Organizacja społeczna elitarna a masowa

Abstract

The article deals with analys is of criteria allowing to distinguish between elitary and mass organizations, as well as goals and modes of their functioning and applied methods of management, the object of deliberations are social organizations understood as voluntary associations joined by people in order to cultivate and develop their own avocations and support a definite system of values. Differences between elitary and mass organizations have been discussed on the example of organizations attitude to their environment and system of management: type of organizational structure. In the final part of the article, the author points at dilemmas concerning efficiency of social organizations connected with their development and functioning.