Commodification of Social Life
Commodification of Social Life

Summary/Abstract: Commodification of social life, i.e., extension of the number of goods and services which become commodities and can be sold on the market, is one of the main characteristics of postcommunist transformation and modernisation in Poland. The rules of commodification are unclear and ambiguous, however, and this in turn blurs the boundaries between various subsystems of society, produces a low-key equilibrium between the deficient market, inefficient democracy and private networks and is the source of many tensions and pathologies. It also disintegrates society’s cognitive and normative system and weakening the social legitimisation of the new order.

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