Refleksje klasyków socjologii nad czeskim i polskim społeczeństwem lat trzydziestych XX wieku (na podstawie analizy zawartości (...))
Reflexions of Classics on the Czech and the Polish societies of the1930s(on the basis of an analysis of the content of „Przegląd Socjologiczny” (...))

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a result of the joint realization, by Silesian University in Opava and PIN– Silesian Institute in Opole, of the project under the title Česká a polská společnost 1918–1938. Sociologické diskuse a polemiky, within the programme called Czech-Polish Forum 2009. As the starting point, the authors make a presentation of contemporary reflexions on the role of the classics in sociology and – on a broader scale – in social sciences, particularly bringing closer the considerations and conceptions by N. Smelser, S. Warner, j. Alexander and p. Baehr. The second part of the paper contains a discussion of the condition of the polish and the Czech sociology against the background of the contemporary sociopolitical situation in central and Eastern Europe. Apart from that, it includes selected facts from the history of development of this branch of science in both countries. In the next part, the method which the authors applied in order to identify the content of „Przegląd Socjologiczny” (the Sociological Review) and „Sociologická revue” (the Sociological Review) of the years 1918–1938 was presented. The key part of the paper contains selected results of the conducted studies, including a discussion of the main areas of interest on the part of sociologists writing for the periodicals being analyzed.

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