Kondycja rodziny w czasach socjalizmu realnego – zasoby a możliwości rozwojowe
Family condition in the days of real socialism – resources and development possibilities

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to illustrate the social context of family life and its developmental potentialin the decades of socialist realism in Poland in the light of Stevan E. Hobfoll’s resource theory. It wasinitially established that: 1) the family was subject to change and it had different faces at differenttimes but also had some common characteristics; 2) psychosocial characteristics of the family, its behavior,preferences and choices are understandable only in the context of the characteristics andproperties of the whole system; 3) family should be distinguished as an ideological propaganda projectfrom the family – the product of everyday reality. Based on these assumptions and the theoryof conservation of resources by Stevan E. Hobfoll it was attempted to discover and interpret the psychosocialbehavior of the family in situations of stress and trauma, the source of which was the socialcontext including effects of war, politic, propaganda and economic factors. The purpose of the analysiswas to show the developmental potential of the family in the form of its external resources whichhad an impact on its internal resources. It was particularly important to show the various adaptationstrategies of the family to the prevailing living conditions, as they set the stage for development.An attempt was also made to identify the most important relationships among resources occurringin the family. The analysis was made on the basis of source materials, including personal documents(memories, letters), OBOP research and sociological and historical studies.

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