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Nowadays every young person needs to plan their education path and make educational and career choices. The labour market, which is modified by the ongoing processes of globalization, makes it imperative to undertake projects aimed at actively fitting individuals into this constantly reconstructed market, and also necessitates a number of activities of a preparatory character to ensure full labour market participation. The subject matter of the book concerns the theory and practice of pedagogy, in particular its sub-disciplines: labour pedagogy, and to some extent social pedagogy. The author conducts empirical resarch focusing on discovering pupils' educational and career plans, their aspirations and the determinants of these, as well as the strategies young people adopt in constructing their future. The author pays particular attention to two groups of respondents - primary school pupils and those who have already made their first educational and professional choices and are studying in vocational schools and technical schools. The study findings may serve to enrich the knowledge about the aspirations, educational and professional plans made by primary school pupils interested and not interested in vocational education and also that of students of vocational schools and technical schools. An important aspect in the study are also opinions about and expectations of school careers counselling, whose aim the author sees as creating space for learning about oneself and the world of work (taking into account the learning paths prior to entering the labour market) and developing activities conducive to optimizing employment possibilities or/and achieving professional success (depending on individual potential).
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Organizing is an evolutionary phenomenon, distinctive because of the laws of existence and maintaining all structures in all processes of their functioning. As such, it is a civilizational phenomenon that occurs as a component of human, individual, and social activities and as a factor in the overall development of man and society. On the other hand, as a deliberate human activity, organizing involves seeking solutions to problems that occur on the way to achieving specific goals. No goal can be achieved without appropriate or necessary, or at least minimal organization of conditions, factors, and processes needed for goal achievement. However, the new era requires new types of leaders and managers and new forms of organization; demands those who are willing and able to lead the company/corporation/state, in a distinct competitive environment, with all the good and bad sides brought by the globalization of world economy. The purpose of the annual LIMEN conference is to support the power of scientific research and dissemination of the research results with the objective to enhance society by advancing knowledge; policy-making change, lives, and ultimately, the world. Our objective is to continue to be the foremost annual conference on cutting-edge theory and practice of leadership, innovations, management, and economics, encouraging advancement via excellence, and interaction. LIMEN conference aims to bring together the international academic community (experts, scientists, engineers, researchers, students, and others) and enable interactive discussions and other forms of interpersonal exchange of experiences and popularization of science and personal and collective affirmation. The annual LIMEN conference is committed to the highest standards of publishing integrity and academic honesty ensuring ethics in all its publications. Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is therefore expected of all parties involved: authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher. The conference organizer follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct. All received full papers prior peer review process are subject to plagiarism check with iThenticate by Turnitin software. Any identified plagiarism automatically disqualifies a paper. Afterward, all full papers are double-blind peer-reviewed by the reviewers drawn from the editorial committee or external reviewers depending on the topic, title, and subject matter of the paper. Peer reviewers provide a critical assessment of the paper and may recommend improvements. Although the author may choose not to take this advice, we highly recommend that the author address any issues, explaining why their research process or conclusions are correct. Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans headquartered in Belgrade – Serbia along with the partner institutions, namely the Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics (CEFAGE-UE), Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, University of Evora, Portugal; Department of Law, Economics and Sociology, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy; Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; and Rio de Janeiro Institute College (Faculdade Instituto Rio de Janeiro – FIURJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil organized 8th International Scientific-Business Conference titled: Leadership, Innovation, Management, and Economics: Integrated Politics of Research – LIMEN 2022 on December 1, 2022 in the EXE Budapest Center, Budapest, Hungary in a hybrid format (in-person, online and virtually). LIMEN 2022 covered a wide array of topics related to economics, finance, technology, and social issues. It delved into areas such as economic growth, cryptocurrency markets, globalization, artificial intelligence, financial market efficiency, sustainability, pandemic impacts, management practices, tourism, environmental concerns, and legal challenges. The 8th LIMEN conference explored economic theories, market trends, social behaviors, and technological advancements, providing a comprehensive overview of various facets of contemporary global issues. The keynote speaker at the LIMEN 2022 conference was Professor Orlando Gomes representing Lisbon Accounting and Business School (ISCAL-CEFAGE), Portugal with the topic “Global risks and the theory of economic growth”. Within publications from the LIMEN 2022 conference: • 10 double peer-reviewed papers have been published in the LIMEN 2022 Selected Papers, • 39 double peer-reviewed papers have been published in the LIMEN 2022 Conference Proceedings, • 61 abstracts have been published in the LIMEN 2022 Book of Abstracts. Altogether LIMEN 2022 publications have nearly 600 pages. All full papers have DOI numbers and ORCID iD integration. Participation in the conference took more than 100 researchers representing 21 different countries from different universities, eminent faculties, scientific institutes, colleges, various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.
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This book collects scientific papers and reports presented on the second edition of the doctoral seminar organized by the Department of Media and Public Communications at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria.
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The monograph is the result of the author's interest in the issues of the social economy and non-governmental organizations, which are often animators of the creation of social economy entities. This work focuses on women leaders running social economy entities, their management styles and, to some extent, business models. After preliminary remarks on the social economy itself and social cooperatives, attention was focused on women leaders, including in the context of the issue discussed in the literature of the characteristics of people in managerial positions and the management styles they present. The main part of the work is the presentation of the collected case studies. The study aimed to identify problems and challenges in managing a social economy entity by women, both in the context of relationships with clients and the environment, as well as staff management. Attention was paid to success factors, obstacles to the development of the organization, characteristics of women leaders and their self-esteem. The interviews focused on obtaining the personal opinion of women managing and/or founding a social enterprise and their history (herstory). First, a series of individual case studies based on material from interviews was presented, then they were synthesized as a multiple case study and, on this basis, final remarks were formulated.
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The book presents issues of the sociology of the body in relation to various spheres of social life in which processes, values, norms and other social phenomena influence the human body. The book presents the assumptions and most important classical and contemporary sociological theories in relation to the human body. It contains twelve chapters covering various substantive areas of the sociology of the body such as work, sport, beauty, media, gender, sexuality, food and eating, medicine, disease and disability, time and religion. Each chapter presents: the most important theoretical concepts relating to the discussed topic, the achievements of scholars in particular area of the sociology of the body, the most important studies, including classic ones and key concepts."Body and society. Sociology of the Body in Research and Theoretical Concepts” is a book addressed to sociologists of various specialties who want to expand their knowledge of the sociology of the body or supplement information on the role of corporeality in such areas as sports, work, religion or media. It was prepared by specialists in the field as part of the work of The Sociology of the Body Section of the Polish Sociological Association.
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As Martin Heidegger wrote, “In being there lies an essential inclination towards closeness.” However, explaining what this inclination means is not an easy task. Reconstruction of the category of closeness in the Polish legal system attempts to answer the question of the meaning of closeness in law, using a psychological view of the phenomenon. Although intuitively it might seem that law and closeness have little in common, this monograph reveals the complex relationship that exists between them. The non-obvious nature of these relations is influenced by the fact that various understandings of closeness are accepted on the ground of law. In turn, depending on this, the law can be an important instrument for either supporting or lowering the level of fulfillment of needs in close relationships.
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The book is an interdisciplinary study in economics and sociology, based on existing materials and own research. The analysis is based on research under the international project: "Social and Cultural Mechanisms of In- and Exclusion: a Comparative Perspective" Life and Work Strategies of the Generation 55 to 65: Their Position on the Labor Market, Obstacles and Wishes”, organized by the University of Ostrava, in which the co-author was a participant. On the basis of the existing materials, the 55+ generation of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, as well as the factors influencing its professional activity, are characterized. In own research, the status of the respondents on the labor market is discussed. The needs met by the current professional work are analysed. The problems of the respondents' activities outside of work are also discussed.
