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Mediacje są procesem, w trakcie którego skonfliktowane strony, przy pomocy bezstronnego i neutralnego mediatora wypracowują wzajemnie je satysfakcjonujące porozumienie. Mediacje wykorzystywane są w różnych obszarach spraw rodzinnych, gospodarczych, cywilnych, karnych. Mogą być także prowadzone w obszarze pomocy społecznej i wykorzystywane w pracy socjalnej jako sposób rozwiązywania konfliktów klientów pomocy społecznej. Ustawa o wspieraniu rodziny i systemie pieczy zastępczej wymienia mediacje jako jedną z form wsparcia rodziny przeżywającej trudności w wypełnianiu funkcji opiekuńczo-wychowawczych. Szczególnie przydatne wydaje się stosowanie mediacji w sytuacji konfliktów rodzinnych klientów, gdzie przy wsparciu pracownika socjalnego w roli mediatora strony mogą nie tylko wypracować obopólnie korzystne porozumienie, ale także podtrzymać lub odbudować relacje rodzinne. W artykule omówiono pojęcie mediacji, jej rodzaje a także możliwości ich wykorzystania w kontekście pracy socjalnej. Zaprezentowano procedurę postępowania mediacyjnego w pracy socjalnej oraz korzyści i trudności związane z mediacją jako metodą pracy z klientami pomocy społecznej.

The aim of this article is to reread The Polish Peasant in Europe and America as a representation of the fears and modernisation fantasies of its era. I analyse the patterns of gendered family relations and ideals of femininity and masculinity constructed by Thomas and Znaniecki within the framework of rural–urban discourses. As I will show, in The Polish Peasant we find huge contradictions between the liberal and conservative perspectives presented. On the one hand, the authors introduce the concept of "organisation – disorganisation – reorganisation," which is supposed to be scientific and thus non-ideological. On the other hand, the authors' patterns of interpreting empirical data show numerous gender bias and patriarchal schemes. As a result the authors create an opposition in which whatever is rural is the cradle of authenticity, of naturalised national and gendered family values, and whatever is urban is dangerous and demoralising due to escaping the former strong rural social control. In The Polish Peasant the authors thereby construct the "morally healthy" model of a national and patriarchal rural community of families untouched by individualisation and women's emancipation. Such a model had a patriarchal division of gender roles within a religiously devout, strong (meaning indissoluble), multi-generational family. In The Polish Peasant we can find both a nostalgia – which was typical of its era – for a "pre-modern," rural, conservative civilisation, and worry about the moral health of women in the urban world. However it is an ambivalent nostalgia accompanied by a conviction of the inevitability of social change.

Family and work have for many years been occupying the highest position in the ranking of values highly regarded by Poles. However, for many working parents the combination of activeness in the areas of work and family is a huge burden. The special situation in the context of child care and simultaneous professional work refers to women who are mothers. Actions aimed at supporting the working parents become important. Partners of projects performed for combining professional and family duties should not only pay attention both to the already existing legal and organisational solutions but also to cultural attitudes related to perceiving the social roles, division of roles in a family and, in that context, analyse the possibility to combine family and professional duties. It would be worth drawing the partners' attention, particularly those of the local government sector, to the consideration of tasks related to the development of care services in the territorial social policy strategies. It is necessary to develop care outlets and monitor the consequences of the introduced family supporting solutions, including the extension of maternity leave and the level of use of parental rights by fathers, from the point of view of the situation of women in the labour market. For effective promotion of solutions supporting the combination of professional and family duties by the partners, it would be advisable to carry out educational campaigns among the employers and the employees, as well as social campaigns related to the partner division of duties in families. A large role to be played here is for media and non-government organisations. It seems, therefore, that such understood partnership, i.e. cooperation for the achievement of a common objective in the form of facilitated combination of professional and family duties, may generate long-term positive effects in future. The purpose of this article is to present the instruments which facilitate combining professional work and parenthood in light of the existing legal and institutional solutions, as well as actions undertaken for the performance of the task and its promotion.

An analysis of the biography of Natalia, a former resident of a Polish children's home who, at the age of thirteen, voluntarily left her biological, dysfunctional family, aims to address a question which is fundamental, but rarely asked by the sociologists of family. Is it possible to completely quit a relation with one's family of origin? What identity and biographical consequences does such a decision imply? This article consists of two parts. In the first, theoretical one, I argue that the process of quitting one's family is a liminal, unstructured status passage, especially, for two categories of actors – adolescents and mothers who decide to pass taking care of children to fathers. I take into account the cultural and institutional basis of the liminal character of their experience. I also explain why, in order to comprehend those difficult instances, I propose using the metaphor of apostasy. The second, empirical part of the article, is devoted to studying the biographical and identity consequences and limitations of the process of apostasy. I analyze them on the basis of Natalia's autobiography, which provided inspiration for those reflections.

This article analyses the transnational parenting phenomenon in Poland and the moral panics — reaction to it as shown in both public discourses and actions of public institutions. Such features can be found while analysing discourses about "euro-orphans" (such a label is given to migrants' children) that have occupied public discourses since mid-2007 in Poland. Based on discourse analysis of about 500 press articles from 2007–2008, I argue that in spite of the growing influence of global mobility in contemporary family life, and economic migration as a family strategy of survival, various "moral entrepreneurs" such as leaders of NGOs, social workers, educational workers, therapists, scientists, etc. construe the features of transmigrant parents as deviants, and label the strategy of migration as an individual act of family abandonment and serious threat to the well-being of the nation, etc. This deviancy discourse pertains particularly to the trans-national strategy adopted by mothers whose gendered role is in the Polish culture strictly connected with the role of child-rearing and with nurturing the nation the "Mother Pole" icon). I argue that moral panics in reaction to contemporary family change and actions of public institutions serve the function of the re-traditionalisation of the family to the traditional functionalist model.

Mediacje są procesem, w trakcie którego skonfliktowane strony, przy pomocy bezstronnego i neutralnego mediatora wypracowują wzajemnie je satysfakcjonujące porozumienie. Mediacje wykorzystywane są w różnych obszarach spraw rodzinnych, gospodarczych, cywilnych, karnych. Mogą być także prowadzone w obszarze pomocy społecznej i wykorzystywane w pracy socjalnej jako sposób rozwiązywania konfliktów klientów pomocy społecznej. Ustawa o wspieraniu ro-dziny i systemie pieczy zastępczej wymienia mediacje jako jedną z form wsparcia rodziny przeżywającej trudności w wypełnianiu funkcji opiekuńczo-wychowawczych. Szczególnie przydatne wydaje się stosowanie mediacji w sytuacji konfliktów rodzinnych klientów, gdzie przy wsparciu pracownika socjalnego w roli mediatora strony mogą nie tylko wypracować obopólnie korzystne porozumienie, ale także podtrzymać lub odbudować relacje rodzinne. W artykule omówiono pojęcie mediacji, jej rodzaje a także możliwości ich wykorzystania w kontekście pracy socjalnej. Zaprezentowano procedurę postępowania mediacyjnego w pracy socjalnej oraz korzyści i trudności związane z mediacją jako metodą pracy z klientami pomocy społecznej.

The paper presents the market of portable lithium-ion batteries in the European Union (EU) with particular emphasis on the stream of used Li-ion cells in Poland by 2030. In addition, the article draws attention to the fact that, despite a decade of efforts in Poland, it has not been possible to create an effective management system for waste batteries and accumulators that would include waste management (collection and selective sorting), waste disposal (a properly selected mechanical method) and component recovery technology for reuse (pyrometallurgical and/or hydrometallurgical methods). This paper also brings attention to the fact that this EU country with 38 milllion people does not have in its area a recycling process for used cells of the first type of zinc-carbon, zinc-manganese or zinc-air, as well as the secondary type of nickel-hydride and lithium-ion, which in the stream of chemical waste energy sources will be growing from year to year.

Emocje są związane z wieloma obszarami ludzkiego życia. Wpływają na odbiór rzeczywistości, kształtują postawy i determinują oceny. Przeprowadzone badanie miało sprawdzić, czy emocje w zależności od ich rodzaju (pozytywne lub negatywne) wpływają na dystans interpersonalny. W badaniu wzięło udział 40 osób: 22 kobiety i 18 mężczyzn w wieku od 20 do 51 lat, (M=25 SD=7,48). Analizy korelacji związku emocji z dystansem konwersacyjnym wykazały różnicę na granicznym poziomie istotności statystycznej (t(38) =
1,92; p = 0,06). Oznacza to, że osoby którym indukowano emocje negatywne mogły wykazywać większy dystans konwersacyjny (M1 = 64,7) niż osoby którym indukowano emocje pozytywne. (M2 = 54,2). W przypadku emocji pozytywnych i badanego dystansu minimalnego, analiza korelacji nie wykazała istotnych statystycznie różnic pomiędzy grupami (U = 166,00; p = 0,36). Wykazano także związki pomiędzy indukowanymi emocjami a emocjami podczas zbliżania się, oceną neutralnie nastawionej osoby i postawą względem niej.

Prophetic Premises of the Russian Religious Renaissance (Instead of Introduction) The authors outline the causes as well as the political, social and ideological context in which the development of the religious renaissance in Russia took place. Autorzy zarysowują przyczyny oraz kontekst polityczny, społeczny i światopoglądowy w jakim doszło do rozwoju renesansu religijnego w Rosji.

The article aims to address the complexity of the models of masculinity (re)produced in the transnational context and explain the role of religion in this process. It draws on qualitative research conducted among religiously committed Catholic male migrants from Poland who have settled in multicultural and secular societies: England, Belgium, and Sweden. The transnational context often makes it difficult for migrant men to practice hegemonic masculinity. Our analysis shows how the isomorphic mechanisms allow for (re)constructing new forms of masculinity that combine diverse and often contradictory meanings available in the transnational contexts (i.e., associated with subordinated masculinities or with femininity). Such hybridized version of masculinity not only helps to adapt to the new transnational context but also allows for rebuilding the privileges traditionally offered by hegemonic masculinity. We also discuss the role religion plays in this process by giving credibility to this hybrid masculinity by rooting it in the sacral order and thus legitimizing it.

The paper shows the role of mental health and political views in attributing responsibility for COVID-19 incidence rates to the government and factors beyond government control. Authors' hypotheses draw on the classic and new versions of attribution theories, on literature from political psychology about the process of blaming the government for natural catastrophes, and also on local socio-political specifics (political polarization). The empirical data used in the article come from the survey carried out on-line via a professional research panel at the turn of May and June 2020, after about three months of lockdown, and during the presidential election campaign. The research sample included 850 Polish adults (aged 18 to 84) fully diversified in terms of gender, age, and education (the sample was representative for the Polish population in terms of respondents' place of residence and the country's region). To measure attribution of responsibility, the authors developed an 8-item instrument. Half of the instrument's items indicate government and state institutions' responsibility and half describe circumstances not related to the government. The results showed that the respondents tended to attribute more responsibility for COVID-19 effects to the government than other ("non-government") factors. In explaining the government's responsibility, political views and party preferences play an incomparably more significant role than mental health symptoms. The authors interpret these results as the effect of attitudinal and affective political polarization of Polish society. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion