SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE TRANSITION PROCESS

The contents of the paper is aimed at the analysis of socio-economic d imension of the transformation process. The author points out that the changes in ranking the virtues and orientations of the people influen ced by the transformation process are to be taken for a global process of changes in the whole socio-cultural system. She deals with the mea sure of acceptation and interiorization of the socio-economic changes in the people's consciousness and with a new position and roles of soc ial policy played into the newly created social system. In the further part the author deals with theoretical analysis of changes in the hou sehold behaviour strategy determined by the rise of such phenomena as unemployment, wage and social differentiation, the growth of living-co sts and the problem of poverty. Theoretical starting points and conclu sions are supported by the results of economic, statistic and sociolog ical research.