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We live in a dialogical world, where models – either active or latent – establish the configuration of our identity constructs and of our intellectual framework. It is hence impossible to clarify, within the limits of one colloquium, the entire spectrum of issues entailed by this complex topic, which already gathers together a myriad of interpretations under its umbrella. While excluding the mythicizing attitude on the French cultural model, we can clearly state that its spirit, along with the Greek and Roman ones, is immanent to the European and universal cultural landscape, thus contributing to the coherence of their forms. The three volumes of scientific research in the series of Identity constructions. Echoes of the French cultural model in a European and universal context are illustrative of this fact. At its first edition, this colloquium hopefully inaugurates a wonderful and long-lasting tradition. The papers presented during this event will reach the interested audience via these volumes that have benefitted in time from new contributions, which directly or indirectly reflect the impact of the driving models. Our purpose was to provide plenty of exposure space to all the contributors who were interested in this topic. This publication aims to promote an interdisciplinary approach of certain issues that are in the contact zone between linguistics and literature, and beyond, via multiple perspectives in various national, multilingual and international contexts. Structured in three volumes, Literature, Literature & cultural Studies; Linguistics & Teaching Methodology, the series aims to be a means of cultural contact, academic dialogue, open to not necessarily convergent ideas.
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Proceedings Volume 3rd Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Conference New Approaches in Social and Humanistic Sciences NASHS 2017, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, June 8-10, 2017
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By presenting this book to the public, we intend to enter a stream of reflection about sustainable development. The point of reference which we embrace has to do with a sociological interest in lifestyles.Ecology is a ubiquitous and fashionable concept. For supporters of harmonious functioning of man and the environment, this phenomenon may seem to be desirable and one that realises in an optimistic manner their vision of the world. According to sceptics, the widespread use of this concept contributes to its blurring, and also to its employment as simulation of reality, which actually is not ecological in nature.For sociology, the tracing of such manifestations of “ecologisation” of both everyday and institutional life, which is characterised not only by superficial application of the principles of shallow ecology but above all the consistent adherence to the premises of deep ecology, seems to be an inspirational endeavour.The idea of sustainable development, featured in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, whose purpose is to design and to implement such conditions of life which will considerably improve its quality, not only in terms of economy, is strictly associated with alternative lifestyles, which attempt to regulate the relations between the individual, the society and the environment. These lifestyles are referred to as alternative due to the various instances of challenging modern manifestations of life characterised by excessive consumerism, Hektik and departure from any forms of spiritual development. The manifestations of this vision of reality include inter alia activities such as downshifting, holistic simplification, culture jamming or behaviour known as freegan. One of such ideas, comprehended in a certain institutional system, is also the idea of the slow life movement, the slowing down of life in all its manifestations. Such an approach is supposed to enable man to indulge in reflection about the condition of the quality of his life and the possibilities of improving it on levels which require such improvement. One of the manifestations of this approach is the emerging network of the cittàslow, initiated in Italy, and which now brings together Polish cities, such as Reszel or Bisztynek, as well. The development of a new quality of life of the residents is a desirable manifestation of developmental success for these cities.
