On November 21, 2018, the VI Lyceum hosted Dr. hab. Jacek Nowak from the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, who gave a lecture entitled “The formation and functioning of the nation”. The lecture was attended by classes 2C, 2E, 2F and 2G implementing the curriculum of knowledge about society at the advanced level. Our guest discussed the issue of the formation of nations, the building of a national community and the factors influencing its functioning. At the end of the meeting, there was a scientific discussion in which the debaters undertook, among others. the question of the identity of nations in the past and today and the problem of instrumental use of national symbols.
