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www.uj.edu.pl
In1364,aftermanyyearsofeffortstodoso,KingCasimirtheGreatreceivedpermissionfromthePope
toestablishauniversityinKraków,thecapitaloftheKingdomofPoland.Itwastheseconduniversity
tobefoundedinCentralEuropeaftertheCharlesUniversityinPraguewasinitiatedin1348.Soon
afterwards,otheruniversitieswerelaunchedintheregion:Viennain1365,Pecsin1367,Erfurtin1379,
andHeidelbergin1386.
InstituteofSociology
ScientificandeducationalactivityattheInstituteofSociologyisadirectresultofrichtraditionandthe
diverseresearchinterestsofouracademicstaff.SociologyhasbeentaughtattheUniversitysincethe
endofthe19thcentury.
FollowingvariousUniversityrestructrualisationsandinitiatives,achairofethnologyandsociology
wascreatedin1930.ThechairwasfirstheadedbyProf.JanStanisławBystroń,andthenbyProf.
KazimierzDobrowolski.ThisacademicunittransformedintotheChairofGeneralEthnographyand
Sociologyin1957,chairedalsobyKazimierzDobrowolski.
Amongstotherstudies,trendsinmethodsofintegrationandcultural-historicalstudiesweredevel-
oped,aswellasaperspectiveonsocialanthropologythatwaspresentedbyProf.AndrzejWaligórski,
astudentofBronisławMalinowski.Inthesameyearthatthechairwascreated(1957),theChairof
SociologyandDemographycametolife,directedbyProf.PawełRybicki.Itconcentratedmainlyonthe
issuesofsocialstructuresandpopulationstudies(thelatterbeingstudiedmainlybyAssistantProf.
(Docent)WandaCzarkowska).
In1970bothoftheChairsmergedtoformtheInstituteofSociology.FormerheadsoftheInstitute
wereProfs.WładysławKwaśniewicz,PiotrSztompka,AndrzejK.Paluch,ZdzisławMach,Krzysztof
Frysztacki,MarianNiezgoda.TheInstituteiscurrentlyrunbyProf.MarekKucia.
OneofthekeycharacteristicsoftheInstituteishowbothstaffandstudentsalikeco-operatewith
otherinstitutionsinPolandandabroad.AgoodexampleofthisisofProf.PiotrSztompka,whowasthe
presidentoftheInternationalSociologicalAssociation(2002–2006).
TheInstituteofSociologyisfullyaccreditedbytheUniversityAccreditationCommissionin
Poznań,andhasacertificateofqualityforitsteaching.
TheDepartmentsoftheInstituteofSociology:
DepartmentofTheoreticalSociology,
DepartmentofSociologyofSocialStructures,
DepartmentofSocialAnthropology,
DepartmentofSociologyofNormsandOrganizations,
DepartmentofPopulationStudies,
DepartmentofAppliedSociologyandSocialWork,
DepartmentofSociologyofEconomics,EducationandSocialResearchMethods,
DepartmentofSociologyofSocialCommunication.
http://www.socjologia.uj.edu.pl