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The purpose of the paper is to show the changes taking place in the burial culture in Poland and to explain their conditions. Although the burial culture can still be considered in the light of tradition, it is currently undergoing significant and visible changes. These are due to a number of reasons, including the professionalization and commercialization of funeral services, as well as the marketisation of the funeral industry and the adoption of Western cultural models. The change in traditional funeral pattern...

The objective of the article is to compare two sociological concepts of social reality. Both of them refer to modernity and itsВ’ characteristic phenomena, yet they define this reality differently. On the one hand, Anthony Giddens treats the modern times as the decadent (advanced) era of modernity, the so-called late modernity. On the other hand, Zygmunt Bauman notices that postmodernity (liquid modernity) contains certain features of modernity, which not so much constitute a new-quality epoch, but unmask its malf...

The article deals with social and legal problems faced by persons with Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS) in fulfilling social roles consistent with the perceived gender. It seems that the social functioning of these persons is extremely difficult, because disapproval of the somatic/phenotype sex hinders their self-fulfilment. Legal (formal) conditions of their social existence depend on medical procedures, which in turn are related with many diagnostic problems. In Poland, there is no specific diagn...

The paper examines the significance of an individual identity in the context of the postmodern era. The analysis touches upon the subject of self-identity, which is treated as a processual, dynamic and contextual phenomenon. According to contemporary deliberations, it is risky to state that an identity is something that one can possess. It is better to speak of a continuous process of identifications that allows individuals to define themselves or others. Although an individual identity is seen as the result (“p...

The paper focuses on some medical and sociological problems of Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS), the so-called transsexualism. It reflects on an in-depth reading of publications exploring the question of transsexualism, as well as the experiences resulting from medical care of such individuals. In short, the analysis bases on both medical experience in diagnostics and treatment of people with this syndrome, as well as several publications in the field of social sciences. The aim of the paper is an ...