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The article presents the development, directions and areas of scientific research conducted by scholars at the Department of Social Pedagogy at the University of Silesia in Katowice from the beginning of the Department’s existence (1980/1981) until 2018. The conducted analyses emphasize first of all the expansion of research areas and the successive formation of the so-called “school” of social pedagogy...
The links between culture and security, especially cultural influence on security, are as old as the human civilization and the existing relations between them are. In the era of dynamic changes in a world, multiculturalism turns out to be an increasingly important part of today's international security environment. So, more and more legitimate are questions regarding the limits of tolerance for the...
This study investigates how a region’s labour productivity could be influenced by intangible factors such as social capital, government quality, cultural dimensions andreligion – factors that have not received much attention in the previous literature. As another novelty, regional-level data (78 regions of 22 European countries) were analysed. In order to take into account the relationships between...
The social sciences and economics ever more often connect cultural variables to social-economic cohesion processes. The article considers several theoretical and methodological issues in the analysis of culture, and in particular the way such ideas as institutions, social capital and civic society are used in studies on cohesion.
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