Stanisław Ossowski

Stanisław Ossowski (1897 – 1963) was one of Poland's most important sociologists. He held professorships at Łódź University (1945–1947) and Warsaw University (1947–1963). Ossowski first contributed to logic and aesthetics before moving on to sociology. He was a proponent of humanistic sociology and antinaturalism, differentiating between the natural sciences and the social sciences. He has had a strong influence on Polish sociologists, including Zygmunt Bauman and Jerzy Szacki. In 1949 Ossowski was a founding member, and from 1959 to 1962 vice-president, of the International Sociological Association. In 1956 he was a founding member of the reactivated Polish Sociological Association and became its first president (1957-63).

Ossowski was married to Maria Ossowska, a fellow sociologist and social philosopher.

Maria Ossowska and Stanisław Ossowski are considered to be among the founders of the field of "science of science" due to their authorship of a seminal 1935 paper entitled "The Science of Science." [Originally published in Polish as "Nauka o nauce" in the Polish journal "Nauka Polska" (Polish Science), vol. XX, no. 3, 1935; reprinted in English in Bohdan Walentynowicz, ed., "Polish Contributions to the Science of Science", 1982, pp. 82-95.]

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References

*Bohdan Walentynowicz, ed., "Polish Contributions to the Science of Science", Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982.

External links

* [http://jcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/3/283 The Sociological Ideas of Stanislaw Ossowski] , "Journal of Classical Sociology", vol. 6, no. 3, 2006, pp. 283-309 (abstract)
* [http://www.questia.com/library/book/class-structure-in-the-social-consciousness-by-stanislaw-ossowski-sheila-patterson.jsp Class Structure in the Social Consciousness] on Questia (New York, Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)