Antonina Kłoskowska (7 November 1919,

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– 12 July 2001,

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), was a Polish sociologist. In her work, she focused on the

sociology of culture The sociology of culture, and the related cultural sociology, concerns the systematic analysis of culture, usually understood as the ensemble of symbolic codes used by a member of a society, as it is manifested in the society. For Georg Simmel, ...

. Kłoskowska taught at the universities

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(1966-1977) and

(1977-1990). She was a member of the

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(PAN) since 1973 and worked in its Institute for Political Studies since 1990. Since 1983, she edited the journal ''Kultura i Społeczeństwo''. From 1989 until 1993, she was the president of the

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. With

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and others, Kłoskowska co-edited a multi-volume Polish complete edition of

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's works which appeared 1984-1990.

Works

*1954: ''Machiavelli jako humanista na tle włoskiego odrodzenia.'' Machiavelli as a humanist in the context of the Italian Renaissance">Niccolò_Machiavelli.html" ;"title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Machiavelli as a humanist in the context of the Italian Renaissance Łódź: Zakład im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu [?]. *1964: ''Kultura masowa. Krytyka i obrona'' [Mass culture: Critique and defence]. 2nd edition, Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. *1969: ''Z historii i socjologii kultury'' [On the history and sociology of culture] *1972: ''Społeczne ramy kultury'' he social framework of culture*1977 (ed. with Guido Martinotti): ''Education in a changing society''. London: 1977. *1981: ''Socjologia kultury'' ociology of culture Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. *1983: (et al., eds.) ''Naród, kultura, osobowość: księga poświęcona Profesorowi Józefowi Chałasińskiemu'' ation, culture, personality: Festschrift for Professor Józef Chałasiński Wrocław: Zakład im. Ossolińskich. *1990 (ed.): ''Oblicza polskości'' he face of Polishness Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Program Badań i Współtworzenia Filozofii Pokoju. *1991 (ed.): ''Encyklopedia kultury polskiej XX wieku (tom 1): pojęcia i problemy wiedzy o kulturze'' he encyclopedia of Polish culture in the 20th century (vol. 1): Concepts and problems of the knowledge about culture Wrocław: Wiedza o Kulturze. *1994 (ed. with Richard Grathoff): ''The neighbourhood of cultures''. Warszawa: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN. *1996: ''Kultury narodowe u korzeni'' Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
English translation 2001: ''National cultures at the grass-root level''. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press. Polish sociologists Polish women sociologists 1919 births 2001 deaths Polish women academics University of Łódź alumni Recipient of the Meritorious Activist of Culture badge {{Poland-sociologist-stub