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Rzeczywistość społeczna, gospodarcza, kulturowa i otaczająca ją przyroda wpisują się w doświadczenie każdego człowieka. Wszystkie te elementy są ze sobą powiązane i stanowią podstawę tożsamości jednostki związanej z pełnionymi przez nią rolami społecznymi. W dzisiejszych czasach, kiedy różne sfery życia ludzkiego mieszają się na poziomie makrostrukturalnym, na pierwszy plan wysuwają się pytania dotyczące zagadnień globalizacji. Kościół interesuje się tym zjawiskiem, ponieważ jest to proces prowadzący do jednorodności świata. Globalizacja jako stale zmieniające się zjawisko potrzebuje etycznych i kulturowych podstaw duchowych, które stałyby się jej środowiskiem lub systemem relacji i sposobów komunikowania się.

W artykule przedstawione zostały założenia i wyniki analiz przeprowadzonych przez Adriannę Surmiak w ramach jej projektu badawczego, który miał potwierdzić tezę o konieczności łączenia reguł etyki formalnej z etyką nienormatywną w badaniach antropologicznych i socjologicznych, jak również istnienie ścisłego związku pomiędzy metodologią badań a wyborami etycznych postaw badaczy. W swoich rozmowach z badaczami autorka omawianej książki skupiła się na trzech zasadniczych pytaniach: 1. jakie znaczenie na każdym etapie prowadzonych badań mają dla badacza problemy etyczne; 2. jakie praktyki są uznawane za złe, a jakie za dobre w badaniach osób wrażliwych na skrzywdzenie; 3. jakie koncepcje, przekonania i wartości można wyprowadzić z analiz konkretnych sposobów postępowania badaczy w trakcie prowadzonych przez nich badań. W artykule zamieszczone zostały komentarze do wniosków, które A. Surmiak wysnuła ze swych badań. Owe komentarze dotyczą problemów, jakie pojawiają się w konsekwencji stosowania niepisanych zasad etyki nienormatywnej, w szczególności: postawy badacza, włączania pozanaukowych form poznania, jak empatia czy wrażliwość, do procesu poznania oraz kwestii zapewnienia dobrostanu badanych.

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Artykuł wprowadza w problematykę numeru, koncentrując się szczególnie na sekcji tematycznej: Etnografia sportu i e-sportu. Metodologiczne doświadczenia z badań terenowych. Redaktor zwraca uwagę na główne wątki rozważane we współczesnej literaturze przedmiotu, podkreślając relewantny dobór autorek/autorów i artykułów zgromadzonych we wspomnianej sekcji. Wskazane są także luki w literaturze naukowej dotyczące metodologii etnograficznych badań szeroko rozumianego sportu. Sekcja jest skromną próbą ich wypełnienia. Następnie redaktor wprowadza krótko w problematykę każdego z artykułów zawartych w tomie, zarówno z sekcji tematycznej, jak i sekcji varia.

In Zygmunt Bauman's work, ambivalence was a topic that recurred explicitly several times in his analyses of modernity and later liquid modernity. This was particularly evident in his book Modernity and Ambivalence (1991). But ambivalence also appears as an underlying theme in later books on life in liquid-modern society. Moreover, Bauman's sociological perspective itself oozes ambivalence, and many of the topics he explored and embraced throughout his career - such as freedom, morality, immortality and utopia - are themselves fundamental expressions of ambivalence. In addition, Bauman always insisted that the world is not fixed once and for all, but that humans can challenge and change it, and in this way ambivalence is not an ailment to be cured but rather a fact to be accepted. This article explores the theme and leitmotif of ambivalence in the writings of Bauman. The article seeks to provide a concise presentation and discussion of Bauman's continuous engagement with ambivalence in order to show that sociology perhaps ought to take the topic of ambivalence more seriously than is currently the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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CEL NAUKOWY: Celem niniejszego opracowania jest przedstawienie najważniejszych elementów koncepcji uniwersytetu jezuickiego w świetle teorii procesów globalizacji. PROBLEM I METODY BADAWCZE: Główny problem badawczy dotyczy odpowiedzi na pytanie: czy jest możliwe skuteczne połącznie tradycyjnych zasad, na jakich opierał się jezuicki model kształcenia uniwersyteckiego ze współczesnymi potrzebami globalnego rynku „usług” edukacyjnych. W artykule zastosowano metodę analityczno-syntetyczną literatury przedmiotu. PROCES WYWODU:Artykuł jest skonstruowany w następujący sposób. Na wstępie zarysowano ramy teoretyczne, w jakich analizowane są procesy globalizacji w świetle nauk społecznych. Następnie ukazano najważniejsze cechy koncepcji jezuickiego uniwersytetu, co wreszcie pozwoliło na określenie najważniejszych wyzwań stających przed szkolnictwem wyższym, a w szczególności uniwersytetami jezuickimi. WYNIKI ANALIZY NAUKOWEJ: Z przedstawionych rozważań wynika, że możliwe jest skuteczne połącznie tradycji jezuickiego modelu kształcenia ze współczesnymi potrzebami rynku edukacyjnego. Co więcej, wydaje się, że jezuicki model uniwersytetu stanowi adekwatną odpowiedź na zmiany spowodowane procesami globalizacji. WNIOSKI, INNOWACJE, REKOMENDACJE: Wnioski, jakie wynikają z przedstawionych analiz, wskazują przede wszystkim na komplementarność tradycyjnych założeń dotyczących koncepcji uniwersytetu i nowoczesnych modeli edukacyjnych. Tożsamość jezuickiego uniwersytetu wynika w dużym stopniu z przyjęcia całościowej wizji osoby i integralnego modelu formacji. To połącznie tradycji z nowoczesnością wydaje się trafną receptą na rozwój uniwersytetów jezuickich.

