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The cultural heritage of the Polish rural community constitutes a specific type of capital with which the Polish society is entering the integrated Europe. The author of the article draws attention to the possibility of formulating a different than the often expressed extremely critical opinion about that heritage. She also emphasises the significance of the society's positive or negative attitude towards its own tradition. The article's conclusions, which find confirmation in the results of surveys conducted in various parts of Poland in 2003, suggest that a positive attitude towards the rural heritage displayed by the society described by sociologists as a peasant society is more conducive to pro-European attitudes and creation of a new system than criticism, full of complexes vis-a-vis the West, which, at best, may lead to the creation of an imitative capitalism and peripheral democracy.
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The article discusses the phenomenon of peasant religiousness, basing on most important publications dealing with ethnography and sociology of rural communities that characterise it in the categories of sensualism, ritualism, particularism and religious nationalism. Simultaneously, this firmly fixed and - according to many researchers - untrue and stereotyped picture is confronted with source materials that have not been used in the descriptions of the phenomenon. In conjunction with contemporary anthropological reflection, which also contests the assumptions of the traditional model of peasant religiousness, a proposal emerges of a more complete and true to life – the present day included, version of this phenomenon.
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The term 'issue' is a synonym of the word 'problem' which designates phenomena that are negative and troublesome, that - as it is believed, call for changes, improvement or elimination. The domination of liberal orientation contributes to the emergence of successive issues because this orientation, unlike conservative concepts, envisages the need and possibility of interference in social matters with the purpose of introducing corrections, which makes it easier to indicate more and more problems. Questions relating to the agrarian segment have always been assessed as particularly difficult and the rural regions understood as an environment inhabited by a population representing a specific human, social and cultural capital is being frequently described in the categories of an 'condemned subject'. It is also a fact that the mentioned problems intensify in step with the decline in the agricultural sector's share in and significance for the economy and reduction in the number of rural population. The peasants, once perceived in the categories of a social class, seem to be losing their political distinctness, turning either into a vocational group of agriculturalists - as it was envisaged to happen in Poland, or into farmers - as it happened in the West.
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