Profesor Krzysztof Skotnicki jest cenionym i uznanym znawcą prawa konstytucyjnego, autorem licznych publikacji, nauczycielem akademickim, wychowawcą wielu pokoleń prawników. W roku 2023 mieliśmy zaszczyt i przyjemność świętować rocznicę siedemdziesięciolecia urodzin Pana Profesora. Święto to stało się okazją do uhonorowania Pana Profesora, czego wyrazem jest niniejsza publikacja.
Księga dedykowana Panu Profesorowi, przygotowana została przez przyjaciół i współpracowników z polskich i zagranicznych ośrodków badawczych. Składa się z dwóch tomów, a ich struktura podyktowana została różnorodnością tematyczną tekstów nadesłanych przez ponad stu autorów. Artykuły poświęcone zostały podstawowym instytucjom ustrojowym i ich organom, demokracji, wolności, prawom człowieka i obywatela, prawu wyborczemu oraz sądownictwu. Odrębny rozdział stanowią teksty zagranicznych przyjaciół Pana Profesora opublikowane, w znacznej części, w ojczystym języku autorów.
This book is the first comprehensive study of Plato’s conception of justice. The universality of human rights and human dignity—recognized as the source of the former—are among the crucial philosophical problems in modern-day legal orders and in contemporary culture in general. If dignity is genuinely universal, then human beings also possessed it in ancient times. Plato not only perceived human dignity, but a recognition of dignity is also visible in his conception of justice, which forms the core of his philosophy. Plato’s Republic is consistently interpreted in the book as a treatise on justice, relating to the individual and not the state. The famous myth of the cave is a story about education taking place in the world here and now. The best activity is not contemplation but acting for the benefit of others. Not ideas but individuals are the proper objects of love. Plato’s philosophy may provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian orders.
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Grounded theory (GT) is a qualitative, explorative, systematic, and data-driven research approach designed to generate a middle-range theory on the studied phenomenon. In contrast to grand theories that make universal claims across time and space, middle-range theories (Merton, 1968) have “limited scope and refer to certain societies, cultures or specific social cultures” (Kelle, 2019, p. 82). In the GT tradition, a middle-range theory means that the constructed theory is delimited to a social phenomenon such as, for example, everyday coping with social anxiety, negotiating social roles in particular workplaces, bystander intervention in school bullying, problem-solving processes in certain small groups, living with anorexia nervosa, and managing student misbehavior in classrooms.
GT is particularly helpful for examining individual, social psychological, organizational and wider social processes, interaction patterns, and participants’ actions, interpretations, and understandings (Charmaz, 2006, 2014; Thornberg & Charmaz, 2012, 2014; Thornberg & Keane, 2022). By being explorative and data-driven, this method is usually described in the literature as an inductive method (e.g., Glaser, 1978; Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Induction here means that the researcher examines empirical and individual cases or instances to interpret patterns and make general statements, which are grounded in data but always considered as hypothetical and provisional. GT is, however, driven not only by induction but also abduction, which is acknowledged by a growing number of GT researchers as a significant logic of inquiry (Bryant, 2017; Charmaz, 2014; Clarke et al., 2018; Flick, 2018; Reichertz, 2019; Thornberg, 2012; Thornberg & Keane, 2022).
Abduction refers to a selective and creative process in which the researchers carefully examine which hypothesis explains a particular case or part of data better than any other. It is akin to working as a detective in a search for patterns and best possible understandings and explanations (Bryant, 2009; Carson, 2009; Eco & Sebeok, 1988; Lipton, 2007; Thornberg, 2022; Truzzi, 1976). The logic of inquiry in GT can, therefore, be considered as an interplay between induction and abduction, in which the grounded theorist moves back and forth between both during the whole research process (Charmaz et al., 2018; Thornberg & Charmaz, 2012, 2014; for further reading on induction and abduction, see Kennedy & Thornberg, 2018; Thornberg, 2022).
GT research is also an iterative process, which means that data collection and analysis take place in parallel and inform each other. The researcher moves back and forth between gathering and analyzing data. By being a systematic method, GT offers a set of rigorous yet flexible guidelines to collect and analyze data. Bryant (2017) argued that systematic should not be confused with recipe-like, mechanical operations but should be understood as “an approach to research that is most certainly not ad hoc, but on the contrary is guided by well-founded activities that have been clearly articulated in the form of a set of heuristics or rules-of-thumb” (p. 90). This, in turn, calls for an active, sensitive, and reflexive researcher. Grounded theorists need to be open-minded, curious, empathic and sensitive toward the field and the participants.
In this chapter, we first trace the development of GT and its versions. From a constructivist GT perspective, we then examine the role of the literature review. Moving on to data collection, we emphasize the central role of theoretical sampling in GT and consider the various stages of coding and the function of memo-writing throughout the research process. We end by considering criteria for quality in GT studies.
Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology.
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The article is based on ethnography and the autoethnography of making. It presents an anthropological reflection on pottery craft as a way of life in a 21st-century village in Poland. The individual case of a village pottery shop in the region of Masuria is in focus, a place located in the north of the country. The exchange of knowledge and a participatory mode characterised the ethnographic enterprise. The author’s approach combines critical reflections on the social construction of folk art and craft in Poland with discursive renderings of craft-related bodily knowledge and the embodied recognition of materials and their affordances. Highlighting the alienating potential of the folk representation of the rural, it follows the meanings of pottery craft having been accommodated in the lifeworld of a modern village potter. The pottery workshop is presented both as an environment where skills and techniques are mastered as well as where experimentation happens and knowledge is built. The author focuses on recognising features of the world that are only made available through practicing the potter’s craft. The craft is also a way of establishing meaningful links with the local environment of the potter.
