O zasadności badań nad tożsamością dzielnic miast. Poszukiwanie nowych–starych tożsamości
The validity of districts of city research. Searching for the new–old identities

Summary/Abstract: In the article the district of a city is treated as a social space, which operates today within a big city, and which was once beyond its certain extent as a separate and autonomous being: as a village, a suburban area, a separate estate or a small town situated near a bigger city. With reference to the genesis of cities, the text describes the selected elements of urban districts’ identity. Afterwards, with reference to selected urban sociology schools, different ways of understanding and describing the district are presented. Among the many possible perspectives, Authors consider particularly useful the one which may be called the identity approach. The tradition of conducting research in this trend was started in Poznan by Florian Znaniecki, and their characteristic is to draw attention to the autostereotype of residents living in a given place and study of this autostereotype in the context of other identities (eg. national, class, religious). Using the example of Poznan districts such as Śródka, Jeżyce, Św. Marcin or Wilda, the text speaks of the phenomena that form the modern identity of city’s districts.

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