Short presentation of results of the qualitative research on social relations of single people in Poland prepared for the conference "Men and women in the postfamilial world" (http://www.kobietyimezczyzni.uni.lodz.pl).
The research focused on three main issues:
1. Elements of social environment of single people in Poland, with special stress on groups of single people,
2. Strength and durability of each type of social bonds of single people,
3. Role of the Internet in starting and managing social relations by single people.
"Single people" in the research is understood as a subcategory of all the people living without partners - accordingly to the language tradition in Polish.
The working definition of "single person" used in choosing respondents for the research has been:
unmarried people who have no regular life partners
(i.e. not living with partners and declaring not being in a stable relationship for at least one year), childless or not raising their child, heterosexual (just for the coherence of the research), living in Polish cities (over 250 th of habitants), with college education and aged 25-45.