System wartosci spoleczenstwa polskiego

• Authors: Nowak Stefan

Title variants

EN

VALUE SYSTEM OF POLISH SOCIETY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the analysis of value system of Polish society in the 1970s. After establishing that Poles are the 'federation of primary groups united in a national community', the author formulates the sociological vacuum thesis: Poles strongly identify with their family and friends and the next community, they strongly identify with, is nation. In between these two poles the vacuum spreads covering institutions and groups other than family and friends (e.g. professional groups). The author emphasizes frustration as a feature of Polish society, in which axiological standards significantly differ from reality (the examples of the socialist and democratic values support this argument). He contends simultaneously that the possibility of generalizing about value system of Polish society as a whole stems not so much from the lack of internal differentiation in particular clusters of values (such differentiation exists), as from the experience of vast social change that has resulted in the disappearance of previous value formation centers and has not led to the emergence of the new ones.

Keywords

EN

DEMOCRATIC VALUES; FAMILY; IDENTIFICATION; MORALITY; NATION; SOCIALISM; SOCIOLOGICAL VACUUM; VALUE SYSTEM

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1(200)
• Pages: 261-278
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nowak Stefan

• Stefan Nowak, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA093438