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Probably a neighboring observer associates Silesia more with skat, which used to be a popular card game, than with chess. – Eighteen! – Have it! – Twenty! – Play! – I play clovers! – Contra! – Shut up!
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This article describes socialization peculiarities of secondary vocational education students when teaching the course in social studies and adaptation events. The formation of the social status of the youth will largely depend on the correct understanding of their position in the social structure of the society. The students of educational institutions must meet certain requirements that each student should correspond with. Understanding of this process is not always right and rarely happens immediately after admission to the educational institution. The importance of the educational process in this context is reduced to the cycles of the humanities where the student will acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding of his/her situation and determine the social status. The importance of the socialization process is in the familiarization of students with their future profession, their involvement from college into production and learning the peculiarities of blue-collar occupations.
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A theoretically based study of fascism is almost unknown in Czech historiography, and extensive foreign debates on the subject have not been considered over a long period of time. This text seeks to at least partially rectify this shortcoming and to raise awareness of one important and rather controversial part of contemporary discussions on fascism and its significance as a social-science concept, i.e. the so-called “new consensus”. In recent years, this school of thought has gained considerable recognition in the Anglo-Saxon milieu. The main proponent of this approach, British historian Roger Griffin, has been endeavouring to ensure the qualitative formulation of a new comparative model of fascism and a change of paradigm in fascist studies. In his work, he primarily emphasises the positive content of fascist ideology and the constitutive role of the core of the ideology for fascist practices and the political style of fascism. The introduction to the text briefly summarises the various forms of the comparative model of fascism since the 1960s and it thematises the main issues associated with the study of fascism. The focal point of this exposition consists of a detailed discussion of Griffin’s concept of fascism and the identification of its ideological roots. It also takes stock of the significance of his work in contemporary discussions. The article concludes by striving to argue that, despite some deficiencies in his approach, it is possible to view Roger Griffin’s efforts on behalf of the further study of fascism to be both valuable and beneficial.
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The article deals with the problem of sponsorship and patronage showing that these notions were wrongly applied interchangeably. We can notice the evolution from philanthropy charity, technical help to the building of corporate partnerships. The transnational corporations are nowadays determined to elaborate their own programs in which they underline their CSR rather than give the support to the arts and sports. Even countries and societies considered as BoP are taken into account in the new approach which links social aspects to new markets development. The cause related marketing analyzed on the example of American Express and Unilever is one of the more performing tools helping to gain recognition for the enterprise and to make advertisement for its products.
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Victims experiencing the sexual abuse are surviving not only physical injustice but above all deep traumas, which very often in different forms, are keeping them company through the entire life. Quite often at establishing different results a sex is underestimated for the perpetrator. Therefore knowing the problem of sexual abuses from a perspective of close as well as distant results is very important in the event that a woman was a perpetrator of these acts – mother, minder. In the present article based on analysis of literature, a problem of results of the sexual abuse was presented at victims which experienced these behaviours on the part of women. In order to draw up discussing the survived specificity by victims was both of sex of the trauma connected with the sexual application as well as close and distant consequences of these events in the form prime victimisation and revictimisation for figure being noticeable in the adult life of psychosexual disorders and social shortages. Amongst the consequence isolated traumatic factors are deserving the particular attention about dynamic character which are provoking the appearance of many symptoms characteristic of children which experienced the sexual violence. Recalled factors it: traumatic sexualisation of child, the betrayal, the stigmatization and the helplessness. The specificity of these factors results from the fact that they will leave distant “tracks” in the psyche and they can undergo the additional reinforcement if a woman is a perpetrator of the sexual violence. It results from frequent attitudes of “denying” towards the sexual violence applied by women. In the study they pointed also at one of possible consequences of the revictimisation process copying patterns of behaviour connected with the sexual exploitation of children in their more late life by victims is which. This process resulting from the alternating identification of the perpetrator and the victim is starting the mechanism of the vicious circle which disturb creating normal social interactions.
