- Józef Chałasiński
Józef Chałasiński (1904-1979) was a Polish sociologist.
Biography
He studied at the
University of Poznań under the famous Polish sociologist,Florian Znaniecki , gaining aPhD in 1927. He joined the faculty of theUniversity of Warsaw in 1935. Since 1945 he became involved with theUniversity of Łódź (from which he received a honorary doctorate). Member of thePolish Academy of Sciences , founding member of thePolish Sociological Association , guest lecturer atUniversity of California (in 1958), he retired in 1974 and would die in n 1979.For his work he received several awards, such as
Polonia Restituta and Cross of Merit.Works
A major figure in the Łodź school of sociology, and an editor of several Polish sociological journals he was seen as the follower of Znaniecki. He studied life and careers of workers and peasants, and compared Polish education, culture and science to American one. He criticized the overly
Marxist approach to science.References
*Biogramy uczonych polskich, Część I: Nauki społeczne, zeszyt 1: A-J, Wrocław 1983
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