The Social Household, Social Binding and Social Bedding as Original and Partly Forgotten Concepts of Polish Sociology: Creative Heritage or Epistemological Cognitive Archaisms? Cover Image

Gospodarstwo, spoidło i podścielisko społeczne jako oryginalne i częściowo zapomniane pojęcia polskiej socjologii. Twórcze dziedzictwo czy epistemologiczne archaizmy poznawcze?
The Social Household, Social Binding and Social Bedding as Original and Partly Forgotten Concepts of Polish Sociology: Creative Heritage or Epistemological Cognitive Archaisms?

Author(s): Marcin Choczyński
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: history of Polish sociology; social household; social binding; social bedding; epistemology

Summary/Abstract: This paper is rooted in the subject of the Polish language of sociology (a variety of academic sociolect), which is constantly evolving and "providing" new concepts and terms, thus striving to adequately describe the existing social reality. It should be emphasized that great progress in this field was made especially by the first scientists who introduced the new social science into the Polish world of science in the second half of the nineteenth and the turn of the twentieth century. The progenitors and pioneers of Polish sociology, in the persons of Józef Supiński, Ludwik Krzywicki and Zygmunt Balicki, actually introduced the expression of the social farm, social strand and social bond in academic jargon. Nowadays they are somewhat forgotten and unused, both in theoretical and empirical terms. The aim of the article is to recall these notions, to emphasize their importance as authentic, derived from 19th-century Polish expressions adapted to the sociological imagination of the time, but also to reflect on their contemporary reception. These issues are presented in the context of discourse analysis, the cognitive categorization process and the determinants of epistemology as a kind of meta-science.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 31 (1)
  • Page Range: 283-302
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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