{"title":"Rural Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow: Past and Present","authors":"K. Gorlach","doi":"10.1515/eec-2017-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2017-0012","url":null,"abstract":"The 27th Congress of the European Society of Rural Sociology (ESRS) will take place on 24-27 July 2017. This year it will be held at the highly hospitable Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland established in 1364. The decision of the ESRS authorities to choose Poland and, specifically, the Royal City of Kraków for this year’s Congress is undoubtedly a great honour for the Polish community of rural sociologists, recognised as one of the biggest and most active in Europe. For nearly 100 years, the development of this subdiscipline has been driven by the major contribution of sociologists associated with the centre in Kraków, functioning mainly, albeit not exclusively, within the structures of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"23 1","pages":"223 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44199229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central-Eastern Europe as Postcolonially Involved (Sub)peripheries","authors":"Beata Bielska, M. Wróblewski","doi":"10.1515/eec-2017-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2017-0010","url":null,"abstract":"The latest book by Christian Giordano – Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), whom the readers of Eastern European Countryside (EEC) know perfectly well1 – is a collection of 16 works (including 13 that were published before, between 2001 and 20142) preceded by an introduction. These texts refer, amongst other subjects, to the anthropology of politics and economy, alongside issues of ethnicity, nationalism and interculturality in different regions of the world (Latin America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe and Southern Europe).","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"23 1","pages":"209 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/eec-2017-0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47974373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Responses to the Structural Changes of National Development Policyin Hungarian Rural Regions","authors":"Éva Perger","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper is based on the preliminary results of an ongoing research programme supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. The objective of the research is to find out how local actors react to the changing development policy context, how it shapes the local practices of local agents, and how such interactions influence local society and the development of rural micro-regions. The main pillars of the study are subject-oriented case-studies in two rural microregions. The pilot regions are very similar in terms of geographical location, natural resources, population, territory, settlement structure and economicsocial status, yet they have followed a very different development track, mainly due to the different local reactions to the changing state development policy. Our research demonstrates that the key factor of local success is multi-level (settlement, micro-region) cooperation between various (public, private and civil) local stakeholders. The crucial demand for a main facilitator of local cooperation could be satisfied by the local government, provided that it is able to adapt to the frequent changes leading to the emergence of new social networks. No evidence is found to indicate the existence of a ‘project class’ within the local rural societies assuming an intermediary role between decision makers and beneficiaries. The traditional structures of power (based on party- and economic hierarchy) seem to survive. Although project-based implementation has become predominant in development policy, the main arena of the ‘struggle’ to obtain development resources is still the political one.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"69 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67225678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Delimitation and Typology of the Czech Countryside and its Importance for Rural Development","authors":"R. Klufová","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of the paper is to delimit the countryside in the Czech Republic (according to local conditions) and the rural municipalities’ typology (according to their development potential). The author also focuses on the usage of a combination of Geographic Information Systems, spatial data analysis, and spatial statistics tools, together with traditional multivariate statistical methods for rural delimitation and typology. The typology of the rural municipalities, according to their development potential, is based on up-to-date socio-economic indicators from the 2011 Census, which makes up the final part of the article, followed by conclusions and considerations about future rural development in the Czech Republic.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"229 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/eec-2016-0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67226570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Judith Keller, K. Kovács, Katalin Rácz, N. Swain, M. M. Váradi
{"title":"Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor","authors":"Judith Keller, K. Kovács, Katalin Rácz, N. Swain, M. M. Váradi","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines workfare schemes in rural Hungary and their contribution to relieving rural poverty. It does so on the basis of an analysis of European Union statistics and a series of semi-structured interviews which were conducted in 2013-2015 as part of a larger project investigating the contemporary state of rural Hungary. The paper comprises four sections: following a short description of the methodology, regional disparities and deprivation in rural areas are introduced with the help of a typology on deprivation and Eurostat data, thus providing evidence for European comparison. Following this, the main findings of our extensive qualitative research into workfare policies in rural Hungary are introduced and discussed on the basis of related legislation4. The article finds that workfare schemes in the rural sector are unique to Central and Eastern Europe, and are especially favoured in Hungary; it also discovers that economists are correct in assessing that said workfare schemes create few new jobs. Nevertheless, they are ‘better than nothing’, and have become embedded in rural society, where they are appreciated by beneficiaries and local officials alike. They necessarily make a paternalistic distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, and the more commercially-oriented schemes raise issues of market distortion.