Sekularyzacja i indywidualizacja jako kontekst przemian rodziny polskiej
Secularization and Individualization as a Context for the Transformation of Polish Family

Summary/Abstract: In the following discussion it is assumed that we are not threatened – at least in the near future – with any crisis in terms of pro-family values. However, we can speak of a kind of ambivalence, of chances and risks, of losses and gains, of a widening sphere of social consent with respect to attitudes and behaviors disapproved of in the model of morality proclaimed by the Catholic Church. The socio-cultural context in which the changes of the family are taking place has been shown within the framework of two – partly contradictory – theories: secularization and individualization of the family. These two theories do not have a value-laden meaning, but a descriptive and explanatory. They refer to actual family conditions and behaviors that have been and are being produced in the realities of everyday life in contemporary societies. They do not cover all the systems of reference within which one can interpret the ongoing transformations in pro-family consciousness and behavior.

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