POLPAN Seminar: ‘How to Use Google Tools and Internet Data in Academic Research’

December 10, 2014 | News, Seminars

On Tuesday, December 9th, Anna Franczak (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciencies) presented a paper titled ‘How to Use Google Tools and Internet Data in Academic Research’. Abstract: Google is the biggest global search engine. Founded in...

Two articles about POLPAN on The Shanker Blog

December 4, 2014 | News

Recently two articles based on POLPAN data have been published on The Shanker Blog – ‘The Voice of the Albert Shanker Institute’ (Washington). Both articles are written by Dr. Kinga Wysienska-Di Carlo (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences)...

POLPAN Seminar: ‘Leisure and Social Inequality’

December 3, 2014 | News, Seminars

On Wednesday, December 3rd, Professor Daniel Krymkowski (University of Vermont) presented a talk entitled: ‘Leisure and Social Inequality’. Abstract: People devote a considerable amount of time to leisure activities. According to the Bureau of Labor...

POLPAN Seminar: ‘Which of the contemporary theories of fertility has the strongest explanatory power in accounting for lowest-low fertility rates in Europe? Statistical Analysis of Poland, Italy and Germany’

November 19, 2014 | News, Seminars

On Tuesday, November 18th, Anna Gromada (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciencies) presented a paper titled ‘Which of the contemporary theories of fertility has the strongest explanatory power in accounting for lowest-low fertility rates in...

POLPAN Seminar: ‘Testing for compositional effects. Does educational expansion lead to greater social mobility? A comparative study of Germany and Poland’

October 16, 2014 | News, Seminars

On Tuesday, October 14th, Dr Katarzyna Kopycka (Institut für Soziologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) presented a paper titled ‘Testing for compositional effects. Does educational expansion lead to greater social mobility? A comparative study of Germany...

POLPAN Team at the World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama

July 19, 2014 | News

The POLPAN team participated in the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology which was held in Yokohama (July 13-19). The team members presented following papers based on POLPAN data: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński , Irina Tomescu-Dubrow: Causes and Consequences of Time...

POLPAN Seminar: ‘Social Humiliation and Labor Migration’

June 24, 2014 | News, Seminars

On June 24 Dr. Anna Janicka (Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw) presented a paper titled ‘Social Humiliation and Labor Migration’. Abstract: Given the recent trends in mainstream economics, it seems natural to enquire whether various types...

POLPAN – telephone interviewing

June 13, 2014 | News

In cooperation with Millward Brown, we started a succeeding stage of the POLPAN project – telephone interviews (CATI) with POLPAN respondents living abroad and with those respondents in Poland who couldn’t be interviewed otherwise. The fieldwork is coordinated by...

POLPAN Seminar: Gift Giving in Educational Institutions in Ukraine and Poland: Mixed Method Comparative Study

June 10, 2014 | News, Seminars

On Tuesday June 10th Ilona Wysmulek (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences) presented a paper titled ‘Gift Giving in Educational Institutions in Ukraine and Poland: Mixed Method Comparative Study’. Abstract: This presentation is...

Cooperation with ING Bank Slaski S.A.

May 30, 2014 | News

Anna Baczko-Dombi and Ilona Wysmulek – members of the POLPAN team – prepared a comment to a research report which has been conducted by TNS on behalf of ING Bank Slaski S.A. The survey examined the attitudes of Poles towards planning and implementation (or deposition)...