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Recent Changes in Polish Youth’s Social and Political Consciousness

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This chapter reviews recent changes in Polish youth’s attitudes and life orientation. Such changes reveal an increase in educational aspirations, an increase in the estimated value of education and work, a feeling of being more in control of one’s life, and a less pessimistic and fearful outlook on the future. These are all symptoms of society’s ‘healing’ process and of positive adaptation to the new market economy and current political reality. However, not the whole young generation evidences these positive changes. Most important in this respect seems to be the economic, cultural, and social ‘capital’ transmitted through one’s family background.

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  1. Barbara Fratczak-Rudnicka
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA

    Russell F. Farnen (Director and Professor of Political Science) (Director and Professor of Political Science)

  2. Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Henk Dekker (Associate Professor of Empirical Political Science) (Associate Professor of Empirical Political Science)

  3. University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Rüdiger Meyenberg (Professor and Head of Political Science) (Professor and Head of Political Science)

  4. Appalachian State University, USA

    Daniel B. German (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

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© 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Fratczak-Rudnicka, B. (1996). Recent Changes in Polish Youth’s Social and Political Consciousness. In: Farnen, R.F., Dekker, H., Meyenberg, R., German, D.B. (eds) Democracy, Socialization and Conflicting Loyalties in East and West. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14059-6_14

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