A Mirror on the High Road
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A Mirror on the High Road

Chapters from the History of Social Research in Poland

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A Mirror on the High Road

Chapters from the History of Social Research in Poland

About this book

The book is a collection of articles and essays devoted to important studies conducted by Polish sociologists in the course of more than a hundred years. It displays not only the discipline's scholarship but also the society studied, with its questions and problems, from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, 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. In this sense, sociological research is Stendhal's "mirror carried along a high road", where Polish society parades. The findings have been important sources for the social history of Poland.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Tracing de Tocqueville: Ludwik Krzywicki’s1893 Journey to “Modern” America
  6. 2 Le Suicide in Poland: Analysis of theSpread and Reception of a Sociological Classic
  7. 3 The Marienthal 1931/1932 Study and Contemporary Studies on Unemployment in Poland
  8. 4 “To America!” Polish Sociologists inthe United States after 1956 and theDevelopment of Empirical Sociology in Poland
  9. 5 Stefan Nowak’s “Students of Warsaw” and Other Studies on Social Attitudes by Members of Stanisław Ossowski’s Circle
  10. 6 The Rise and Decline of Survey Sociology in Poland
  11. 7 Serving Society or the Authorities?
  12. 8 Systemic Transformation and the Reliability of Survey Research: Evidence from Poland
  13. 9 On the Unpredictability of Revolutions:Why did Polish Sociology Fail to ForecastSolidarity?
  14. 10 A Sociology Engaged on Behalf of Polish Society
  15. References
  16. List of Figures and Tables
  17. Index