Kulturowe wartości szwedzkiego państwa dobrobytu w świetle wybranych typologii kultury
Cultural values of the swedish welfare state in the light of the chosen typologies of culture

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the cultural values of the welfare state in Sweden by combining the characteristics and principles of the Swedish welfare state type with selected classifications of attitudes towards the welfare state and the idea of welfare culture. The author compares indicated ideas of the Swedish welfare culture with Swedish cultural characteristics presented in two typologies of culture, in which Swedish society is characterized without much reference to the characteristics of the welfare state. The purpose of this article is to show the relationship between characteristics of Swedish welfare state and the values and attitudes of Swedish society. An additional purpose of this article is to draw attention to the possibility of making comparisons between the structure of the welfare state in a country and its culture by using existing typologies of culture. The article ends by stating a clear similarity between the ideas of the Swedish welfare culture and features of Swedish culture in other typologies of culture and high usability of evaluation solutions of welfare state in terms of the welfare culture.

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