http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9296 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:39:23 GMT 2026-04-06T18:39:23Z https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:443/bitstream/id/1753d233-3eea-451f-a384-433fe8308e39/ http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9296 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9306 Nastawienia polskich respondentów wobec masowych badań socjologicznych Przybyłowska, Ilona; Kistelski, Krzysztof Attitudes of respondents towards mass sociological research are treated here as an element of a "model" respondent. This model is made up of information competence, task comprehension and the motivation for supplying careful, frank and true answers. Attitudes towards the research are thus connected in particular with the last element of the above definition. In our view, the more positive is the respondent’s approach to the research, the better he will meet the conditions put to him by the researcher. The title of this paper is an epitome, since the concept of "attitudes towards mass sociological research" covers also the fact that respondents entertain definite convictions about sociology as a science, about its capacities and methods of application of its results, the relation between the disponents of power and the sociologists, etc. The attitudes of Polish respondents towards the mas sociological research are conditioned by a complex of frequently contradictory factors which are described in detail in this paper. We have put forward a thesis that even though he agrees to the interview, the Polish respondent seldom meets the requirements for the so-called model informant or respondent. Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9306 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9305 Postawy światopoglądowe i polityczne studentów Kawka, Zdzisława; Lewandowski, Edmund The present analysis is a report of an empirical study. Out of three most Important values, 67# of students chose "successful family life" in the first place. Second in the hierarchy of values was "health" - chosen by ca. half of the interviewed. Subsequent positions were taken up by "interesting job" and "loyal friends" (every third person); "clear conscience" and "great reciprocated love" (every fourth person); "life full of adventure and travel" (every fifth person). The thesis that it is a "materialist generation" finds no proof since only 17% chose material welfare, while many appreciated moral values. As many as 28% chose clear conscience (every third man, and every fifth woman). The interviewed students were not keen on power, fame or calm, quiet life. A large per cent of respondents (65%) are practicing believers in God. Nevertheless, their religiousness is emotional and traditional rather than reflective and moral. There exists no significant relation between religiousness and morality. There is evidence of serious crisis of faith in socialism and its capacities. Nevertheless, it is not a totally frustrated generation. In spite of the crisis ca. 60% of the respondents estimate their material situation as good or very good and an equal number regard themselves as happy, though the sense of happiness or unhappiness depends solely on health. Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9305 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9304 Konformizm w środowisku wiejskim Kowalski, Mieczysław; Starosta, Paweł The paper analyses the phenomenon of conformity in the peasant society: its social range in the 1970's, its diversification with regard to some basic demographic and social features, and its main environmental correlates (participation in primary groups and informal relations as well as in organizational and institutional structures or in secondary relations ). We define conformity, after E.Aronson, as an adjustment of the behavior and the mode of thinking of an individual to the mode of thinking of a group, regardless of its negative or positive character. On the basis of a questionnaire research an empirical analysis was undertaken of the so-called normative conformity (the declared acceptance of a norm subjecting the individual's behavior to the judgement of all villagers), and of the so-called situational conformity (consisting in the coincident expression by the husbad and the wife of similar opinions on various matters significant for their life-situation during one interview). The following empirical theses have been put forward in accordance to the formulated problems: 1. From 2/3 to 3/4 conformists, and ca. 1/4 nonconformists have been observed in the studied population of Polish peasants at the end of 1970. A polarization of the phenomenon needs special stress, since for both empirical indexes applied in the study the types of extreme conformists and extreme nonconformists were far more numerous than the moderate types. 2. For both indexes used the diversification of conformity is realized not along the three-element structure of stratification (workers, peasants, white collars) but inside these groups.Greater conformity is characteristic of lower fractions of the white collars', workers', and peasants' groups while greater nonconformity is a feature of the respective higher fractions. 3. It is not the participation in primary and informal groups but, above all, the diverse indexes of organizational and institutional participation which are the statistically significant correlates of both types of conformity. Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9304 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9303 Wieś a tożsamość jednostki Tobera, Janina The paper deals with several questions referring to the self-identity of peasants in the social and historical conditions of Polish country life. An important place in the area for possible penetration of the history of changes of the peasants' self-conceptions is occupied by folklor with its diversified forms and methods of creation of the so called empirical "me” (after V.James) in the material, social and spiritual spheres. Second in importance is the historical and cultural heritage with the stylized self-portraits of the representatives of peasantry and the documents of popular movements regarded as a process of social and political emancipation of the stratum of peasants. The achievements of Polish sociology in the field have been exemplified by quotations from the works of Józef Chałasiński who masterly applied the concepts of the self-image and of the changes in the cultural definition of the self in his analysis of the historical growth of Polish culture in the personal, stratificational and national aepects. As far as the peasants identity is concerned it is possible to regard the legal warrant for the family holdings in the Polish People's Republic as a current stage of the two-century-old process of assuming citizenship by peasants. According to the author, since "The Polish Peasent..." by W.Thomas, F.Znaniecki the identity of the Polish peasant remains an unsolved riddle of Polish sociology. Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9303 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z