A Polish Scholar in Europe and America: Florian Znaniecki’s Autobiographical Essay
A Polish Scholar in Europe and America: Florian Znaniecki’s Autobiographical Essay

Summary/Abstract: Florian Znaniecki, co-author of the famous book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, was also an emigrant himself. He went to America from Poland and described his experiences in an autobiographical text he wrote for a project on Americanization. This time, however, he did not participate in the study as a researcher but as a research participant. Thus, one of the founders of the biographical method became the subject of a sociological analysis carried out in this manner. The article tries to point out the elements common to both Znaniecki’s autobiographical essay and his scholarly work on the theory and methodology of sociology (or more generally of the cultural sciences).

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