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Political hegemony and the intellectual production in the world semi-periphery (Contribution to modern sociology of the school of Prof. Tomasz Zarycki)
stmm. 2022 (3): 186-209
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2022.03.186
ILLIA KONONOV, Doctor of Sciences in Socioogy, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University (3, Kovala St., Poltava, 36014)
kononov_if@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9253-6261
In the conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the future of Ukrainian sociology largely depends on the ability to be included in the world processes of the development of science. The openness of the sociological community of Ukraine to prospective development trends in world sociology is necessary. The most favorable conditions for the emergence of stable dialogical relations exist in the relations between the Ukrainian and Polish sociological communities, which is due to the significant common past of our peoples, in many respects common problems and possible common perspectives.
In modern Polish sociology, one of the most open to dialogue is the Warsaw sociological school of Prof. Tomasz Zarycki. Research of its participants, and first of all Prof. T. Zarycki, cover a wide range of problems: from changes in the social space of Poland to the peculiarities of the reformation of the ruling class and the production of political knowledge. A special feature of the school is the intense search for an adequate methodology for the study of modern society. This methodological search led to the synthesis of the ideas of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-system analysis and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, which made it possible to cover the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of social life in a single perspective.
The peculiarities of the transformation of the society of state socialism into the society of liberal capitalism in modern Poland are largely determined by the fact that the basis of the political class here was formed from representatives of the intelligentsia. This explains the insignificant weight of the bourgeoisie in the political life of the country, the absence of such a phenomenon as the oligarchy. At the same time, in global conditions, the Polish intelligentsia found itself in a difficult situation, because the country remained on the semi-periphery of the world capitalist system. This leads to the fact that the production of knowledge about society takes place in hierarchical relations, where the rules are set by the countries of the world center.
Keywords: Poland, sociological school, Tomas Zarycki, world-system analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein, field, capital, habitus, Pierre Bourdieu, intelligentsia, political knowledge
References
Bauman, Z., Donskis, L. (2014). Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Duh i litera, KMBS [=Бауман, Донскіс 2014]
Chałasiński, J. (1946). Social genealogy of the Polish intelligentsia. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Spółdzienia wydawnicza “Czytelnik”. [= Chałasiński 1946]
Górniak, J. (2018). "Intelligence" and "elite" as social categories and academic education. [In Polish]. Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. PAU debates, V, 78 — 87. [= Górniak 2018].
Klepka, R. (2012). Urban political elite as a theoretical category. [In Polish]. Scientific works of the Academy Jan Długosz in Częstochowa. Series: Res Politicae, Special Issue, 99–115. [= Klepka 2012].
Kononov, I.F. (2017). Poland in the modern world: to understand oneself and to understand one’s knowledge (Book review: Polska jako peryferie/ redakcja naukowa Tomasz Zarycki. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR, 2016. 356 p.). [In Ukrainian]. Sociology: theory, methods, marketing, 2, 185–199. [= Кононов 2017].
Kula, W. (1955). Forming capitalism in Poland. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo naukowe PWN. [= Kula 1955].
Leder, A. (2014). Dream revolution. Historical logic exercises. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. [= Leder 2014].
Malowist, M. (2006) East and West of Europe in the 13th-16th centuries: confrontation of socio-economic structures. 2nd edition. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo naukowe PWN [= Malowist 2006].
Poland as peripheries (2016) (collective work edited by Tomasz Zarycki). [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [=Polska jako peryferie 2016].
Polish social sciences in the context of power relations and international dependencies. (2022) Edited by Tomasz Zarycki. [In Polish]. Warsaw: Publishing House of the University of Warsaw. [=Polskie nauki społeczne, 2022]
Smoczyński, R., Zarycki, T. (2017). A totem of intelligence. Aristocracy, nobility and landed gentry in the Polish social space. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Smoczyński, Zarycki 2017].
Wallerstein, I. (2011). The Modern World-System I. Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. With a New Prologue. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Warczok, T., Zarycki, T. (2016). Peripheral game. Polish political science in the global field of social sciences. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Warczok, Zarycki 2016].
