Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: In his new book, Tomasz Zarycki (2022) brings the global context of knowledge production to bear on the history of Poland's social sciences.The Polish Elite and Language Sciences is written from the perspective of historical sociology, which means that the past is used to help understand the contemporary state of the social sciences in Poland.Local historical determinants are placed in the broader model of relations between the centre and periphery.Thus, the book provides many new and interesting insights into the production of knowledge in the East European semi-periphery, and it also sheds light on the social sciences in the global core.It should be emphasised that the author's goal was to take part in global theoretical discussions and to make his own contribution to the sociology of science.In my opinion, this goal has been achieved.But there is another valuable effect of his analysis.Namely, it provides an inspiring conceptualisation of the main historical processes that have occurred in Polish society.Special place has been given to the role of elites.Zarycki's analysis starts from the end of the nineteenth century and covers all the main turning points of modern Polish history: the creation of an independent state in 1918 after a long period of subordination to three European empires, the post-war project of a socialist state
Source: Stan Rzeczy
DOI: 10.51196/srz.23.22
Author: Agnieszka Kolasa-Nowak
Institution: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Language: Polish
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4387476287