Sztompka Piotr

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In sociology we witness a turn from abstract macro-structural problems toward analysis of everyday life.This thematic turn is joined by new interest in qualitative methods: observation, analysis of documents, content analysis, in-depth interviews. The last but not least is the application of techniques of visual registration, running under the label of visual sociology. The last World Congress of Sociology of the ISA at Durban in 2006 had a theme of "The quality of social existence in the globalizing world". The forthcoming congress of IIS at Budapest in 2008 will have similar focus.

L'auteur par lui-même

Born in Warsaw, March 2, 1944. Studied sociology and law at the Jagiellonian University at Krakow where he received doctoral degree in 1970 and the title of the professor in 1980. Post-doctoral studies at Berkeley and Harvard. His master was Robert K.Merton, about whom he published an intellectual biography in 1986 and a collection of his work in 1996. Permanently attached to the Jagiellonian University at Krakow, he served numerous times as a visiting professor at major universities at four continents, mostly in the US: Columbia New York, UCLA, Ann Arbor Michigan, Stanford. His work focuses on sociological theory with particual emphasis on social change and intangible factors of social life: social bonds of trust, social moods, cultural traumas. He also wrote about post-communist society.

Parcours

Doctoral degree 1970
Habilitation (tenure) 1974
Professorship 1980 (all at the Jagiellonian University at Krakow, Poland)
Post-doctoral Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard and Berkeley 1972-73
Visiting Professor at Columbia University every summer from 1974-79
Fellow of American Council of Learned Societies, University of Michigan 1984
Visiting Professor at UCLA every summer from 1985-1995
Visiting Professor at the University of Hobart at Tasmania
Fellow of the Institutes of Advanced Study: SCASSS Uppsala, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Stanford Center for Adv. Studies in the Beh. Sciences, NIAS at Wassenaar, Collegium Budapest (between 1995 and 2005)
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe at Bruges, three times
Presently: full professor at the Jagiellonian University and lecturer at Joseph Tischner's European University
at Krakow Poland. In 2007 visiting prof. at Sodertorns Hogskola at Stockholm.

Elected a member of Academia Europaea (London), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Mass.), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Polish Academy of Arts (PAU). Honorary doctor of Russian State University of the Social Sciences at Moscow, and honorary faculty member of the Universidad de Museo Social Argentina, at Buenos Aires.
In 1995 he received "The New Europe Prize", in 2005 "Pitirim Sorokin Prize" and in 2006 the highest scientific award in Poland known as the Polish Nobel. He also received the highest honor of his own university, Medal Merentibus.

Thèmes de recherche

• Methodology and philosophy of the social sciences.
• History of sociological theory
• Theories of social change and his own "theory of social becoming"
• Cultural bonds in social communities, and particularly trust
• Sociology of everyday life and visual sociology

Bibliographie

• Ouvrages
  • Zaufanie: fundament spoleczenstwa, Znak Publishers, Krakow, 2007
  • Socjologia wizualna: fotografia jako metoda badawcza, PWN Publishers, Warsaw, 2005
  • Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (coauthored), California University Press, Berkeley, 2004
  • Socjologia: Analiza spoleczenstwa, Znak Publishers, Krakow, 2003
  • Trust: A Sociological Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1999
  • The Sociology of Social Change, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993
  • Society in Action: The Theory of Social Becoming, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1991
  • Robert Merton: An Intellectual Profile, Macmillan Educational, London, St.Martins Press N.Y., 1986
  • Sociological Dilemmas, Academic Press, New York, 1979
  • System and Function, Academic Press, New York, 1974

Les ouvrages PUF épuisés ne sont pas répertoriés dans cette bibliographie.

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