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The Polymorphic Phenomenon of Work

Author(s): Maria Małgorzata Baranowska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Culture and social structure , Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Summary/Abstract: The basic question is: what is work and what is its sense and place in human life. The concept of work is not precisely defined, its understanding changes depending on what it is contrasted with. Also, these oppositions are not constant, but constantly flow into each other. Similarly, the valuation of work is variable, historical and context-dependent.In the most general terms, it can be said that work is primarily an effort that serves something and is treated as important and necessary. Work is a communal reality, complex and dynamic, a multithreaded creative process in which contradic- tions and tensions emerge and remain. This kind of dialectic is an essential feature of creative processes, it is a mechanism that enables the creation of something new, transcending what is already there. This is also the process of work that enables the development of civilization, culture, or even, as Norwid sees it, the spiritual deve- lopment of humanity.

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