Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Nauk Społecznych z siedzibą w Lublinie

Janusz Mariański, Nowe problemy bioetyczne w narracji społecznej, Wydawnictwo: Akademia Nauk Społecznych i Medycznych w Lublinie ‒ Akademia Nauk Stosowanych, Lublin 2023, ss. 269.

Wojciech Świątkiewicz — 2024-10-01

Mirosław Patalon (red.), Religijne uwarunkowania pracy socjalnej, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2014, ss. 306.

Krystyna Leśniak-Moczuk — 2024-10-01

Tomasz Peciakowski, Listy (nie)pokornych. Intelektualiści w polskiej przestrzeni publicznej, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2019, ss. 496.

Mariusz Zemło — 2024-10-01

Janusz Mariański, Scenariusze przemian religijności i Kościoła katolickiego w społeczeństwie polskim. Studium diagnostyczno-prognostyczne, Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych z siedzibą w Lublinie, Lublin 2021, ss. 200.

Marek Marczewski — 2024-10-01

Gerd Bodo von Carlsburg, Annette Miriam Stroß (red.), (Un)pädagogische Visionen für das 21. Jahrhundert / (Non-)Educational Visions for the 21st Century. Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Entwürfe nach dem Ende der ,großen’ Menschheitsgeschichte

Cyprian Rogowski — 2024-10-01

Mariusz Zemło (red.), Małe Miasta. Ruch i zmiana, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, Białystok−Dębica−Supraśl 2024, ss. 832 (seria: Acta Collegii Suprasliensis, t. XXXIV)

Jan Mazur OSPPE — 2024-10-01

Janusz Mariański, Godność ludzka, praca, bezrobocie i braterstwo w nauczaniu społeczno-moralnym Papieża Franciszka, Akademia Nauk Społecznych i Medycznych w Lublinie – Akademia Nauk Stosowanych, Lublin 2024, ss. 296.

Krystyna Leśniak-Moczuk — 2024-10-01

Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Piotr Burgoński, Kamil Sulej, Janusz Węgrzecki, Artur Wysocki (red.), Słownik katolickiej nauki społecznej, Instytut Wydawniczy PAX, Warszawa 2024, ss. 432.

Jan Mazur OSPPE — 2024-10-01

Luigi Andrea Berto, Sudditi di un altro Dio. Cristiani sotto la Mezzaluna, musulmani sotto la Croce, Salerno Editrice, Roma 2022, ss. 231

Paweł Prüfer — 2024-10-01

Bernhard Grümme, Manfred L. Pirner (red.), Religionsunterricht weiterdenken: Innovative Ansätze für eine zukunftsfähige Religionsdidaktik, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2023, ss. 315

Cyprian Rogowski — 2024-10-01

Modern anti-ageing treatments as an example of developments in aesthetic cosmetology

Maria Bernat — 2024-10-01

Today’s aesthetic cosmetology is a fascinating field of dynamic development that aims not only to improve the external appearance, but also to enhance clients’ self-confidence and psychological well-being. With advances in technology and constantly improving techniques, today’s anti-ageing treatments offer extraordinary opportunities for revitalising the skin and rejuvenating the appearance. These treatments not only combat existing signs of skin ageing, such as wrinkles and loss of firmness, but also prevent further ageing, enabling you to maintain a youthful appearance for longer.

Vocational activation of persons with disabilities

Sylwia Kowalska-Myśliwiecka — 2024-10-01

Modern times bring significant changes in the understanding of disability. Changes that affect not only the social perception of people with disabilities also determine the contemporary approach to the employment of people with disabilities, taking into account respect for the individuality, subjectivity or dignity of each person and even the right to social and professional integration. The article is an attempt to analyze the professional functioning of people with disabilities in the labor market. It attempts to answer the question of whether work is an effective tool of rehabilitation for people with disabilities and whether it encourages further activity in many areas of life.

Nurses’ awareness of occupational hazards of the instrument nurse position

Aneta Pudło — 2024-10-01

The purpose of this study was to assess instrument nurses’ awareness of harmful, hazardous and arduous factors present at their workplaces. A diagnostic survey method was used to implement the study, which was conducted using a survey technique. The study involved 100 operating nurses working in the operating rooms of four hospitals located in the Lublin region. The research tool was an author’s survey questionnaire consisting of 52 questions, concerning issues related to the danger of dangerous, harmful, and arduous factors affecting the instrument nurse during the performance of professional activities. The results of the study showed that the subjects were aware of the existence of hazards existing at their workplaces, had knowledge at a good level about the sources and effects of harmful and hazardous factors existing at their workplaces. The greatest danger for the operating nurses surveyed was contact with equipment and sharp instruments, as well as the blood-borne route of infection. As the most dangerous harmful factor, the respondents considered HCV infection, and stress as the most burdensome.

Ethical principles of ecological policy

Jacek Leszek Łapiński — 2024-10-01

The article draws attention to ecological policy, especially implemented in the 20th and 21st centuries. The considerations concern the ethical basis of political activity protecting the natural environment. In this context, the article focuses on two groups of principles: the adopted legal and political regulations (concerning ecological policy) and ethical regulations (within general and applied ethics, including ecological ethics), comparing them with each other. The presented content will be analyzed in relation to the situation observed in Poland.