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Showing the specificity of the spiritual life of persons serving a penalty of imprisonment was a purpose of research. Analysis of findings confirmed that persons serving a penalty of imprisonment were characterized significantly more limited spiritual life, than the control group, consisted persons with no criminal record. And so sentenced persons in the significantly shorter rank are expanding the own awareness, more rarely seek the meaning of surrounding reality, are drawing fewer spiritual experiences indeed from doing good, are less sensitive for the art, are also less sensitive to the outside and internal beauty which are connected with moral elections.
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Przedmiotem badań jest skłonność skazanych do ingracjacji. Za narzędzie posłużył autorski Kwestionariusz Ankiety do Badania Skłonności do Ingracjacji. Kontrolowano tendencję do przedstawiania się w nadmiernie korzystny sposób i nastrój badanych. Analizowano zgodność deklaracji skazanego z jego zachowaniem. Sprawdzano wpływ tzw. Zabłąkanych Słów. Aby zweryfikować sformułowane hipotezy przyjęto metodę sondażu diagnostycznego oraz metody analizy statystyczno-porównawczej. Analiza czynnikowa wykazała, że zachowania ingracjacyjne nie sprowadzają się do jednolitego wymiaru. Skłonność do ingracjacji to konstrukt, w którym dają się wyróżnić trzy czynniki: Podwyższenie Wartości Partnera i Własnej, Konformizm oraz Manipulacje Własnym Wizerunkiem. Okazało się, że więźniowie przebywający pierwszy raz w izolacji więziennej są bardziej skłonni do stosowania Konformizmu niż skazani kolejny raz. W zakresie Podwyższania Wartości Partnera i Własnej oraz Manipulacji Własnym Wizerunkiem nie stwierdzono istotnych różnic między przebywającymi po raz pierwszy i kolejny w izolacji więziennej.
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The article concern the issue of the ingratiation of convicted people. To the research of susceptibility of sentenced people towards ingratiation the author used the questionnaire prepared by himself. The main issue of research was to present the tendency of introduced oneself in the excessively favorable manner and the state of mind (mood) of the convict who was examined. Than was confronted the result of declaration of the convicted submitted in the questionnaire with his real behavior and the influence of the (so called) “stray words”. In order to verify the formulated hypothesis was adopted the method of diagnostic survey and statistical and comparative analysis. The factor analysis showed that the ingratiation behavior is complicated, complex and multidimensionality. In the tendency of the ingratiation should be distinguish the main three issues: the increase of the value of oneself and the partner, conformity and, manipulation of own image. It appeared that the prisoners served a sentence of imprisonment for the first time are more likely to use conformity than again convicted imprisonment ones. In terms of the increase of the value of oneself and the partner and the own image manipulation, there were no significant difference between those prisoners who are staying for the first time and again in prison isolation.
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W artykule przedstawiono analizę wyników badań przeprowadzonych wśród nieletnich (chłopców i dziewcząt) w przypadku których sąd rodzinny zastosowało środek wychowawczy w postaci umieszczenia w Młodzieżowym Ośrodku Wychowawczym. Celem badania było sprawdzenie czy istnieje korelacja między samooceną, cechami osobowościowych i czynnikami środowiskowymi (czynnikami wspierającymi i czynnikami ryzyka), wśród nieletnich dziewcząt i chłopców. Łącznie przebadano 481 nieletnich przebywających w młodzieżowych ośrodkach wychowawczych. Zastosowane narzędzia badawcze to: Skala Samooceny Rosenberga (SES), w polskiej adaptacji I. Dzwonkowskiej, M. Łaguny i K. Lachowicz-Tabaczek. NEO-FFI (P.T. Costy i R.R. McCrae) został użyty do diagnozowania cech osobowości (został on zaadaptowany przez B. Zawadzkiego, J. Strelau, P. Szczepaniaka, M. Śliwińską) oraz kwestionariusz czynników wsparcia i czynniki ryzyka, który został skonstruowany do pomiaru czynników środowiskowych. Analiza regresji wykazała, że istotnymi predyktorami samooceny nieletnich były neurotyczność, ekstrawersja, sumienność i negatywne relacje w szkole. W grupie dziewcząt znaczącymi predyktorami samooceny były neurotyczność, sumienność, wsparcie rodziny i negatywne relacje w szkole, podczas gdy w grupie chłopców istotnymi predyktorami samooceny były neurotyczność, ekstrawersja i negatywne relacje w rodzinie.
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The article is an analysis of the results of the studies conducted among juveniles (boys and girls) in the case of whom the family court applied the educational means of placing them in the Youth Educational Centre. The aim of the study was to find out the correlations between self-esteem, personality traits and the environmental determinants (support factors and risk factors) among juveniles (boys and girls). The total of 481 juveniles staying in Youth Educational Centers participated in the study. Applied research tools: The Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (SES), in the Polish adaptation by I. Dzwonkowska, M. Łaguna and K. Lachowicz-Tabaczek, NEO-FFI by P.T. Costa and R.R. McCrae was used to diagnose personality traits included in a popular five-factor model (it has been adapted into Polish by B. Zawadzki, J. Strelau, P. Szczepaniak, and M. Śliwińska) and a questionnaire concerning support factors and risk factors was constructed to measure environmental determinants. The analysis model showed that the significant predictors of self-esteem were neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness and negative relations at school. In girls group the significant predictors of self-esteem were neuroticism, conscientiousness, family support and negative relations at school, while in boys group the significant predictors of self-esteem were neuroticism, extraversion and negative relations at family.
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Although the relationship between the therapeutic alliance and outcome has long been established across numerous studies and meta-analyses, less is known about this in treatment of adolescence substance abuse. This study investigates factors that influence alliance- outcome relationship in adolescence substance abuse treatment. To achieve this objective, this study explored the relative effect of demographic variables, i.e., (age and gender) in a sample of adolescent substance abuser at the rehabilitation treatment centre of University college hospital, (UCH) Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. Fifty –three adolescents took part in this study, and completed self-report measures of readiness and expectation (client’s theory of change) prior to treatment, therapeutic alliance measures during treatment. The findings indicates that, age do not predict alliance-outcome relationship in adolescence substance abuse treatment, as there was no moderating effect for client’s age. In addition, the finding showed a significant sex difference in pre-treatment motivational variables, client ratings of the alliance and treatment outcome. Finally, it was suggested that early identification of demographic variables that influence adolescent’s treatment; asadolescent’s attributions of resistance are associated with age and gender.
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We live in the era of a reality constructed by media. Today, the key access to media is political and commercial and even cognitive resources and social effects of the media can be both positive and negative in general. In this paper the authors analyzed and empirically investigated the complex relationship between the TV series (soap operas) and social behavior. According to Rössneru, social behavior is manifested through two modalities: socialized and disocialized. The first one contributes to the community development, harmonious relations among its members (e.g. collaboration, cooperation, friendship, selflessly helping others, etc.). These other forms break down the community and lead to conflicts, including interpersonal conflict (e.g. destructiveness, aggression, lust, addiction, neurosis, gossip, selfishness, etc.). If watching soap operas can help us significantly reduce stereotypes and prejudices towards certain countries, then the positive effects are existent.There is considerable semantic overlap but also differences between film series and soap operas. Universal definition of soap opera does not exist, while television series include a range of movies, which are usually emitted on the television at the same time, on certain days each week. Soap opera stands for the radio and television drama series type which is characterized by the absence of classic denouement, or nominally unlimited duration, that is number of episodes. A soap opera is an American term. It is the term that was created on the radio stations in the thirties of the last century, and was sponsored by the manufacturers of detergents and cosmetics. Soap opera is a pure example of the television kitsch. Its plot is banal, predictable and memorable with characters whose past is full of scandals and sensational twists. Soap operas represent a major escapist preoccupation for most of the passive and average audience, whereas for the media researchers and leisure time explorers, it is one of the major new challenges. Anthony Giddens is a British sociologist who reminded us, with good reason, of the fact that the basic observation of multiculturalism is based on assertions about the impossibility of a strict separation of different media and cultural products, and in the same time the sudden popularity and wide audience of Turkish, Mexican and Spanish soap operas and series further contributes to the intrigues of these claims. Soap opera in the cultural, anthropological and media terms do not always have only negative effects. Despite all the negative effects of