25 YEARS AFTER THE COMMUNISM IN EUROPE: PHENOMENA, PROBLEMS AND TEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS: The individualization process – constructive or destructive for communal ties? Deliberations on Norbert Elias’s ideas

In this article I consider whether the process of individualization inescapably disturbscommunal ties. This is an especially important question when we consider social changesin Central Europe 25 years after the political transformation My deliberation followsthe main ideas of Norbert Elias, presented in The society of individuals. He argued thatthe development of human communities is heading towards integration on human-widelevel community. The question is, how do communal ties change during this process inCentral Europe.