POLAND
The Warsaw University Institute of Sociology is a leading sociological institution in Poland. As an academic unit it has been incorporated in the Warsaw University Department of Philosophy and Sociology. Its primary goals are instruction for students and sociological research.
Curriculum of the Institute of Sociology hinges upon a canon of the academic sociological knowledge. The graduates of the Institute of Sociology have proved to be well prepared and qualified to effectively face the challenges of the turn of the century. They take on positions in public administration, trade unions, employers' guilds, political and cultural institutions, marketing agencies, opinion polling institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and other.
Besides its dominant regular daytime program the Institute offers a for-fee evening program. Also a four-year Ph.D. Program is offered to M.A. graduates. The Warsaw University Institute of Sociology confers Ph.D. degree in the areas of sociology and philosophy while the Department of Philosophy and Sociology grafts tenures to the tenure-track faculty in the areas of philosophy, sociology
Organizational structure of the institute of sociology
The Warsaw University Institute of Sociology consists of the following twelve chairs, teams, and services that carry out the bulk of teaching and research programs:
1. Chair of History of Sociological Thought
2. Chair of Methodology of Sociological Research
3. Chair of Social Problems and Social Planning
4. Chair of Sociology of Culture
5. Chair of General Sociology
6. Chair of Sociology of Education
7. Chair of Political Sociology
8. Chair of Sociology of Work and Organization
9. Chair of Rural and Urban Sociology
10. Chair of Social Statistics, Demography, and Mathematical Sociology
11. Chair of Anthropology
12. Chair of Social Psychology
1. Chair Of Sociological Thought
18 Karowa Str., Room 302, phone: +48 22 55 20 712
Team
Head: Pawel Spiewak, Associate Professor, Ph.D., pspiewak@uw.edu.pl
Andrzej Waskiewicz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Krzysztof Tyszka, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Marta Bucholc, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Pawel Marczewski, M.A.
Karolina Wigura-Kuisz, M.A.
Grzegorz Brzozowski, M.A.
Joanna Kusiak, M.A.
Research
The Chair's research projects expand into various areas. Emphasis, however, is put on the history of Polish sociology, history of modern social and political thought (sociological included), metasociology, social and cultural anthropology, and public opinion. Theoretical and historical studies dominate with some having an empirical component (e.g. a study on national identity in contemporary Poland).
2. Chair of Methodology of Sociological Research
18 Karowa Str., Room 103, phone: +48 22 55 20 707 and 708
Team
Head: Antoni Sulek, Associate Professor, Ph.D., suleka@is.uw.edu.pl
Miroslawa Grabowska, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Krzysztof Kosela, prof. UW, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Tadeusz Szawiel, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Agnieszka Jasiewicz-Betkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Michal Luczewski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Ewelina Skwarczynska, M.A.
Monika Zychlinska, M.A.
Anna Broda, M.A.
Maria Dmochowska , M.A.
Michal Miszkowski, M.A.
Anna Kordasiewicz, M.A.
Sylwia Urbanska, M.A.
Anna Pertoff, M.A.
Mariusz Grzeda, M.A.
Magdalena Fac, M.A.
Magdalena Smak – Wojcicka, M.A.
Research
Methodological analyses of a variety of research methods and sociological data (surveys, qualitative research, experiments, market and public opinion polls, official data, personal documents, etc.). Various sociological and socio-philosophical theoretical traditions (positivism, symbolic interactionism, sociology of knowledge, hermeneutics) are used to support analyses.
Selected social processes in today's Poland, such as changes in religious attitudes, transformation of the relationship between church and state; transformations in local communities, modes of political thinking, and determinants of political involvement; voting behavior and party system.
3. Chair of Social Problems and Social Planning
18 Karowa Str., Room 305A, phone: +48 22 55 20 710
Team
Head: Kazimierz Frieske, Associate Professor, Ph.D., kajtek@is.uw.edu.pl
Pawel Polawski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Dariusz Zalewski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Anna Kiersztyn, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Jan Dziezgowski, M.A.
Cezary Ciemniewski, M.A.
Karol Oslowski, M.A.
Research
Focus on how social problems and social deviation come about, how they are defined and institutionalized with regard to the dynamics of social order and its institutions. Processes of social marginalization and their structural causation.
Poverty and income inequalities, social welfare and the welfare state.
Social control and its function for the processes of creation of social problems. Social control as one of factors setting into motion the processes of social marginalization.
Public administration and its part in solving social problems: social policy, public policy and policy analysis. On purpose interference in social life - results and their evaluation with emphasis on evaluative research procedures.
4. Chair of Sociology of Culture
18 Karowa Str., Room 204, phone: +48 22 55 20 720
Team
Head: Elzbieta Halas, Associate Professor, Ph.D., ehalas@uw.edu.pl
Malgorzata Jacyno, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Tomasz Ma?lanka, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Konstanty Strzyczkowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Robert Wyszynski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Roman Barczewski, M.A.
Victoria Dunaeva, M.A.
Marta Olejnik, M.A.
Julia Salacinska, M.A.
Malgorzata Skalska, M.A.
Research
Research is focused on sociological theory of culture on the one hand, and on practical and diagnostic approach to specific problems of man and culture on the other. A culturally determined humanistic orientation is what one might see as the most accurate label for the Chair's theoretical standpoint. The following topics are specifically of the Chair's interest: theory of symbolic culture and theory of symbol; theory of intra and intercultural dialogue communication; cultural and social axiology; modern symbolic culture and sociology of the arts; sociology of language and communication; socio-psychological research on personal development, and cultural dimensions of social phenomena; mass culture and cultural identity, social movements and changes in contemporary culture, cultural dimension of EU integration.
5. Chair of Theoretical Sociology
18 Karowa Str., Room 212, phone: +48 22 55 20 885
Team
Head: Slawomir Lodzinski, Associate Professor, Ph.D., s.lodzinski@uw.edu.pl
Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Piotr Chmielewski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Joanna Konieczna, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Aleksandra Lompart, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Grazyna Kacprowicz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Lech Nijakowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Maciej Gdula, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Renata Wloch, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Dorota Glazewska, M.A.
Joanna Erbel, M.A.
Filip Piotrowski, M.A.
Agnieszka Zygmunt, M.A.
Adam Nieweglowski, M.A.
Katarzyna Andrejuk, M.A.
Adam Ostolski, M.A.
Marta Saranovic, M.A.
Marcin Luczka, M.A.
Research
Both theoretical and empirical interests are fostered in the Chair. Theoretical research is conducted in the following areas: contemporary sociological theories; theories of moral development; personality and social structure; social inequalities and social structure; national identity; stereotypes and attitudes towards other nations and ethnic groups; social memory of the past; social differentiation of temporal orientations and concept of time; new institutional analysis; theories of social movements and alternatives of oppression; postmodernism and postsocialism. Of interest are also topics interrelating sociology with other disciplines: socio-biology, anthropology, psychology, cultural anthropology, philosophy, economy and game theory. Empirical research is conducted in the following areas: comparative studies in the systems of values of West European and East European societies; attitudes of different ethnic groups; historical consciousness; social movements in Poland; processes of privatization and system transformation; system of industrial relations in Poland, including labor unions and workers self-government.
6. Chair of Sociology of Education
3 Krakowskie Przedmiescie Str., phone: +48 22 826 55 91
Team
Head: Renata Siemienska-Zochowska, Associate Professor, Ph.D., siemiens@optimus.waw.pl
Ewa Nasalska, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Marta Zahorska, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Magdalena Wieczorek, M.A.
Ph.D. students
Beata Zawadzka, M.A.
Research
The Chair's research concentrates on several clear-cut areas. The most important among them is the area of social problems related to child's rearing and education. Here are studied the functioning of educational system in Poland, and those processes of socialization in which school plays an important role. Also teaching profession and teachers as an occupational group are subject to investigation. The Chair's research in this area is part of international comparative studies.
