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Współczesne polskie elity postszlacheckie w kontekście europejskim

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Smoczyński R., Zarycki T.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

2012

vol. 56

issue 1

261-291

The main aim of the article is to introduce the topic of the modern post-noble elites in Poland into the field of sociological inquiry. The article argues that although the heirs of the Polish nobility have for a long time been an object of interest of the media and a focus of numerous memoirs and historical books published in Poland, sociology has largely ignored the existence of this social group. This article has been planned as a first attempt at filling this gap. It reconstructs the genesis of the post-noble elite, the modern criteria of membership in the group and the mechanisms of its reproduction. Several interpretations of the mechanisms of sustaining the identity of the post-nobles have been presented as well. The presentation of these findings has been preceded by an overview of the recent studies of the aristocratic elite conducted inWestern Europe. The preliminary results of research in Poland seem to fit well with the patterns identified in the international studies which are discussed in the first part of the paper. They clearly demonstrate on the one hand, manifold similarities between the functioning of the Polish and Western post-aristocratic elites at the beginning of the 21st century, and on the other, they point to the unique significance of the “extended family” in the Polish post-noble milieu.

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