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The New Dialogue
The New Dialogue

Author(s): Wojciech Misztal
Subject(s): Sociology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: participatory democracy; social dialogue; civic dialogue; civil society

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes a problem of collision between the concept of solidarity which is based on concern for the others interests of others with the liberal concept of implementing particular goals. Institutional solutions adopted in Poland, as well as the theories and tools and methods for their description and interpretation, still have imitative character. The result is a hybrid conglomerate of institutional arrangements that are created along the lines of the existing organizational structure of the EU countries. The structure and the way of functioning of those institutions are most commonly analyzed by using borrowed theoretical solutions present in the European or American sociological literature. Social dialogue and civic dialogue do not work so as to bring the expected results which causes permanent institutional and intellectual crisis. The paper postulates to use the new dialogue for the reflection about intellectual mechanisms that create the world better suited to people's expectations.

  • Issue Year: 5/2014
  • Issue No: 2 (10)
  • Page Range: 81-96
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English