OD PARADYGMATU ZALEŻNOŚCI DO NEOLIBERALIZMU
From the dependency paradigm to neoliberalism

An overlooked revolution in the Polish social science field

Author(s): Andrzej Turkowski, Tomasz Zarycki
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: transformation/transition; Poland; university; intelligentsia; elites; Immanuel Wallerstein
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the important but so far little studied phenomenon of the impact that the systemic transformations/transitions in Eastern Europe exerted on the field of social sciences, in the dimension of ideas and scientific theories as well as in the realm of career trajectories of scholars. We examine this phenomenon by analyzing the example of the Polish researchers from various fields of social science who during the communist period formed an informal network of scholars studying underdevelopment in the context of global dependencies. What is shown in particular is the formation of a specific “ecosystem” of researchers and its spectacular disappearance in the wake of global ideological changes and, more locally, of reshuffling within the elites. The presented analysis contributes to the understanding of the functioning of Polish intellectual elites and global transformations of social science.

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