Overview
- Is a reflexive study of the application of Bourdieu’s social theory
- Studies the application of Western social theory in Poland
- Points to the peculiar dynamics of peripheral intellectual and academic fields and their external dependencies
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This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences. The book makes this case study a model for the application of Bourdieu’s approach to the historical analysis of non-core Western societies. The book is, in other words, a reflexive study of the application of Bourdieu’s social theory. At the same time, it also critically studies the application of Western social theory in Poland, which is largely seen as a peripheral country. The study of Polish social sciences, with particular emphasis on linguistics and literary studies, points to the peculiar dynamics of peripheral intellectual and academic fields and their external dependencies. These insights offer a critical extension of Bourdieu’s theory of state and social elites beyond the Western core focusing on how the theories can be used in the reinterpretation and expansion of post-colonial theory, global history and comparative studies of post-communism.
The book will be suitable for scholars and students of all those interested in the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, global historical sociology, societies in Central and Eastern , socio-linguistics, literary studies and political sociology.
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Tomasz Zarycki is full professor and deputy director of Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Polish Elite and Language Sciences
Book Subtitle: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology
Authors: Tomasz Zarycki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07345-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07344-1Published: 15 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07347-2Published: 16 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07345-8Published: 14 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 504
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociolinguistics