Kazimierz M Slomczynski
Biographic Data
| ID | 81432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kazimierz M Slomczynski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kazimierz M |
| FAMILY NAME | Slomczynski |
| SIGNATURE | SLOMCZYNSKI K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7704-0885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 548 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Ewolucyjne podejście do międzynarodowych projektów sondażowych. O potrzebie empirycznych badań nad starymi i nowymi problemami
Tekst ten stanowi polemikę z artykułem Zbigniewa Sawińskiego Misja „Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences" a potrzeba nowego paradygmatu w badaniach porównawczych („Studia Socjologiczne" 2024, nr 4) i prezentuje empiryczne dowody, że obecnie nie ma kryzysu w nauce opartej na międzynarodowych badaniach sondażowych. Autorzy odwołują się przy tym do udokumentowanej historii tych badań. Od początku sondażowych badań porównawczych stawiano …
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book exa…
Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach
This article proposes a new approach to analyze protest participation measured in surveys of uneven quality. Because single international survey projects cover only a fraction of the world's nations in specific periods, researchers increasingly turn to ex-post harmonization of different survey data sets not a priori designed as comparable. However, very few scholars systematically examine the impact of the survey data quality on substantive resul…
Włodzimierz Wesołowski (1929–2020) Życie i dzieło
zmarł Profesor Włodzimierz Wesołowski.Wiele instytucji i czasopism zwróciło się do autorów tej noty o napisanie wspomnień upamiętniających Jego postać.Podejmujemy się tego zadania wiedząc, iż opisanie całokształtu dokonań badacza tego formatu wykracza poza możliwo
The Polish Panel Survey, Polpan
The Polish Panel Survey POLPAN provides data infrastructure to analyze the dynamics of social inequality from a life-course perspective. Historical events shape the study's research design. In 1987-1988, 5,817 randomly sampled men and women aged 21-65 are interviewed in what is still state socialist Poland. Soon after, their lives are upended by the profound transformations that the anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe triggered. To under…
O nauczaniu przedmiotu „wielkie struktury społeczne” dawniej i obecnie: Zaproszenie do dyskusji
Analiza programów nauczania socjologii daje asumpt do refleksji nad kształtem i perspektywami rozwoju dyscypliny. Artykuł przedstawia program z „socjologii wielkich struktur społecznych”, jaki obowiązywał studentów trzeciego roku socjologii w Instytucie Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego w roku akademickim 1989–1990. Obecne programy z makrosocjologii dla studentów studiów licencjackich są skromniejsze zarówno pod względem przerabianego materia…
Co to są ‘nauki socjologiczne’ w polskiej klasyfikacji dziedzin i dyscyplin naukowych? Analiza konsekwencji decyzji biurokratycznych
Nowa Klasyfikacja Dziedzin i Dyscyplin Naukowych (KDDN), wprowadzona przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego (MNiSW) w 2018 roku, miała odzwierciedlać klasyfikację OECD zwaną Fields of Science (FOS). KDDN i FOS różnią się znacznie, między innymi w operacyjnej definicji nauk społecznych. W KDDN wyodrębniono „nauki socjologiczne”, które – według dokumentacji – obejmują socjologię i nauki o rodzinie, a w FOS socjologia jest oddzielnie. W pol…
Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding
In recent decades, many countries ranging from quasidemocratic regimes to well-established democracies have faced democratic backsliding. In this study, we draw on Foa and Mounk and other related literature to examine the effects of regime delegitimation on democratic backsliding, focusing on youth's trust in political institutions-parliament, legal systems, and political parties-relative to trust of the older population. We use an unbalanced pan…
Google Big Data: Charakterystyka i zastosowanie w naukach społecznych
W obliczu rewolucji technologii informatycznych badacze nauk społecznych mają przed sobą nie lada wyzwanie. Oto bowiem wraz ze zwiększającą się popularnością Internetu pojawiły się ogromne ilości danych zawierających opinie, poglądy i zainteresowania jego użytkowników. Chociaż analiza tych danych stawia przed badaczami poważne problemy metodologiczne, za ich użyciem przemawia fascynujący materiał powstający bez ingerencji badaczy. Dużą część tego…
Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012
Professional events that feature face-to-face interaction of social scientists from across the world are, next to publications and research, important forms of scientific knowledge production and dissemination. Thus, they are vital to the World Science System (WSS). Like other WSS elements, scholarly involvement in international social science events is characterized by unequal cross-national representation. This article focuses in-depth on the I…
Social Stratification in Poland: Eight Empirical Studies
Political Behavior and Big Data
Interest in the use of “big data” in the social sciences is growing dramatically. Yet, adequate methodological research on what constitutes such data, and about their validity, is lacking. Scholars face both opportunities and challenges inherent in this new era of unprecedented quantification of information, including that related to political actions and attitudes. This special issue of the International Journal of Sociology addresses recent use…
Analyzing Social Change with the Polish Panel Survey, Polpan 1988–2013
