Yuppie oraz squatter. Globalne style życia w lokalnych środowiskach wychowawczych
A yuppie and a squatter. Global lifestyles in local educational environments

Author(s): Maciej Bernasiewicz
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: local educational environments; global lifestyles; yuppie; squatter
Summary/Abstract: The author describes lifestyles that received an internationalist naturethanks to their expansiveness. The processes shaping nowadays life of eachhuman being functioning in the circle of the North Atlantic culture areglobalization, individualization and triumph of a consumerist lifestyle. A lifestyledescribed in this work can be looked at as an opposition to dominatingand alternative culture. The regions axiologically different that areparadigmatically represented by a yuppie lifestyle (success, money), anda squatter (social justice, personal and local autonomy) lie on the oppositesides.The publication constitutes a study of two selected lifestyles, taking intoconsideration contexts a family and professional life in which each of therepresentatives of the squatter movement and yuppie social category engageswith varying intensiveness. A yuppie, as the study shows, lives a professionallife and, hence, has no difficulties with identifying his/herauthorities, masters, and people who are proficient in what they are doing,and who take a lead on professional paths. Paradoxically, functioning ofa yuppie is also orientated on cherishing a family life in spite of little timehe/she has for family. A squatter, on the other hand, lives the reality of globalharm, corporation injustice and opposes the law according to which thepoor are evicted to the street. Squatters’ attention is absorbed by capitalistmechanisms throwing people out on the social margin in the name of theprofit accumulated in the hands of few beneficiaries of neo-liberalism. Theydo not see any authorities in the brutal world of capitalism. Taking littlecare of their professional development, squatters totally marginalize their familylives. Their total life energy is absorbed by social issues.By means of an analysis of polarily different lifestyles, the author illustrateslife pluralism in the postmodern community which is neither homogeneous nor motionless in nihilism after all. On the contrary, modern societyconsists of social groups clearly articulating their exclusive axiology andteleology. Can one, though, treat them as equally worthy? The author, maintainingacademic objectivism, hopes that a reader gets enough knowledgeon the lifestyles in question to be able to answer the very question onhis/her own.

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