Zmienne losy polskiej socjologii na przykładzie jej czołowego przedstawiciela profesora Józefa Chałasińskiego

• Authors: Ważniewski Włodzimierz

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Mixed Fortunes of Polish sociology at the example of professor Józef Chałasiński

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Józef Chałasiński was one of significant organizers of learning in the Polish People’s Republic. He was considered a continuator of sociological thought of Florian Znaniecki. He organized the Łódź Sociological Center and after the end of the Second World War was a co- organizer of Łódź University. However, it was not organizational achievements but critical knowledge about the system of the command of science was a long-lasting output of the outstanding sociologist. J. Chałasiński worked out new research methods. He introduced the diary and autobiographic methods to the sociological research. He was a promoter of competitions for peasant and workers’ diaries. Based on them he worked out 4-volume work „Young generation of peasants” (1938) in which one presented shaping of social movements in the Polish countryside. He was a creator of the term „social promotion”. He studied the issues of education in communism and socialism systems. He was also interested in the North American culture. In the mid-fifties he openly criticized intervention of the state authorities in the Polish science for which he was then withdrawn from the main course of scientific activity. He became a symbol of fight for Polish sociological science development under lack of freedom in scientific activity conditions

Keywords

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History; Chałasiński; sociology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Siedlcach
• Journal: Historia i Świat
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 179-187

Contributors

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Ważniewski Włodzimierz

• Instytut Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach