“To America!” Polish Sociologists in the United States after 1956 and the Development of Empirical Sociology in Poland
“To America!” Polish Sociologists in the United States after 1956 and the Development of Empirical Sociology in Poland

Summary/Abstract: America was an attractive destination for European scholars and social scientists—their contacts, observations, experiences, and thoughts often became a subject of interest in itself to many other sociologists. Poles are no exception. Florian Znaniecki and William I. Thomas and their classic Polish Peasant in Europe and America, first published in 1918–20, is symbolic of contacts and influences between Polish and American sociology in the first half of the twentieth century. However, sociologists other than Znaniecki and their transatlantic journeys remain somehow in the shadows to this day. This article presents a more recent and yet less known chapter of Polish–American relations—Polish sociologists visiting American universities in the 1950s and 1960s.

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