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The presented paper deals with the basic issues, dilemmas and social and cultural contradictions in the Polish transformation process against the background of Central and Eastern Europe, the processes of the establishment and development of new states and nations as well as the new markets. The author views these problems through the light of the emergence of a broad class of subcontractors in a turbulent environment and the new modes of production, which are a result of changes in the structure of human labour introduced by post-Fordism (in its final stage, lean management) and postmodernity. The author also analyzes the social change as a consequence of social relations resulting from exchanging the life chances of the actors for the class-conditioned market opportunities in the existing social and political situation (conjoncture) and at the present stage of transformation at the moment when the emergent markets get shaped and mature. The study makes use of the hermeneutic method, which is finding out the essence of the present phase of transformation through the light of new concepts against the background of the historical-comparative analysis. The present article is not aimed at ordering reality but it is an inspiration for studies and for approaching transformation in accordance with a new conceptual apparatus of social sciences, sociology, management and political economy.

The article considers and analyses the specificity of social communication on the base of considerations about commu­nication of aid organizations (for example Wspólnota Polska, Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Zespół Monitorowania Rasizmu i Ksenofobii, Stowarzyszenie Interwencji Prawnej, Polskie Towarzystwo Prawa Antydyskryminacyjnego, Obywatele RP, Fundacja Otwarty Dialog, Komitet Obrony Demokracji, Akcja Demokracja and other) with the society. The article analyses this problem from a sociological point of view. Using the sociological analysis, the authors prove that communication, as one of the variables in the description and translation of social phenomena, also has another hidden function, thanks to which it becomes a specific term – a «picklock». A detailed description of the research and the selection of methods were included in previous studies, and there were also extensive accounts of the encountered actors regarding the nature and context of the observed situations of communication dilemmas. The research area was stretched between the periphery and social centers according to T. Popławski's theory. The main focus here is on conclusions about communication and bureaucracy. The bu­reaucracy based on the Weberian model seems to be imploding more and more under the weight of extreme rationality, turn­ing into irrationality. The authors sum the article up with practical advice on resolving the issues related to bureaucratism.