Florian Znaniecki

Florian Znaniecki - Memorial plaque at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

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

In the extensive study The Polish Peasant in Europe and America , presented with William I. Thomas from 1918 to 1920 , he dealt with the surprising fact that - colloquially - devout Catholic Polish villagers in Chicago largely adapted after a phase of disorganization Industrial townspeople were. In Cultural Sciences (1952) he examined the methodological foundations of inductive generalization in cultural studies.

Life

Znaniecki studied at the universities of Warsaw (where he was expelled from the Russian administration), in Geneva and at the Sorbonne and received his doctorate in Krakow in 1914. As the head of a Polish emigrant organization, he met WI Thomas on a trip to Europe. In 1919 Thomas brought him to the University of Chicago as a lecturer . From 1920 to 1939 he was a professor at the University of Poznan . In 1936 he returned to Poland, when the war broke out he was on a ship heading home, but had to turn back. Since 1940 he lived again in the USA and became a professor at the University of Chicago. His wife Eileen was briefly imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp.

Fonts (selection)

In English

• (with William I. Thomas): The Polish Peasant in Europe and America , 5 vol., 1918–1920,
• 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 / Posen 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. 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 , 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 , Lemberg (Lwów) / Warsaw 1934.

literature

• Andreas Miller: Znaniecki, Florian. in: W. Bernsdorf / H. Knospe (ed.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. I, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, pp. 514-516

Web links

Wikibooks: Sociological Classics / Znaniecki, Florian  - learning and teaching materials

• Literature by and about Florian Znaniecki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Polish Philosophy Page: Florian Znaniecki
• Biography Florian W. Znaniecki . In: 50 Classics of Sociology , University of Graz .