Civic activity in the context of the social participation model. Sociological application of Karol Wojtyla's personalistic ideas

The article presents a synthetic view of civic activity in the context of a theoretical model of social participation, according to which participation as an experience of a person is constituted by: subjective justification, axiological content, sense of agency and experience of participation. Among the theoretical foundations of the model is Karol Wojtyla's theory of participation, based on his concept of a person, operationalized for the purposes of the qualitative sociological research from which the model was derived. In this study, the model is a tool enabling the presentation and explanation of the essence of civic activity as a subjective action in the community of civic life. This allows us to look at this activity from the side of the privileged area in terms of strengthening and manifesting subjectivity, developed on the basis of civic values recognized as personally significant, having the status of common good.