Elżbieta Hałas
Biographic Data
| ID | 330336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elżbieta Hałas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elżbieta |
| FAMILY NAME | Hałas |
| SIGNATURE | HAŁAS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6021-3110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reintroducing Florian Znaniecki
This book reintroduces the work of Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958) as an innovative constructor of modern sociology who viewed the processes of modernity through the prism of culture and rediscovers his relational thought on the emergence and transformation of cultural and social systems. Exploring the contribution of Znaniecki’s philosophy of culturalism to the cultural approach in sociology, it shows the importance of Znaniecki’s work for the fou…
Methodology of Relational Sociology: Approaches and Analyses
Politics of Symbolization Across Central and Eastern Europe
International audience
The future orientation of culture and the memory of the past in the making of history
The article describes the semiotic approach developed by Boris Uspenskij to study the historical process. Uspenskij’s semiotics of history is integrally bound with the Tartu-Moscow School’s programme of cultural semiotics and is rooted in the fundamental premises of that programme, which he helped to shape. These premises contain a complex ontology of culture, encompassing three levels: cultural memory, sets of cultural texts, and semiotic system…
Crisis or Fluidity? Florian Znaniecki’s Theory of Civilization
The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The ideological burden of the concept of civilization and its stigmatization by critics of post-Enlightenment modernity also contribute to this current state. However, issues associated with the processes of civilization have once again…
David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy
Conversation of Gestures
The conversation of gestures formed the basis of George Herbert Mead's social behaviorism, a variant of pragmatism. Mead distinguished between nonsignificant conversation of gestures, conversation of significant gestures, and conversation of significant symbols. They corresponded to the successive stages of the evolution of language and mind. A gesture gains significance when it elicits a response in an individual that resembles the response elic…
The Past in the Present. Lessons on Semiotics of History from George H. Mead and Boris A. Uspensky
This article examines the parallels between George H. Mead's theory of time and Boris A. Uspensky's semiotics of history, looking for implications relevant to the symbolic interactionist theory of historical processes. It suggests that Mead's theory of time and theory of communication hold important implications for semiotic analysis of the historical dimension of sociocultural phenomena. A further aim is to link the symbolic interactionist tradi…
Time and Memory: A Cultural Perspective; Pp. 307–322
This article presents an outline of the problems of time, history and memory seen from a cultural perspective. Aiming at a revalorization of the cultural dimension in sociocultural phenomena, it particularly highlights the concept of cultural memory. In the cultural perspective, memory is a temporal dimension of meaning. Memory consists in communicative acts transmitting reflexive knowledge about the past from the perspective of the future presen…
Towards the World Culture Society: Florian Znaniecki's Culturalism
Social symbolism: Forms and functions – a pragmatist perspective
Social theory contains contributions related to the processes of semiosis. Between the subjective experience of intentional meanings and objectivized structure of meanings there is a sphere of meaningful interactions and collective actions. Arguments are presented that it is possible to integrate symbolic interactionist orientation and Durkheimian tradition in the study of social symbolism in the perspective of collective action approach and prag…
Issues of Social Memory and their Challenges in the Global Age
The social experience of time is investigated in connection with the transformation of global power relations expressed symbolically. Collective memory in postmodernity is featured as a temporal distinctiveness of the global age. Consequently, problems of the politics of memory, followed by conflicts of memory come to the fore. Symptomatic for postmodernity in the context of globalization is the phenomenon of reshaping problems of memory into soc…
Symbole i społeczeństwo. Szkice z socjologii interpretacyjnej
W książce autorka systematyzuje zagadnienia związane z procesami symbolizacji w zjawiskach życia społecznego, które pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć związki między kulturą i społeczeństwem. Przedstawia teorię symbolizmu społecznego i analizy symbolizmu jako
Classical Cultural Sociology: Florian Znaniecki's Impact in a New Light
It is argued that a renewed reception of the works of the Polish and American scholar Florian Znaniecki should be carried out by any so-called 'cultural turn' in sociology. If the new cultural sociology is to obtain firm and broader theoretical grounds, it needs to transcend its mere reaction against structural-functional normativism in search of classic studies of cultural dynamics such as those of Florian Znaniecki. The reasons behind the blurr…
Pierre Bourdieu’s Concept of the Politics of Symbolization and Symbolic Interactionism
The decisive antidualism in Bourdieu’s thought permits searching for the complementary traits of his theory of symbolic social system and symbolic interactionism, rather than opposition. The theory of the symbolic social system, which is characterized by the double structure of meanings in the order of social relations and its symbolic representation in the narrower sense, has many convergent points of view with the symbolic interactionists’ pers…
Symbolic politics of public time and collective memory. The Polish case
