Władysław Markiewicz (2 January 1920 – 18 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

since 1966, and

Warsaw University The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

since 1972, director of the

Western Institute The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: ''Instytut Zachodni'', German ''West-Institut'', French: ''L'Institut Occidental'') is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Polan ...

(Instytut Zachodni) in

in years 1966–1973,Instytut Zachodni, "Dyrektorzy Instytutu Zachodniego"
member of

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

(Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) since 1972. He was the Polish-side Chairman of German-Polish Textbook Commission from 1972 to 1984. He was a secretary of the Social Sciences Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Wydział Nauk Społecznych PAN) since 1972, editor-in-chief of ''Studia Socjologiczne'' (Sociological Studies) quarterlySociological Studies (Studia Socjologiczne), issue: 1 (188) / 2008, pages: 14, ww.ceeol.com/ref> since 1972, chairman of the Poland 2000 Committee (Komitet Polska 2000 PAN) since 1980. From 1969 until 1972, he was the president of the

Polish Sociological Association The Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne (PTS) (Polish Sociological Association) is the main professional organization of sociologists in Poland. The PTS defines its mission as "supporting the development of sociology and popularizing sociological kno ...

Areas of activity

His main areas of interest are:

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

of labour and industry, sociology of the

nation A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by th ...

, sociology of the political relations.

Publications

* ''Przeobrażenia świadomości narodowej reemigrantów polskich z Francji'' (Evolution of the national consciousness of the Polish reemigrants from France) * ''Społeczne procesy uprzemysłowienia'', 1962 (Social processes of

industrialization Industrialisation ( alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an econo ...

) * ''Społeczeństwo i socjologia w NRF'', 1966 (Society and sociology in Western Germany) * ''Socjologia a słuzba społeczna'', 1972 (Sociology and public service) * ''Stan i perspektywy rozwoju nauk humanistycznych'', 1973 (The state and prospects of development of the humanist sciences) * ''Przemiany w strukturze społecznej Polski Ludowej'', 1982 (Social structure changes in the People's Poland)

References

1920 births 2017 deaths Polish sociologists Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences {{Poland-sociologist-stub