Florian Znaniecki

Florian Witold Znaniecki was a Polish philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work he shifted his focus from philosophy to sociology. He remains a major figure in the history of Polish and American sociology the founder of Polish academic sociology, and of an entire school of thought in sociology. He won international renown as coauthor, with William I. Thomas, of the study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America , which is considered the foundation of modern empirical sociology. He also made major contributions to sociological theory, introducing terms such as humanistic coefficient and culturalism.

Florian Znaniecki was born onJanuary 1882 at witniki, Congress Poland, a state controlled by the Russian Empire to Leon Znaniecki and Amelia, ne Holtz He received early schooling from tutors, then attended secondary schools at Warsaw and Czstochowa. While in secondary school, he was a member of an underground study group, specializing in history, literature and philosophy. His secondaryschool grades were average at best, and he had to repeat a year of school this was largely due to his extracurricular interest in Polishlanguage study, which was banned under the Russified school program. As a youth, he wrote some poetry, including a drama, Cheops . A poem of his, Do Prometeusza , was included in a 1900 anthology however, neither he in later life, nor literary critics, judged his poetry outstanding.

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