Historical consciousness can has two meanings: either a set of images of the past or a feeling of individual's historicity, awareness of being between the past and the future. The article is devoted to the Polish society's historical consciousness in both meanings. The differentiation of the two aspects of historical consciousness allows demonstrating both the fluidity of everyday consciousness in ideological terms and the cultural transformations linked to the industrial and technological development. There are three national traditions that can be discerned within the aspect of remembered past: statehood, liberation struggle and national culture. Traditions are defined through values (e.g. strong state, patriotism, science and culture etc.) as well as historic figures symbolizing these values (e.g. Kazimierz the Great, Kosciuszko, Nicolas Copernicus). The boundaries between these traditions are however permeable, the attempts of drawing clear-cut socio-demographic profiles of the followers of these traditions were not successful (despite some notable differences, e.g. between men and women). This supports the thesis that national tradition in Poland homogenizes. The analysis of the historical consciousness' other aspect - the temporal dimension of the past - brought slightly different results. The research revealed that an attitude of accepting the past can have two different bases, these were coined an escapist attitude (the negative evaluation of the present without idealization of the own group's past) and a historicist attitude (tendency to idealize own group's past). The differentiation of these two attitudes was influenced by socio-demographic factors, especially by world view and age.
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