Collective and individual research is carried out in order to find out to what extent the educational system plays a part in youth socialization preparing young people to take upon the roles in democratic society and market economy.
The Chair runs a detailed contents analysis of the civic education curricula and their evaluation based on the experience of well-established democracies. A question of usefulness of those curricula for the creation of the democratic system in Poland has been investigated.
Functions of educational system for shaping up social relations have been analyzed and educational inequalities in Poland have been compared with those in other countries (many similarities were found). International and intercultural] comparisons are the permanent components ofl research projects undertaken by the members of the Chair of Sociology of Education. Research results are used for setting educational policy guidelines, and for other practical purposes.
7. Chair of Political Sociology
18 Karowa Str., Room 114, phone: +48 22 55 20 701
Team
Head: Jacek Raciborski, Associate Professor, Ph.D., RaciborskiJ@is.uw.edu.pl
Jerzy Bartkowski, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
Jaroslaw Kilias, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
Przemyslaw Sadura, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Izabela Lemanska, M.A.
Ph.D. students
Piotr Chmielarz, M.A.
Jan Herbst, M.A.
Paulina Sobiesiak, M.A.
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska , M.A.
Anna Kuczynska, M.A.
Research
The Chair fosters four major areas of research: analysis of parliamentary, presidential, and local elections; transformations of political elites (international comparative studies); role of parliament and its functioning in the period of democratic transformation; political socialization of youth. Courses and seminars on political sociology are offered to students.
8. Chair of Sociology of Work and Organization
18 Karowa Str., Room 306, phone: +48 22 55 20 714
Team
Head: Wieslawa Kozek, Associate Professor, Ph.D., w.kozek@is.uw.edu.pl
Krzysztof Nowakowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Piotr Ostrowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Izabela Wagner, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Beata Radzka, Ph.D.
Julia Kubisa, M.A.
Ph.D. students
Julia Kubisa, M.A.
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, M.A.
Aneta Foltyniewicz, M.A.
Agnieszka Maciuk, M.A.
Research
Research interests focus on three fields: economic sociology, theory of social change, and businesses/companies (chiefly manufacturing).
Within economic sociology the following topics are under investigation: market reform, industrial relations, privatization, market fairness, business ethics, modernization of manufacturing processes, economic mentality, job market, unemployment, consumption.
In the area of theory of social change the following topics are subject to investigation: citizen and civil society, systemic transformation in economy relationship between state and economy, ways out from the state socialism, civilization challenges and cultural barriers of change, transformation of religious mind against the background of other issues in Polish society.
In the area of "businesses/companies" studies are under way on labor unions selfgovernment of workers and mid-level management, as well as economic mentality.
9. Chair of Rural and Urban Sociology
18 Karowa Str., Room 211, phone: +48 22 55 20 702
Team
Head: Izabella Bukraba – Rylska, Associate Professor, Ph.D., bukrabai@is.uw.edu.pl
Jan Weglenski, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Kinga Pawlowska , M.A.
Aleksander Kurstak, M.A.
Tomasz Lib, M.A.
Justyna Jozwiak, M.A.
Michal Wozniak, M.A.
Piotr Kro?niak, M.A.
Adrian Wojcik, M.A.
Albert Zawadzki, M.A.
Research
Urbanization processes and accompanying social phenomena are being analyzed using examples of various nations. Methods of urban sociology from the most urbanized countries are being used. The Chair carries out investigation and data analyses of urbanization processes in Poland.
10. Chair of Statistics, Demography, and Mathematical Sociology
18 Karowa Str., Room 22, phone: +48 22 55 20 273
Team
Head: Grzegorz Lissowski, Associate Professor, Ph.D., gliss@is.uw.edu.pl
Jacek Haman, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Mikolaj Jasinski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Marek Styczen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Marta Kuc, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Katarzyna Abramczuk, M.A.
