Kapitał kulturowy a identyfikacje narodowo-etniczne młodych Ślązaków
Cultural Capital and Ethnic National Identification of Young Silesians

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the diagnosis of the national-ethnic identitiy features among the students of secondaryschools in Silesian province. It compares the significance of two sets of social features (status and interactivity) based on the data from latest survey (3986 pupils questionnaired) for the differentiation of the Silesian-Polish and Silesian identity on background of the Poles’ self-identification. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the meaning of the cultural capital components for defining separate Silesian identity. The question emerges about the interactive (J. Mucha, P. Starosta), social networks (W. Lukowski) or costume (A. A. Zięba) character of such ethnic identifications. Referring to the theory of cultural capital ( P. Bourdieu) and the concept of regional identity (M. S. Szczepański), the main thesis about attenuation, but not decline, of the social status factors' significance for the national-ethnic Silesian self-identificationis substantiated. Apparently, the distinguishing of the Silesian-Polish and Silesian identity is reasonable. The young school generation takes after the status identity partially from their partents and grandparents but modifies it in interactive peer relations. Therefore, we need a new theoretical outlook on the dynamics of the primary etnic habitus formation.

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