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Program pomocy BRIGE dla młodzieży z opieki zastępczej

Author(s): Małgorzata Gocman,Małgorzata Szarzyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2016

Persons brought up outside their own family, in foster care, are particularly vulnerable to experiencing life difficulties and the risk of social exclusion. Research on youth leaving foster care conducted in Europe and the United States shows that they experience many problems in different areas of functioning. These problems include: mental disorder symptoms, antisocial behavior, risky sexual behavior, psychoactive substance abuse and victimization. Due to the difficult situation of youth from foster care, a team of researchers from the Opole University adjusted to Polish conditions American program for young people leaving foster care. The program is called Bridging Resilience through Intervention, Guidance, and Empowerment (BRIGE). The purpose of the article is to present the BRIGE program and to evaluate it in terms of mental health. The study involved 12 young people preparing to leave orphanages in the province of Opole and the Lower Silesia. The program was controlled using the survey “Aging out” specially designed for this purpose. Each participant was evaluated 4 times: at the beginning of the program (measurement I), after 6 months (measurement II), after 12 months (measurement III) and after 18 months (measurement IV). In the present study we were limited to analysis of the results of three measurements, because not all subjects completed their participation in the program. The results showed that adolescents participating in the BRIGE program decreased symptoms of mental disorders, such as depression and a sense of hostility. The results are discussed in relation to existing programs for youth from foster care.

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Proces parentyfikacji w kontekście teorii systemowej

Author(s): Teresa Rostkowska,Judyta Borchet / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

This review article draws attention to the characteristics and conditions of family roles, the characteristics of the dysfunctional process of reversing roles between family members (parentification), the classifications of parentification as well as positive and negative consequences of experiencing the role reversal between parents and a child. In polish psychological and pedagogical literature there is lack of research on parentification. Exploring this phenomenon is very significant not only because of the fact that parentified children are overwhelmed with responsibilities, but also because of the roles and developmental tasks that are adequate to child’s age (i.e., school education, socialization, establishing relationships with peers, building friendships) that cannot be performed due to being overcharged with the duties imposed by the parents. Therefore, having thorough knowledge of parentification and the ability to distinguish it from the similar phenomena enables teachers, educators, psychologists, therapists and social workers matching more accurate interventions to the needs of the child and its family.

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PARTICIPATION OF SLOVAK PRODUCTS IN CONSUMER’ S PERCEPTION

Author(s): Eva Poliačiková,Dáša Václavíková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1/2016

The center of attention in the market, especially in the food market is becoming increasingly focus on food products from domestic production. This ambition has been long resounds not only from the government and the media, but also from consumers. The paper deals with Slovak products and their perception of Slovak consumers. Today, as a general rule saying “The customer is always right“. Therefore, if an organization wants to be successful on the market must meet the needs of the consumer as much as possible. Each person has certain needs, behavior and attitudes and the organization should know and explore them. Consumer behavior is influenced by many factors, as well as the growing impact of globalization on the food market, which is reflected in interpenetration of cultures, changing eating habits and heal thier lifestyles. Today, consumers have possibility to choose between Slovak and foreign products. Consumers therefore also affects the country in which the product is made, it means the country of origin of the product.

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PERCEPTION OF CELEBRITIES IN SOCIAL ADVERTISING BY ADOLESCENTS DEPENDING ON THEIR SEX

Author(s): Milan Džupina,Dana Hodinková,Oľga Chalányová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2/2016

Presented scientific study represents partial results of extended scientific project focused on celebrity preferences of adolescents in social advertising. The application of celebrities in analyzed category of advertisement is quite a frequented practice, whose success is based on an achievement of attention which such people easily obtain due to their popularity and social status. Achieved results show differences in popularity rate of individual celebrities according to category of their profession, as well as they also refer to important differences between male and female recipients. These results suggest that for branding in case of social advertising, the most effective celebrities are entertainers, artists and politicians.

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Eмоционалното развитие като ендогенен фактор за социализацията на децата в транзитивните условия на руската действителност

Author(s): Elena Izotova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The article presents research results of age dynamics of cognitive, affective and behavioral components of the emotional development of children in preschool age together with the threshold of emotional reaction and form of expression of emotional reactions as structural components of emotionality. Invariants of emotional development are presented and empirically proven: the expansion of a number of emotional modalities, the decoding of emotions and any regulation of emotional expressions, the expansion and complication of knowledge about emotions and their verbalization (N=500).