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"26 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67225876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of Family Farms in Poland: Present Time and the Weight of the Past","authors":"M. Halamska","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author provides an analysis of family farming in Poland during the period 1990-2012, with special attention towards the close links of ownership and the operation of the farm by family members. The weight of various factors is given close attention, including the historical context of the farm, current conditions, and future intentions for the farm. The historical context acknowledges and stresses the importance of the late abolition of serfdom made by the partitioning powers, various agricultural reforms during the period 1919-1944, and the period 1948-1989 (when family farming was incorporated into a deficient centrally planned economy). This latter period saw family farms developing specific mechanisms of functioning, which can be seen two decades later. Analysis of the period 1990-2012 is based on data of the Central Statistical Office, the present study, and other published materials. The data series includes individual farms of more than 1 ha, based on family labour. Separated are two sub-periods: the post-communist transformation period from the early 1990s, and the period 2002-2012. The latter almost coincides with the accession to the EU. In the first period, the article outlines the process of creating duality in Polish agriculture. This describes a group of family farms where the household strongly reacted to the market and became larger and modernised (professional – 1/3 of the total) and small, extensive and producing mainly for own consumption (semi-subsistence – 2/3). In the second period, the functioning and transformation of households taking place under the CAP are examined. Modernisation is primarily seen on the professional farm. Specific mechanisms can be seen that provide fairly stable functioning of semisubsistence farms, independent of the market, with non-farm incomes and agricultural social security. These farms resisted collectivisation and stopped and hindered modernisation during the communist period, and this post-communist transformation now requires a doubly controlled modernisation process.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"27 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/eec-2016-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67226022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education Quality and its Drivers in Rural Areas of Poland","authors":"B. Czyżewski, J. Polcyn","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A two-stage study was carried out. Firstly, a pioneering attempt was made to measure the quality of education in rural areas of Poland, by county (powiat), using a synthetic indicator. Secondly, the socioeconomic determinants of that quality were modelled. A strength of this study is the fact that it covers the entire population of the given type of administrative units. The analysis served to verify the hypothesis that exogenic socioeconomic factors are key to the effectiveness of the educational process in rural areas. It was shown that in Poland the theories of polarised development are more applicable than those of endogenic development. There was observed an inversely proportional effect from the centre–periphery axis on education quality, but, above all, the effect of several gravitational systems, in which there occurs exogenic diffusion of the results of economic growth and progress from the present and former provincial capitals.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"197 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67226181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borderlands of the Countryside. Dilemmas of the Quality of Life – Experience of the Polish Transformation","authors":"Krystyna Dziubacka, J. Pilarska","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study is a reflection on the quality of life of the countryside dwellers in the Polish–German borderland. It has been assumed that the assessment made is conditioned by the consequences of changes within the functioning of the state borders. Based on the findings from the research conducted in 1993 and 2010, an analysis of the changes of social reality in the place of the countryside dwellers’ residence was made, followed by an attempt to define determinants of the attitude of the countryside dwellers towards given social, economic and political aspects of the reality, as assessed and expressed by them.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"135 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67225900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative Movements in Rural Areas in Contemporary Poland: A Brief Comparison of Farmers’ Attitudes of Members and Non-memebrs of Coooperatives","authors":"P. Nowak, Anna Jastrzębiec-Witowska, K. Gorlach","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper the authors consider some issues concerning the problems of rural cooperatives in contemporary Poland. In the first part, the important role of cooperatives in agricultural changes as well as rural development has been stressed, especially as an opposition to neo-liberal tendencies in the food economy. In such a context, the authors would like to compare some opinions concerning cooperative movements presented by farmers who are members and non-members of cooperatives. The characteristics of respondents contain some information about their sex, age, level of education as well as ownership status, including also the size of the possessed farms. Moreover, the presentation of attitudes has been focussed on the issues of cooperation with other farmers as well as general trust in others. The issues of knowledge about cooperative ideas and contemporary cooperative movements have been taken into consideration. In the final part of the empirical analysis some opinions concerning major obstacles to the development of cooperative movements have been considered. To conclude the whole paper the authors stress some differences in opinions and attitudes between members and non-members of cooperatives. However, what seems to be even more important is that even farmers who are members of cooperatives lacked sufficient knowledge on issues that make cooperatives successful.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"151 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67226534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural and Regional Characterictics of Poverty Segregations","authors":"Dávid Siptár, Róbert Tésits, Levente Alpek","doi":"10.1515/eec-2016-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The process of segregation is a complex problem affecting both developed and developing states; it is influenced by territorial, historical, demographic and economic impacts. To solve this growing problem, we must know how it is influenced by different factors. In this case, we are able to describe the appropriate strategy. This study examines the characteristics of poverty’s regional segregation in Baranya county, Hungary. It describes and analyses the regularities and correlations at NUTS 3 level and compares four segregated living spaces in different areas of the county. Our theory postulates that segregation has different bases and different attributions according to geographical localisation. Due to the different and well-chosen research areas, this study is able to highlight these aforementioned regional differences and characteristics. According to the results, we create a standardisation system to form the basis for future studies and strategies. After all of the study analyses, the local conditions are categorised based on the previously established standardisation system. The results of this study can help manage the problems of marginalised social groups and territorial segregation and also create a strategy to handle them.","PeriodicalId":42882,"journal":{"name":"Eastern European Countryside","volume":"22 1","pages":"107 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/eec-2016-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67225845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}