Religiousness and National Stereotypes.
Sociological Analysis of Polish
Youth Research with Paradigm of
Phenomenological Sociology of
Knowledge
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Instytut Socjologii
Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Społecznych
Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Publication date: 2016-09-30
JoMS 2016;30(3):11-32
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In the present article author describes a relationship between national stereotypes
and religiousness, secularism and national identity. Religiousness is a central
dimension of the social construction of reality and takes sufficient attention of
phenomenologists and sociologists of knowledge, such as Peter L. Berger and Thomas
Luckmann. The author, starting from the phenomenological theory built on the
paradigm of the sociology of knowledge, analyses the results of a survey conducted
among Polish students and high school students between 2007 and 2013. Observing
the statements of Polisch youth, author searches correlations between variables such
as religiousness, irreligiousness, national identity and the opinions of respondents
on the Germans. Created indexes of religiousness and irreligiousness are compared
with the extremely unfavorable statements or positive statements about the Germans.
Then those indexes are correlated with an index of national identity of respondents,
what verifies the hypotheses.