Społeczne szacowanie wytworu twórczego

Abstract

This article is concerned with the matter of social evaluation of the creative product. The author focuses his attention on the attempt empiric answer on two questions: 1. How originality and usefulness - the basic criteria of the creative product - are represented in every day speech? 2. Whether one of these criteria - originality or usefulness - is more important in the social system of evaluation of such a product? The achieved results, according to the author, may be the supplement of research on so called tacit creative theories.