The author analyzes procedural and instrumental theories of democracy, interpreting them in the context of epistemic and deliberative democracy. Three major forms of procedural democracy (perfect, imperfect and pure ...

Define our own role in the process of political participation determines the manner of its implementation, and therefore the attitude we adopt the operating entity in the wider political community. This may be the attitude ...

The theoretical framework of the sociological analysis conducted for the purpose of this publication is the gender approach. Its aim was to find signs of the influence of the patriarchal culture on perceptions of middle ...

Issues discussed in the paper are located on the borderline between sociology and medicine. The aim of the paper is to present expectations and motives of patients with the absence of hand with regard to their potential ...

The article deals with the problem of different argumentation strategies inside the discourse about immigrants. In the beginning there is a short description of immigration phenomena in Poland. The next section explains ...

Text is dedicated to: (a) the presentation of the meaning of “rationality” and its consequences for social life in the era of institutional reflexivity; (b) a brief introduction to the problems of power resulting from ...

The article presents the results of research carried out in 2015 – before and after the presidential elections on a group of students of selected fields of the University of Łódź. The main objective of the study was to ...