The article attempts to present -on the basis of relevant literature -the explicit strategies of adaptation to social change, on the example of the Polish society/nation. The hereby reflections are of theoretical character. They refer to the consequences of social changes taking place in Poland as well as the youth adaptation processes in the context of changing reality. The youth is presented in the context of their life orientations, existential anxiety, réévaluations and attitudes displayed with reference to the adaptation strategies described in the literature on the subject. The identification of the determinants for the conditions which promote the social manifestation of either active or passive attitudes is an attempt to stress the informative role of education in initiating both realistic and creative forms of adaptive behavior that should result in the individual's need to challenge the reality. What is most important, however, is that adaptation to social change becomes [by itself] a stimulant for the development of a young human being.
Today, in the times of the immigration crisis which Europe is experiencing, a question arises as to whether Polish society is prepared to support the contemporary refugees. It is the aim of this paper to provide an answer to the question, as well as presenting Polish attitudes to accepting migrants in their country and an attempt to analyse the grounds of their convictions.
The article is focused on the attitudes of inhabitants of the Polish-German-Czech borderland towards the cultural landscape of the region. Given the historical, legal and administrative or mental determinants, an attempt was made to characterise the formation of the climate of these lands and to show the attitude of the current inhabitants (particularly on the Polish side of the borderlands) towards the cultural heritage of Upper Lusatia. This article also addresses the topic of the need to continue the existing efforts and initiate new ones, indicating their educational dimension.
The author elaborates the idea of social capital that becomes helpful while making attempt to determine the Polish minority living in Lithuania, as a potential of this country. This article presents research on the citizenship, and the conditions enabling or disabling the process of its emergence among the Polish minority in Lithuania. The background of the undertaken issue was the process of transformation in the context of the following: examining changes within the assessment of the living conditions and quality of life, attitudes towards the occurring changes, but predominantly – shaping citizenship among contemporarily biggest Lithuanian national minority.
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