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Current activities of the Lodz Department of PSA<\/strong><\/p>\n

The functioning of the Lodz Department<\/strong>\u00a0is concentrated on organizing different kinds of meetings and scientific sessions on various subjects.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few Sections of the PSA which have their roots in Lodz, or the members of Lodz Departments are engaged in the boards of the Sections. These Sections are: Methodology of Social Research, Qualitative Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism, Sociology of Sport, Biographical Research, Sociology of Disability, Sociology of Body, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Art, Rural and Agricultural Sociology, Social Work.<\/p>\n

The Lodz Department of the PSA<\/strong>\u00a0is trying to continue good traditions started in the past: young sociology graduates who are awarded the prize for the best sociological M.A. thesis in the Jan and Krystyna Luty\u0144scy competition are invited to present their thesis during the Department\u2019s meetings; meetings dedicated to creators of sociology in Lodz are organized; also sessions dedicated to important events in the history of academy in Lodz are organized (e.g., session about the students\u2019 strike in 1981).<\/p>\n

Apart from these special events, the Lodz Department of the PSA organises cyclical scientific meetings (at least once a month) which have different forms: discussions about books authored by sociologists from Lodz and from other sociological centres; presentations by laureates of the Stanis\u0142aw Ossowski Award; discussion panels about important sociological issues (e.g., ethics of social research, immigration; interviews\/talks with Authors who wrote influential books for sociological thought.<\/p>\n

According to the data summing up the activity of the Departments, the Lodz Department of the PSA was placed among the three most active departments of the PSA. At the end of 2020 there were 93 members of the Lodz Department.<\/p>\n

The Lodz Department of the PSA is open for cooperation with all of the Sections of the PSA, with some of them we already co-organise the scientific sessions and discussions.<\/p>\n

The Lodz Department of the PSA cooperates closely with the Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz, and sometimes also cooperates with city institutions (e.g., the Museum of Modern Art, the Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre \u2013 jointly meetings).<\/p>\n

The political situation in 2020 forced the board of the Lodz Department of the PSA and some of the members of the Lodz Department to issue a statement expressing our strong disapproval of Polish Constitutional Tribunal decision made on 22nd <\/sup>October 2020. The statement was supported by over 120 representants of the Lodz sociological community. [link: https:\/\/pts.org.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Stanowisko-lodzkiego-srodowiska-socjologicznego_27.10.2020.pdf]<\/p>\n

Members of the board elected for 2024-2026 term<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sylwia M\u0119cfal – president<\/span><\/div>\n
Agnieszka Golczy\u0144ska-Grondas – vice-president<\/span><\/div>\n
Magdalena Rek-Wo\u017aniak – secretary<\/span><\/div>\n
Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n
Anna Kacperczyk – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n
Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n
Katarzyna Waniek – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n
Piotr Statucki – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n
Wojciech Wo\u017aniak – member of the board<\/span><\/div>\n

Komisja Rewizyjna (Audit Committee)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emilia Garncarek<\/span><\/div>\n
Agnieszka Dziedziczak-Foltyn<\/span><\/div>\n
Jakub Niedbalski<\/span><\/div>\n

Facebook page: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oddziallodzkipts<\/a><\/strong> (in Polish)<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail address: oddziallodzkipts@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Lodz Department of the Polish Sociological Association (PSA) was officially established on 15th February 1960<\/strong>. However at least 10 sociologists from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (the employees of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Lodz and at the same time members of the editorial board of the Sociological Review [Przegl\u0105d Socjologiczny]) were already members of the Sociological Section of the Polish Philosophical Association.<\/p>\n

This Section was formed as a result of an initiative by professor Stanis\u0142aw Ossowski in 1956<\/strong>, when the communist authorities allowed Sociology back into Polish Universities. The sociologists from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a were encouraged to join the Sociological Section and the Lodz Department of PSA, by professor J\u00f3zef Cha\u0142asi\u0144ski <\/strong>who had already been one of the establishers of the Polish Sociological Association and a member of the central board of PSA before the II World War (since 1931).<\/p>\n

The Lodz Department of PSA was formed by the creators of the Lodz sociological centre: professors J\u00f3zef Cha\u0142asi\u0144ski and Jan Szczepa\u0144ski<\/strong> together with their eldest students: Antonina K\u0142oskowska, Jan Luty\u0144ski, Wac\u0142aw Piotrowski, Zygmunt Gostkowski and Jolanta Kulpi\u0144ska.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, among the first members \u2013 creators of the Sociological Section, and the Lodz Department of the PSA, were also: Krystyna Cha\u0142asi\u0144ska, Krystyna Luty\u0144ska, Renata Szwarc, Andrzej Borucki, Tadeusz Miller (statistics analyst), Ija Lazari Paw\u0142owska (philosopher), Aleksander Kami\u0144ski (social pedagogue).<\/strong> The first organizational meeting of the Lodz Department of the PSA took place on 23rd February 1960. Professor Jan Szczepa\u0144ski was chosen to be the first president<\/strong> of the Lodz Department and 5 people became members of the board: Antonina K\u0142oskowska, Jan Luty\u0144ski, Wac\u0142aw Piotrowski, Zygmunt Gostkowski, Jolanta Kulpi\u0144ska.<\/p>\n

The first scientific meeting took place on 25th<\/sup> February 1960 with a presentation by Jan Szczepa\u0144ski \u201cThe social status of intellectualist in industrial societies\u201d.<\/p>\n

From the very beginning the main activity of the Lodz Department of the PSA was the organization of scientific meetings. The meetings had a different character depending on the time period.<\/p>\n

The first period<\/strong> \u2013 let us call it the academic period \u2013 papers were most often presented by professors or experienced sociologists. All the members of the Lodz Department participated in those meetings as they were very important scientific events. Sometimes guests were invited from other Polish cities\/centres, but also from abroad, even from Western European countries (in the times of political laxity), which obviously was of a great importance for the participants in those days. In the 1960\u2019s the meetings took place at the Institute of Sociology in Uniwersytecka 3 Street, and after the Institute was moved to the Faculty of Economics and Sociology \u2013 at the new address of the Institute in Rewolucji 1905 Street.<\/p>\n

In the 1970\u2019s<\/strong>, when the Department of Industrial Sociology was established in the Institute of Sociology, many sociology graduates started working in the Industry, as so called \u2018factory sociologists\u2019. The Lodz Department of the PSA started organizing meetings with so called \u2018people of practice\u2019 i.e. engineers, clerks from the Urban National Council [Miejska Rada Narodowa], doctors and artists. The meetings were then attended not only by sociologists, but also by the \u2018people from the city\u2019. One of the members of the Lodz Department of the PSA, Andrzej Gniazdowski, started \u2018Forum\u2019, whose main goal was the development of social analysis departments in different factories. In this second period<\/strong> the Lodz Department was involved a lot in the \u2018social practice\u2019 and was closely tied with the city of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.<\/p>\n

Only in the 80\u2019s<\/strong>, when the great social and political transformation was starting in Poland and the whole of the PSA was deeply interested in general\/common problems (e.g. the PSA was fighting with censorship), also the Lodz Department of the PSA started inviting sociologists and activists from the opposition to the meetings. A lot of people (also from outside the University of Lodz) attended the speeches made by the guests from Warsaw: Jadwiga Staniszkis, Stefan Nowak, Jan Strzelecki, Lena Kolarska-Bobi\u0144ska, Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski, Andrzej Rychard, and by one of the locals: Jan Luty\u0144ski.<\/p>\n

The Security Service (S\u0142u\u017cba Bezpiecze\u0144stwa) made a lot of complaints about those meetings. Many officers visited the president of the Lodz Department of the PSA (Jolanta Kulpi\u0144ska) to show their disapproval.<\/p>\n

In those days, from 9th to 12th September 1981 the VI Polish Sociological Congress<\/strong> took place in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. The main topic of the discussion was: \u2018Polish sociology and the social problems in the country\u2019.<\/p>\n

It was without doubt the most important event in the history of the Lodz Department of the PSA. The Congress was taking place during a particular and meaningful moment of the history – at the same time in Gda\u0144sk there was the Solidarity Congress and some of the sociologists came to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a travelling straight from Gda\u0144sk. Antoni Su\u0142ek wrote about the VI Polish Sociological Congress stating that it was the first Congress after World War II with the programme filled with topics without political constraints and which exposed the \u2018true face\u2019 of the situation thanks to sociological interpretation. The Congress included speeches e.g. about the current strikes (J. Kulpi\u0144ska), the Solidarity movement (J.Staniszkis), dogmatic authoritarianism (J. Luty\u0144ski) and many other topics. The atmosphere at the Congress was splendid, although the media ignored the event completely and it was difficult to even get a loaf of bread in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a at that time.<\/p>\n

After the Congress the communist authorities did not allow the publication of any materials\/papers presented at the Congress. They were published much later, in 2007, in one of the issues of Przegl\u0105d Socjologiczny.<\/p>\n

During the <\/strong>martial<\/strong> law<\/strong> period the functioning of the Lodz Department of the PSA was suspended.<\/p>\n

Apart from being active in the Lodz Department of the PSA the members from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a were always involved in the work of the PSA in general. They were chosen as the central board members: in the 50\u2019s: J. Cha\u0142asi\u0144ski, J. Szczepa\u0144ski, A. K\u0142oskowska, J. Luty\u0144ski. They had different functions e.g., J. Szczepa\u0144ski, J. Luty\u0144ski, J. Kulpi\u0144ska were vice-presidents of the PSA and in 1993 A. K\u0142oskowska was chosen to be the president of the PSA.<\/p>\n

Some of the Lodz Department members have been involved in the central board of the PSA for a long time: K. Luty\u0144ska, W.A. Rostocki, and at present K.T. Konecki (currently the president of the PSA, elected in 2020 for the second term). Many members had and still have different functions in the organs of the PSA: the Auditing Comitee, the Arbitration Comitee and others. They are also members of the jury in the S. Ossowski competition (for the best sociological book), the F. Znaniecki competition (for the best M.A. thesis) and the competition for the best translation of a sociological work.<\/p>\n

[The history of the Lodz Department of the PSA was written in 2011 by prof. Krystyna Luty\u0144ska]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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