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The article reflects on the importance of social capital for the transformation and modernisation processes at work in Poland after 1989 and on the formulation of development trends in this area. The question of the development trends of social capital is also a question of the transformation of society as a whole and the ways in which it will change in the foreseeable future. The response to various challenges in Polish society often reinforces survival and adaptation behaviours and attitudes, pushing individuals to focus on creating an inbred relationship and maintaining high cohesion within their own group. The need of the moment is to create conditions for the development of social capital, which, however, in the light of the results of Social Diagnosis, remains more a postulate than a reality.