passivity and commercialization of citizenry, which come with the process of neoliberal globalization, the analysis of Turkish soap operas may contribute to the cultural project of universality of elementary human values such as: love, peace, honesty, family harmony, solidarity, understanding and diversity of human experience. At the second stage of analysis, scientific research of the Turkish soap opera can contribute to the relativization of certain stereotypes such as irreconcilable differences between Western and Eastern cultural values that are promoted and imposed by the television series and soap operas, as the dominant commercial media products over the past twenty years. This is particularly evident from the analysis of the impact of Turkish soap operas and the increase of the level of their audience in the media of former Yugoslavia, except Slovenia. The general concept of diversity becomes particularly important in the former socialist countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. For instance, T. Adorno found that the industrialization of the culture promotes art forms that encourage passivity, while avant-garde art forms encourage critical thinking and resist commercialization. Ferhat Günes, a Turkish scholar states that the content of the TV series may have a significant impact on family and relationships in it. This paper will focus on the results of the research on students' attitudes towards the effects of Turkish soap operas on the social behavior in youth. The research sample consisted of a total of 3OO students from the ten faculties at the University of Tuzla - Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research results support the hypothesis about the positive impact of Turkish television series, as was declared by the 77 percent of respondents, while 23 percent of respondents said that the effect of Turkish television series on the social behavior of young people is negative. According to the results, 82.5 percent of respondents believe that the television series encourage children and young people to become violent.Based on the results of a survey we have pledged to imagology in the context of examining both the positive and negative effects of Turkish television series in youth behavior.
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The paper intends to present only preliminary results of an extensive study. As such, the paper attempts to systematize the aspects of body discourse in the film. The analyses of the presentations of body and the relationship towards them is based on the sample of over 1000 films.The analysis encapsulates all the most significant achievements by covering all the films classified as cult films. Cult films determined the culture of the time in which they originated either as a product of the culture or as direct or indirect modelling of the culture. Films that are not on the official list of cult films of the world's cinematic heritage are also included as being highly ranked by the public. Furthermore, it is evident that such films played a noticeable role in shaping the body's consciousness and the way we perceive the physicality.The results of the analysis point to the existence of relatively clear categories of physical appearance in the film as well as confirmation of the tendency to reflect certain principles, receptions, understanding and physical fitness.
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(Re)newed emphasis on policy analysis worldwide has had its implications in Serbia, especially potentiated by unfinished transition of its social policy. Theoretical perspectives on policy analysis and their adaptations differ among the countries, however, certain common elements of the policy analysis logic can be found. Also, a description of the activities of a policy analyst can be agreed upon, to serve as guidance, for the purpose of its comparing with the actual social policy analysis practice. The experience in social policy analysis in Serbia is presented within the historical context.
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This article’s purpose is to present in what ways a well-known sociologist and humanist Jan Szczepański from Ustroń shapes his biography in private notebooks and essays, including it in some key figures or metaphors. The aim of his efforts seems to situate his own life in view of the irreversible historical time as well as the cycle of vegetation – in other words, to confirm a connection with culture so as not to lose an union with nature and its creative power. A main figure making for mediation between these both spheres in Szczepański’s works is the forest tree. It’s development means an actualization of inborn potency in line with Aristotle’s conception of entelechy. A notion of the tree is associated with the metaphors of roots and land, which refers both to nature and “this land”, namely to cultural region (in Szczepański’s case: his native Cieszyn Silesia). The authoress shows, how this article’s hero – especially in his Diaries – “inscribes” himself in nature’s duration and also intentionally “settles in” the culture in which he grew. In light of his attempts to reconcile historical and cyclical time in his existence as well as to find the raison d’être for it, roots appear not to be a trivial symbol of attachment the place of one’s birth, but the imperative of eff ort of putting down roots in the word, and in that way – in the world of the sense which grants that sense to human’s passing away.
