FAMILY – LOCALITY – PLACE. ABOUT PATRIOTISM IN THE LOCAL DIMENSION AMONG THE GENERATION OF 20, 40 AND 60-YEAR-OLDS IN THE PODKARPACIE REGION

<ns3:p>The emotional sense of human identification with a specific area, its landscape, people, symbols and cultural products is an important pedagogical category. Love for the immediate environment is anchored in the basic community – the family which introduces its members to everything that is important, valuable and momentous. Local patriotism is related to building a community of residents around adopted values. The article presents the components of local patriotism, typical for successive generations of Podkarpacie inhabitants, concentrated around family, place and locality. In the light of quantitative research results presented in this article, local patriotism of the respon dents focuses on the triad of values: love, freedom and beauty. In the generation of 40 and 60-year-olds, emotional attachment to the local environment is expressed in the category of small homeland, which is an element of the national community. The generation of 20-year-olds expresses certain ambivalence towards their birthplace, pointing to the importance of the place of living and residence as a locality category.</ns3:p>