TOŻSAMOŚĆ KULTUROWA WSI. KWESTIE I ZOBOWIĄZANIA
CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. ISSUES AND BONDS

Summary/Abstract: Józef Chałasiński and Władysław Grabski are two characters associated with Polish sociology of the countryside, whose ideas the author refers to. The former one warned against the change of peasants’ ID, while the latter one recognized peasants’ own ‘unique identity’. Independently of the differences, they two met a number of years later developing the concept of cultural identity. Contemporary dilemmas associated with countryside are especially appealing in the rhetoric of the decline of peasantry, family bonds, territorial and cultural ones. The author objects the view. She proves that globalist trends give way to the return of traditionalism and pre-modernity. The approach is supported by Halina Kapciak, Elżbieta Tarkowska, Bogdan Jałowiecki, Wojciech Łukowski, and Paweł Starosta. The latest diagnosis in Polska wieś 2008 (Polish Countryside 2008) provides frames for empirical support of the author’s theses. They bring the change in latest projects of countryside reforms, addressed to local authorities in villages rather than to regional authorities situated in towns, as it was before. Thus, the projects underline the significance of cultural identity of rural communities.

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