Warczok, T., Zarycki, T. (2018). Polish political science in a global perspective: paradoxes of the evolving peripherality. [In Polish]. Science and Higher Education, 1(51), 143–161. DOI: 10.14746/nisw.2018.1.6. [= Warczok, Zarycki 2018].
Zarycki, T. (1997). New social and political space in Poland. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Europeskiego Instytutu Rozwoju Regionalnego i Lokalnego. [= Zarycki 1997].
Zarycki, T. (2002). Region as a context of political behavior. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Zarycki 2002].
Zarycki, T. (2006). Dilemmas of the Polish elite as universal dilemmas / Tr. by L. Kozak. [In Ukrainian]. Independent cultural journal “Yi”, 45, 129–138. [= Зарицкі 2006].
Zarycki, T. (2008). Cultural capital. Intelligence in Poland and Russia. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. [= Zarycki 2008].
Zarycki, T. (2009). Periphery. New approaches to symbolic center-peripheral dependencies. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Zarycki 2009].
Zarycki, T., Smoczyński, R., Warczok, T. (2017). The Roots of Polish Culture-Centered Politics: Toward a Non–Purely Cultural Model of Cultural Domination in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 31 (2), 360–381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325417692036.
Zarycki, T. (2017). Postcolonial perspective as a critique of global power relations. Main issues and Polish interpretations. [In Polish]. In: Public discourse analysis. Review of research methods and perspectives (substantive editing Izabella Sariusz-Skąpska) (pp. 211–221). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Academickie SEDNO spółka z.o.o. [= Zarycki 2017].
Zarycki, T., Warczok, T. (2020). Being forty after forty years: a Portrait of the 1970s, or an Intelligentsia’s Voice in the struggle to shape the future sphere of power? [In Polish]. Culture and Society, 4, 41–72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2020.64.4.2 [= Zarycki, Warczok 2020].
Zarycki, T., Smoczyński, R., Warczok, T. (2022). Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model. Theory and Society, 51, 269–301. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09465-x.
Received 27.07.2022
Political hegemony and the intellectual production in the world semi-periphery (Contribution to modern sociology of the school of Prof. Tomasz Zarycki)
stmm. 2022 (3): 186-209
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2022.03.186
ILLIA KONONOV, Doctor of Sciences in Socioogy, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University (3, Kovala St., Poltava, 36014)
kononov_if@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9253-6261
In the conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the future of Ukrainian sociology largely depends on the ability to be included in the world processes of the development of science. The openness of the sociological community of Ukraine to prospective development trends in world sociology is necessary. The most favorable conditions for the emergence of stable dialogical relations exist in the relations between the Ukrainian and Polish sociological communities, which is due to the significant common past of our peoples, in many respects common problems and possible common perspectives.
In modern Polish sociology, one of the most open to dialogue is the Warsaw sociological school of Prof. Tomasz Zarycki. Research of its participants, and first of all Prof. T. Zarycki, cover a wide range of problems: from changes in the social space of Poland to the peculiarities of the reformation of the ruling class and the production of political knowledge. A special feature of the school is the intense search for an adequate methodology for the study of modern society. This methodological search led to the synthesis of the ideas of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-system analysis and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, which made it possible to cover the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of social life in a single perspective.
The peculiarities of the transformation of the society of state socialism into the society of liberal capitalism in modern Poland are largely determined by the fact that the basis of the political class here was formed from representatives of the intelligentsia. This explains the insignificant weight of the bourgeoisie in the political life of the country, the absence of such a phenomenon as the oligarchy. At the same time, in global conditions, the Polish intelligentsia found itself in a difficult situation, because the country remained on the semi-periphery of the world capitalist system. This leads to the fact that the production of knowledge about society takes place in hierarchical relations, where the rules are set by the countries of the world center.
Keywords: Poland, sociological school, Tomas Zarycki, world-system analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein, field, capital, habitus, Pierre Bourdieu, intelligentsia, political knowledge
References
Bauman, Z., Donskis, L. (2014). Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Duh i litera, KMBS [=Бауман, Донскіс 2014]
Chałasiński, J. (1946). Social genealogy of the Polish intelligentsia. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Spółdzienia wydawnicza “Czytelnik”. [= Chałasiński 1946]
Górniak, J. (2018). "Intelligence" and "elite" as social categories and academic education. [In Polish]. Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. PAU debates, V, 78 — 87. [= Górniak 2018].