Symbolic construction of the state identity is analysed, along with the symbolic politics of the state toward the past. The great systemic change is conceived as a symbolic transformation where the growth of semiotic behaviour is clearly noticeable. The analysis deals with the changes in the public holidays calendar in Poland: the communist symbolic strategies, symbolic politics of the Solidarity movement and the anti-politics of symbolization in…
Symbolism and Social Phenomena: Toward the Integration of Past and Current Theoretical Approaches
This article takes up, but in a different key, an argument of postmodernists that the over-rationalized conception of society tends to ignore important phenomena such as those belonging to the symbolic domain. It is suggested that the emerging programme of symbolic sociology may contribute toward a new synthetic and interdisciplinary thinking in social sciences. The concept of symbolism as a social phenomenon rather than as an autonomous linguist…
How Robert M. MacIver was forgotten: Columbia and American sociology in a new light, 1929-1950
It is necessary to reevaluate the role of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in the years 1929-1950. The impact of Robert M. MacIver, who played a significant role in the exchange between European and American thinkers, is examined, as well as his marginalization. It is argued that in the 1930s it was characteristic that the sociologists in the centers in Chicago and Columbia exchanged their disciplinary functions. It was MacIver'…
Florian Znaniecki - Ein verkannter Vorläufer des Symbolischen Interaktionismus
Florian Znaniecki hat in der soziologischen Fachwelt vor allem als Verfasser (oder Mitverfasser) solcher bedeutender Studien wie „The Polish Peasant in Europe and America“ oder „The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge“ seinen Platz. Jedoch erweckte das von ihm geschaffene originelle theoretische System, an dem sich seine Werke selbstverständlich ausrichten, bisher nicht das nötige Interesse. Eine genaue Analyse seiner Schriften zeigt, daß man Zna…
Classical Cultural Sociology: Florian Znaniecki's Impact in a New Light
It is argued that a renewed reception of the works of the Polish and American scholar Florian Znaniecki should be carried out by any so-called 'cultural turn' in sociology. If the new cultural sociology is to obtain firm and broader theoretical grounds, it needs to transcend its mere reaction against structural-functional normativism in search of classic studies of cultural dynamics such as those of Florian Znaniecki. The reasons behind the blurr…
Issues of Social Memory and their Challenges in the Global Age
The social experience of time is investigated in connection with the transformation of global power relations expressed symbolically. Collective memory in postmodernity is featured as a temporal distinctiveness of the global age. Consequently, problems of the politics of memory, followed by conflicts of memory come to the fore. Symptomatic for postmodernity in the context of globalization is the phenomenon of reshaping problems of memory into soc…
Symbolism and Social Phenomena: Toward the Integration of Past and Current Theoretical Approaches
This article takes up, but in a different key, an argument of postmodernists that the over-rationalized conception of society tends to ignore important phenomena such as those belonging to the symbolic domain. It is suggested that the emerging programme of symbolic sociology may contribute toward a new synthetic and interdisciplinary thinking in social sciences. The concept of symbolism as a social phenomenon rather than as an autonomous linguist…
Florian Znaniecki - Ein verkannter Vorläufer des Symbolischen Interaktionismus
Florian Znaniecki hat in der soziologischen Fachwelt vor allem als Verfasser (oder Mitverfasser) solcher bedeutender Studien wie „The Polish Peasant in Europe and America“ oder „The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge“ seinen Platz. Jedoch erweckte das von ihm geschaffene originelle theoretische System, an dem sich seine Werke selbstverständlich ausrichten, bisher nicht das nötige Interesse. Eine genaue Analyse seiner Schriften zeigt, daß man Zna…
Symbolic politics of public time and collective memory. The Polish case
Symbolic construction of the state identity is analysed, along with the symbolic politics of the state toward the past. The great systemic change is conceived as a symbolic transformation where the growth of semiotic behaviour is clearly noticeable. The analysis deals with the changes in the public holidays calendar in Poland: the communist symbolic strategies, symbolic politics of the Solidarity movement and the anti-politics of symbolization in…
Florian Znaniecki - Ein verkannter Vorläufer des Symbolischen Interaktionismus
Florian Znaniecki hat in der soziologischen Fachwelt vor allem als Verfasser (oder Mitverfasser) solcher bedeutender Studien wie „The Polish Peasant in Europe and America“ oder „The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge“ seinen Platz. Jedoch erweckte das von ihm geschaffene originelle theoretische System, an dem sich seine Werke selbstverständlich ausrichten, bisher nicht das nötige Interesse. Eine genaue Analyse seiner Schriften zeigt, daß man Zna…
How Robert M. MacIver was forgotten: Columbia and American sociology in a new light, 1929-1950
It is necessary to reevaluate the role of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in the years 1929-1950. The impact of Robert M. MacIver, who played a significant role in the exchange between European and American thinkers, is examined, as well as his marginalization. It is argued that in the 1930s it was characteristic that the sociologists in the centers in Chicago and Columbia exchanged their disciplinary functions. It was MacIver'…
Symbolic politics of public time and collective memory. The Polish case
Symbolic construction of the state identity is analysed, along with the symbolic politics of the state toward the past. The great systemic change is conceived as a symbolic transformation where the growth of semiotic behaviour is clearly noticeable. The analysis deals with the changes in the public holidays calendar in Poland: the communist symbolic strategies, symbolic politics of the Solidarity movement and the anti-politics of symbolization in…
