Uczestnictwo i poczucie uczestnictwa. Analiza pojęć

Abstract

The political science convention of using “participation” to describe only active involvement in deciding public matters and exerting influence by citizens, employees or residents is too narrow. An adequate understanding of “participation” should be based on objective belonging to the social community. Passivity can also be a peculiar form of participation. The sense of participation has many faces. This can be – paradoxically – the feeling of exclusion, of non-participation or alienation, or, on the contrary, the identification, satisfaction, motivation for activity, shared responsibility. Finally, an individual’s sense of participation may combine both of these components.