A new "socialist city" in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region : a sociological case study

Abstract

This text represents a kind of post factum summing up of the empirical research conducted in one town of Upper Silesian Industrial Region (USIR) in the years 1985—1990. Sociological research carried out in Tychy was devised to: 1) describe the fundamental mechanisms, rules and principles governing the formation of a new socialist town in the border region, 2) record the social and cultural consequences of the functioning of these mechanisms, rules and principles, 3) record the feelings of the town residents regarding the conditions of life in a “new socialist town” and their level of identification with it, 4) prepare an overall diagnosis of the present condition of the town and to propose steps aimed at its revitalization. [fragm. tekstu]