INTERNET AS A SOURCE OF PRO-SOCIAL ATTITUDES

• Authors: Bierowka J. P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article aims at verification of the following thesis: the Internet as a platform of new interpersonal relationships promotes pro-social attitudes. They find their expression in various initiatives undertaken selflessly by individuals in order to actualise the common good (e.g. Linux, Wikipedia, support groups, knowledge-exchange portals, etc). Authoress' own research has been used for exemplification purposes. It has been assumed that human inclination to reciprocity constitutes, among others, a source of pro-social attitudes. This inclination can be more or less efficiently actualized, depending on the structure of human relations. The significance of reciprocity increases when the role of institutionalism, formalism and centralisation decreases. Nowadays, the patterns of social relations are subject to profound transformations primarily as a result of the development of the Internet. New social relations are more reciprocal in character. The Internet creates new communication space in which social or even pro-social nature of people can be fruitfully actualised. .

Keywords

EN

INFORMATION SOCIETY; INTERNET -NEW COMMUNICATION SPACE; PRO-SOCIAL ATTITUDE; RECIPROCITY PRINCIPLE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 3(186)
• Pages: 15-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bierowka J. P.

• J. P. Bierowka, no postal address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03016187