In the Introduction to this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology we illustrate the centrality of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN to empirical research on main social, economic and political phenomena that shape the social structure. POLPAN 1988–2013 is the longest continuously run panel survey in Central and Eastern Europe that focuses on changes in the social structure with individuals as the units of analysis. To date, it is t…
Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling
This article describes challenges and solutions to ex post harmonization of survey data in the social sciences based on the big data project “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” This project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative perspective by proposing a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest through…
Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy
Public protest is usually conceived as challenge to the state, overlooking protest performed by governments within state structures. We identify local government opposition to federal policy decisions as a combination of contentious politics and policy innovation. This theoretical framework highlights the role of social structural conditions, political culture, and contextual pressures, which we examine using local government opposition to the US…
Locus of Territorial Attachments: Intergroup Differences and Macrostructural Determinants of Subnational and Supranational Identities
In this paper, we elaborate on Hooghe and Marks's (2001) conceptualization of territorial attachments. We assume that multi-identities related to the territory should reveal the locus on the continuum from local to national. On the basis of IntUne data, we build a ten-point scale, assigning high weights to multi-identity involving local and regional attachments and low weights to the attachments on only a national level and to the lack of territo…
Modeling Occupational Careers for a Turbulent Economy: From Simple to Complex Approaches
Using data from the Polish Panel Survey, we analyze changes in occupational-career patterns by means of trajectories defined as the sequence and duration of work positions expressed on a numerical scale on different timelines: calendar years, age, and years in the labor force. We apply a program (CONVERTER) that transforms the floating format of the occupational history (recorded with dates at the beginning and end of each job) into a fixed forma…
Perceptions of political party corruption and voting behaviour in Poland
Do perceptions of political party corruption play a significant role in vote choice? More specifically, is intention to vote for a specific party influenced by perceptions of corruption of that party, as well as by perceptions of the degree of corruption of competing parties? To determine whether perceptions of political party corruption matter at all for voters' preferences, we propose a party choice model in which we estimate the influence of p…
Voters' perceptions of government performance and attributions of responsibility: Electoral control in Poland
When and Where Class Matters for Political Outcomes: Class and Politics in a Cross-National Perspective
Guest Editor's Introduction: The Across Nations Project and the European Social Survey
This introduction refers to the Across Nations project and describes its evolution in the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT). In this context all of the authors contributing articles to this issue of the International Journal of Sociology performed their work. CONSIRT uses the European Social Survey for research and training purposes, and all of the studies presented here are based on data from this …
Structural Determinants of Trust in Public Institutions: Cross-National Differentiation
The aim of this article is to present the structural determinants of prodemocratic attitudes expressed through trust in democratic institutions: political parties, parliament, and the judiciary system. We present statistical analyses in which trust is regressed on the social stratification position measured by education, occupation, and income. These analyses are based on data from the European Social Survey (Round 3, 2006). The context for the r…
Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data
In this cross-national study, soft political-protest behavior is defined as participation in a legal demonstration, signing a petition, or contacting government officials. We find that in Europe in 2006 (1) the proportion of political protesters is significantly higher in old democracies than in the new, predominantly postcommunist, democracies, and (2) the greater the income inequality in both old and new democracies, the lower the proportion of…
Guest Editor's Introduction: The Across Nations Project and Cross-National Studies
This introduction serves as a preface to the four articles presented in this issue of the International Journal of Sociology, which is devoted to gender concerns in cross-national perspective. The articles ask the following questions: Do social policies regarding child care influence women's participation in the labor force? To what extent does the interaction of gender and social class influence pro-welfare-state stances? Do men and women expres…
Fluid Party Systems, Electoral Rules and Accountability of Legislators in Emerging Democracies: The Case of Ukraine
Does the system of repeated parliamentary elections function as a mechanism of political control in new democracies with fluid party systems? Moreover, does electoral format affect the degree to which voters are able to hold legislators accountable for their performance in office? In addressing these questions, we use a new database on all legislative incumbents and all parliamentary elections that have taken place in Ukraine since 1994. Our find…
Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland
This article conceptualizes and indexes social class for a Western capitalist country (the United States), a non-Western capitalist country (Japan), and a socialist country (Poland). The idea that social classes are to be distinguished in terms of ownership, control of the means of production, and control over the labor power of others is adapted to the historical, cultural, economic, and political circumstances of each country. It is hypothesize…
Inter-Party Mobility among Parliamentary Candidates in Post-Communist East Central Europe
The development of stable partisan commitments among political elites is crucial for party-system institutionalization in the new democracies of post-communist Europe. Little is known, however, about the partisan behavior of those who compete for national office. This study begins to fill this gap through an analysis of inter-party mobility among all candidates who ran for the lower house of parliament in two pairs of consecutive elections in Pol…
Social stratification and the transmission of values in the family: A cross-national assessment
Stratification, Work, and Values: A Polish-United States Comparison
In Poland and the United States social stratification is related to parental values and to social orientations, with men of higher position more likely to value self-direction and to have a social orientation consonant with valuing self-direction: a nonauthoritarian perspective, personally responsible standards of morality, and trustfulness. These relationships result in large measure from the greater opportunities afforded by higher position to …
Electoral Control in New Democracies: The Perverse Incentives of Fluid Party Systems
How do fluid party systems that exist in many new democracies affect democratic accountability? To address this question, the authors analyze a new database of all legislative incumbents and all competitive elections that took place in Poland since 1991. They find that when district-level economic outcomes are bad, voters in that country punish legislators from a governing party and reward legislators from an opposition party. As a result, electo…
Social Structure and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine
Does the relationship between social structure and personality during times of apparent social stability obtain as well under conditions of radical social change ? There are good reasons to think that it might not. To find out, the authors conducted surveys in Poland and Ukraine during 1992-1993, with dramatic results. In those respects in which the socialist Poland of 1978 had shown a pattern of relationships similar to that of the capitalist Un…
Political Identities in the Initial Phase of Systemic Transformation in Poland: A Test of the Tabula Rasa Hypothesis
The basic premise of this article is that, contrary to the tabula rasa hypothesis, individuals in the new democracies of post-Communist Eastern Europe have been able to form meaningful political identities even under conditions of great fluidity and uncertainty. These identities are expressed through the pattern of voting choices that individuals make during successive elections. The authors based their analysis on a 1993 panel survey of a nation…
Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data
In this cross-national study, soft political-protest behavior is defined as participation in a legal demonstration, signing a petition, or contacting government officials. We find that in Europe in 2006 (1) the proportion of political protesters is significantly higher in old democracies than in the new, predominantly postcommunist, democracies, and (2) the greater the income inequality in both old and new democracies, the lower the proportion of…
Systems of Distribution and a Sense of Equity: A Multilevel Analysis of Meritocratic Attitudes in Post-industrial Societies
Meritocratic attitudes are defined as general beliefs that education and its correlates should determine personal economic outcomes. Using the International Social Survey Project (ISSP): Social Inequality Module (1992), we examine both individual-level and country-level determinants of pro-meritocratic attitudes. According to self-interest and rational-action theories, individuals with high educational attainment and high personal income are expe…
The Emergence of Career Politicians in Post‐Communist Democracies: Poland and the Czech Republic
Despite party system fluidity and high rates of electoral volatility in the first decade after the transition to democracy in Poland and the Czech Republic, career politicians are emerging. Using data on all parliamentary candidates in the last election before the fall of communism and in all elections since then, we show that, in both countries, parliamentary carryover rates have risen substantially, a growing number of incumbents are seeking re…
Perceptions of political party corruption and voting behaviour in Poland
Do perceptions of political party corruption play a significant role in vote choice? More specifically, is intention to vote for a specific party influenced by perceptions of corruption of that party, as well as by perceptions of the degree of corruption of competing parties? To determine whether perceptions of political party corruption matter at all for voters' preferences, we propose a party choice model in which we estimate the influence of p…
Dynamics of support for European integration in post‐communist Poland
This study examines the dynamics of citizen support for European integration in Poland. Using data from 1995 and 1998 surveys and from a three‐wave panel study, we find that, as in Western Europe, both utilitarian calculations of self‐interest and political considerations are equally important determinants of support for membership in the European Union. Moreover, between 1995 and 1998 there was considerable polarization of opinion along economic…
