<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study is a reflection on the quality of life of the countryside dwellers in the Polish–German borderland. It has been assumed that the assessment made is conditioned by the consequences of changes within the functioning of the state borders. Based on the findings from the research conducted in 1993 and 2010, an analysis of the changes of social reality in the place of the countryside dwellers’ residence was made, followed by an attempt to define determinants of the attitude of the countryside dwellers towards given social, economic and political aspects of the reality, as assessed and expressed by them.</p></abstract>

This study is a reflection on the quality of life of the countryside dwellers in the Polish–German borderland. It has been assumed that the assessment made is conditioned by the consequences of changes within the functioning of the state borders. Based on the findings from the research conducted in 1993 and 2010, an analysis of the changes of social reality in the place of the countryside dwellers’ residence was made, followed by an attempt to define determinants of the attitude of the countryside dwellers towards given social, economic and political aspects of the reality, as assessed and expressed by them.

Borderlands of the Countryside. Dilemmas of the Quality of Life – Experience of the Polish Transformation

Institute of Pedagogy, University of Wroclaw,

Eastern European Countryside

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This study is a reflection on the quality of life of the countryside dwellers in the Polish–German borderland. It has been assumed that the assessment made is...

Borderlands of the Countryside. Dilemmas of the Quality of Life – Experience of the Polish Transformation

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 135 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0007

Keywords
countryside, the quality of life, borderland, border, transformation, social research

© 2016 Nicolaus Copernicus University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Borderlands of the Countryside. Dilemmas of the Quality of Life – Experience of the Polish Transformation

Published Online: Sep 18, 2016

Page range: 135 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2016-0007

Keywordscountryside, the quality of life, borderland, border, transformation, social research

© 2016 Nicolaus Copernicus University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
countryside, the quality of life, borderland, border, transformation, social research