The axiological dimension of nature

Stanisław Zięba — 2024-10-01

Nature decided about man’s biological existence, and our lives are formed in it but not only biologically. Every organism introduces its specific contribution to nature. Individual elements are not found in the natural environment, but, based on the principle of various and different kinds of bonds, they create a unified whole. This complexity is nature’s fundamental property – the biotic and abiotic systems that constitute it, from the basic structures of the cosmos to complex biological systems. Life is a complex set of elements respectively organized. Three elements compose biotic systems: matter, energy and information. Matter and energy can undergo various transformations, but information decides on the system’s durability. Nature in itself contains such qualities, such organization, that it is something extraordinary, while at the same time, it ought to be the subject of reflection as to its meaning, because it has become the basis for building knowledge about the world. Nature exists independently from us, yet it is distinguished by a unique organization that we directly or indirectly depend on. The community dimension is one of the noticeable features of the nature complex. Science that ignores the values nature encompasses is not tantamount to their negation. Phenomena simply occur, and values are hidden in what happens. A value is a feature or set of features proper to a certain person or thing, a specific, qualitative feature, an object’s special qualification, or an essential meaning that a given object, system, or complex contains.The research strategy influences the field of research, and it in turn influences the issue of axiology. It is necessary to distinguish between values given to objects by the subject and values inherent in the object, independent of the cognizing subject. Nature itself contains quality of life and such organization that it is something exceptional, and thus it is valuable. If a value is real, it should influence our behavior. To undertake the axiological approach to natural systems, a systemic research strategy must be adopted. Axiological thinking is a cognition tool that allows us to enter the realm of reality that is inaccessible to empirical experience. Man knows that nature conditions his life. Common sense, however, is not always evident in human actions in relation to nature.

The meaning and meaninglessness of life in social narrative

Janusz Mariański — 2024-10-01

Sociologists focus on the sociocultural determinants of the meaning of life in its consciousness and behavioral aspects. They provide many diagnoses regarding changes in values, including those related to the meaning of life, and sometimes disappearance of values leading to meaninglessness of life. In the paper, the author first presents the meaning of life as a social fact, then the meaninglessness of life in the social narrative, and finally discusses selected results of sociological research on the meaning and meaninglessness of life in the consciousness of Polish youth. In light of the empirical data, one could describe existential consciousness, i.e., that which pertains to the meaning of life for many young Poles, as rather ambivalent, oscillating between the meaning and meaninglessness of life. Nevertheless, about half of Polish youth declare that life has meaning and gives them happiness.

Towards a new social order

Mariusz Zemło — 2024-10-01

The subject of the presented text are the authorities of young people studying in Białystok schools. It is based on empirical research conducted among 7th and 8th grade students of primary schools, trade schools, technical schools and high schools in November and December 2022. 3612 questionnaires were classified for statistical processing. The following set of independent variables were taken into account when presenting the results: gender, type of school, place of residence, grade point average obtained by respondents at the end of the last year before the survey, self-declaration of belief. The referenced data are enriched with interpretations of the choices made by young people. Youth preferences were presented in static and diachronic terms. The second approach made it possible to construct an opinion on the sustainability of the social system.

Religion and politics in America and conflict in the public sphere

Anna Daszewska — 2024-10-01

The text analyzes the ways of interpreting holidays as a form of reality different from everyday life referred to as celebration. In Polish traditional culture, everyday life was sharply contrasted with holidays and celebrations. In contemporary culture, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the interpretations given to holidays are shallow in the sense that the unusual penetrates the boundary separating the sacred from the profane, the everyday from the unusual, and the holidays and celebrations become a symbol of tradition. It is tradition, understood as a transgenerational transmission of content, that relates the interpretations given to the celebration to the imagined ideals of perfection, happiness, wealth, extravagance, beauty and hospitality treated as significant forms of the unusualness of the holidays. Although nowadays these ideals permeate everyday life, they lose interpretations referring to cultural tradition and introduce an understanding of the unusual as an unreal sphere of reality.

The definition of the artist in sociological and legal terms

Urszula Łobaczewska — 2024-10-01

This article is an attempt to show the need for lawyers, especially at the stage of court proceedings, to refer to definitions of the term artist from other scientific fields. The lack of a legal definition enshrined in the Act makes it difficult to base a judgment on partial definitions of an artist enshrined in the Social Security Act or the Copyright and Related Rights Act. This gives rise to the need to draw on definitions constructed by researchers in various fields. The particular connection between the definitions of an artist constructed by sociologists and the use of these definitions in law is described, particularly when justifying court judgements. On this basis, conclusions were presented concerning the need to create a legal definition of the term artist, corresponding to the art created today, with particular emphasis on sociological definitions, as they are currently the mainstay of Polish lawyers.

Religion and politics amidst the life values of Slovaks

Ondrej Štefaňak — 2024-10-01

For sociology of religion and sociology of government is very interesting question of how important are such values as religion or politics for contemporary people? They are looking for an answer to a question, what is the place of these values among other values of everyday life? The above-mentioned scientific disciplines are interested also in the differences in this matter between particular categories of the population due to demographic or social characteristics (e.g. sex, age, education, place of residence, region, etc.). The presented empirical study tries to answer these and other questions. It is, among other things, based primarily on the results of representative sociological research of the life values of Slovaks from 2019.

Performative teaching of religion in school from a German perspective

Cyprian Rogowski — 2024-10-01

This article deals with performative teaching of religion in school from a German perspective. It will draw attention to this teaching concept in both Protestant and Catholic settings, as the pedagogy of religion in these particular settings is constantly looking for new solutions for religion lessons in order to make them more attractive and acceptable to children and adolescents. Difficulties in teaching religion lessons are due to the fact that children without previous religious experience in the family are not able to understand what it is if the religious message has only an intellectual dimension. For a long time, the performative conception of the didactics of religion has been trying to ensure that the religious lesson is comprehensible and thus fruitful in content for children and young people. Taking it to the level in the sense of performative didactics of religion, creates a balance between experiencing and reflecting (Catholic option), between enacting and reflecting (Evangelical option). The conclusions in the conclusion, concerning the differentiated models of performative religion lessons from the Evangelical and Catholic perspectives, seem to be relevant for the teaching of religion in the school environment in Poland.