Social Activity of Rural Local Community as a Sociological Phenomenon.

Autor/in	Urgacz, Barbara
Titel	Social Activity of Rural Local Community as a Sociological Phenomenon.
Quelle	(1976), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Change Agents; Classification; Cultural Context; Expectation; Foreign Countries; Human Resources; Leadership; Quality of Life; Rural Development; Social Action; Social Change; Social Influences; Socioeconomic Status; Values; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Expectancy; Erwartung; Ausland; Humankapital; Führung; Führungsposition; Lebensqualität; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Soziales Handeln; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialer Einfluss; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Wertbegriff; Polen
Abstract	In view of the 1973 changes brought about by the State's attempt to bring its authority closer to society and create new arrangements to satisfy rural needs, Poland's rural communities were analyzed in terms of a typology of social action. Defined as action and the desire to act resulting from membership in the local community, social action was identified via essential types derived from the need for: life necessities; emotional ties; and social affirmation. In Polish rural areas, there was evidence of an evolutionary trend indicating changing cultural values; wherein, man was being understood in terms of an intellectual rather than an emotional personality; the direct aspect of folk culture was being replaced by more indirect influences; Polish rural areas were entering the development stage of "shaping up life quality"; individual social activity was being influenced by social status; social activity was being influenced by both the physical and attitudinal aspects of the current modernization process. Operative at the awareness, acceptance, and cultural objectivization levels, innovative social action was performing the function of social control via selectivity, a phenomenon making social action leaders vital to the total rural-cultural picture and making human personality, as manifest in social activity, the most essential aspect of the principle of social action as a means to cultural change. (JC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC