https://doi.org/10.31261/GSS_SN.2015.06.08
The aim of the article is to investigate the cultural diversity of rural communities in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship, which are experiencing the influx of new residents coming from cities: suburbanites and members of the new settlers movement. On the basis of the individual and family in-depth interviews with the new and established residents, as well as the leaders of social activity in three villages (two of which are facing suburbanization, and two are destination for the new settlers), four cultural types were distinguished. They are based on the interviewees’ rural or urban origin and their attitudes toward the heritage of the folk culture. Two types are related to the category of immigrants:
1) suburban‑consumer — represented primarily by the middle class residents of suburbia, still maintaining a strong professional and educational links with the metropolises, focused on achieving success in the market economy;
2) alternative — whose representatives are primarily the new settlers, tied with countercultural groups, characterised by the critical attitude toward the modern capitalist order and materialistic way of life, fascinated by the traditional folk art, ecology, communitarianism. The other cultural types are associated with the native residents:
3) traditional — continuing the old peasant way of life, typical for the people attached to traditional farming and Christian values, poorly integrated with the contemporary labour and trade market;
4) modernist‑materialistic — represented by the fraction of the rural population abandoning, or even rejecting the traditional peasant economy and the values associated with it, oriented towards prosperity, material development and upward mobility in the economic hierarchy.
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