Book review: Paweł Ruszkowski, Andrzej Przestalski, Paweł Maranowski, Polaryzacja światopoglądowa społeczeństwa polskiego a klasy i warstwy społeczne [Worldview polarization of Polish society and social classes and strata]

The monographic publication of four authors deals with the issue of 'polarization of consciousness': divisions of value systems within Polish society. These divisions are related to the change of the Polish political system in the second decade of the 21st century, consisting in 'replacing liberal mechanisms with centralist mechanisms in managing the state'. However, the premise of the divisions is not the mechanism of exercising power, but the competition of liberal and conservative worldviews. The authors hypothesize that 'the division into supporters and opponents of competing worldviews ... is conditioned by the belonging of individuals to specific social strata and classes'