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The Common Good in the Eye of the Sociologist—A Few Ordering Remarks

Author(s): Bartosz Mika
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: Multitude; socialization; ownership; common-pool resources

Summary/Abstract: This text can be defined as an attempt to look at the question of the common good through sociological glasses. The author suggests that many of the issues subsumed un der the term “the common good” have already been elucidated and described in detail on the basis of classical and contemporary sociology. If it is assumed that the common good can be understood triply, as (1) a postulate of the social good, (2) materially, as an object of collective ownership, and (3) as an effect of the individual’s life in society, then it must be admitted that, at least in the third case, reference to the collected achievements of sociology is necessary in order to describe the common good properly.

  • Issue Year: 61/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 49-64
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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