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Dotkliwe historie

Author(s): Justyna Tabaszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

Tabaszewska reads Svetlana Alexievich’s reportage works as affective texts that alter the conditions of how the world of Events is experienced and perceived. With a conceptual framework inspired by Lauren Berlant, Jill Bennett, Astrid Erll and others, Tabaszewska highlights those aspects of Alexievich’s works that indicate their affective, emotional, bodily and somatic character. These works of reportage are also read as an attempt to create a new form of remembering these previously marginalized Events that any given society must internalize and then work through.

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Co za wstyd! Pamiętnik z okresu queerowego dojrzewania: prolegomena

Author(s): Błażej Warkocki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

This article focuses on the short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ from Witold Gombrowicz’s debut collection ‘Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity’ (later published under the title Bakakaj or Bacacay in the English translation). Warkocki reads this collection as a ‘memoir of negative affects,’ with the opening story being a story about shame. Drawing on Silvan Tomkins and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Warkocki suggests that shame is an affect that interpellates the identity of the outcast and the misfit. Thus the short story represents a particular instance of queer performativity.

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Bezwstydny taniec nie może trwać bez końca

Author(s): Kinga Dunin / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

From a sociological perspective, shame is an instrument of social control, while shamelessness is a way to break out from under that control. One strategy of shamelessness is camp, both as a poetics and as a practice. Dunin’s analysis of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ as well as Michał Witkowski’s ‘life writing’ attempts to answer how effective this strategy is and to identify its limits.

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Pamięć, czyli farmakon

Author(s): Agata Bielik-Robson / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2016

This essay examines the pathologies of Polish memory through Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytical theory. Bielik-Robson suggests that the majority of what is seen as historical memory in contemporary Poland is no memory at all but a compulsion to repeat, reminiscent of the dark ritual of an ever-returning trauma. It is of course risky to extrapolate from psychoanalytical methods to collective subjects, but this essay attempts to describe the assumptive subject of the Polish collective as a Kleinian ‘angry infant’ in the paranoid-schizoid position. This arrested development results in a falsely passive experience of dependency as well as a complete inability to work through trauma. To develop this ability, however, turns out to be a necessary condition for the formation of memory in the strict sense.

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Natręctwo niepamięci naszej o Zagładzie

Author(s): Marek Zaleski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2016

Zaleski describes the pathogenic mechanisms that come into play in Polish society: in the processes of forgetting the extermination of our fellow citizens, Polish Jews, during the last war, as well as in the reasons behind the construction of a false historical imagination/ imaginarium of collective memory.  In the Polish affective economy, ‘the Jews’ are a symptom that allows a noisy ‘neurotic minority’ to cast the collective in the role of victim, to  give permanence to phantasms and pathological structures in our collective identity. Zaleski also expresses his alarm at the fact thatcurrently, official public discourse once again sanctions those practices.

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Nienapisana epopeja. Kilka uwag o zapomnianym wyzwoleniu

Author(s): Andrzej Leder / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2016

This article explores the memory of emancipation in Poland – or rather, the lack of such a memory. Leder argues that stories about the emancipation are needed – an entire cycle of stories, a series of novels, films or images. Leder discusses the emancipation of signs, or signifiers, bemoaning the fact that only a few novels are known, and mostly to academics. These cultural texts do not function in the collective discourse; they are not transformed into scenarios that structure the collective imagination. They are not signifiers in the sense of structuring the collective subject’s self-representation. Leder does not argue that all stages of the emancipation ought to be described in detail, nor that their dramaturgy be foregrounded, nor that representations are needed of their potential and value as elements of a hitherto unwritten narrative. Rather, he proposes that we should introduce into our conscious memory the great historical current which, through conscious memory itself, has achieved the goal that has been Poland’s most important one over the last 150 years: the attainment of the maturity to be free – a process that has been completely repressed from our memory.

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Nekroperformans. O sprawczym oddziaływaniu szczątków w polskiej pamięci kulturowej

Author(s): Dorota Sajewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2016

Sajewska enters into dialogue with the two principal models of memory in Polish theatre: the Romantic paradigm that universalizes Poland’s peripheral status a proposed by Leszek Kolankiewicz in Dziady: Teatr święta zmarłych [Dziady: Theatre of the Feast of the Dead, 1999], and the model based on the parallelism between modernity and the Holocaust as established by Grzegorz Niziołek in Polski teatr zagłady [Polish Holocaust Theatre, 2013]. According to Sajewska, the rivalry between these two grand narratives about the Polish theatre community obscures other historical experiences. Her analysis of the presence of World War I in Polish cultural memory emphasizes the materiality of the allegedly ephemeral body. Negotiating meanings between theatrical historiosophy, anthropology and contemporary theories on the performativity of archives, Sajewska proposes a concept that draws not on the paradigm of the testimony but that of evidence – remains, traces, vestiges. Key to these concepts are the correlated notions of the body-archive and necro-performance. These notions problematize the relationship between the researcher and the archive material, while also suggesting a concrete strategy and practice of writing cultural history.

