RURAL YOUTH - POLISH YOUTH: ASPIRATIONS AND CIVIC POTENTIAL EXAMINED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF EUROPEAN STANDARDS

• Authors: Szafraniec K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article illustrates the phenomenon of the 'deficit of civic attitudes' observable among Polish rural youth. The data (from the author's own research and from other available sources) indicate that this deficit is not a specific feature of rural youth in Poland but of the Polish youth in general as well as of young people living in Western Europe. Simultaneously, the data presented in the article show that rural youth possesses a large civic potential. The latter can be attributed to the rural youth's openness to social changes which, in its opinion, Poland and its rural community clearly need. The materialization of these changes could lead to the civic awakening of young people. The absence of such changes, needed to create a wider space for the functioning of young people, as well as a relatively higher degree of social helplessness of the rural community may turn the 'deficit of civic attitudes' into a permanent feature of the younger generation.

Keywords

EN

CIVIC ATTITUDES; RURAL COMMUNITY(POLAND); YOUTH

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences; www.irwirpan.waw.pl
• Journal: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 3(128)Supp
• Pages: 108-122
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szafraniec K.

• K. Szafraniec, Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00541366