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This study (published in two successive articles) examines how Mi bskyod rdo rje (1507‒1554), the Eighth Karma pa of the Karma Bka' brgyud lineage, articulates and defends a key distinction between consciousness (rnam shes) and wisdom (ye shes). The first article outlined the author’s clarification of the distinction both as an accurate account of the nature and structure of human consciousness and as an indispensable principle of Buddhist soteriology. He argued that human beings have two “concurrent but nonconvergent” modes of awareness, conditioned and unconditioned. The second article – part two – focuses on the author’s vindication and further clarifications of the distinction between consciousness and wisdom in response to certain rival Tibetan views which in his view has tended to elide their differences and thus confuse the ever-present ground and goal of the Buddhist path (innate wisdom) with what has to be abandoned along the way (adventitious consciousness).
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This article attempts to describe the typology of places at home. These home places are constructed in relation to everyday practices, emotions, and ways of remembering special or meaningful events. At the same time, home may be seen as a place of socialization and de-socialization, loved and hated. Experiencing domesticity might be characterized as many-sided and a changeable phenomenon. Emotional dimensions of home are described by instability and transiency. Despite this fact, some emotions are related to the home practices longer than other ones. These feelings define crucial features of using the space at home.
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A longitudinal qualitative study on the experience of volunteers giving care to patients of internal geriatric ward was conducted under the Wholesome Contact Project - the first program for non-pharmacological prevention of delirium among hospitalized elders in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. The volunteers were recruited from psychology, nursing, and medical students and then asked to visit patients in hospital ward to provide complex intervention. Idiographic approach was adopted in the study that consists of a series of interpretative case studies. Eight participants were interviewed twice in a semi-structured manner—before starting and after completing the period of volunteering. The aim of repeated interviews was to describe the changes in experience, motives, beliefs, and self-understanding of students influenced by their work on geriatric ward. In the study, Interpretative Phenomenological Approach was chosen to analyze the data, with the support of Atlas.ti software. As a result, we obtained complex descriptions of individual subjective experience of the participants’ work at a hospital ward, and several common issues revealed. The major ones are connected to the inevitability of contact with thoughts about death and to attempting to connect with patients suffering dementia, after the stroke, or presenting cognitive and perceptual disorders of delirium. Another substantial difficulty is the lack of visible effects of undertaken actions, decreasing the volunteers’ motivation to visit the ward and to participate in the project. The most important theme that came out from the analysis is the relationship between private and professional spheres in giving care to patients. Descriptions obtained and the attempts to understand the experience of medical and psychology students working as volunteers at geriatric ward may serve as a starting point to reflection on the medical personnel’s perspective and possible ways of supporting and protecting them from extensive burden of care, stress, and professional burnout. They might also be an inspiration for the future medical staff education.
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Review of: Desperak Iza, Kuźma Inga, red. (2016) "Kobiety niepokorne. Reformatorki – buntowniczki – rewolucjonistki."; Łódź: University Publishing House Łódź; by: Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula
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The aim of article was to examine if the prime ministers of state governments in Germany (Winfried Kretschmann, Horst Seehofer, Bodo Ramelow, Stanislaw Tillich, DietmarWoidke), who represent the main German political parties, maintained or reconsidered their standpoint on the asylum policy after 2015. The state governments’ policy, as well as the statements and actions of local politicians, will affect the results of the federal electionsin 2017. The inflow of refugees has created new challenges in the integration policy: a rise in crime rate, an increased danger of terror and social protests against the Merkel open door policy have been observed.
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