Torczyńska-Jarecka, Monika2018-05-152018-05-152005Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2005, nr 2, s. 237-250.1731-7517http://hdl.handle.net/10593/23189The article describes the phenomenon of anomy in a society undergoing cultural, political and economic transformations. In a period of rapid change this problem is particularly significant for Polish society, especially in the situation of a crisis of values and deep decomposition of a valid system of social, moral and legal norms. The collective sense (or lack of sense) of legal and personal safety determines social attitudes to a newly established political and legal order. Strong and long-lasting deprivation of the need for safety, characteristic of the present Polish reality, results in many different pathologies in the activities of individuals, and in a long-term perspective of non-individual aberrations, and in consequence in the state of anomy, which overwhelms the whole society.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł