Talk:Stanisław Ossowski

the need for intulectual freedom

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I would like to expand this article to include concepts related to Ossowski long struggle for intulectual freedom in his polish homeland.

Polish Sociological Association

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mention roots Florian Znaniecki and Polish Sociological Institute mention The Polish Sociological Institute liquidation by Stalinist authorities in 1951 mention how Ossowski organized a Sociological Section within the Polish Philosophical Association 1956 ‘the October thaw' mention founding Polish Sociological Association with Stanislaw Ossowski In 1957

Academic Legacy

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mention Ossowski Prize for the best book written by sociologists of the younger generation. mention the intersection of his philosophical research inlogic and aesthetics and its contribution to the developement of hi sociology and its model for understanding interpersonal relations mention the sociological schema for understanding sytems of values, its relationship to humanistic sociology, anti-positivitisim, his critical discussions official Marxism–Leninism

personal legacy

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mention courage and sacrifice in mounting an intulectual resistance to an opressive ideological state mention his conceptual framework for socology and its use in providing much needed analysis. For example Anna Pawełczyńska's "Values and Violence: A Sociological Analysis of Auschwitz" Translated by Catherine S Leach University of California Press, 1980