Model kultury politycznej Marka Sobolewskiego

MAREK SOBOLEWSKI’S MODEL OF POLITICAL CULTURE AS AN EXAMPLE OF ADAPTATION OF GABRIEL ALMOND’S THEORETICAL CONCEPT TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE SOCIALIST SOCIETY The article presents Marek Sobolewski’s attempt to adapt Gabriel A. Almond’s concept of political culture to the conditions of socialist regime and society. It focuses on the theoretical methods of accommodating the capitalist theoretical concept to the socio-political conditions of Poland in the 1970s. It emphasises the mechanisms and tools of constructing theoretical models used by Sobolewski, the strategy of moving away from speculation to the use of analogy, and highlights the usefulness of research intuition. It also displays Sobolewski’s endeavour to reflect within the theoretical concept the guiding principles of the socio-political order of the time. The article focuses on the theoretical rules of constructing and adapting models in the social sciences. Its purpose is not to assess the adequacy, usefulness or accuracy of the concept created, but to showcase the role of the scientific and political conditions of its creation and its theoretical and methodological dimensions.