Klepka, R. (2012). Urban political elite as a theoretical category. [In Polish]. Scientific works of the Academy Jan Długosz in Częstochowa. Series: Res Politicae, Special Issue, 99–115. [= Klepka 2012].
Kononov, I.F. (2017). Poland in the modern world: to understand oneself and to understand one’s knowledge (Book review: Polska jako peryferie/ redakcja naukowa Tomasz Zarycki. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR, 2016. 356 p.). [In Ukrainian]. Sociology: theory, methods, marketing, 2, 185–199. [= Кононов 2017].
Kula, W. (1955). Forming capitalism in Poland. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo naukowe PWN. [= Kula 1955].
Leder, A. (2014). Dream revolution. Historical logic exercises. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. [= Leder 2014].
Malowist, M. (2006) East and West of Europe in the 13th-16th centuries: confrontation of socio-economic structures. 2nd edition. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Panstwowe wydawnictwo naukowe PWN [= Malowist 2006].
Poland as peripheries (2016) (collective work edited by Tomasz Zarycki). [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [=Polska jako peryferie 2016].
Polish social sciences in the context of power relations and international dependencies. (2022) Edited by Tomasz Zarycki. [In Polish]. Warsaw: Publishing House of the University of Warsaw. [=Polskie nauki społeczne, 2022]
Smoczyński, R., Zarycki, T. (2017). A totem of intelligence. Aristocracy, nobility and landed gentry in the Polish social space. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Smoczyński, Zarycki 2017].
Wallerstein, I. (2011). The Modern World-System I. Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. With a New Prologue. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Warczok, T., Zarycki, T. (2016). Peripheral game. Polish political science in the global field of social sciences. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Warczok, Zarycki 2016].
Warczok, T., Zarycki, T. (2018). Polish political science in a global perspective: paradoxes of the evolving peripherality. [In Polish]. Science and Higher Education, 1(51), 143–161. DOI: 10.14746/nisw.2018.1.6. [= Warczok, Zarycki 2018].
Zarycki, T. (1997). New social and political space in Poland. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Europeskiego Instytutu Rozwoju Regionalnego i Lokalnego. [= Zarycki 1997].
Zarycki, T. (2002). Region as a context of political behavior. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Zarycki 2002].
Zarycki, T. (2006). Dilemmas of the Polish elite as universal dilemmas / Tr. by L. Kozak. [In Ukrainian]. Independent cultural journal “Yi”, 45, 129–138. [= Зарицкі 2006].
Zarycki, T. (2008). Cultural capital. Intelligence in Poland and Russia. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. [= Zarycki 2008].
Zarycki, T. (2009). Periphery. New approaches to symbolic center-peripheral dependencies. [In Polish]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo naukowe Scholar. [= Zarycki 2009].
Zarycki, T., Smoczyński, R., Warczok, T. (2017). The Roots of Polish Culture-Centered Politics: Toward a Non–Purely Cultural Model of Cultural Domination in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 31 (2), 360–381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325417692036.
Zarycki, T. (2017). Postcolonial perspective as a critique of global power relations. Main issues and Polish interpretations. [In Polish]. In: Public discourse analysis. Review of research methods and perspectives (substantive editing Izabella Sariusz-Skąpska) (pp. 211–221). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Academickie SEDNO spółka z.o.o. [= Zarycki 2017].
Zarycki, T., Warczok, T. (2020). Being forty after forty years: a Portrait of the 1970s, or an Intelligentsia’s Voice in the struggle to shape the future sphere of power? [In Polish]. Culture and Society, 4, 41–72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2020.64.4.2 [= Zarycki, Warczok 2020].
Zarycki, T., Smoczyński, R., Warczok, T. (2022). Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model. Theory and Society, 51, 269–301. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09465-x.
Received 27.07.2022
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