Rys historyczny problemów mniejszości i teoretyczne zagadnienia ich wyodrębniania

Abstract

The problem of minorities in the social sciences and humanities appears relatively late, only after the Second World War. In common literature I do not find to this day historical or monographic work devoted to minorities, although there are many fragmentary works treating this problem selectively. Then suddenly, when it became clear that the declarations of human rights and civil rights (“French” of 1789) and the common of 1948 failed to notice the diversity of multi-faith society, including multicultural, and society itself as a conglomerate of different styles of life, at the end of various sexual orientations … the minority issue appeared with an unexpected power as a signum temporis of the postmodern era. It appeared, but it still fails to explain how to separate minorities, which are separated in every society differently. The purpose of this article is the initial attempt to answer this question in the historical and contemporary context.