MIĘDZY AUTONOMIĄ A ZAANGAŻOWANIEM
Between autonomy and commitment

A synthetic view of the dynamic and structure of the Polish sociological field

Author(s): Tomasz Warczok
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: sociology; sociological field; field of power; reproduction; symbolic struggle
Summary/Abstract: The chapter presents a synthetic history of the emergence of the Polish universe of sociology. The analysis – based on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory – is divided into several key historical periods, with particular emphasis on the moment of the structuring of the field itself (in the interwar period), the post-war restructuring and reconfiguration of the 1960s and 1970s, up to the fundamental transformation taking place after 1989. In each of these periods, crucial fronts of symbolic struggle, processes of continuity and rupture were reconstructed. However, all these structuralizations were presented in the often overlooked context of the reproduction and reconfiguration of the field of power in Poland, which has been a kind of meta-space, organizing the most important social fields, from politics, through religion, to the academic and artistic worlds.

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