mental adjustment to the post-communist system in poland

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MENTAL
IFiS Publishers
ADJUSTMENT TO
THE POST-COMMUNIST
SYSTEM IN POLAND
by Kazimierz M. Słomczyński
with Krystyna Janicka
Bogdan W. Mach
Wojciech Zaborowski

MENTAL
ADJUSTMENT TO
THE POST-COMMUNIST
SYSTEM IN POLAND

MENTAL
ADJUSTMENT TO
THE POST-COMMUNIST
SYSTEM IN POLAND
by Kazimierz M. Słomczyński
with Krystyna Janicka
Bogdan W. Mach
Wojciech Zaborowski
IFiS Publishers
Warsaw 1999
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M.E. Sharpe, Inc. English-language version © 1998 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Adapted from
the Polish text © 1996: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W.
Mach, and Wojciech Zaborowski, Struktura społeczna a osobowosc: Psychologiczne
funkcjonowanie jednostki w warunkach zmiany społecznej [Social Structure and Per­
sonality: Psychological Functioning Under Conditions of Social Change]. Warsaw:
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1996. Originally, the
content of this volume was published in the International Journal of Sociology, Vol. 27,
Nos. 1 and 2, 1997.
Słomczyński, Kazimierz M., 1943-
Mental adjustment to the post-communist system in Poland / Kazimierz M. Słomczyń­
ski, Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach, Wojciech Zaborowski
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Personality-Social aspects. 2. Social structure-Cross-cultural studies.
3. Poland.
II. Title
Cover design by Dariusz Piaskowski
ISBN 83-87632-26-0
Printed in Poland, 1999
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To Melvin L. Kohn
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Contents
Preface ................................................................................................................. 9
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................ 12
1. Theoretical Approach and Research Strategy ......................................... 15
2. Social-Stratification Position, Social Gass, and Market Location ....... 30
3. Structural Differentiation and the Substantive Complexity
of Activities .................................................................................................... 56
4. Personality Characteristics .......................................................................... 81
5. Position in the Social Structure and Personality Characteristics ...........105
6. Intergenerational Transmission of Values and Orientations ..................131
7. The Impact of Psychological Resources on Status Attainment ..............146
8. Support for and Aversion to Systemic Change ........................................162
9. Conclusion .......................................................................................................183
Afterword .............................................................................................................189
List of Figures and Tables ................................................................................194
References .............................................................................................................198
Index .....................................................................................................................211