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Since the second half of the 20th century we have been witnessing serious changes in the area of a Western family. These changes encompass all spheres of family life – demographic, cultural (axionormative) and economic – and in this way they contribute to the multiplication of family types. Thus, apart from marriages there appear non-marriage families, apart from complete families there are more and more half-families characterized by a specific kind of matriarchy due to the constant absence of the father. Moreover, apart from permanent families there are families reconstituted after a divorce; apart from families with only one child, and even those that from the very beginning of the relationship rule out the possibility of having children (single-parent families), we can find numerous families; apart from traditional big families extended horizontally, with numerous collateral relatives, territorially settled, there are more and more multigenerational families that are vertically extended, with relatives restricted to lineal blood relation, frequently geographically scattered; apart from families formed by indigenous inhabitants of the West, which is characterized by individualistic culture, more and more common are immigrant families, deriving from countries of familistic cultures, like Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Central and South America, which continue the tradition of intergenerational mutual support. The consequence of this phenomenon are the changes taking place in intergenerational relations within individual family types. Current studies conducted on the quality of family ties (e.g. by Vern L. Bengtson on American family ties and by Leon Dyczewski on intergenerational relation in Polish families) have demonstrated that in contemporary families the generations are still strongly attached to one another. However, inasmuch as formerly the ties were grounded on solid material bases, today their essence is constituted by the affective attitudes of sympathy or antipathy – either facilitating mutual support, reviving interpersonal communication, aiding intergenerational transfer of values, or contributing to cooling off the intergenerational relations, and even (infrequently) to their loss. Therefore, the relations that are still maintained are solidarity relations, as well as emotional, axiological, and in particular communicative ones, and even if some intergenerational conflicts do appear, they typically do not lead to a dramatic break off with the family. The research on the intergenerational ties has also indicated a wide variety of relation types and the degree of their intensification, depending on the direction of the intergenerational tie. The research that well corresponds with such a wide context of views and studies on intergenerational ties is the study on the ties in Polish and Slovak families evaluated by adult, although not yet independent, children. The research has been conducted in 2012 among young students (1047 persons) of two universities: the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). In order to evaluate the research results, an original conception of family ties has been devised, which encompasses the following types of ties: material, object, auxiliary, communicative, emotional, axiological, religious, and recordal. The obtained research results have shown that both the Polish as well as the Slovak families, situated in the countries of similar culture, though of different history, still constitute a strong community of ties, which is especially evident in the case of emotional and auxiliary ties supported by intensive contacts. On the other hand, the least exposed is the material (especially residential) and recordal tie. Moreover, the analyses have demonstrated that young people are deeply interested in supporting intergenerational relations despite some worldview differences and even conflicts which emerge in some spheres. These differences, however, do not result in the attitudes involving breaking away from the family or rejecting it. The intensification of ties in individual dimensions is modified by respondents’ nationality and the degree of their religiousness in terms of their own declaration of faith, while the sex of the respondents has little effect on the intensity of relations. On the basis of the results obtained a conclusion can be drawn regarding the domination of both the Slovak (in higher degree) and Polish (in lesser degree) families by centripetal force which facilitates family integrity. This suggests that integrational processes in the families under scrutiny predominate over disintegrational ones, and the intrafamily ties outweigh extrafamily ties, while the family itself, in both countries being the support for its members during the difficult Times of communist totalitarianism as well as the subsequent political transformation, still performs the function of providing various kinds of assistance and rewarding relations for the young generation. Therefore, the Polish and Slovak families contain more features of the traditional type of family than of the modern type. The obtained picture of the intergenerational ties in the Polish and Slovak families conforms to the research results arrived at by other sociologists, both Polish (e.g. Leon Dyczewski, Hanna Świda-Ziemba, Janusz Mariański) as well as American (Vern L. Bengtson, Karl Pillemer, Andrew J. Cherlin) that confirm the thesis that in contemporary families there exist ties that integrate the generations of children, parents, and grandparents.
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The author analyzes the narratives of women in the context of Fritz Schutze's process structures. This book presents a noteworthy interpretation of the problem of violence against women.This book is an attempt to reconstruct personal and extremely difficult experience of domestic violence from the autobiographical narratives of women about their lives. It is the effect of research located in the interpretative paradigm and using the narrative interview method. The theoretical-methodological perspective adopted in the work makes it possible to recreate and understand a specific type of experience embedded in a determined situational, social and symbolic context.The analysis of female narratives, inscribed in three interpenetrating spaces, (family of orientation, family of procreation and support center) enabled the processual reconstruction of the experience of violence, and also indicates the relationship of the course of this phenomenon with biographical factors. The described fates of women show the process of their gradual enslavement, bring closer the ways of their experiencing and understanding the subsequent events, and stress their strengths and strategies used to cope with difficulties as well as the importance of other people's actions for the course of their lives. The narratives introduce into the meanings attributed to reality by the narrators, allow to reconstruct their point of view and the meaning of the experienced events. They reveal the process of identity deconstruction, powerlessness caused by a series of overwhelming life events, but also the metamorphosis and biographical work on traumatic experiences. The research on women's individual experiences also enabled the generation of certain generalizations (models, categorizations) regarding the phenomenon of violence, including three processual models of narrators' biographies (“Mental Self-Denying Persons”, “Strongwomen”, and “Warriors”).The picture of the experience of domestic violence reconstructed in this work may be a way for the Reader to get to know and understand the other person's experiences. It may also be a starting point for the reflection on one's own experiences or convictions, for reflection on the relationship of violence with the socio-cultural, political, legal and historical context, or it can be a reference for designing practical solutions.
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The book reflects on the influence of the Internet on our life. It provides an introduction to a vast field of the Internet psychology. The author in a comprehensive and systematic way explains the notions and phenomena related to the subject.
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This book is a set of works on different aspects of the international relations, from belle époque until modern times. It constitutes a comprehensive source for historians and those interested in the field.
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A monograph which is presented in two volumes, entitled “Innovativeness in pedagogical practice. Theory and practice”. Vol. 1 and “Innovativeness in pedagogical practice. Pedagogical reflections in theory and in practice”, Vol. 2, constitutes an original treatment in terms of broadly conceived innovativeness in pedagogical theory and practice. The publication contains considerations devoted to the role of a teacher-innovator in the creation of the didactic-educational process, of the care-related and organisational functioning of the kindergarten and the school, and hence to the necessity of the education of future teachers toward innovative thinking in the process of education. The publication also contains examples of innovation drawn from pedagogical practice in kindergarten, in 1-11 classes (of the elementary school), as well as of the education of future teachers of pre-school children and the teachers of early school education. The publication is intended for a broad group of teachers and researchers who are sensitive to the changing social and cultural environment, in which theoreticians and practitioners engaged in the creation of the process of education of children constantly find themselves. It constitutes a compendium of theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of innovative activities in the work with a child. The monograph may constitute a source of inspiration for appealing didactic solutions associated with children for students, teachers and parents.
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The book is devoted to the issue of alienation. The author argues that the linguistic and textual perspective in which a human perceives reality makes its numerous and various manifestations be recognized as inaccessible to man and excluded from the possibility of establishing the communication relation. He discusses the ways of expressing some extreme, often boundary experiences by means of the literary language used in the European and American 20th-century prose. In the analysis, cultural, anthropological, literary and psychoanalytical tools are used.
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The book is based on a long-term participation study conducted in the homeless men trying "to take the matters into their own hands" and to form an organization to support them in their efforts. The study results in a reconstruction of their consociation process which entails the mechanisms of stigmatization.
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The main purpose of this publication is to show disability as a socially construed phenomenon, emerging under influence of historical, cultural and political factors that exclude disabled individuals to a considerably greater extent than their physical and mental dysfunctions.
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One of the books inspired by Robert Sternberg's ideas and achievements (teaching for wisdom). The work is based on author's innovative study conducted in older nursery school children. It involves a review of theoretical issues related to understanding the idea of wisdom as well as the results obtained by the author.
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The book is published as a result of the national scientific conference “Protection against discrimination: legal regulation, problems and tendencies”, which took place at 8 June 2018 in the University of Economics – Varna. The scientific forum was organized by “Legal sciences” Department of University of Economics – Varna in partnership with the Institute for Legal Studies - unit of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Commission for Protection against Discrimination. The Conference was organized in the frame of Activity 7 Organization of national and international scientific forums for distribution of the scientific production of doctoral, post-doctoral students and lecturers” of Project “Investments in the education of students, doctoral, post-doctoral students and lecturers – guarantee for better future”. The Project is finances by the "Intelligent Growth Science and Education" Operational Program, supported by the European Union through the European Structural and Investment Funds.
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The author presents the results of his own research concerned with a typology of social maladjustment among prisoners. The social maladjustment theory developed by Czesław Czapów constitutes the theoretical foundation of the author’s research. Applying factor analysis revealed that the types of social maladjustment distinguished by Czapów (nihilist-aggressive, nihilist-withdrawn, dogmatic-expansive and dogmatic-restrictive) are not homogenous and there are subtypes within each type. The analysis has also uncovered the group structure of prisoners determined by the intensity of the different types of social maladjustment.
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The aim of the present work was to present the problems associated with using cheat sheets in post-gimnazjum schools within a theoretical framework and on the basis of the results of research which has been heretofore conducted in this field. Moreover, the results of the research conducted by the author was presented.The work consists of two fundamental parts. The first part contains a theoretical introduction to the understanding of the phenomenon of using cheat sheets at school and the determinatives thereof. This part constitutes the basis for the results of the author’ personal research, conducted and discussed in the further part of the book. The first subchapter presents the school as the basic environment of the psychosocial development of the pupil and discusses the basic theories of motivation in education with special reference to the concept of the Self-Determination Theory, as well as the role of perception-related factors in the context of the behaviour of teachers, parents and the relations in the class.The second subchapter presents the school as the area of acquiring extranormative behaviour; it discusses the selected theories of deviation in reference to the phenomenon of using cheat sheets, including the theory of neutralisation. The second subchapter discusses the theoretical bases of the problem of cribbing, its origins and the motivation to crib among pupils. These aspects were related to the category of risk and of moral development. The second part presents the methodological concepts of the research which was conducted. The aim and the object of research, the problems and hypotheses, the methods of research, the selection of the research sample and the area of research were described in detail. The variables which were taken into account in the research and the detailed operationalisation of these variables in the form of a presentation of the tools which were constructed for the purposes of research were described. Moreover, the methods of the statistical analysis of the research were presented.The third part of the work constitutes a description of the results of research which was conducted. This part was divided into three subchapters. The first subchapter constitutes an attempt at describing and systematising the phenomenon of cribbing and the associated experiences in the perception of pupils. Here the opinions and declarations of pupils concerning the diffusion of the phenomenon and the ways and means of cribbing, the justifying and repelling motivation to crib or not to crib as well as the consequences of cribbing. Moreover, the problems of providing assistance in cribbing and the behaviour and emotions of pupils which appear in the situation of “extorting assistance” as well as the attitudes toward “squealing” are presented. Additionally, the experiences of pupils associated with items in the school reading lists and doing homework as elements of scholastic fraud as well as the voluntary remarks of pupils about the phenomenon of cribbing itself are presented. The second subchapter presents the problems of the mediatory role of motivation to study in the concept of the Self-Determination Theory (in the following planes: amotivation, external motivation, introjected motivation, motivation based on identification and internal motivation) in the relations between: the perception of the behaviour of parents and teachers (construed in two dimensions: control and fostering autonomy) and the perception of the relations in the class – competition as well as collaboration and support between pupils and cribbing which involves three factors: causative cribbing, being an accessory to cribbing and reluctance to provide assistance. The third subchapter constitutes a description of the results of a quasi-experiment involving the influence of the magnitude of risk, the appearance of the factor which neutralises norms, the purpose of cribbing, the proclivity to observe norms and the proclivity to break them to the proclivity to cribbing.The work features a conclusion, a general reflection upon the phenomenon of cribbing andthe interpretation of the results of research which were acquired in the context of their significanceto educational practice.
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This creative and ground-breaking dissertation confronts one of the main dilemmas of contemporary museology: the issue of ontological status of museum objects and their perception. It shows a disputable and unclear status of museums and different aspects of the relationship between the public and the exhibits, it explains current approaches to understanding culture and the cognitive dissonance among them. It also analyses a modern style of exhibiting museum objects, revealing numerous problems connected with their authenticity and encourages using museum education in pedagogy.
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The first world encyclopaedic guidebook to the most important problems of the sociology of law. It contains nearly one hundred and fifty entries written by eminent Polish and foreign scholars. It is an excellent source of knowledge of the role and importance of law in social life. It sketches portraits of the most distinguished authors of legal sociology and presents their scientific achievements. It also discusses law subcultures, punitive justice, anthropology and atrophy of law, the destruction of norms, the iuridisation of social life, law nihilism, praxeology and feminist sociology of law.
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