Biografie zawodowe polskich pracowników korporacji w późnokapitalistycznym społeczeństwie

Author(s): Kamila Biały / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

Referring to a set of narrative interviews being professional biographical interviews with managers and professionals, I would like to present some definite typically patterned professional careers. The course and main phases of the settling into corporate order are identified and described with Fritz Schütze’s analytical tools and categories. The main focus of interest is not only biographical processes of growing-up in corporation, that is the sphere of cognitive, normative and emotional references, but also their relation to the institutional sphere. Simultaneously, I intend therefore to address two types of questions: what type of biographical experiences are we dealing with: biographical plan (an autonomous, self-reflexive and intentional process of planning one's own actions), institutional pattern (a normative-based process of meeting institutional expectations), trajectory (a suffering-involved process of uncontrollably being subject to external circumstances), metamorphosis (a surprise-driven creative process of change); and what are the ways a biography reflects corporate order, that is, some definite type of the social order in late capitalism, and the related processes of Europeanization, globalization, multiculturalism and transculturalism, as well as the neoliberal economic order?

Организационна култура и комуникации

Author(s): Evelina Christova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

Статията събира материали, посветени на организационната култура и комуникациите и представлява първи стъпки към изследване на комуникация на благотворителността.

Mládež ve fotografiích v Mladém světě 1960–1990

Author(s): Jana Teplá / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2015

The topic of my research focuses on representations of youth in press photographs (1960–1990). It is a critical approach to visual communication in late socialism in Czechoslovakia. Particularly the study focuses on photographs in Mladý svět Magazine (Young World), published by the Union of Socialist Youth, which was first released in 1959 and became the most popular magazine for youth in the examined period. The aim of this study is to find the strategy of visual representation of youth and its transformation during the period. Two methods of visual analysis are applied in the methodological part: quantitative content analysis of photographs and social semiotic analysis of photographs.

Szanse na dobry Uniwersytet? - Głosy w dyskusji

Author(s): Tadeusz Szawiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

Siedząc za biurkiem, łatwo snuć projekty „dobrego Uniwersytetu”. Piszę wielką literą, ponieważ jako idea jest on czymś jedynym i niepowtarzalnym, jest to zatem nazwa własna. Łatwo też narzekać na to, co nam przeszkadza, irytuje, bądź rzuca się w oczy jako bezsensowne. Łatwo wreszcie popaść w coś, co można określić mianem „krytyki kultury”, tj. w coś, co w gruncie rzeczy jest wyrafinowaną formą narzekania na czasy, w których żyjemy.

Optymizm Hioba. - Głosy w dyskusji

Author(s): Barbara Fatyga / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

Biadania nad kondycją polskich uniwersytetów słychać z różnych stron w ostatnim czasie niemal bezustannie. Ich ton jest zróżnicowany: od chłodnych analiz, do wypowiedzi bardzo emocjonalnych. Wydaje się, iż świat naukowy wpada tu w swoistą kulturową pułapkę: aby być usłyszanym, trzeba wypowiadać się coraz ostrzej i bardziej ekspresyjnie, ale daremność tych wypowiedzi; głuchota na nie naszych ministrów pogłębiają frustrację, więc pojawiają się kolejne, jeszcze mocniejsze teksty, z których równie mało wynika, co z poprzednich. Tym bardziej, iż z najodważniejszymi nawet diagnozami nie idą w parze sensowne działania naprawcze, a przynajmniej przerwanie psucia uczelni i ludzi z nimi związanych. Co gorsza, ci którzy narzekają i/lub diagnozują kryzysy i upadki zarazem często się do nich przyczyniają, albowiem sami nie respektują reguł, których przestrzegania wymagają od innych. Tworzy się w ten sposób zaklęte i przeklęte koło Hioba, z którego trudno się wyzwolić.

Jaki uniwersytet? Pytania i dylematy. Głosy w dyskusji

Author(s): Jolanta Kulpińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

Jestem przywiązana do tradycji Humboldtowskiej, tym bardziej, że w takim systemie studiowałam wiele lat temu. Idea łączenia badań i dydaktyki była realizowana na dwa sposoby: poprzez charakter zajęć – głównie monograficznych – oraz poprzez udział, a raczej pomoc w badaniach prowadzonych w Katedrze.

