@article{cbff2dac-26ef-49d8-9283-bd0093cc211d, author = {Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka}, title = {Democratic mentality and dogmatism. Mindset shifts in the Polish society during the process of democratization  }, journal = {Zoon Politikon}, volume = {2017}, number = {8/2017}, year = {2018}, issn = {2082-7806}, pages = {9-32},keywords = {democracy; totalitarianism; language; mentality; dogmatism; white black paradigm}, abstract = {The thesis of the text is, that growing up and surviving in totalitarian society (People’s Republic of Poland - PRL) had a profound effect on the mentality of Poles. Many authors – sociologists, linguists, and psychologists alike – have noted that living in a world created by totalitarian language determines and deforms the perception of reality, along with the categories in which the social world is perceived and described. This is precisely what I will argue in this paper. This Article is made in Open Access, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl}, doi = {10.4467/2543408XZOP.17.001.9260}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zoon-politikon/article/mentalnosc-demokratyczna-a-dogmatyzm-przemiany-postaw-spoleczenstwa-polskiego-w-procesie-demokratyzacji} }