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The monograph focuses on the relationship between folklorism and the protection of intangible cultural heritage on the example of wedding ritual performances in the Wielkopolska region. Its aim is to identify the function of the performances in the local cultural landscape on the example of the activities of selected performances and the folklore ensembles performing them. The book is set in the paradigm of anthropology of folklore and anthropological folkloristics, and is an attempt at an anthropological answer to the question whether wedding ritual performances, perceived as a phenomenon belonging to the category of folklorism, constitute a form of protection of intangible cultural heritage. The monograph presents the motivations and consequences of undertaking such activities by the members of the folklore groups studied, the ways in which folklore is understood, the reproduction and management of heritage elements, and their use for social, economic and political purposes. The case studies represent: Szamotuły Weddings, Przyrostynia Weddings, and Biskupizne Weddings. Although scholarly studies of individual wedding performances have been produced, the ethnological literature lacks any monograph devoted to a processual and holistic comparative analysis of this phenomenon. The book deals with the following issues: (1) the role of folklorism, as exemplified by wedding rituals in the local and regional cultural landscape; (2) the motivations and experiences of members of the local community related to these practices; (3) the impact of the UNESCO intangible heritage protection policy and system on how traditional folklore and folklorism functions; and (4) the ways in which folklore and folklorism are perceived and the resulting ways in which intangible cultural heritage is protected. The publication outlines the process by which performances have become an important element of local and regional cultural landscapes, and permanently embedded in the lives of inhabitants
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The book is a collection of texts about the city. The city appears in them as a dynamic spatial figure and a multidimensional cultural and social idea. The authors: ethnographers, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, create an urban mosaic. They present various adjacent, interpenetrating, and sometimes conflicting strategies for getting to know the city and including it in scientific reflection. Sometimes they do it, for instance, on the margins of discussions on the relation between cultural anthropology and history. The city inspiration is a challenge for them, which they try to harness by describing and interpreting changing urban landscapes and local history that builds local heritage, or tracking “urban threads” in various cultural texts. This volume is dedicated to Professor Grażyna Ewa Karpińska – an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist associated with the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Łódź. THE CITY – herein described and interpreted in various ways – is the dominant topic and area of her research, publication, teaching and expert activity. Her scientific achievements include, among others, studies on the culture of industrial workers, as well as ethnographic explorations and anthropological reflection on such categories as urban everyday life or the past in the landscape of cities and towns.
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We are asking how the practice of philology is possible and what are the ways of understanding literary scholarship today. We are moving along two paths. Following first of them, we conceive of literature as a mode of circulating knowledge and certain concepts of the world; the other teaches us that literature transmits also ways of living and reflection upon how we live. This reflection is always mediated by language, hence the purpose of our approach and the practice of –U– is to perform a nuanced study of words to demonstrate meanings which have been forgotten or deliberately passed by in order to help establish a certain vision of life and society. Philology is a formative instrument of the science of living-together. As Werner Hamacher has put it: “Philology fights in a world civil war for language and for the world against the industrial manufacture of language and of the world.”
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The book The Scientific Discipline and the Scientist’s Identity represents another outcome of the author's research interests at the university. The author focuses his attention on disciplines and disciplinarity, in very broad contexts. The book consists of two parts. Part One is devoted to the following issues: the role of disciplines in the structure of science and the university, essentialist and constructivist approaches to disciplines, dimensions of disciplinary territoriality, disciplinary identifications and socialization into disciplines, the status of the scientist within disciplines and its sources, the division and hierarchization of disciplines, interdisciplinarity, the humanities vs. exact and natural sciences, the book in the humanities and social sciences, the consequences of the digitisation of scientific books, English as the language of global science, the confrontation of paradigms in contemporary science, footnotes and the practice of science. Part Two of the book discusses discipline-related case studies: the glory and decline of astrology and alchemy, the pseudoscience of Lysenkoism, the status and aesthetics of mathematics, the controversy over the disciplinary status of pedagogy and criminology, economic imperialism, and masculinity and femininity in physics. The author's analysis and interpretations allow us to conclude that the thesis of a crisis or decline in the importance of disciplines is not justified; they still play a decisive role in the organisation of modern science, the university and the academic community. They also constitute an extremely important source for shaping the identity of scientists.
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Scientific collection of Doctoral students from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication. Media literacy; tools of marketing communication; sources of information in investigative journalism; visual communication in media and public relations; theory, history, and practices of public relations; innovations in digital marketing; typology of the book and the history of Bulgarian book publishing; the profiles of press journalism and online journalism; citizen journalism-professional journalism relations - the wide range of thematic and research fields of the publications in this collection testifies to the integral character of the scientific specialty "Media and Communications".
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The publication Twenty-Five Years of the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University deals with, as the title suggests, the twenty-five years of existence of one of the MUNI’s ten faculties. The Czech and English texts describe the story of this institution from the very beginning, through the ideas of its founders and the gradual expansion of the faculty to the moving of all the departments under one roof and the modernization of the current seat of the faculty. Last but not least, the publication focuses on the fact that FSS MUNI is not just a place where lectures, scientific research, and cultural or social events are held, but that it is primarily a collection of people who form a unique community. The emphasis is on the visual material. The texts are in Czech and English.
