Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński was a Polish sociologist, political scientist, and writer. Wnuk-Lipiński was born in Sucha. A professor of sociology, he was the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Studies, and rector of the Warsaw-based Collegium Civitas.
Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician.
Florian Witold Znaniecki was a Polish and American 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.
Władysław Markiewicz was a Polish sociologist; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań since 1966, and Warsaw University since 1972, director of the Western Institute in Poznań in years 1966–1973, member of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1972. He was the Polish-side Chairman of German-Polish Textbook Commission from 1972 to 1984.
Stanisław Ossowski was a Polish sociologist. He held professorships at University of Łódź (1945–1947) and University of Warsaw (1947–1963).
Jerzy Ryszard Szacki was a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas. From 1973 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw, and in 1991 became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas.
Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz was an economist of agriculture, economic historian, and professor at Warsaw Agricultural University. He was a member of Polish Science Society and co-founder of the 1945 incarnation of the Polish Economic Society.
Polish Historical Society is a Polish professional scientific society for historians.
Kur is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several noble families forming a Clan of Kur in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is noted during the reign of the Jagiellon dynasty and illustrated with its original name in the work of Bartosz Paprocki "Herby Rycerstwa Polskiego" in 1584. Furthermore, it is published in the work of Szymon Okolski in 1641. and several other publications
Sociology in Poland has been developing, as has sociology throughout Europe, since the mid-19th century. Although, due to the Partitions of Poland, that country did not exist as an independent state in the 19th century or until the end of World War I, some Polish scholars published work clearly belonging to the field of sociology.
Czesław Znamierowski (1888–1967) was a Polish philosopher, jurist and sociologist. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Poznań and chaired its Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law. Znamierowski is noted in Polish law for his contributions to social sciences and jurisprudence, particularly the concept of legal system which is similar to H.L.A. Hart's ideas, but was published almost forty years before Hart's The Concept of Law.
Leopold Caro (1864–1939) was a Polish historical school economist, international sociologist working with Gustav von Schmoller's Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS), and a lawyer. Caro functioned as an advocate for rights of oversea migrants and the establishment of economic cooperatives. Broadly conceived, he was a conservative symphatizer of the Sanation movement in Polish interwar politics, especially of its technocratic wing under Kazimierz Bartel, while he also maintained some contact with Narodowa Demokracja. First and foremost, Leopold Caro acted as a Catholic economist, who had strong ties with the church hierarchy and Catholic institutions. He is largely seen as a proponent of etatism, though he was a vocal critic as well as in-depth researcher of both National socialism and Soviet communism. He was a Jewish convert to Christianity of distant Sephardic origin who became a staunch anti-Semite.
Piotr Tadeusz Gliński is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as president of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice for Prime Minister of Poland in 2012 and again in 2014. In the cabinet of Beata Szydło, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He continues to serve in his Ministry in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.
The Polish Statistical Association was established in Kraków in 1912. It is one of the oldest statistical associations in the world. Its first president, Juliusz Leo, was Professor of the Jagiellonian University and the President of Kraków. The main aim of PTS in the period before World War I was to prepare a statistical overview of the Polish lands from the most distant past until modern times. The work was published in Kraków in 1915 and was entitled "The Statistics of Poland".
Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad is a Polish learned society located in London in the Polish Social and Cultural Association building. It was established in 1948 and its aim is to represent and support members of Polish academia who live and work abroad.
Tadeusz Romuald Jeziorowski is a Polish historian and writer specialising in weaponry, uniforms and orders.
Maciej Roman Gdula is a Polish sociologist specializing in social theory and political theory, as well as opinion journalist and politician.
Apostezjon is social science fiction dystopia trilogy by Polish sociologist and science fiction writer Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński. It consists of three novels, Wir pamięci, Rozpad połowiczny, and Mord założycielski. The overall story covers the dynamics of Apostezjon, a totalitarian island-state governed by the technocratic clandestine supreme governing body "Team of Experts" with its executive organ, the powerful Special Service, up to its collapse into a dictatorship after a coup staged by the deputy chief of the Special Service.
Izabela Wagner-Saffray is a Polish-born European sociologist. Wagner was awarded the scientific title of Professor Belwederski by the President of the Republic of Poland in May 2023 and has been a full professor at Université Paris Cité since September 1, 2023. Wagner has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw from December 2019 to August 2023. She is also a member of URMIS Fellow at ICM in Paris since 2019. Her sociological research is concerned with migrations, exil of scientists, intellectuals, musicians. Wagner's contributions are also focused on the careers of artists and intellectuals, professional socialization and geographic mobility, migrations and forced-migrations.
Sieradzans is an ethnographic group of Polish people that originate from the historical region of Sieradz Land, located within borders of the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. The group does not express much cultural separateness from other Poles. Historically, the group has been heavily inflected by the neighboring groups of Silesians, Greater Poland people, and Lesser Poland people.
