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 Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

since 1966, and Warsaw University since 1972, director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in

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

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, 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 of distinguished scholars a ...

(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.

Areas of activity

His main areas of interest are:

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

of labour and industry, sociology of the

nation A nation is a type of social organization where a collective Identity (social science), identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, t ...

, 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 (British English, UK) American and British English spelling differences, or industrialization (American English, US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an i ...

) * ''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 People from Ostrów Wielkopolski {{Poland-sociologist-stub