Ethnic Minorities & Ethnic Majority: Sociological Studies of Ethnic Relations in Poland

Ethnic Minorities & Ethnic Majority: Sociological Studies of Ethnic Relations in Poland - Marek S. Szcepański

Contents: Part 1: Majority & Minorities: Scope of Social Interaction [Nation & Ethnic Groups; Persistence of Ethnic Distinctiveness: Intersection of Place, Economy & Everyday Life; Assumptions & Methods of Research Into Ethnic Relations on the Polish Regained Territories: 1990s; Ethnicity & Content of Polishness: Polishness & Relation to Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Poland; Cultural Minorities & Dominant Group in Poland: An Overview; Regions in the Perspective of a Debate on the Modern Formula of National Identity]; Part 2: Minorities in the Border Regions [Upper Silesia & Masuria in Search of Identity; Ethnic Identity, Tolerance, Civil Society: Identification Options of Contemporary Inhabitants of Upper Silesia; From Research Experience on Social Integration of Silesian Native Population After 1945; Between the Ethnic Minority & Majority: Role of Social Institutions in Creating the Interethnic Relations in Opole Silesia; German Minority in Opole Silesia: Relations Between Minority & Majority; Ethnic Co-Existence in the Polish-Belarusian Borderland; Poles-Ukrainians-Belarusians: Nationalistic Attitudes Among Young Poles in the Eastern Border Region; Polish-Ukrainian Relationship in Przemysl Province in the Period of Political Transformation; Influence of History on Social Consciousness & Identity & Action: Ukrainian Minority in Poland]; Part 3: Minorities in Poland: Case Studies [Representations of Jews in Selected Polish Autobiographical Materials from the Period of WW2; Gypsies or the Romany; Stereotype of a German & German Character as Seen in the Light of Research Carried Out in the Katowice Voivodship; Social Bond in the Environment of Ethnic Minority; National Identifications & Pictures of Germans; Czech Enclave in Poland: Interethnic Relations in Community of Zelow; Lemks as an Ethnic Group; Religion & Ethnic-National Identity of Lemks]; Part 4: Ethnic Counterpoints: Case Studies [Polish Minority in the Czech Republic; Ethnicity in Business]