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This study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author’s aim is to refute the claim that the sociological vacuum is relevant for major social processes occurring in Poland. He presents the sociological vacuum in the context of the debate on micro and macro levels and discusses how the theory of fields and social network analysis is useful to reconcile the micro-macro divide. The book considers the uses of the sociological vacuum in explaining such phenomena as the Solidarnosc social movement, civil society, social capital, and democracy. In the empirical part, the author confronts the data on identifications with the data on relations and claims that the vacuum is not in the society but it in sociology.



The study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author presents the sociological vacuum in the context of the debate on micro and macro levels. He studies the uses of the sociological vacuum in explaining such phenomena as the Solidarnosc social movement, civil society, social capital, democracy.

Acknowledgements 9(2)
Introduction 11(8)
Part I The micro-macro problem in sociology: theoretical background
19(78)
1 Classical approaches to the micro-macro problem in sociology
19(35)
1.1 Introduction
19(1)
1.2 Micro-macro and other pairings in sociological theory
20(7)
1.3 The classics on micro-macro and macro-micro
27(7)
1.4 The 1980s and the debate about the micro-macro link
34(13)
1.5 Linking micro and macro via meso
47(4)
1.6 Concluding remarks
51(3)
2 Social fields: the meso-level of analysis
54(18)
2.1 Introduction
54(1)
2.2 Social fields and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
55(6)
2.3 Sociology of organizations in the search for the level of analysis
61(6)
2.4 Towards an integration of the field theories: strategic action fields approach
67(4)
2.5 Concluding remarks
71(1)
3 Social networks: tying micro and macro
72(25)
3.1 Introduction
72(2)
3.2 From fishermen to World Wide Web: a brief review of network approaches in social sciences
74(13)
3.3 How nodes are tied into society: from micro to macro
87(8)
3.4 Concluding remarks
95(2)
Part II The sociological vacuum: the story of the spell cast on Polish sociologists
97(108)
4 Polish sociology in the 1970s, Stefan Nowak, and the sociological vacuum thesis
97(12)
4.1 Introduction
97(1)
4.2 Stefan Nowak
97(2)
4.3 Survey sociology: measurement of attitudes, values, and society as an aggregate of individuals
99(3)
4.4 Thesis on Poland's sociological vacuum
102(1)
4.5 The sociological vacuum: brilliant intuition or a methodological artifact?
103(5)
4.6 Concluding remarks
108(1)
5 Solidarnosc: how atomized individuals mobilized as a social movement?
109(19)
5.1 Introduction
109(1)
5.2 The outburst of Solidarnosc: the most interesting event in Polish social history
110(3)
5.3 A movement fulfilling the vacuum? Solidarnosc as a problem for sociology of Polish society
113(6)
5.4 Towards sociological explanations of Solidarnosc: how are atoms linked into a society?
119(7)
5.5 Concluding remarks
126(2)
6 Civil society: in search of the new actor of the social transformation
128(26)
6.1 Introduction
128(2)
6.2 Civil society: its rivals and kin
130(3)
6.3 Civil society in the vacuum
133(7)
6.4 For the common good? Associationalism: its advantages and disadvantages
140(5)
6.5 In search of civic life in Poland
145(7)
6.6 Concluding remarks
152(2)
7 Social capital: what mediates between individuals and society?
154(24)
7.1 Introduction
154(1)
7.2 Social capital: short story of a fuzzy concept
155(11)
7.3 Social capital and the sociological vacuum
166(6)
7.4 What do we know about the social capital in Poland?
172(4)
7.5 Concluding remarks
176(2)
8 Quality of democracy: social base for political institutions
178(27)
8.1 Introduction
178(1)
8.2 Democracy: aggregating individual wills into collective action
179(14)
8.3 Democracy in the vacuum?
193(9)
8.4 Concluding remarks
202(3)
Part III What fills up the sociological vacuum? Empirical illustration
205(18)
9 Getting a job in Poland: how weak ties fill up the sociological vacuum?
205(18)
9.1 Introduction
205(1)
9.2 Brief story of getting a job studies
206(3)
9.3 Getting a job in Poland
209(11)
9.4 Concluding remarks
220(3)
Conclusions 223(14)
References 237(28)
Index 265
Mikoaj Pawlak is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation at the University of Warsaw and Vice-President of the Polish Sociological Association. His research interests concern new institutionalism, the labor market, migration, and the sociology of knowledge.