Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces (Jun 2021)

Specification of social conflicts in democratic society

  • Agnieszka Araucz-Boruc

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.9777
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 200, no. 2
pp. 225 – 235

Abstract

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Man is a social being, therefore, he has a group life that results in close and distant contact between diverse individuals. These contacts concern culturally disparate people holding values, desires, views or habits of variable acceptability. Therefore, we are witnessing that what some find good, others consider strange or wrong. Disputes, controversies and conflicts are characteristic of the democratic system, and pluralism is one of the constitutional foundations of democracy. The existence and clashing of differences are often the source of conflicts in democratic societies. Social conflicts have been, are, and will continue to accompany us every day, because their scale is very wide, from ordinary quarrels, even to wars. We just need to learn to deal with them, primarily through recognition, action and elimination of effects.

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