Symbolism and Social Phenomena: Toward the Integration of Past and Current Theoretical Approaches
This article takes up, but in a different key, an argument of postmodernists that the over-rationalized conception of society tends to ignore important phenomena such as those belonging to the symbolic domain. It is suggested that the emerging programme of symbolic sociology may contribute toward a new synthetic and interdisciplinary thinking in social sciences. The concept of symbolism as a social phenomenon rather than as an autonomous linguist…
Pierre Bourdieu’s Concept of the Politics of Symbolization and Symbolic Interactionism
The decisive antidualism in Bourdieu’s thought permits searching for the complementary traits of his theory of symbolic social system and symbolic interactionism, rather than opposition. The theory of the symbolic social system, which is characterized by the double structure of meanings in the order of social relations and its symbolic representation in the narrower sense, has many convergent points of view with the symbolic interactionists’ pers…
Classical Cultural Sociology: Florian Znaniecki's Impact in a New Light
It is argued that a renewed reception of the works of the Polish and American scholar Florian Znaniecki should be carried out by any so-called 'cultural turn' in sociology. If the new cultural sociology is to obtain firm and broader theoretical grounds, it needs to transcend its mere reaction against structural-functional normativism in search of classic studies of cultural dynamics such as those of Florian Znaniecki. The reasons behind the blurr…
Symbole i społeczeństwo. Szkice z socjologii interpretacyjnej
W książce autorka systematyzuje zagadnienia związane z procesami symbolizacji w zjawiskach życia społecznego, które pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć związki między kulturą i społeczeństwem. Przedstawia teorię symbolizmu społecznego i analizy symbolizmu jako
Social symbolism: Forms and functions – a pragmatist perspective
Social theory contains contributions related to the processes of semiosis. Between the subjective experience of intentional meanings and objectivized structure of meanings there is a sphere of meaningful interactions and collective actions. Arguments are presented that it is possible to integrate symbolic interactionist orientation and Durkheimian tradition in the study of social symbolism in the perspective of collective action approach and prag…
Issues of Social Memory and their Challenges in the Global Age
The social experience of time is investigated in connection with the transformation of global power relations expressed symbolically. Collective memory in postmodernity is featured as a temporal distinctiveness of the global age. Consequently, problems of the politics of memory, followed by conflicts of memory come to the fore. Symptomatic for postmodernity in the context of globalization is the phenomenon of reshaping problems of memory into soc…
Time and Memory: A Cultural Perspective; Pp. 307–322
This article presents an outline of the problems of time, history and memory seen from a cultural perspective. Aiming at a revalorization of the cultural dimension in sociocultural phenomena, it particularly highlights the concept of cultural memory. In the cultural perspective, memory is a temporal dimension of meaning. Memory consists in communicative acts transmitting reflexive knowledge about the past from the perspective of the future presen…
Towards the World Culture Society: Florian Znaniecki's Culturalism
The Past in the Present. Lessons on Semiotics of History from George H. Mead and Boris A. Uspensky
This article examines the parallels between George H. Mead's theory of time and Boris A. Uspensky's semiotics of history, looking for implications relevant to the symbolic interactionist theory of historical processes. It suggests that Mead's theory of time and theory of communication hold important implications for semiotic analysis of the historical dimension of sociocultural phenomena. A further aim is to link the symbolic interactionist tradi…
Conversation of Gestures
The conversation of gestures formed the basis of George Herbert Mead's social behaviorism, a variant of pragmatism. Mead distinguished between nonsignificant conversation of gestures, conversation of significant gestures, and conversation of significant symbols. They corresponded to the successive stages of the evolution of language and mind. A gesture gains significance when it elicits a response in an individual that resembles the response elic…
The future orientation of culture and the memory of the past in the making of history
The article describes the semiotic approach developed by Boris Uspenskij to study the historical process. Uspenskij’s semiotics of history is integrally bound with the Tartu-Moscow School’s programme of cultural semiotics and is rooted in the fundamental premises of that programme, which he helped to shape. These premises contain a complex ontology of culture, encompassing three levels: cultural memory, sets of cultural texts, and semiotic system…
Crisis or Fluidity? Florian Znaniecki’s Theory of Civilization
The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The ideological burden of the concept of civilization and its stigmatization by critics of post-Enlightenment modernity also contribute to this current state. However, issues associated with the processes of civilization have once again…
David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy
Politics of Symbolization Across Central and Eastern Europe
International audience
Methodology of Relational Sociology: Approaches and Analyses
Reintroducing Florian Znaniecki
This book reintroduces the work of Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958) as an innovative constructor of modern sociology who viewed the processes of modernity through the prism of culture and rediscovers his relational thought on the emergence and transformation of cultural and social systems. Exploring the contribution of Znaniecki’s philosophy of culturalism to the cultural approach in sociology, it shows the importance of Znaniecki’s work for the fou…
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)