aplikowana do wyjaśniania różnorodnych problemów społecznych.
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W reakcji na krytykę dominującego w ostatnich dziesięcioleciach rynkowego paradygmatu usług publicznych, rozwijają się koncepcje proponujące korektę modelu rynkowego lub odejście od niego na rzecz całkowicie nowych wzorców funkcjonowania administracji usługowej. Do pierwszej kategorii można zaliczyć promowanie udziału podmiotów ekonomii społecznej w zapewnieniu usług publicznych, podczas gdy drugi kierunek reprezentuje zwłaszcza koncepcja obywatelskiej koprodukcji usług publicznych. W artykule przedstawiono porównanie teoretycznych założeń obu wizji. Prowadzi ono do wniosku, że koprodukcja i udział przedsiębiorców społecznych w zapewnieniu usług publicznych to koncepcje nie tylko w wielu punktach zbieżne, ale też komplementarne.
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Most modern studies on migration in Europe (and not only) indicates economic factors as the primary emigration motives. Meanwhile, a detailed analysis of autobiographical narrative interviews with people who have chosen to live abroad shows that very often important priorities are completely different. Not completely invalidating the economic factor, we should therefore pay attention to one of the very interesting and not uncommon cause of mobility, which is the “escape”, where different modalities can be placed on a continuum between “escape from” and “escape to”. Although those two cases are discussed in this article, to the second one will be devoted special attention. This motif is associated with an attempt to escape from the conditions (prevailing at home, in the environment, neighborhood, country), which are defined by individual as suffocating, stifling, not allowing to spread wings and fully express oneself. Interestingly, the experience of “otherness” and getting to know different cultural patterns in another country may initiate the process of “re-patriotisation” – a new “objective” perspective on the place of origin and appreciation of its (previously denied) values.
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Belarusians are stripping off their clothes in “support” of their president’s wishes for more nudity in the workplace.
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Russian conservatives fear that players might become spies for the CIA.
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No society is immune from violence. However, the story of various forms of violence, which, every day, is increasingly taking on the characteristics of social alarming, the drop that overflows the cup and seriously rings at social alarm. That bell presumably has only limited time alarm, while noting that some, and many previous events of violence, some of which are particularly vulnerable to those relating to the actors of minor age and the offender and the victim, as well as the character and circumstances affecting violent (in)actions. The alarming institutions of society, when something happens to go towards staging the public about the need for a fuller definition of domestic legal standards and toughen sanctions for offenders. Stricter sanctioning of any offense in modern society is an institute which resorted to impotent society, which has limited many constraints that whatever action is taken. A society that presents such institutions seems, and that at the moment some form of violence, which has shocked and completely taken aback by social and general environment, seeking an alibi for his (non)involvement in some new legal solutions is, besides being a very uncertain and risky society. In such a society will always find an excuse legal gaps and contradictions for the (non)treatment. A society that feels responsible for its own population can not seek an alibi for the (non) action in cases of domestic legal norms. Or in their disadvantages, be it in a legal vacuum. Being legally prescribed conduct general moral norms which contain basic value criteria a key issue in fighting and preventing all forms of violence is not legally sanctioning, but developing certain cultural and civilizational values that are clearly in the overall social riality completely marginalized. And these values are related to love, respect, dignity and understanding all different. Cases of violence needs to be addressed, and not talk about them and switch (ir)responsibility to (not)or functional (non)existing standard.
