INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE ADAPTATION TO SUFFERING IN CONDITIONS OF EXTERNAL DURESS

• Authors: Smykowski J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

'The author of the article analyses the psycho-social changes which occur in individuals and groups from the moment at which they are arrested/held to the moment at which they are placed in a camp. The tool for this analysis is the definition of suffering with its various dimensions. The briefly described process of human degradation was carried out by the organisational, material, psychological and social conditions created by the USSR's repressive apparatus. These conditions gradually reduced human needs to a basic, biological level. This reduction was caused by the suffering of individuals and groups at every possible level. The article compares the adaptation of adults and children to the conditions in which they found themselves.

Keywords

EN

HUMAN NEEDS; PRISON (CAMP) REGIME; SUFFERING

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 47-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Smykowski J.

• J. Smykowski, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej w Warszawie, ul. Szczesliwicka 40, 02-353 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03056269