The importance of a sense of subjectivity for social activity in the local government

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of the sense of communication subjectivity of citizens and their actual activity in the local environment. In the article, the author's concept of communication subjectivity to be tested through the questionnaire survey conducted on 500 respondents in 2016 in Silesia district. The aim of the study was to analyze how the sense of communication subjectivity indicate the activity of citizens in the local environment. The central hypothesis of the study was as follows: the sense of subjectivity is associated with activity in the local government space. The article contains an introduction to the topic of the subject. The author characterizes the phenomena of subjectivity at the local level and distinguishes between the sense of general and communicative subjectivity. Then she discusses the results on the meaning of the sense of communication subjectivity for civic activity and draws the conclusions. Empirical findings confirm that communication activity correlates with actual action in the local environment, especially the aspects of communication subjectivity associated with two-way communication. The study showed a low level of the sense of communication subjectivity, which indicates about reasons for the low activity of citizens in the local environment. Moreover, the results reveal that the development of self government communication activities should lead to encouraging active participation in communication processes and building a reasonable belief in them about the importance and the effectiveness of these activities.