Świat wartości żołnierzy zawodowych

The Polish Armed Forces, of the third Republic, put particularly strong influences on changing social conditions quickly. So far hermetic armed forces have become more open to the world in which they are functioning. Values, thinking and behaviour, penetrate the soldiers' society without great difficulty. This leads to transformation in their systems of values and changes the ethos of the whole group of professional soldiers. This situation causes a state of tension between vigorously ensued processes of social change, concerning the army, and the formal goals and tasks given to them by the country. The contemporary discussions on transformations in the armed forces frequently concentrate on structural, economical and political aspects of its functioning. These important fields cannot be devoid of reflection on social aspects. The Army as an institution has many possibilities of moulding values in a professional soldiers - both by promoting individual values and creating behaviour as a result of the organisation of the educational environment for the functional sake, world of Soldiers' values, which are expected and desired, cannot be constructed by imposing them from central structures. They should rather be a product of the consciousness of soldiers.