CULTURAL CAPITAL AND ETHNIC NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG SILESIANS (Kapital kulturowy a identyfikacje narodowo-etniczne mlodych Slazaków)

• Authors: Bartoszek Adam
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the diagnosis of the national-ethnic identitiy features among the students of secondary schools in Silesian province. It compares the significance of two sets of social features (status and interactivity) based on the data from latest survey (3986 pupils questionnaired) for the differentiation of the Silesian-Polish and Silesian identity on background of the Poles' self-identification. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the meaning of the cultural capital components for defining separate Silesian identity. The question emerges about the interactive (J. Mucha, P. Starosta), social networks (W. Lukowski) or costume (A. A. Zieba) character of such ethnic identifications. Referring to the theory of cultural capital ( P. Bourdieu) and the concept of regional identity (M. S. Szczepanski), the main thesis about attenuation, but not decline, of the social status factors' significance for the national-ethnic Silesian self-identification is substantiated. Apparently, the distinguishing of the Silesian-Polish and Silesian identity is reasonable. The young school generation takes after the status identity partially from their parents and grandparents but modifies it in interactive peer relations. Therefore, we need a new theoretical outlook on the dynamics of the primary etnic habitus formation.

Keywords

EN

CULTURAL CAPITAL; ETNIC IDENTITY; PRIMARY HABITUS DYNAMICS.; SEPARATE SILESIAN IDENTITY; YOUNG SILESIANS

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 4(195)
• Pages: 111-128
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bartoszek Adam

• Adam Bartoszek, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA071815