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The article contains an analysis of some more general present-day problems of researches on teachers as well as presentation of findings of researches conducted in one of Poland's administrative provinces. Attention is drawn to relationships between these problems and more comprehensive researches on the social structure and changes occuring within it. These changes encompass both particular elements of this structure and their correlations as well as transformations taking place within aggregations being distinguished in the social structure. Changes occuring in the socio-professional group of teachers are of essential significance both fro» the viewpoint of changes in the social structure and their importance for the role, functions and growing tasks facing the educational system. In the article there are quoted - on the basis of analysis of materials provided by researches on teachers with different length of service and age - data concerning changes taking place in their social and territorial origin, level of education and supplementary studies, degree of feminization of the profession, teaching of particular subjects, participation ' in educational work. The conclusion points at selected features of the aggregation and changes which occur within it and which are of great importance for present and future tasks posed before the school as well as features the shaping of which schould receive more attention. There are also included some comments made by researchers analyzing this professional category.