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W artykule zawarto przegląd genezy i rozwoju polityki publicznej jako od­dzielnej dyscypliny naukowej w kontekście europejskim, szczególnie w środowisku nauk politycznych, w wyniku zmian w obiektywnej rzeczywistości oraz rozwoju metod, wśród których dominuje wpływ socjologii. Porównano ten rozwój, który opóźnił się w Europie Środkowej w relacji do Europy Zachodniej o kilka dziesięcioleci, i przeanalizowano przy­czyny i konsekwencje tego przesunięcia, szczególnie w Czechach, na Słowacji i w Pol­sce. Podczas gdy w Czechach i na Słowacji nauki polityczne powstały faktycznie dopiero w latach 90., w Polsce z odrębną tradycją stały się tylko jednym ze źródeł kształtowania polityki publicznej (a niektórzy naukowcy nawet to odrzucili), a podstawą dla niej sta­ły się polityka społeczna, nauka administracyjna i bezpośrednio poszczególne dyscypliny socjologiczne (np. socjotechnika) itp. Rezultatem tego jest częściowo odmienny rozwój tej nowej dyscypliny naukowej. Artykuł może być zatem źródłem inspiracji dla takiego kształtowania polityki publicznej w Polsce, która będzie bliższa jej profilowi w krajach Europy Środkowej. Z drugiej strony polskie doświadczenia są również wielką inspiracją dla otaczających państw.

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Sociology and sustainable development share many interesting areas of inquiry that offer the potential for closer cooperation between these two disciplines. The aim of the article is to examine the connections between them. The article considers the most promising areas; i.e, environmental issues (environmental sociology), quality of life (which is the key issue for the social pillar of sustainable development), and poverty (poverty eradication is the primary goal of the UN sustainable development agenda). It seems, however, that the cooperation between sociology and sustainable development has stopped at the stage of potential interdisciplinarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the formation of the elite from the classic - cultural and identity form to the hybrid ethos and professional form. The focus was on the political elite as a segment structurally and functionally separated from the intelligentsia. The roles, attributes and determinants of changes in the area of power and leadership were indicated in order to stimulate reflection on the need for synergy between the logos of the elites and the ethos of the masses. The thesis was confirmed that the political elite, after winning the elections, are largely motivated by their own interests and tend to apply a strategy of legitimizing and prolonging power. It was emphasized that nowadays one can rather speak of post-intellectual elites competing with each other after 1989, which most often build liberal or conservative models of political culture, based on an unclear system of norms and values. This indicates that the elite are strongly divided, poorly integrated internally and externally, present a corporate character and are still a poorly explored area located on the border of sociology, psychology, political science and intellectual history, which contains narratives focused mainly on the analysis of theoretical concepts from attempts to relate them to historical and present conditions and contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Autor analizuje wzorzec rządzenia publicznego widoczny w obozie prawicy w latach 2015–2019. Stawia tezę, że nosi on wiele cech silnej koncentracji władzy jako metody uzyskania pożądanych celów w sferze rywalizacji politycznej i polityki publicznej wraz ze stosowaniem nieformalnych komponentów rządzenia. Przejawem koncentracji władzy jest centralizacja, czyli przenoszenie różnych funkcji państwa z niższych (w szczególności samorządowych) szczebli na wyższe, a także silne ingerowanie w wiele sfer życia publicznego, które wcześniej pozostawały apolityczne (Dziewulski, 1981; Mitchell, 1991).

W dwóch wydanych niedawno publikacjach pod redakcją Kevina Younga (2016, 2017) przedstawiony został światowy pejzaż socjologii sportu. Autorzy poszczególnych rozdziałów tej publikacji, reprezentujący różne państwa, zostali poproszeni o opisanie rodzimego statusu tej subdyscypliny w oparciu o zbiór pytań kluczowych dla jej scharakteryzowania. Wśród analizowanych krajów nie pojawia się jednak Polska. Niniejszy tekst jest zatem próbą opisania kondycji polskiej socjologii sportu przez pryzmat trzech jej aspektów: przeszłości, teraźniejszości i przyszłości.

Sociological exploration of topics related to broadly understood security is carried out using the following approaches or theoretical concepts: sociology of security, sociology of dispositional groups, sociology of risk and uncertainty or sociology of disasters and crisis management. The multiplicity of these areas of research of the (in)security landscape in the discipline of sociology is due to the adoption of different perspectives for the view of interesting investigators. However, each of them contributes to building a range of knowledge that strengthens the sensitivity of the social fabric to all kinds of threats. Ensuring security should be understood here as a conscious effort, supported by rationality, creating conditions for social development. The paper proposes the possibility of using supra-disciplinary logic to view issues related to security based on assumptions of hybridization. We would like to prove that the following thesis is justified from the point of view of contemporary challenges: The hybrid concept remains the most adequate analytical construction for issues related to ensuring security. Considerations on the hybridization of environmental (in) security research areas becomes an extremely interesting concept, filling in the “structural gaps” existing in the classical approaches of individual disciplines.

This article of a theoretical and conceptual nature seeks to indicate possibilities for the dualisms applied in sociology to gain incorporation into the conceptualisation and operationalisation of the research on socio-economic development that geographers pursue. These dualisms should prove useful in explaining the mechanisms of social change as the driving force behind development. The article emphasises the role of structure and agency in explaining development mechanisms, proposes the pursuit of research at several levels simultaneously in line with sociology's methodological dualisms, and also supplies examples of dichotomous categorisations and social structures that help with the understanding of development mechanisms. The incorporation of sociological dualisms into geographical considerations of development can bring new perspective to the design of research, triangulation (combining different methods of analysis) and conclusion-drawing. The result will be a readier challenge of geographers' propensity to formulate deterministic dependences and perceive development factors as fully controlled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The functioning of society and specific systems of values have led to a growing interest in difficult and above all dangerous phenomena, including crime. Initial work was based mainly around the perpetrator and his or her motivation, but that approach received justifiable criticism. Equally, the necessity of slightly broader (multi-factor) analyses being carried out was noted more and more often. And with crime being an extremely problematic and therefore important phenomenon, it attracted the interest of many different scientific disciplines, not least history, sociology, law, criminology, the medical sciences and geography. Naturally enough, these disciplines' first forays into the phenomenon were each separate, as were the adopted methodologies, concepts, and so on. The consequence was the recognition of the phenomenon as multidisciplinary, meaning that it was examined individually via a range of different approaches. While such an approach was obviously valid scientifically, it had ultimately to be insufficient - and all the more so given the importance of the phenomenon to the functioning of society. Crime is a phenomenon encompassing many variables, the separate consideration of which only allows for analysis of the given issue as part of a much broader problem. Ultimately, the response was a change of perception as regards the phenomenon, with it coming to be placed among interdisciplinary studies. Thus, while representatives of various scientific disciplines remained interested in the phenomenon, existing elaborations boil down to three approaches, i.e. the criminological, the sociological and the geographical. Criminological analyses of the phenomenon are certainly the oldest; and - unsurprisingly - criminology has been seen from the outset as the leading science when it comes to criminality and the searching for causes thereof. Research conducted in this area is found to embody three basic approaches in criminological analyses of the causes of crime, i.e. a biological one considering the inheritance of traits and its negative consequences; a sociological one connecting directly with the functioning of society and resulting consequences; and a situational one, regarding spatial factors as some of the most important when it comes to perpetrators' decision-making processes. For its part, sociology treats crime somewhat differently, viewing it as a phenomenon occurring through society's conferment of meaning upon it. This means that the social group in which an individual functions decides what becomes a crime, and when that happens. As with the criminological considerations, various concepts may be identified. However, these also focus in on the person committing the crime, even as consideration is also given to impacts exerted by the society or groups in which an individual functions or hails from. On the other hand, the geographical approach differs greatly, in not having developed concepts justifying the shaping and functioning of the phenomenon. Geographical considerations extend to both the description and the analysis of the phenomenon's spatial occurrence and an attempt to apply existing theories in this regard. However, the output of contemporary research sees global and Polish achievements distinguished mainly in terms of their availability of data. It is undeniable that the scope of research and methodology applied are shaped mainly by international studies, while Polish analyses are directed at the search for new methods of considering the phenomenon. This study offers a research review relating to crime as an extremely complex phenomenon that should be considered as a whole by representatives of various scientific disciplines. This would allow, not only for scientific considerations, but also for application- based ones. Nevertheless, today's geographical (i.e. spatial) approach would seem to combine various sub-approaches, and thus provide for a comprehensive examination of the problem of crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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