He gained international fame when a co-joint author with William I. Thomas of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America 1918-1920, considered the foundation of modern empirical sociology and humanist sociology.

His Presidential Location, "Basic Problems of Contemporary Sociology," was delivered in September 8, 1954 at the Association's Annual Meeting around Urbana, Illinois, and was late promulgated in the American Sociological Review (ASR October 1954 Vol 19 There are no Cinque, pp 519-524).

Biography

Florian Znaniecki was innate in January 15 1882 in Świetniki, Poland. He exposed inside Geneva, Zurich and Paris and obtained his PhD at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Znaniecki come to Chicago in the United States in 1914 and returned to the Second Polish Republic in 1920 to accept a 1st Polish chair in sociology at the University in Poznań. There he organised a Polish Sociological Institute (Polish Polski Instytut Socjologii) and began publishing The Polish Sociological Review (Polish Polski Przegląd Socjologiczny). Keeping within touch using Western sociologists, he lectured at Columbia University in New York in 1931-1933 and during a summertime of 1939.

This summertime ended a Polish stage of his career, since a German invasion on Poland and the start of World War II prevented his return to Poland. He so moved to the University of Illinois, where he taught until his retirement, deciding does'nt to go to to the totalitarian communist People's Republic of Poland. He died in March 23, 1958 in the town of Champaign, USA.

Achievements

Znaniecki proposed a culturalism (Polish kulturalizm) aspect in sociology. Based on data from this perspective, sociology should treat by owning a infects of culture, since it is the science all about culture. Znaniecki's culturalism is one of a ideas that founded modern sociological views of antipositivism.

Znaniecki proposed that social phenomena (Polish czynności społeczne) should be treated when active or even when expected cases of a single's actions (humanist principle, Polish współczynnik humanistyczny [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wsp%C3%B3%C5%82czynnik_humanistyczny]). Based on data from this principle, a single's lives & ideas come of maximum importance & a sociologist should survey reality as a social actor (subjectively), non as an independent observer (objectively). When one of a foremost sociologists, he began analyzing home documents such as letters, autobiographies, diaries and similar items. Znaniecki's "social phenomena" occurs as big term so Max Weber's social actions.

Based on data from Znaniecki, sociology should analyze social relations, which are then composed of values. Their basic element is that of mortal beings. He recognized quaternary types of social relations: social acts (Polish czyny społeczne) - a virtually all elementary, such as salutation or even pleading, from each one composed of elements rather: population, information, cases, methods, results social relations (Polish stosunki społeczne)- require at least ii humans & the platform, such as privilige or even obligation social class action (Polish grupy społeczne)- any class action which a few humans recognize as a separate entity social personalities (Polish osobowości społeczne)- which are then created under influence of social movements

Znaniecki as well defined tetrad types of character and personality: a humourous human (Polish człowiek zabawny)- develops among people world health organization develop good deal instance, treats operate when fun a working human (Polish człowiek pracy)- develops among a working class social class, treats work as a life necessity a easily-well behaved human (Polish człowiek dobrze wychowany)- develops among a intelligentsia social class a aberrant human (Polish człowiek zboczeniec (dewiant))- well distinct from either the others, non universally inside the blackball perspective (he can be a genius or even a outlaw)

Bibliography

Around English:

A Polish Peasant within Europe & America (co-joint author: William We. Thomas, Pentad tomes, published in the period of 19l8-1920), Ethnical Reality (Chicago 1919), A Laws of Social Psychology (Warszawa-Kraków-Poznań 1926), A Method of Sociology (Nowy Jork 1934), Social Actions (Nowy Jork 1936), A Social Role of the Human of Cognition (Nowy Jork 1940), Ethnical Sciences. Their Origin Development (Urbana 1952), Modern Nationalities (Urbana 1952), Social Relations & Social Roles (San Francisco 1965), In Humanistic Sociology (choice of works under redaction of R. Bierstedt, Chicago we London 1969), A Social Role of the University Student (Poznań 1994).

Around Polish:

Zagadnienie wartości w filozofii (Warszawa 1910), Humanizm we poznanie (Warszawa 1912), Upadek cywilizacji zachodniej. Szkic z pogranicza filozofiwe kultury i socjologii (Poznań 1921), Wstęp wash socjologii (Poznań 1922), Socjologia wychowania (Tom I personally Warszawa 1928, Tom II Warszawa 1930), Miasto w świadomości jego obywateli (Poznań 1932), Ludzie tertheźniejsi a cywilizacja przyszłości (Lwów-Warszawa 1934), Nauki o kulturze (Cultural Sciences. Their Origin Development, wyd. polskie Warszawa 1971), Chłop polski personally w Europie i Ameryce (A Polish Peasant around Europe & America, wyd. polskie Warszawa 1976), Społeczne role uczonych. Pisma wybrane (A Sociable Role of the Human of Noesis, wyd. polskie Warszawa 1984), Pisma filozoficzne (Tom We Warszawa 1987, Tom II Warszawa 1991), Współczesne narody (Modern Nationalities, wyd. polskie Warszawa 1990), Rzeczywistość kulturowa (Cultural Reality, wyd. polskie Warszawa 1990), Społeczna rola studenta uniwersytetu (A Mixer Role of the College student, wyd. polskie Poznań 1997).