http://hdl.handle.net/11716/7284 2026-04-09T11:54:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/7297 Socjolog wobec odmiany nazwisk we współczesnej polszczyźnie prasowej Boruta, Mirosław The interest in surnames is not unusual among scientists. Surnames and their socio-cultural dimensions are the topic of ethnographic, historical, and sociological works, but most of all – concerning the number of studies – of linguistic investigation. The surname, as Jarosław Maciej Zawadzki says, is “a historical document of a kind, which certifies the continuity of family […] then, for each of us, it is a precious heirloom, an immaterial value inherited from our ancestors, and frequently – a source of vast knowledge about the roots of our family”. The author of this paper found it interesting how often Polish surnames are incorrectly inflected in modern Polish; the linguistic material for these considerations are press announcements in the Cracow daily “Dziennik Polski” (obituaries) and the nation-wide daily “Rzeczpospolita” (court announcements). In connection with the title of the article by Irena Bajerowa “Wstyd nie odmieniać nazwisk…” (It’s a shame not to inflect surnames), the author encourages the readers to inflect surnames correctly, which he perceives as an important issue, not only from the point of view of linguistic correctness, but also of social life and respect for the value which surnames represent. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/7296 Krakowskie "blokowiska" w sondażu studenckim Rębowska, Anna The present survey has been conducted by the students of the Philosophy Department of the Cracow Pedagogical University, as part of their course in sociological research methodology (including different types of surveys and the structuring of a questionnaire). The subject of the survey, which the students found very interesting, is connected with a larger work by the author, conducted under a grant from Komitet Badań Naukowych (State Committee for Scientific Research) After a preliminary analysis of problems that appear in a number of Cracow housing estates, four of them were selected for the survey; these estates (Azory, Bieńczyce, Płaszów, and Ruczaj) perfectly illustrate the common understanding of the term „blokowisko” (a large housing estate consisting of blocks of flats) and are located in different parts of the city. The questionnaire included two sets of questions: the first concerned social problems; the second one concentrated on the functional, technical and esthetical values of the estate. As it was impossible to choose the respondents randomly, the achieved results were relativized according to the respondent’s age, sex, education, and the period of living in the estate. In general, the Azory estate received the highest approval of its inhabitants. Other estates were evaluated differently by respondents of different profiles. Respondents with higher education were quite satisfied with the Ruczaj estate, and gave lowest marks to Bieńczyce. Respondents with vocational and secondary education definitely preferred Bieńczyce. Men praised the commuting transport availability in Płaszów, while women valued more the green areas of Ruczaj, complained about safety in Bieńczyce, but were most dissatisfied with Płaszów. The Bieńczyce estate is preferred by the previous inhabitants of other Nowa Huta estates, while the newcomers do not enjoy living there. Płaszów is the most popular among the inhabitants from local Cracow families. The detailed questions asked in the survey allow to analyse the opinions of respondents of particular profiles with respect to many social and functional values of the estates, and thus to search for the source of more or less appreciative attitude towards their place of living. Yet the most interesting results were obtained from the analysis of answers to open questions in the introductory and middle part of the questionnaire. It revealed the criteria which – consciously or not – the respondents followed while expressing their general attitude towards the estate. These criteria included, first of all the, distance from the city centre, good connection with other districts, friendly social surroundings and quiet, calm and safe neighbourhood. Potential reasons for moving chiefly included the need to improve the ecological conditions of living. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/7295 Obchody Tygodnia Ligi Obrony Powietrznej i Przeciwgazowej na terenie województwa krakowskiego w 1936 roku Jachna, Artur The article is a contribution to the research into the history of the Airborne and Antigas Defence League, a mass social organisation, which functioned in Poland between the two World Wars. In the 1930s the League functioned as a social association of higher utility. It received many privileges facilitating its activity, yet in return it was transformed from an aviationlovers society into a state agency, and was supposed to realise some of the government’s tasks concerning the air-defence works and preparing people to passive air defence in case of war. One of the forms of social popularisation of the aviation development and air- and gas-defence programme were cycles of mass events. „Aviation weeks” had also a financial dimension, as they always brought considerable income to the institution. The article presents such activities of the League on the example of the Cracow voivodship in the summer and autumn of 1936. An attempt is also made to show the social mechanisms functioning on a different scale in other voivodships of Poland in the same period of time. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/7294 Sens czy bezsens stosowania aktu łaski generalnej jako środka resocjalizacji? O amnestiach w obliczu doświadczeń Polski Ludowej Zajączkowski, Michał In the first part, the author of the article describes the detailed form of the act of grace in the form of amnesty. The general assumptions of the theory of law, criminology and politics concerning amnesty are presented, as well as its history in Poland in the 20th century (especially in the period of PRL). A considerable part of the analysis is based on the regulations contained in the normative decree on amnesty, issued on the 21st of July 1969, and on the published results of research on the effects and efficiency of this solution as regards resocialization. These results show that nearly 68% of the amnestied returned to criminal activity in a short time or neglected the imposed work obligation. The results thus form a basis for the recognition that using amnesty as a tool of resocialization is unjustified. On the grounds of both theoretical assumptions and the conducted sociological research, it has been concluded that amnesty cannot realise most of the goals of the judicial institutions and the legal and penal policy of a democratic lawful state. The final part of the article concerns the policy of pardon after the system transformations of 1989. A doubt-raising practice of issuing individual acts of grace (which, to a large extent, replaced the devalued institution of amnesty) again encourages the acceptance of the claim that the widely-understood act of grace (in any form), as an exceptional act, should be used with great caution and solely to express the obvious sense of justice felt by the society, which, in the ever-changing conditions, is not always closely followed by the law. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z