Witold Gombrowicz works contain model compositions, which portray sense of humans, situations, ideas and events in the real political and interpersonal life. They also expose the ambivalent sense of characters, occurrences ...

In the area of German sociology, one the most developed and appreciated theories trying to explain what happened in wealthy societies is the theory of sensation society (Erlebnisgesellschaft) introduced by Gerhard Schulze ...

In this article, the author collates an ideology of New Age movement with Christianity. She characterizes New Age by means of several conceptions: the transformation of personality, holism, and astrohistory. She emphasizes ...

The article presents a debate of artists against a theory of maternity instincts and an established social role of a woman - mother. Based on activity of particular creators authors/artists who undertook polemics with ...

The article attempts to analyze the phenomenon of social advertising in Poland and Sweden. Using the research method of Ervin Panofsky, the author describes samples of social advertising from Kotler’s four social marketing ...

This article presents a few theoretical terms of the famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu concerning sociology of art. Some of them describe an individual - agent (fr. agent), habitus (fr. habitus), and others his ...

XXth century established new principles in the art and created new relations between an artist and a receiver. As a result an artist, as well as a receiver, has greater possibilities to act, to have more resources, more ...

The article represents an attempt to review methods and techniques of analysis of various images. It contains elements of formal analysis, contents analysis, semiological studies, psychoanalytical variations, and two ...