Czy istnieje socjologia polska?
Does it Make Sense to Speak of Polish Sociology?

Summary/Abstract: Sociology is a hybrid discipline: partly science and partly art. As long as it is science, it does not have local but only universal standards of empirical research and theory building. Three social processes: globalization, internationalization, and democratization lead also to the uniformization of the agenda of problems, institutional forms of inquiry, and freedoms of publication. Thus national sociology is any good only if it observes these universal standards and enters the global circulation of ideas. But then it is no longer national in any reasonable sense. On the other hand the national roots of sociologists, their biographic experiences are important for shaping their research interests and problem focus at the heuristic stage. In this respect sociology resembles art. Thus: there is no national sociology, but at most sociology heuristically inspired by local roots of sociologists.

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