Czy można mówić o kryzysie społeczno-moralnym w społeczeństwie polskim w okresie transformacji?

In the article, widely discussed in the scientific literature and press articles problem of social and moral crises in the Polish society during the transformation period is undertaken. In the first part of the article an effort to define the discussed problem was presented. In the second part the author presented statistical data related to five selected social pathological phenomena, namely: corruption, unemployment, crime, poverty and divorces. The article is completed with the summary indicating the following conclusion: in the period of social system transformation one registers increase of pathological social phenomena in the Polish society in the dissonance dimension. It rather suggests crisis situation in the social and moral sphere than the crisis itself because the actual occurrence of these pathological phenomena does not cause the quality changes in social reality we are interested in, and as we know this is a necessary condition to be able to talk about the crises exhaustively.