Social dimension of adjustment processes of reproduction

Abstract

The paper examines the social dimension of adjustment processes of reproduction. It is based on the postmodern contestation of the basic terms which clearly convey the legitimacy of public intervention and subsequently set its direction. The phenomenon of society endures in time and space thanks to its self-replication enhanced by the state. Firstly, the state is, in some sense, capable of organising and steering the process of social reproduction. It also provides the institutional framework for the confronting of interests. Secondly, the state is the beneficiary of social reproduction – its existence and development depends on the dynamics of the ‘duration’ of society. Obviously, demography is the key to the future. A social structure determines the success of individuals. That crucial factor directly shapes the basic substrate of social processes. The increasing break of the Polish demographic structure (the decline of reproduction rates and consequent diminution in cohorts of childbearing age) makes up the context of the fundamental problem of the natalistic policy. It also constitutes an axis of the undertaken considerations.