Michal Jedrusiak , M.A.
Adam Keska , M.A.
Lukasz Ostrowski, M.A.
Anna Baczko, M.A.
Agata Komendant, M.A.
Tomasz Zajac, M.A.
Research
Studying methods of sociological data analysis, specifically statistical and demographic ones, applying advanced formal methods and models to the results of sociological surveys, and developing descriptive and normative theories by means of formal methods. Empirical research is focused on social structure, social mobility, political attitudes of young people, distributive justice, and democratic decision-making. Experts' reports, like, for example, simulation analysis of the effects of legislative decisions, are being commissioned from the Chair by government agencies. Employees of the Chair are frequently hired as consultants by sociological research centers.
11. Zaklad Antropologii Spolecznej
18 Karowa Str., Room 301, phone: +48 22 55 20 711
Team
Head: Ewa Nowicka-Rusek, Associate Professor, Ph.D., nowicka.r@is.uw.edu.pl
Michal Kowalski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Barbara Bossak - Herbst, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Ph.D. students
Cezary Ciemniewski, M.A.
Tomasz Koper, M.A.
Katarzyna Jedrzejczak , M.A.
Agnieszka Bielewska, M.A.
Grazyna Szymanska, M.A.
Maria Tarasiewicz, M.A.
Aleksandra Winiarska, M.A.
Wojciech Fenrich, M.A.
Monika Mlochowska, M.A.
Research
East-Central Europe ethnic relations; anthropological and ethnographic, qualitative studies on minorities – both in Poland and in Europe and Asia.
12. Chair of Social Psychology
18 Karowa Str., Room 312, phone: +48 22 55 20 497
Team
Head: Miroslawa Marody, Associate Professor, Ph.D., marodymi@is.uw.edu.pl
Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Cezary Trutkowski, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Slawomir Mandes, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Izabela Hawrylik, M.A.
Ph.D. students
Hubert Borowski, M.A.
Lukasz Jonak, M.A.
Lucja Krzyzanowska, M.A.
Mikolaj Lewicki, M.A.
Pawel Mazurek, M.A.
Agata Nowotny, M.A.
Tomasz Plachecki, M.A.
Maria Rogaczewska, M.A.
Monika Wojda, M.A.
Anna Ziolkowska, M.A.
Malgorzata Sikorska, M.A.
Lukasz Sokolowski, M.A.
Hubert Borowski, M.A.
Lukasz Raciborski, M.A.
Jan Wygnanski, M.A.
Marianna Zielinska, M.A.
Research
Theory-oriented social psychology (analyses of relationships between language, thinking and acting, interaction theories) and empirical research on social consciousness of Polish society. The latter is concerned with social change and with multifaceted relations among people. Also such topics as group prejudices (primarily ethnic ones), social identity, and theory of family-related microeconomics, social capital and civil society development are being investigated.
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Datasets
Polish General Social Survey, Social Diagnosis Survey, General Statistical Office and Census Data, European Social Survey.
Library access
Inequality Fellows may get access by getting a temporary library card. For library information see http://www.buw.uw.edu.pl/en/
Practical information
Accommodation and transportation
Contact dr Pawel Polawski at polapaw@is.uw.edu.pl . You can also check UW pages with general information on facilities and admission policy http://www.uw.edu.pl/en/. Housing options during the academic year are limited, however we can offer extensive support in searching for optimal solution.
Health insurance
The US State Department provides extensive information on health insurance for Americans traveling abroad.
Office space and computer access
Inequality Fellows will share both office space and computer access with Ph.D students at the Chair office.
Timing
The best time to do research at the IS is between October and early July. For detailed information on academic calendar check http://www.bwz.uw.edu.pl/eng_version/AcademicCalendar2008.htm
Transportation
Warsaw Transport Authority: http://www.ztm.waw.pl/taryfa/en/inf.php
Visa information
For the latest visa-related information, visit the websites of the US State Department and the Polish Embassy in Washington, DC.
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