Governmentality and what next?: Governmentality in a multicultural society: Executing power over diversity

The article is dedicated to governmentality which is a term introduced to social sciences by Michel Foucault in order to describe and analyze institutions, processes and forms of power that do not come down to top-down g...

DISEASE, ILLNESS, SICKNESS Nuns. Religious Congregations In Health Service In the People’s Republic of Poland: Based on Example of Western Pomerania

The role of nuns in health care during the postwar period should be considered through the prism of their service to the Roman Catholic Church. The main reason for this claim is that they were part of the Church and were...

Phenomenology, Practice, and Action: Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe: The Ego as Moral Person. Husserl’s Concept of Personhood in the Context of his Later Ethics

Husserl’s philosophy has ethical roots. In the well-known Crisis text, he speaks of the task of philosophers as “functionaries of mankind” (Crisis: 17). “To be human is essentially to be a human being in a socially and g...

CULTURE: The Notion of Privacy and its Socio-cultural Context

The main purpose of the article is to consider privacy as a conceptual category used in many disciplines (such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, legal and political sciences) as well as a social phenomenon. The fir...

Motywacje i uwarunkowania (nie)korzystania z globalnej sieci komunikacyjnej. Rozważania o barierach wejścia w świat nowych mediów