INTELIGENCJA POLSKA NA RYNKU PRACY
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2000
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA ON THE LABOUR MARKET
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The intelligentsia as a social stratum - despite of the fact that, generally speaking, is doing
quite well within the new system - begins nevertheless to differentiate and disintegrate on a more
and more larger scale. Ordinary white-collar workers are subject to a pauperization and only
hardly are able to adapt themselves to new conditions. Another and quite big part of the intelligentsia
is successfully transforming into a „knowledge class” which is typical for Western countries;
they are professional and market oriented people equipped with their knowledge but they lose in
the same time a sense o f community; they are divided into pragmatically oriented groups of professionals
and become an assemblage of highly qualified experts and specialists with higher schools
certificates. However the role of intelligentsia as an elite which is supposed to be a source of
patterns, the carriers of national culture as well as moral leaders is constantly subject to being
weakened and depreciated.
It seems however that Polish intelligentsia does assume and still is able to assume its two
fundamental social functions even in new situation. In the ethos of the intelligentsia in Poland an
immense role has always been played by the need of liberty, individualism, sense of innovations
and responsibility. In its modem version this ethos is likely to have two basic versions, as it seems.
The one - oriented at individual success, effectiveness and modernization - is being confessed by
representatives of the growing group of market oriented professionals. This group shall be dominating
numerously. The second form of the ethos is realized, and it should continue to be so still in
the future - by an intelligentsia of classically educated kind, i.e. humanistic (as well ordinary
white-collar workers as more market oriented), which maintains national cultural tradition but
which in the same time is open minded and is facing the whole world and looking after common
elements and differences between Polish national culture and other cultures in order to diminish
some tensions occurring and facilitate this way mutually profitable contacts of Poland with the
world.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 62, 2000, z. 4, s. 131-146