Marianna Zielenska

University of Warsaw | UW · Institute of Sociology

Drawing on the critical discourse analysis of journals and working papers from 2011-2020 referring to the at-risk of poverty or social exclusion composite indicator (AROPE), we shed light on how benchmarks technicize academic discourse, particularly in its part contributed by economists. First developed to measure progress towards the poverty targe...

FOR ENGLISH SEE BELOW Decyzje w polityce społecznej podejmowane z użyciem algorytmów wpływają na jakość życia ludzi na świecie. Niedostępność algorytmów utrudnia ocenę ich wiarygodności. Nie wiadomo, czy modele statystyczne dobrano i zastosowano prawidłowo. Czy dane były wiarygodne? Autorzy podejmują ten ogólniejszy problem na przykładzie jednego z...

This article provides insights into a computer-based profiling tool implemented in Poland from 2014 to 2019 to measure the employability of unemployed individuals and decide upon allocation of active labor market policies. We propose to treat the profiling tool as a source of information about what was expected from the unemployed citizens by state...

"An exemplary multi-level comparative study of the Europe 2020 anti-poverty strategy, based on a rigorous analytical framework. A particular strength of the volume is its actor-centred approach and process-tracing methodology, which demonstrates the crucial role of domestic opposition and support in shaping the national effects of the EU's poverty-...

This presentation investigates how profiling technology introduced by a recent reform of Public Employment Services (PES) in Poland influenced social citizenship in the area of active labour policy (ALMP). This reform represents a move away from legally defined target groups distinguished by a single and objective characteristic (such as duration o...

Okazuje się, że większość badanych samotnych rodziców i osób długotrwale bezrobotnych uznaje, iż wskutek realizacji polityk warunkowego dochodu minimalnego i aktywnej integracji społecznej „z trudem utrzymuje się na powierzchni”. Podobnie oceniają te polityki pracujący biedni, z tym że dla nich korzystanie z pomocy społecznej jest trudniejsze z pow...

Through the application of Sen's capability approach, the article aims to understand which factors promote (or impede) the development of capabilities in young Neet in two policies for school-to-work transitions, in Naples and Warsaw. We analyse capacitating and incapacitating processes focusing on three main mechanisms: the provision of resources,...

This chapter introduces the nine case studies, the common question framework used and the different methodologies adopted. The aim of the case studies is to examine the transitions of disadvantaged young people from compulsory school to further education, from education/vocational training to the labour market and from being unemployed/outside the...

This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve t...

The volume at hand was developed out of the insights and results of an EU collaborative research project with the title “Making Capabilities Work”. Within this project, 13 partner institutions from different disciplines (educational science, sociology, economics, philosophy, political studies and social work), which are located in ten European coun...

This mainly theoretical article addresses the core idea and concepts within the capability approach and serves as an introduction to our conception of the approach for the readings of the other articles in this volume. The concepts will be presented briefly, and their interdependent relations will be explained with a strong emphasis on the capabili...

This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve t...

Italy and Poland present similarly weak minimum income protection models, yet this results from two different policy trajectories in the last 15 years: both countries actually introduced a minimum income scheme (MIS) between the late 1990s (Italy) and the early 2000s (Poland), but later developments were characterized by policy reversal in the Ital...

The article presents results of a case study of educational programme, which was designed to answer the structural problems of vocational schooling in Poland. It aimed at improving skills of students from vocational schools and was provided by a big employer operating in the sector of power industry. The analysis of empirical material consisting of...

The article provides the analysis of three handbooks for homosexuals (two for gays and one for lesbians). Its first part summarizes their contents which demonstrate that homosexual relations do not belong into one class of phenomena. The problems of homosexual women and men are distinctive enough to preclude their treatment either as one group or i...