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„Ja tutaj piszę o sobie”. Uwikłania pamięciologiczne

Author(s): Maria Kobielska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

What might motivate a researcher in cultural studies to explore memory in an engaged way, how can such engagement be legitimized, and what might be its consequences? Kobielska draws on broader debates on commitment in the humanities in order to describe the most frequent responses to questions about the permissibility of such engagement. She also points out why researchers’ responses might be inadequate, especially when applied to particularly sensitive, problematic and political areas of interest in the humanities today. Examining the specificity of commitment in the field of memory studies, Kobielska classifies ways of understanding the engagement of a person who studies memory, taking into account the fact that this researcher will be both a user of the culture of memory she studies and at the same time a critic, an activist in the field of memory, a moderator and facilitator of social and cultural processes of remembering.

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Materia to podstawa. Relacje, reakcje i eksperymenty

Author(s): Agnieszka Dauksza,Joanna Rajkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The point of departure for this interview is the new project Suicidal Women (2016) by the visual artist Joanna Rajkowska, as well as the question of how the image impacts the viewer. For Rajkowska, the reception and description of contemporary art needs to be not merely rational but also based on impression and affect. The interview touches on questions of relationality, materiality and embodiment as essential aspects of the creative process. Rajkowska compares her work to the functioning of a ‘seismograph’ – being sensitive to the energy of spaces that demand artistic intervention. Other topics include the artist’s method and tools, her engagement, her critique of participation and of academic training as an artistic tool. The following works by Rajkowska are discussed: Suicidal Women, Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue, I Will Never Be a Pope. I Will Never Be Andy Warhol, Benjamin in Konya, Oxygenator, Rosa’s Passage, Trafostationtion

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Šta nas stvarno razdvaja? Istraživanje stavova mladih u gradovima Niš, Kikinda i Bor odnosno Priština, Peć i Prizren

Author(s): Goran Bašić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2014

The results of the survey point to a high level of agreement among youth aged between 15 and 25 years of age, high school and college students, employed and unemployed youth, men and women in the cities of Pec, Pristina, Prizren in Kosovo, and Bor, Kikinda, and Nis in Serbia, on whether the question of mutual cooperation is burdened by prejudice and events from the past, and that the possibility and the quality of cooperation is influenced by the attitudes the receive in their primary social groups such as families and peers, and also by the attitudes they receive through education and media. At the same time, the possibilities to influence the social and political change aren’t big, and the youth have no desire to take the concrete civic or political initiatives.A certain perspective in cooperation the youth see in the European constellation and the good quality education. However, youth on both sides are not open to more intensive mutual meetings – the majority would not either host peers from the other communities gladly, nor they would respond to their invitation of hosting. They are not interested in cultural values of one another, but they do think respect of human rights should be guaranteed and they are ready for toleration of differences.The necessity of youth cooperation is important for overcoming the problems that citizens of Kosovo and Serbia are facing when it comes to exercising numerous rights, which from the perspective of individual freedoms collide with the concept of state reasons and "higher" interests. The regional stability depends on overcoming the issues that governments in Serbia and Kosovo have concerning Kosovo’s status, and also from setting a network of individual and group relations among the citizens. Youth should be the carriers of social and cultural changes. In the stated attitudes there is no direct objection to such processes, but fear of changes is clearly expressed because indirectly it can be concluded that there is no mutual "collective" trust, that the prejudice are strong, and that the existing educational, cultural and media systems are supporting them. Having determined a high level of mutual non-acceptance of youth and their approximately same attitudes on the impossibility to influence the decision making more strongly in their family, social, and political communities, but also their personal ambivalence toward civic and political activism, let us try to, solely based on their statements, decide on the basis of designing the programs necessary for overcoming the present state.One of the main initiators of the social change are the content citizens, which means a personal and social economic stability, acquiring human and civil rights, efficient protection by the courts, receiving good services from the public service, responsible civic society – a rule of law and a state of law. Much of the above listed in the region, and especially in the territories, in which the survey was conducted, is missing. To effectively and efficiently influence the stream of social and political flows toward the mentioned goals, young people should acquire a certain vertical social mobility and to influence the changes based on the positions they acquire in it. The key question is based on which values should their social and professional mobility be influenced.

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MARGINAL GROUPS AND THEIR ROLE WITHIN MEDIA AND SOCIETY SPECTACULARIZATION – THE CASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL “BIG BROTHER” TELEVISION REALITY SHOW

Author(s): Levak Tomislav,Barbara Balen Domazetović,Snježana Barić-Šelmić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Ever since it was first aired in September 1999 in the Netherlands, the Big Brother television show became the world’s most famous and most widely-held reality show franchise with up to 400 broadcast seasons in more than 70 countries. Since strong competition emerged in the mean time in the form of many other reality shows, owners of the Big Brother franchise are constantly trying to ‘refresh’ the concept in various ways to maintain its popularity and ratings. Thus, several production companies and commercial televisions from the former Yugoslavia region, all of them license owners authorised to produce the show, decided to organise an international or, more accurately, regional Big Brother show from September to December 2015. The producers gathered a total of 19 contestants from five countries with similar spoken languages – Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia – almost half of whom were somewhat bizarre members of socially sensitive, so-called marginal groups of citizens (a homeless person, a prostitute, a transgender person, a Roma family and others), which caused strong and divisive public reactions in the mentioned countries. The authors conducted an analysis of the content of the show broadcast over a period of one month in order to find out whether and to what extent these members of marginal societal groups were used to promote and increase viewer ratings of the show. At the same time, they followed the viewer ratings and, to a lesser extent, the public opinion on the show in Croatia. In the theoretical part, briefly, terms such as “marginal groups of citizens”, “celebrity culture”, “spectacularization of society and media” and “reality show” and the concept of television and its convergence with new, digital media formats have been elaborated. The objectives of the research were to determine whether the show’s license owners succeeded in their somewhat controversial approach to halt the trend of decreasing viewer ratings, and whether the concept of Big Brother and reality shows in general have been somewhat ‘worn out’, at least in South East Europe.

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Antropolog jako dokumentalista zaangażowany. O wrocławskiej grupie Cinema Albert Production

Author(s): Iwona Morozow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2013

The article discuss a proposition of visual, engaged fieldwork, which the authoress conducts among amateur Wrocław’s film group “Cinema Albert Production”, as an answer to the action research paradigm. The aim of this research is to present the possible role of the anthropologist as a manager and promoter who support the emancipative needs of definite people in dialectical perspective, by using documentary as an tool of possible cooperation and means to ex‐ceed the hermetic, academic discourse.

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Bieda jako tabu w architekturze. Do kogo należy przestrzeń publiczna?

Author(s): Maria Lubelska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2012

Public space is defined by users/audience. But what happens when the behavior of users is contrary to the intentions of the creators of public space? And who has, and who has no power in public space? Certainly, the poor do not have this power. It is worth to look at poverty as a taboo in space. As a taboo in architecture. That is why it is worth examining the degree of democratization of public spaces in Poland on selected examples from Cracow.

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Spory o przestrzeń. Kilka uwag o uczestnictwie w konflikcie

Author(s): Magda Szcześniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2012

The article deals with the social conflict, which developed around the infamous cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. On April 15th 2010, eleven days after the Polish Presidential plane crashed in Smoleńsk, members of the Polish Scout Association placed an approx. ten feet tall wooden cross in front of the Presidential Palace. Initially a place of mourning, soon enough the site became became a space of a political and cultural conflict revolving around the issues of religion and its visibility in public spaces. The dispute about whether the cross should remain outside the Presidential Palace or whether it should be removed, engaged many different types of “publics” and undermined the popular belief in the possibility of a consensus. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s and Ernesto Laclau’s theory of radical democracy, the author analyzes the multiple interventions in the “representative” public space in front of the Presidential Palace – of the scouts, who installed the cross; of the so called “defenders of the cross,” who occupied the area around it, once the Presidential Office decided to remove it; of the counter‐demonstrators, who supported the decision to move the cross to a nearby church. Seen as examples of democracy in practice, these interventions also help us to deconstruct such seemingly neutral concepts as the “public sphere,” “public space,” and “common good.”

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Internet jako sposób na tabu choroby psychicznej. Analiza przypadku portalu Mam efkę

Author(s): Agnieszka Całek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2012

One of the strongest taboos that have survived in Polish society is mental illness. Despite numerous social actions, which were to at least reduce this problem, it is still strong, as researches indicate. This situation creates the need to deal with it by people who are directly affected, that is, the sick and their surroundings. The tool provided by technological progress to meet this need is the Internet. This article contains considerations on the taboo of mental illness, as well as how to deal with it using the network on the example of the "Mam efkę" side, dedicated to the sick and their relatives.

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