Murales Bolognese: Visual Representation of Italian Urban Culture

Author(s): Eugen Glavan / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2014

The city of Bologna (Italy) is mainly known for the rich and well-preserved history, the left-wing political opinions of its inhabitants and for the one of the lowest child birth rates in a European city. These aspects, combined with the fact that the city has the largest university in Europe in terms of number of students,shapes the local urban culture in a particular way. This paper investigates the visual manner in which some inhabitants of Bologna, collectively known as “graffers”, express themselves in an attempt to identify the characteristics of their public voice. Such expression is often in contradiction with the way in which the town officials wish to promote a certain image of Bologna based on historical tradition. The methods of visual sociology are used to analyse the graffiti in terms of locations and content, in an attempt to explain the process of socialisation in a stable and prosperous society.

Keeping Marketisation at Bay: The Quality of Academic Worklife in Czech Universities

Author(s): Kateřina Zábrodská,Jiří Mudrák,Petr Květon,Kateřina Machovcová,Iva Šolcová / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2016

This study examines quality of academic worklife in Czech public universities to assess the extent to which the global drive towards marketisation in higher education has affected Czech academic staff. A total of 2229 academics (men = 57.1%) completed a survey measuring their job satisfaction, job stress, and work environment perceptions. Findings revealed high levels of overall job satisfaction (83.6% satisfied with their jobs) and relatively low levels of stress (13.7% regularly stressed). Most academics reported positive features of their work environment including autonomy and quality, role clarity, influence over academic work, and a strong social community. Negative features included dissatisfaction with pay, poor leadership, and pressure to produce. Job satisfaction was significantly associated with traditional academic values (focus on quality, involvement in decision-making, commitment to the workplace, recognition), while stress was linked to market-related aspects (pressure to produce, quantitative work demands, job insecurity). The study highlighted relatively high levels of well-being among Czech faculty, which can be attributed to the continued prevalence of a traditional, professor-oriented academic system based on autonomy and collegiality. Despite recent market-oriented changes within Czech research policy, the negative effects of marketisation are not yet pronounced in the quality of academic worklife in public universities, except for the increasing pressure for productivity.

Uvnitř a vne – Sociálni a edukatívní aspekty výtvarné tvorby v prostředí školy a ve veřejnem prostoru

Author(s): Tomáš Telepák / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2016

Review of: STEHLÍKOVÁ BABYRÁDOVÁ, Hana; MUSILOVÁ, Jana;TIKÁLOVÁ, Lucie; SOSNA, Jiři: Uvnitř a vne – Sociálni a edukatívníaspekty výtvarné tvorby v prostředí školy a ve veřejnemprostoru. Olomouc: Vydavateľstvo Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014, 1. Vydanie, 152 s.ISBN 978-80-244-4073-6 by: Tomáš Telepák

The Need to Train Students Intercultural Competence for International Mobility Stage

Author(s): Florentina Lavinia Matei / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The concern for the training of intercultural competence has become more and more accentuated because in the contemporary society we are witnessing a significant increase in student mobility. In countries such as France or Germany teachers have created special programs for training this competence for students that studying in a different culture. It was found that such intercultural competence training programs help students to better understand the characteristics of the cultures and the differences between them, to respect them and to integrate better. Possessing intercultural competence allows students to better manage relationships in a multicultural space. The goal of this paper is to explain the notion of intercultural competence and its importance for students who will participate in international mobility.

Art Education, Therapy Interventions and School Management in Autism

Author(s): Yücehan Yücesoy,Başak Bağlama,Mehmet Tuzel / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

A variety of research has shown that involvement in the arts increases student achievement across all subject areas, as well as social and adaptive skills. Accordingly, special education and art integration might be beneficial on many levels for individuals with ASD as well. This study aims to determine the trends in the studies on autism and arts through content analysis and discuss the role of school management in art education for individuals with autism. Several databases were examined in the study in order to carry out the content analysis in order to provide a review of on the studies related with art interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Articles published in academic databases were examined based on certain criteria including year of publication, research subject, sample, name of the journals, authors in the studies. Data were analyzed based on content analysis method. Results are discussed with reference to relevant literature and implications for further research and practices are also provided.

