Florian Znaniecki

Florian Znaniecki ( born January 15, 1882 in Świetniki, † March 23, 1958 in Urbana ( Illinois)) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher and also conducted research in the United States. He was 44th president of the American Sociological Association.

In the William I. Thomas 1918-1920 submitted extensive study The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, he dealt especially with the then astounding appearing fact how - colloquially - from devout Catholic Polish villagers in Chicago after a period of disorganization and highly customized industry townspeople were. In Cultural Sciences ( 1952), he examined the methodological foundations of inductive generalization in the cultural sciences.

Life

Znaniecki studied at the Universities of Warsaw ( where he was expelled by the Russian government), in Geneva and the Sorbonne and received his doctorate in 1914 in Krakow. As head of a Polish emigre organization he met WI Thomas on a trip to Europe. Thomas caught up with him in 1919 as a Lecturer at the University of Chicago. 1920 to 1939 he was professor at the University of Poznan. In 1936 he went back to Poland, when war broke out he was on a ship headed for home, but had to turn back. Since 1940 he again lived in the United States and became a professor at the University of Chicago. His wife Eileen was arrested a short time in the concentration camp Dachau.

Writings (selection )

In English

  • ( with William I. Thomas ): The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, 5 vols, 19l8 - 1920
  • The Principle of Relativity and Philosophical Absolutism. in: The Philosophical Review, Vol 24, H. 2 ( March 1915), pp. 150-164.
  • Cultural Reality, Chicago 1919
  • The Laws of Social Psychology, Warsaw / Krakow / Poznan 1926
  • The Method of Sociology, New York 1934
  • Social Actions, New York 1936
  • The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, New York 1940
  • Cultural Sciences. Their Origin Development, Urbana 1952
  • Modern Nationalities, Urbana 1952
  • Social Relations and Social Roles, San Francisco 1965
  • On Humanistic Sociology, ed. R. v. Bierstedt, Chicago / London 1969
  • "The Subject Matter and Tasks of the Science of Knowledge " ( translated by Christopher Kasparek ), in: Polish Contributions to the Science of Science, v. ed. Bohdan Walentynowicz, Dordrecht / D. Reidel, 1982, pp. 1-81.
  • The Social Role of the University Student, Poznan 1994.

In Polish

  • Zagadnienie wartości w filozofii, Warsaw 1910,
  • Humanizm i poznanie, Warsaw 1912,
  • Upadek cywilizacji zachodniej. Szkic z Pogranicza filozofii kultury i socjologii, Poznan 1921
  • Wstęp do socjologii, Poznan 1922
  • Socjologia wychowania, Vol I, Warsaw 1928, Vol II, Warsaw 1930,
  • Miasto w świadomości jego obywateli, Poznan 1932
  • Ludzie teraźniejsi a cywilizacja przyszłości, Lviv ( Lwów ) ​​/ Warsaw 1934.
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