Socjologiczna analiza roli organizacji pozarządowych w budowaniu społeczeństwa obywatelskiego

The author discusses the problem of genesis, idea and functions of non-governmental organisations in Poland and selected countries in the world. He shows their significance in the process of building the civil society architecture, particularly in the period of the state transformation and market economy. It is essential, according to the author, for the government and local government administration to see the need of a wide partnership co-operation with non-governmental organisations and base this co-operation on an appropriate division of tasks between governmental and local government workers. The representative of non-governmental organisations should see partners in them and not only the source of gaining financial means.