Voters' perceptions of government performance and attributions of responsibility: Electoral control in Poland
Assessing Comparability of Measurement in Cross-National Research: Authoritarian-Conservatism in Different Sociocultural Settings
Joanne Miller, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Ronald J. Schoenberg, Assessing Comparability of Measurement in Cross-National Research: Authoritarian-Conservatism in Different Sociocultural Settings, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 178-191
Systemic Transformation and the Salience of Class Structure in East Central Europe
Fluid Party Systems, Electoral Rules and Accountability of Legislators in Emerging Democracies: The Case of Ukraine
Does the system of repeated parliamentary elections function as a mechanism of political control in new democracies with fluid party systems? Moreover, does electoral format affect the degree to which voters are able to hold legislators accountable for their performance in office? In addressing these questions, we use a new database on all legislative incumbents and all parliamentary elections that have taken place in Ukraine since 1994. Our find…
Structural Determinants of Trust in Public Institutions: Cross-National Differentiation
The aim of this article is to present the structural determinants of prodemocratic attitudes expressed through trust in democratic institutions: political parties, parliament, and the judiciary system. We present statistical analyses in which trust is regressed on the social stratification position measured by education, occupation, and income. These analyses are based on data from the European Social Survey (Round 3, 2006). The context for the r…
The Emergence of Career Politicians in Post-Communist Democracies: Poland and the Czech Republic
Cross-National Similarity in Social Mobility Patterns: A Direct Test of the Featherman-Jones-Hauser Hypothesis
In 1975, Featherman, Jones, and Hauser formulated the hypothesis that national patterns of circulation mobility are basically the same, while national patterns of observed mobility differ. This hypothesis has often been tested and generally confirmed by means of multiplicative models. Previous tests have been indirect because the relationship of the circulation-mobility pattern to the underlying circulation-mobility frequencies remained unspecifi…
Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling
This article describes challenges and solutions to ex post harmonization of survey data in the social sciences based on the big data project “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” This project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative perspective by proposing a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest through…
Structural Location and Personality during the Transformation of Poland and Ukraine
Melvin L. Kohn, Wojciech Zaborowski, Krystyna Janicka, Valeriy Khmelko, Bogdan W. Mach, Vladimir Paniotto, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Cory Heyman, Bruce Podobnik, Structural Location and Personality during the Transformation of Poland and Ukraine, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 364-385
Who Still Likes Socialism and Why: Time Variation of Political Opinions in Poland
In Poland, ten years after the collapse of the socialist (communist) system, about one-third of the adult population expressed positive attitudes toward the past system. In this article, we attempt to analyze the determinants of positive assessment of socialism and its changes through time. We use the data from a panel survey, conducted in Poland in 1987—88, 1993, and 1998, among adult men and women (N = 1,760). Results suggest that, although the…
Continuity of Learning-Generalization: The Effect of Job on Men's Intellective Process in the United States and Poland
Data from both the United States and Poland show that the effect of occupational self-direction on intellective process is similar for younger, middle-aged, and older workers. Multiple-regression analyses of cross-sectional data consistently indicate that the job conditions determinative of occupational self-direction, the substantive complexity of work in particular, have as great an effect on the ideational flexibility and authoritarian conserv…
Complexity of Activities and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine
Melvin L. Kohn, Wojciech Zaborowski, Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach, Valeriy Khmelko, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Cory Heyman, Bruce Podobnik, Complexity of Activities and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 187-207
How Far to Meritocracy? Empirical Tests of a Controversial Thesis
The meritocratic thesis states that a strong association between individual “merit” and social rewards is inherent in highly industrialized society. A simple model of meritocratic allocation is proposed and applied to provide empirical assessment of “how far to meritocracy?” from empirical reality. The model conceptualized as an ideal type of meritocracy, incorporates the principle according to which more educated persons do not have lower status…
The Role of Education in the Process of Intragenerational Mobility
Assessing Comparability of Measurement in Cross-National Research: Authoritarian-Conservatism in Different Sociocultural Settings
Joanne Miller, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Ronald J. Schoenberg, Assessing Comparability of Measurement in Cross-National Research: Authoritarian-Conservatism in Different Sociocultural Settings, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 178-191
Stratification, Work, and Values: A Polish-United States Comparison
