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Rocznik Lubuski
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2011
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vol. 37
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issue 1
13-28
EN
The paper is an attempt to assess the prospects of the history of sociology in Poland. Although there seems to be a substantial interest in the history of the discipline among Polish scholars, most of activities labeled as "history of sociology" have in fact nothing to do with history except for discerning and describing what happened in the past. There are probably three major sources of interest in the past of the discipline: classical socio-logy, foundation myths and celebrative memories of scholars and academic institutions. Although they stimulate some general interest in history, they do not inspire the con-cern for historical research in any strict sense, which is quite limited. Moreover, only the minority of scholars dealing with the history of sociology are professional or at least semi-professional historians. Consequently, the prospects of any form of professionalization or institutionalization of the history of sociology seem to be marginal.
PL
Temat eseju stanowi praca „Sources of Social Power” Michaela Manna. Była ona pierwotnie pomyślana jako ambitna próba stworzenia analitycznej, historycznej socjologii społecznej władzy, a dwa otwierające tomy dzieła zdawały się w pewnym stopniu stanowić realizację tego zamierzenia. Wraz z publikacją trzeciego i czwartego tomu, w latach 2012 i 2013, zyskało ono jednak charakter ogólnej, socjologicznej historii władzy, bez popadania w przesadny eklektyzm, ale też niebazującej na jakiejś spójnej teorii, ani też niespecjalnie nowatorskiej w kontekście neoweberowskiej socjologii historycznej. Artykuł odnosi się także do polskiej, marginalnej recepcji dzieła Manna. Jak się wydaje, stanowi ona tyleż efekt braku zainteresowania polskich uczonych socjologią historyczną, ile skutek braku tradycji i niewielkiego zainteresowania strukturalną analizą interesów społecznych.
EN
The essay deals with Michael Mann’s „Sources of Social Power”. His work was conceived as an ambitious attempt to write an analytical, general historical sociology of social power, and the two opening volumes seemed to fulfill the promise, at least to some extent. With the two final volumes published in 2012 and 2013 respectively, the work turned out to be a general sociological history of power, which is not overly eclectic, but neither theory-driven, nor really innovative in the context of the neo-Weberian historical sociology. The paper also touches upon Polish, rather marginal reception of the Mann’s work, which seems to result from a general lack of concern for the historical sociology itself, as well as an outcome of the absence of tradition and limited interest in the structural interests analysis.
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The paper deals with social memory research done by Polish and Czech sociologists. In Poland it started in the 1960s when an outline of a historical consciousness study was sketched byNinaAssorodobraj- Kula. Although her original concept was soon left out, a series of surveys was conducted. Recently memory has become a popular research field and numerous studies have been employing various research methods. In Czechoslovakia opinion polls on historical consciousness were conducted as early as in the 1940s, and recently a study has started in the Czech Republic that resembles and was probably influenced by earlier Polish survey research. In my paper I try to map out the research done in the two countries in order to identify typical features of the local studies. It seems that in spite of a large quantity of studies published, the character of most of Polish and Czech works on memory were purely descriptive, and any sociologically relevant problems started to be posed only recently. Therefore it may be suggested that although a certain common Polish and Czech tradition of memory research exists, it cannot be called sociological in any strict sense.
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