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The book of abstracts of the 13th Conference of Sport and Quality of Life 2022 gathers the abstracts of all the oral and poster presenters and keynote speakers. The conference is divided into sections – analysis of human movement; sport training; healthy lifestyle, active aging, nutrition and regeneration in sport; sport and social sciences; sports medicine; and the poster section.
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The book tells the story of an educationalist's scientific emigration to the world of neuroscience. However, the impulse to write it was not the need to publish an emigration diary but rather for the emigrant to reflect critically on how neuroscience has seduced educators and non-educators and how it is used to seduce numerous domains, including those that are strictly educational. Although you may not realize it at times, neuroscience seduces everyone. And this is what the author calls the neuro effect. The book shows that neuroscience seduces in at least several ways. Referring to his scientific research, which was carried out over several years of internships in neurolaboratories, as well as to scientific theories and results obtained by other scientists, the author describes such aspects as seduction by the applied perspective of neuroresearch, the ethos of the brain, brain-centric and brain-deterministic concepts, neurorealistic possibilities of visualizing the processes occurring in the brain, neuroequipment, neurolaboratory, and the splendor of neuroscientists. When showing various contexts of the neuro effect, the author does not focus solely on describing them. He also exposes the consequences of seduction, particularly those related to pedagogy, for example, dangerous activities aimed at the educational application of yet unproven brain stimulation methods or the increase in redundant publications in the field of neuropedagogy. He also identifies possible solutions to counter seduction. The key is building awareness of the limitations of neuroscientific knowledge by studying neuroscience and gaining experimental experience in neurolaboratories
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The book is a post-conference volume of the 11th Pedagogical Congress and is devoted to the issue formulated as Turning point. Crises in educational contexts – challenges for pedagogy. It is a collection of texts by the participants of the session organized by the editors of the volume, which combined the interests of critical pedagogues, sociologists of education and social pedagogues, focusing on social, structural and environmental conditions, going beyond the constructivist paradigm, through the pluralism of ideas and interpretative frameworks. The events of recent decades, and in, new crises such as climate change, pandemics, ethnic and cultural wars, mass migration, religious fundamentalism, the monopoly of neoliberal economies, the expansion of poverty, the pathogenic use of the Internet, educational systems in the service of the past, constitute constant challenges for pedagogy (including social inequalities in education). The authors of the texts seek an answer to the question: What should pedagogy be like in the 21st century? What is its social, political, economic and cultural role, locally and globally? What actions should educators take in the face of growing inequalities and increasing uncertainty?
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The book is the result of cooperation between the Asháninka indigenous society living in native communities (Span. comunidades nativas) along the Tambo River (Dep. Junín) in the Upper Peruvian Amazonia, the Asháninka Association Tspiana Jampi and researchers from the University of Lodz, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow and the Museo de Historia Natural at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. From 2016 to 2022, we documented the traditional knowledge of the Asháninka people about medicinal and edible plants grown in their home gardens, on agricultural plots and harvested from the wild in the forest. During our stays in the field, we collected over 400 herbarium specimens, which were deposited in the herbarium of the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima, thanks to which we identified nearly 250 botanical species used by the Asháninka. The book is organized by the names of plants in the Asháninka language, accompanied by botanical names, photographs of plants, their short botanical and ecological description and their use in traditional medicine and in the local diet. Moreover, in the last part we introduced all the collaborators (nearly 150 people) with whom we cooperated and whose knowledge was documented in this book.
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The publication presented to the reader is the result of a collaboration between sociologists from the University of Lyon II and the University of Lodz. However, recognized rural sociologists representing the academic centers of Warsaw, Krakow and Torun were invited to work jointly. The analysis of the social problems of rural areas in contemporary French and Polish societies arises both from the importance of this structural element for the two countries and from the desire to continue the long tradition of cooperation. The volume opens with texts evoking the main trends in long-term research undertaken in the rural environment, both in France and in Poland. Then there are synthetic presentations of the dynamics of the social structure in rural areas of Poland between 1991 and 2015, as well as the social problems of peri-urban areas in France. The following texts present an empirical dimension of the quality of life of Polish farmers in the era of globalization; and address the transformation of neighborhood relations in French rural communities located in peri-urban areas. Then, innovative activities of NGOs within local socio-spatial structures; as well as the transformations of folk culture in central Poland, are presented. The volume ends with a text devoted to the analysis of civic participation of residents of rural areas in Poland and France based on data from the European Social Survey. The texts brought together in this monograph concern the current social situation in France and Poland, seen from the perspectives of territory, social structure, culture and life organizations.
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