In Poland and the United States social stratification is related to parental values and to social orientations, with men of higher position more likely to value self-direction and to have a social orientation consonant with valuing self-direction: a nonauthoritarian perspective, personally responsible standards of morality, and trustfulness. These relationships result in large measure from the greater opportunities afforded by higher position to …
Should the Framework of Structural vs. Circulation Mobility be Abandoned? If so, Not Because of Faulty Logic
Social stratification and the transmission of values in the family: A cross-national assessment
How Far to Meritocracy? Empirical Tests of a Controversial Thesis
The meritocratic thesis states that a strong association between individual “merit” and social rewards is inherent in highly industrialized society. A simple model of meritocratic allocation is proposed and applied to provide empirical assessment of “how far to meritocracy?” from empirical reality. The model conceptualized as an ideal type of meritocracy, incorporates the principle according to which more educated persons do not have lower status…
Continuity of Learning-Generalization: The Effect of Job on Men's Intellective Process in the United States and Poland
Data from both the United States and Poland show that the effect of occupational self-direction on intellective process is similar for younger, middle-aged, and older workers. Multiple-regression analyses of cross-sectional data consistently indicate that the job conditions determinative of occupational self-direction, the substantive complexity of work in particular, have as great an effect on the ideational flexibility and authoritarian conserv…
The Attainment of Occupational Status: A Model with Multiple Indicator Constructs
(1986). The Attainment of Occupational Status. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 1-2, pp. 78-104
The Subjective Evaluation of Social Status
Introduction: The Background of Recent Polish Research on Social Stratification
(1986). Introduction: The Background of Recent Polish Research on Social Stratification. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 1-2, pp. 3-29
Social Mobility: Actual, Perceived, and Equitable
Structural and Circulation Mobility in the Linear Programming Framework: The Critics in Hot Water—A Rejoinder to the Invited Comment “Saving the Bath Water
Sobel, Hout, and Duncan criticize the linear programming approach to the analysis of mobility tables on the basis of its four alleged deficiencies. The objections of our critics are that (a) we misconceive the object of mobility research by focusing on observed frequencies; (b) our solution neglects the relationship between a sample and a population; (c) within our approach the intercountry differences cannot be assessed; and (d) we arbitrarily d…
Matrix Representation of Structural and Circulation Mobility
The conceptual foundation of the traditional approach to social mobility is compactly expressed in the equality, 'circulation mobility = total mobility - structural mobility.' For more than two decades, this equality has been used without specifying the frequencies that express structural mobility. In contrast with common research practice, we analyze the matrix form of the classic equality. We provide a representation of structural and circulati…
Authoritarianism as Worldview and Intellective Process: Reply to Ray
Cross-National Similarity in Social Mobility Patterns: A Direct Test of the Featherman-Jones-Hauser Hypothesis
In 1975, Featherman, Jones, and Hauser formulated the hypothesis that national patterns of circulation mobility are basically the same, while national patterns of observed mobility differ. This hypothesis has often been tested and generally confirmed by means of multiplicative models. Previous tests have been indirect because the relationship of the circulation-mobility pattern to the underlying circulation-mobility frequencies remained unspecifi…
Social Stratification in Poland: Eight Empirical Essays
A Paradigmatic Crisis in the Multiplicative Modeling of Mobility Tables: The Problem of Circulation Mobility as an Anomaly
The dynamics of status trajectory: A Model and Its Empirical Assessment
An allocation of persons to jobs which maximizes the strength of the relationship between education and status allows us to formulate and utilize a new hypothetical construct, called ‘meritocratic status’. We argue that in the course of an occupational career actual status depends on meritocratic status and its increment. An average trajectory of actual status for cohorts is modeled by means of a first order differential equation with two paramet…
Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland
This article conceptualizes and indexes social class for a Western capitalist country (the United States), a non-Western capitalist country (Japan), and a socialist country (Poland). The idea that social classes are to be distinguished in terms of ownership, control of the means of production, and control over the labor power of others is adapted to the historical, cultural, economic, and political circumstances of each country. It is hypothesize…
Social Structure and Self-Direction: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Poland
Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau
Personality and Social Structure
Systemic Transformation and the Salience of Class Structure in East Central Europe
Chapter 1 Theoretical Approach and Research Strategy
Chapter 5 Position in the Social Structure and Personality Characteristics
(1997). Chapter 5 Position in the Social Structure and Personality Characteristics. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 27, Mental Adjustment to the Post-Communist System in Poland (II), pp. 3-28
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