Wiedza o własnej miejscowości i zaangażowanie w sprawy lokalne oraz ich determinanty na przykładzie społeczności wiejskiej
Knowledge of one’s own place of living and involvement in local matters with their determinants on the example of a rural community

Summary/Abstract: Changes currently taking place in rural areas in Poland are in line with the concept of “smart villages”, which emphasizes the importance of knowledge and innovative activities for the functioning of contemporary rural local communities and the development of rural areas. Referring to the issue of the local community, the article presents the image of the inhabitants of the village of Czarny Las, paying attention to the specificity of this community. In the empirical dimension, the main goal of the authors is to verify the thesis about the dependence between knowledge about one’s own town place of living and involvement in local matters on the example of a specific rural community, as well as to determine the factors affecting both dimensions. For this purpose, indicators concerning the individual knowledge and commitment of the inhabitants of the village of Czarny Las in the commune of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, were created and used. Age, sex, education, time of residence in the examined town and formal registration status were assumed as predictors of both knowledge about one’s own village and involvement in its current affairs. In order to determine the statistical significance of the predictors of the inhabitants’ knowledge about the village and their involvement in it, the multiple regression analysis was used.

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