The Poles in the Vilnius District as Lithuanian Citizens in the Context of Research on Post – Transformational Reality

Abstract

The author elaborates the idea of social capital that becomes helpful while making attempt to determine the Polish minority living in Lithuania, as a potential of this country. This article presents research on the citizenship, and the conditions enabling or disabling the process of its emergence among the Polish minority in Lithuania. The background of the undertaken issue was the process of transformation in the context of the following: examining changes within the assessment of the living conditions and quality of life, attitudes towards the occurring changes, but predominantly – shaping citizenship among contemporarily biggest Lithuanian national minority.