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The Multifarious and Changing Functions of the Polish Sociological Association

Antoni Suek

University of Warsaw suleka{at}is.uw.edu.pl

Nina Krako

The National Library, Warsaw

The article analyses the history of the Polish Sociological Association against a background of changes in Polish sociology and in Polish society. Since the date of its origin (1957) the Association has performed three basic functions: (1) supporting the development of the discipline of sociology, (2) integrating the community of sociologists and disseminating its opinions and (3) advancing the sociological profession. The significance of these functions, as well as the forms of activities subordinate to them, have varied throughout the years, and the article identifies these changes. The article focuses especially on the role of the Association in the rebuilding of sociology after the collapse of Stalinism, on the Association's participation in the intellectual critique of real socialism in the 1980s, and on the trend to professionalization observed since 1989 in democratic Poland.

Key Words: Polish Sociological Association • Polish sociology • sociological community

International Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 213-231 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0268580902017002005


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