The Demarkation of Creativity, Talent and Genius in Humans: a Systemic Aspect

Author(s): Alla Nerubasska,Borys Maksymchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

A person becomes a part of a system that can “crush” him or her emotionally, sensually, psychologically and physically. At the same time, a person is still a self-organizing system that has a high degree of adaptability. The study aims to consider creativity, talent and genius in human beings, identify their grounds for subordination and manifestation and justify the content of their demarcation in a systemic aspect. The system-parametric method developed by A. Uyemov allows revealing the nature of the creative principle of a person. The basis of this method is a dual definition of the system to which any object can be represented. When defining an object, the concept, structure and substrate are highlighted in it. This hierarchy constitutes integrity in the system under consideration. A systemic model of several objects is proposed to determine the demarcation lines in the properties of person, which are creative, talented and ingenious: a person is a biological creature; a person is a creative human being. Sub-systems are distinguished: “creative and talented people”, “creative, talented and genius people”. Isolating subsystems helps to analyze demarcation lines. Using the system parameters “minimum-non-minimum” systems and “strong-weak” systems shows that the “creative person” system is minimal and strong, as well as more complex than the “human-biological being” system. The “creative person” system includes the other powerful systems listed above. The study proves that the weakest demarcation line in the system is “creative, talented and genius people” since it is difficult to imagine genius without talent.

THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF MERITOCRACY: CHALLENGES FROM THE ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM UNDER NEOLIBERALISM

Author(s): Alexandru Gavriş / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The paper follows the institutionalization of meritocracy in the Romanian higher education. Using the Romanian experience, the study explores the setting of meritocracy, highlights the revised institutional genesis that led to the adoption of a so-called post-traditional approach, and it reviews the deployment of practices that steered higher education in Romania. In support to these, a reflective stance is employed alongside secondary sources to scrutinize the techniques of control and practices which inform institutional evolution. The research attempts to shed light on the increase of doctrinal entrenchment through which meritocracy justifies academic stratification in a pauper system aspiring to world-class recognition.

MODA CA FENOMEN ESTETIC ȘI FORMA DE COMUNICARE

Author(s): Ludmila Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1(36)/2020

Fashion represents a complex aesthetic and socio-cultural phenomenon with a ramified polysemantic structure that is in a continuous process of communication within its own system, interacting with various external factors of economic, political, social, cultural nature. Fashion is influenced and influences the processes of creating both aesthetical and socio-cultural forms. Being a phenomenon representative of contemporary Western civilization, it requires an inter and transdisciplinary approach. The work demonstrates the difference, but also the awareness of the similarity between the aesthetic and communicative dimensions of fashion, as delimited in speciality literature. The aesthetic and artistic approach of fashion is complemented by the communicative aspect of the phenomenon, which is especially important now when its valences are recognized both theoretically and pragmatically, thus contributing to new understandings in the contemporary fashion theory.

Wkręceni w pracę

Author(s): Olga Gitkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 782-783/2020

МУЗИЧКИ УКУС И СИМБОЛИЧКО РАЗГРАНИЧАВАЊЕ У ДРУШТВУ СРБИЈЕ

Author(s): Milica Resanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2020

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between social stratification and musical taste in present-day Serbia. Following a discussion about Bourdieu’s conceptualization of taste and contemporary theoretical approaches that rehabilitate Bourdieusian heritage, the presence of homology between social positions and musical tastes is tested in Serbian society. On the basis of collected qualitative material via interview, the author examines whether music serves as a symbolic mean that is used by the interviewees to place themselves in certain social groups by drawing symbolic boundaries between them and other social groups that are associated with other musical tastes. The analysis showed that there are differences in musical tastes among respondents based on their position on the stratification scale, manifested in choices and ways of listening to music, as well as that mechanisms of classification are hidden in speech about musical tastes.