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Kapitał społeczny stanowi wielce inspirującą kategorię w analizie społecznego życia. Jasne jego zdefiniowanie nastręcza wiele problemów, o czym świadczą różnice poglądów na jego temat nawet wśród badaczy tej miary jak R. Putnam, J. Coleman czy P. Bourdieu. Autor starając się wskazać na te różnice, nie opowiada się za żadnym stanowiskiem, przyjmując że problem jest wielowątkowy i wszystkie podejścia uzupełniają się. Za najważniejszy składnik kapitału społecznego przyjmowane jest zaufanie, mające zdaniem autora artykułu, co stara się poprzeć cytowaną literaturą, fundamentalne znaczenie dla jakości życia społecznego i jego rozwoju. Zaufanie w polskim społeczeństwie jest niskie z powodów historycznych, które wymienia autor. Niestety jego deficyt jest ciągle powiększany przez głównych aktorów życia publicznego. Podraża to koszty transakcji ekonomicznych i obniża możliwości działań innowacyjnych w przedsiębiorstwach. Innowacyjność – jak dowodzi J. Czapiński – możliwa jest we współdziałaniu ludzi. Do tego jednak niezbędne jest zaufanie.
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This study consists in a quantitative analysis of fashion preferences, examining various factors influencing clothing personalization. The first part of the paper sets out the theoretical framework, discussing the historical relationship between the emergence of modernity and the configuration of fashion industry. The study proceeds with detailing the regional context where the empirical research is grounded, paying particular attention to the development and current status of the region’s clothing industry. After presenting the data and the methodology, the paper discusses the empirical findings followed by their interpretation. Based on the results we argue that the level of education, marital status, shopping frequency, and the importance of clothing quality are the most important predictors in fashioning individuals’ sartorial choices as well as their preference for clothing personalization.
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Very little literature is devoted to the effects of social risks in the social organization of the skyscrapers that are consistently associated with social disorganization. Some studies prove that crime, for example, as an aspect of social disorganization, strengthens the energy of a community, while others show that it leads to fragmentation. Drawing on the research of S. Saegert, Mr. Winkel and D. Cantillon, inventory of attitudes about the perception of living in skyscrapers buildings and their surroundings is composed . The study was conducted in two Sarajevo skyscrapers, and the aim was to identify important reactions of residents to social organizations in skyscrapers, participation in neighbourhood organizations, social capital, and security. Social organization at some levels is measured by the theory of social capital. Results in some respects suggest optimism and willingness of residents to participate in the social organization of skyscrapers, and some aspects are discouraging.
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The reflections presented in this paper are focused on the problem of the conflict that takes places at the point of contact of two cultures during social interventions in the communities of foreigners residing in Poland. That is why three research perspectives have been presented. The first one is an analysis of the legal solutions pertaining to the acquiring of the status of a legal alien. The second aspect of the research is connected with the features of the institutional forms of social support for foreigners. In the further area the indicators of cultural differences of the investigated group have been discussed and it has been attempted to define the potential areas of conflict. The scientific exploration was aimed to specify to what extent cultural differences condition the process of the foreigners’ adaptation to a new socio-cultural reality. Furthermore, an attempt was made to answer the question whether the institutions intended to help foreigners can constitute an area of compromise. For this aim the differences between the levels of expectations represented by the administrative and social services and the foreigners themselves have been shown.
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The increasing number of divorces in today’s western society causes a divorce mentality among the Catholic faithful. A divorce mentality can be the remote cause of a partial simulation of matrimonial consent. This happens when one of the engaged, or both of the engaged, at the time of the marriage, with the positive act of the will, exclude or preclude the indissolubility of the marriage bond and consequently cause or results in the invalidity of the marriage.
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Summarizing a 2015 SIEF panel, the paper seeks to synthesize folkloristic and ethnological resources for developing a theory of exemplarity as a special case of tradition, not marginal but central to Western discourses of power, progress, and the self. The exemplar is a particular individual whose act or conduct is claimed, through gesture, in a subsequent performance. Following the papers from the panel, I review the gestural core of exemplarity, the problem of uptake, ideologies of exemplarity, and exemplarity in the social field, all through the constitutive tension in the concept between the model and the representative.
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Gay marriage opponents and the Orthodox Church target Klaus Iohannis, days ahead of a landmark ruling on same-sex marriages.
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In the women’s movement in Central Europe, there are few moments to celebrate.
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A school in Latvia is going to court over a prohibition against serving vegetarian- only meals to its students.
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