The negative social world: The Polish culture of complaining

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Researches conducted since the transformation period of Poland suggest that the Poland citizens hold a negative view of the social world and hence have formed a complaining culture amongst them. The culture consists of mainly three factors that include belief in negative social world, the experience of one's own subjective states as negative, and behavioral scripts of chronic expression of dissatisfaction.

Author: Wojciszke, Bogdan
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Publication Name: International Journal of Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0020-7659
Year: 2004

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The dynamics of societal transition: Modeling nonlinear change in the Polish economic system

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A model of dynamic social influence is used to model social transitions in Poland as social influence plays an important role in social transitions. Research suggests that rapid social transitions occur in a highly non-uniform way as society may become divided into regions of the 'old' and 'new' social reality.

Author: Vallacher, Robin R., Nowak, Andrzej, Kus, Marek, Urbaniak, Jakub
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Publication Name: International Journal of Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0020-7659
Year: 2005
Social systems, Economic systems

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Demographic processes before and during the ongoing transition in Poland

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The transformation period in Poland since 1989 brought significant changes in the political, social, and economic situation of the Polish society. The hypotheses and the interpretations of the demographic changes in the Polish society are discussed.

Author: Okolski, Marek
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Publication Name: International Journal of Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0020-7659
Year: 2004
Political aspects, Economic conditions

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Subjects list: Social aspects, Evaluation, Poland, Social issue, Social conditions, Economic aspects
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