A Mirror on the High Road: Chapters from the History of Social Research in Poland

ISBN-13: 9783631668856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 244 str.

Antoni Sulek

Opis

This book is a collection of articles on history of social research in Poland. It displays not only the discipline's scholarship but also the society studied, from partition times through the interwar period to the Great Depression, and then from real socialism to the fall of communism and the systemic transformation toward democracy.

Spis treści

Studies on history of the social research in Poland since the end of 19th century - Emigration from Polish lands to America - The Great Depression and unemployment - Empirical social research after Stalinism - Studies on real socialism - Solidarity - The decline of communism and democratic transformation - Social roles of sociologists

O autorze

Antoni Sulek has taught in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw since 1968. His research interests cover sociological methodology, history of social research and Polish-Jewish relations. In the years 1994-1998, he served as president of the Polish Sociological Association.