RELATIONAL IMPACT OF CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE PERCEPTION OF SELF-EFFICACY ON EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Author(s): Vesna Rodić Lukić,Mia R. Marić,Snežana Z. Štrangarić / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

This paper aimed to examine the relationship between cultural capital in its three forms (objectified, embodied and institutionalized), the perceptions of students’ self-efficacy and their achievements on the PISA test. The sample consisted of 4843 high school students enrolled in the PISA study in 2009. The results confirmed the existence of the proposed relationships. Self-efficacy and cultural capital significantly contribute to the prediction of student achievements, whereby the embodied cultural capital significantly contributes to the prediction of the perception of self-efficacy. Since the obtained relationships are not of high intensity, it can be concluded that other factors play a significant role in the development of students’ self-efficacy and achievement. Practical implications would relate to activities of encouraging reading habits among students in order to increase the cultural capital and self-efficacy, which will have an effect on their achievement.

MY JOB IS TO ENJOY! – THE SERBIAN EXPERIENCE OF LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Author(s): Marina Nedeljković,Jovana M. Čikić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The paper examines the recently recognized form of entrepreneurship – lifestyle entrepreneurship – in the specific context of (post)transitional society. The key question is: are there any specific characteristics of lifestyle entrepreneurship and lifestyle entrepreneurs (e.g. personal characteristics, business traits, motivation, business plans and strategies, etc.) due to the specific economic and social settings. The exploratory study covers six lifestyle entrepreneurs. Data were collected in in-depth interviews. Results proven that (post)transitional lifestyle entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are specific, especially regarding their motivation and work-private life balance. (Post)transitional lifestyle entrepreneurship includes basic features of profit-orientated entrepreneurship as an element of survival strategy.

Auto-censura (self-censorship) – an ordinary and integral part of research life(?) Work in Progress in a form of an essay

Author(s): Izabela Wagner / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2022

This work-in-progress paper paves future research regarding the practice of autocensura (self-censorship). Starting from auto-biographical experience, the text shifts into a more theoretical reflection about this part of the scholarly work, which is hidden and unstudied. The working definition of the analyzed phenomenon aims to open an academic discussion about this practice. The paper ends with the call for testimonies and participation in the study.

Skill and Deskilling in Two Automotive Assembly Plants in South Africa

Author(s): Siphelo Ngcwangu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article presents research on skills development and workplace change complexities within two automotive assembly plants in Pretoria, South Africa. Auto assembly companies are also termed Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Since 1995, South African OEMs have become fully integrated into the global networks of their foreign parent companies. As South Africa’s leading manufacturing sector, the automotive industry’s increasing importance is reflected in its exports, in- vestments, and contribution to the country’s gross domestic product. The two companies are global multinationals situated in one of South Africa’s most globally integrated sectors that have undergone significant mechanization and automation since the 1990s. Therefore, these companies present a rele- vant site for studying changes in the labor process and the tendencies of deskilling in these workplace environments.The research is based on a qualitative research design that used semi-structured interviews with workers, supervisors, and managers across two plants that assemble motor vehicles in South Afri- ca. The objective of the research was to understand the nature of changes to workplace production methods that influence the character of skills amongst the workforce. This paper studies workers’ experiences on how changes in work processes have impacted their work skills and contributed to the processes of deskilling. Present studies of skills in South Africa have prioritized large-scale labor market aggregate data analysis or reforms in education and training policies of the state. This pa- per brings a perspective on the labor process changes that are informed by concrete analysis of the production process and how technological changes shape the character of skills formation within automotive assembly plants. The value of such an approach is that it brings to the discussion of tech- nology and workplace change a more specific set of experiences that transcends the often speculative and mythical discussion about the impact of technology on work. This article highlights the impor- tance of understanding workers’ voices, shift supervisors, and managers on the contested nature of skills development within capitalist enterprises. The findings illustrate the contradictory nature of technological change and skills development. This is shown by discussing the following themes that emerged from the findings: 1) worker responses to the introduction of robots in the workplace envi- ronment, 2) the deskilling challenge on the two plants, and 3) grappling with the turnover times of capitalist production. I conclude the paper by revisiting the key findings of the research and showing the implications for future studies of deskilling in contemporary capitalist enterprises. The signifi- cance of these findings ultimately points to the importance of locating labor processes and deskilling in the context of the political economy of the capitalist mode of production and how it is reshaping the content of work in modern automotive assembly plants.