Barbara Pabjan

University of Wroclaw | WROC · Faculty of Social Sciences

Although frailty is an important, well-characterized concept in the provision of medical care to older adults, it has not been linked to the concept of vulnerability developed in the humanities and social sciences. Here, we distinguish between the two main dimensions of vulnerability: a fundamental, anthropological dimension in which people are exp...

Background: Short-term forecasts of infectious disease contribute to situational awareness and capacity planning. Based on best practice in other fields and recent insights in infectious disease epidemiology, one can maximise forecasts’ predictive performance by combining independent models into an ensemble. Here we report the performance of ensemb...

Background Short-term forecasts of infectious disease burden can contribute to situational awareness and aid capacity planning. Based on best practice in other fields and recent insights in infectious disease epidemiology, one can maximise the predictive performance of such forecasts if multiple models are combined into an ensemble. Here we report...

Disease modelling has had considerable policy impact during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and it is increasingly acknowledged that combining multiple models can improve the reliability of outputs. Here we report insights from ten weeks of collaborative short-term forecasting of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland (12 October–19 December 2020). The stud...

Background Estimating the actual number of COVID-19 infections is crucial for steering through the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It is, however, notoriously difficult, as many cases have no or only mild symptoms. Surveillance data for in-household secondary infections offers unbiased samples for COVID-19 prevalence estimation. Methods We analyse 16 11...

Bounds on the total number of SARS-CoV-2 infections: The link between severeness rate, household attack rate and the number of undetected cases Abstract Based on Polish surveillance COVID 19 data-set of 13309 patients we provide upper and lower age dependent bounds for the rate of severe progression. To account for observational bias toward severe...

On the basis of a semi-realistic SIR microsimulation for Germany and Poland, we show that the R 0 parameter interval for which the COVID-19 epidemic stays overcritical but below the capacity limit of the health care system to reach herd immunity is so narrow that a successful implementation of this strategy is likely to fail. Our microsimulation is...

Commemorating a multicultural past in a post-migration city. The attitudes to commemoration of German and Jewish cultural heritage in the city of Wrocław. One of the fundamental problems in the sociology of collective memory is the analysis of social determinants of the formation of patterns in memory. In this work, we present the results of resea...

Abstract The power over memory is limited by a number of factors. In order to empirically demonstrate these limitations, the author has addressed the following issues: politics of memory as a classic power-knowledge phenomenon, the asymmetry of power-knowledge, the relationship and differences between official and unofficial memory, the memory of t...

Does gender make a difference? The case study of inmates social conduct Abstract Gender is one of the most universal variables differentiating biological, cultural and social behaviours. The way gender determines people's behaviour is the subject of ideological and scientific discussions, in which there is a dispute about the extent of the influenc...

The power over memory is limited by a number of factors. In order to empirically demonstrate these limitations, the author has addressed the following issues: politics of memory as a classic power-knowledge phenomenon, the asymmetry of power-knowledge, the relationship and differences between official and unofficial memory, the memory of the elite...

City Memory and Identity: The Case of Wrocław after 1945 Barbara Pabjan Introduction In the city council-commissioned monograph on Wrocław, Microcosm, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse relate in the introduction to the Polish edition a conversation with the President of the city, Bogdan Zdrojewski, writing: the President talked about Wrocław’s...

Badania nad gustem muzycznym mają już pokaźny dorobek w socjologii (często obejmują one problematykę gustu w szerszym kontekście uczestnictwa w kulturze). Jeden z istotnych obszarów sporu dotyczy tego czy obecnie gust muzyczny (czy szerzej estetyczny) jest zróżnicowany klasowo i w jaki sposób czynniki stratyfikacyjne różnicują gust estetyczny. W te...

Badania pamięci zbiorowej są wielodyscyplinarne, w badaniach społecznych pamięci dominuje podejście jakościowe. Inną cechą tego nurtu badań jest przewaga refleksji teoretycznej nad metodologiczną. Artykuł jest próbą wypełnienia tej luki − analizuje możliwości i ograniczenia badań pamięci zbiorowej i specyfikę badania pamięci zbiorowej mieszkańców m...

A city’s collective memory is the image of its past shared by its population. This image is the element of the city’s identity. The specificity of Wroclaw lies in the fact that this former German city was settled by a Polish population. This historical context makes Wroclaw an interesting case study to analyse the process of forming the collective...

The paper analyses the influence of history memory on collective memory. The memory of the past that is present in collective memory creates the climate of current public opinion. It forms the background of social action in various fields. Collective memory influences urban space and its managing. We analyse the phenomenon of constructing the histo...

The paper examines the content of epistemic and ontological beliefs among scientist. I take the assumption of sociology of knowledge that the notion of objectivity is culturally and socially shared and what we believe truth is depends on the collectively shared socio-cultural cognitive convention. Scientific knowledge is socially and culturally roo...

Stosunek do niemieckiego dziedzictwa urbanistycznego mieszkańców Wrocławia. Pamięć o przeszłości może być czynnikiem kształtującym teraźniejszość w różnych wymiarach przekonań i działań społecznych. W tej pracy podejmujemy analizę wpływu pamięci historycznej na świadomość zbiorową. Obecna w świadomości zbiorowej pamięć o przeszłości wytwarza klimat...

Wrocław is a very interesting case of functioning of a collective memory and references to history. Due to its complicated history resulting from multi-cultural character, a collective memory cannot be attributed to one specific social community that lives in a given city at a particular time. Wrocław as a significant space and a crucial element of...

Pamięć zbiorowa, pamięć historyczna, a za nimi tożsamość zbiorowa, ma wielowymiarowy i wielopoziomowy charakter. Może być atrybutem grupy i jednostki. Będąc atrybutem jednostki, może odnosić się czy też być konstruowana przez grupy czy zbiorowości różnego rodzaju jednocześnie (zbiorowość narodowa, regionalna, lokalna, rodzinna, stowarzyszeniowa). K...

Obchody 200 urodzin Fryderyka Chopina stały się impulsem do przeprowadzenia badań i głębszej refleksji na statusem tego twórcy wśród polskiej publiczności. Problem ten, proponuję ująć w szerszej perspektywie mianowicie ukazać stosunek społeczeństwa do Chopina jako element tzw. „uczestnictwa w kulturze” rozumianego jako zespół praktyk odbioru sztuki...

It is broadly believed in Poland that Chopin is the greatest Polish composer. Interestingly, the results of research presented in this paper indicate that neither his life nor his music is well known by mass audience in Poland. The collected data allowed for examination of Polish listeners’ attitudes toward Chopin’s figure and his music. I specific...

Reception of Chopin and his Music in Polish Society. In spite of the fact that Chopin is regarded as the greatest Polish composer neither his life, nor his music is well known by the mass audience in Poland. The paper presents the results of empirical study on the reception of Chopin in Polish society. The collected data allowed for examination of...

Abstract. The complex social system consists of variety of social elements and processes. One of the crucial problems which social researchers try to understand and explain is how social order and collective phenomena emerges from individual behaviours, and what specific features of particular type of social aggregate are. Another important problem...

The basic idea of the paper is to examine the influence of communication process on social relations in prison, especially the interdependence between the communication and power relations in the conditions of social change. Due to law transformation the communication system of prison community has become more open to external world and prisoners a...

W socjologii często badanie jakiegoś zagadnienia wiąże się z koniecznością podważenia stereotypów i mocno ugruntowanych przekonań. Im silniejszy jest stereotyp i im bardziej związany z centralnymi wartościami danej kultury, tym trudniej go przełamać przedstawiając sprzeczny z nim obraz. Problem ten ujawnia się w badaniach nad wiedza naukową: socjol...

In the early 1990s, the fundamental changes in the social system in Poland had begun: the communist regime failed and the new social and economic order had been emerging. This situation offers an opportunity to study the consequences of the turn on the prison system and prisoners, changes within penal institutions, differences between 'totalitarian...

A simple model describing the dynamics of opinion forming in a two-party society is presented. Using a Monte Carlo simulation, we show what is the role played by the mobility of the electorate and the size of the groups within which opinions are exchanged. Each individual is characterized by its opinion and its susceptibility to the influence of ot...

We present a model of a prison with two types of inmates. One (recidivists) is a better organized and has more influence on the formation of opinions, whereas the second one is more susceptible to the influence of internal and external pressure. We study, via computer simulations, the interplay between well-organized minority and the rest and how t...

The assumption that society is a complex system is a common and trivial in sociology. Most of the great sociological theories treat society as a complex system explicitly or implicitly. Because social system is always multidimensional it is easier to build such a theory than to apply it to practice. Therefore, it is still not fully explored issue,...

Social relations and their influence on various phenomena are one of the key issues not only in sociology. The crucial problem, however, is how to measure the social relations and their implications in society. We try to adapt a physical perspective to the ``typical'' sociological analysis and to measure the qualitative nature of human community ad...

The question whether and how to use models in sociology is not a new one but it is still worth to discuss concerning the state of sociological research and current development of research on agent models in sociology and other disciplines. The aim of this paper is to discuss the most effective way of using models in sociology by taking into account...

Teatr Laboratorium wyró�nia sie na tle innych teatrów swoistym stosunkiem do fonosfery. Srodki foniczne pełnia szczególna role w pracy aktorów Teatru Laboratorium, bowiem praca nad głosem jest czynnikiem stymulujacym ‘akt całkowity’ – jedna z centralnych kategorii filozofii teatru Jerzego Grotowskiego. Srodki foniczne sa jednym z podstawowych eleme...