Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Thirty Years after the Great Change.The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s) and the need for further reforms" (Pisz 2000:101-102).Although 19 years have passed since the quoted statements, the discussion has been continued up to now and, of course, from the very beginning, the Polish transformation has been carefully studied by sociologists.Until the mid-1990s, researchers dealt with change as such, describing the essence of crucial institutional reforms and only then dealing with the social consequences of systemic change (Kolasa-Nowak 2010:52).Even then most of the researchers concentrated primarily on changes perceived from the macro-social level.For instance, Juliusz Gardawski (2001; 2009) analyzed changes from the perspective of economy and sociology of work.Henryk Domański (1996; 2000; 2002; 2005; 2008) (relying on long-term quantitative research) pondered changes in the social structure, creation of the middle-class, or changes in the hierarchy of prestige.Andrzej Rychard (1996), Mirosława Marody and Anna Giza-Poleszczuk (2004), as well as Giza-Poleszczuk, Marody, and Rychard (2000) focused on the process of institutionalization, changing of social capitals, cultural dimension of the social transition, and the way social bonds were shaping after 1989.Sociologists, using profoundly quantitative research, began to describe individual ways of coping with systemic change and developing adaptation strategies (e.g., Marody 1997; 2002; Rychard 2005).Certainly, these are only some examples of sociological works-although deliberately enumerated here-that offered (macro)syntheses of the Polish transformation.Still another field of research on the broadly understood processes of transformation in Polish sociology has been marked by the works of the authors such as, to give as examples Maria
Source: Qualitative Sociology Review
Author: Kaja Kaźmierska
Institution: University of Łódź
Language: English
Topic: Social Issues in Poland
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2985461192