43 Polish sociologists

Zygmunt Balicki was a Polish sociologist, publicist and one of the first leading thinkers of the modern Polish nationalism in the late 19th century under the foreign Partitions of Poland. Balicki developed his original political thought inspired by the ideals of Aleksander Świętochowski from the movement of Positivism which was marked by the attempts at trying to stop the wholesale Russification and Germanization of the Poles ever since the Polish language was banned in reprisal for the January Uprising. Along with Roman Dmowski, Balicki was a key protagonist in the National Democratic campaign of antisemitic agitation.

Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later Emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.

Jan Stanisław Bystroń was a Polish sociologist and ethnographer. Professor of University of Poznań, University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, member of Polish Academy of Science.

Józef Chałasiński (1904-1979) was a Polish sociologist.

Barbara Czarniawska is an organization scholar.

Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. The novel was made into a film by the same title in 1975 by Jerzy Antczak. Dąbrowska was awarded the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. She translated Samuel Pepys' Diary into Polish.

Ludwik Stanisław Dorn is a Polish Jewish conservative politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007.

Urszula Doroszewska is a Polish diplomat, journalist and sociologist, ambassador to Georgia (2008–2013) and Lithuania.

Agnieszka Dudzińska is a Polish sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw. She is also an advocate for housing and the welfare of disabled people in Poland, and has been nominated twice for the position of Ombudsman for Children in the government of Poland.

Barbara Engelking is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in Poland.

Maciej Roman Gdula is a Polish sociologist specializing in social theory and political theory, as well as opinion journalist and politician.

Grażyna Gęsicka was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's government. From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus.

Piotr Tadeusz Gliński is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as President of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice, the largest opposition party, for Prime Minister of Poland. In the cabinet of Beata Szydło, he serves as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Law and Justice government.

Isacque (Isaac) Graeber was a sociologist, Jewish historian, and author. He authored several books and numerous papers ranging in subject matters from Jewish-Gentile relations to Jewish Education. He studied at Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania. During his long career he served as director of the College of Jewish Studies in Kansas City, and Director of Education to the Jewish community of Akron, Ohio.

Ludwig Gumplowicz, was a Polish sociologist. He was also a jurist and political scientist who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz.

Elżbieta Hałas (1954–present) is a Polish sociologist and a professor at the University of Warsaw. She specializes in the sociology of culture.

Alicja Iwańska was a Polish sociologist, academic and writer. Born into the landed gentry of Poland, her family were members of the intelligentsia and encouraged Iwańska to pursue her literary dreams. She began publishing poetry in 1935 in various literary journals. After her high school studies, she enrolled in philosophy courses at the University of Warsaw and went on to study for a master's degree. When World War II broke out, she joined the resistance movement and served as a courier. Involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, at the end of the war she became part of the secret anti-communist opposition. When arrests began involving the underground movement, Iwańska was forced to flee to the United States in 1948, where she reluctantly applied for asylum.

Adam Wacław Jelonek is the former Polish Ambassador to Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines. He is a professor and head of department in the Department of Middle and Far East at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He is a sociologist and political scientist.

Dariusz Jemielniak is a full professor of management, the head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (CROW), and a founder of New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group at Kozminski University. His interests revolve about critical management studies, open collaboration projects, narrativity, storytelling, knowledge-intensive organizations, virtual communities, organizational archetypes, all studied by interpretive and qualitative methods. In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees.

Professor Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska is a Polish sociologist, academic and political figure. Most recently, she served as the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education from 2013 to 2015. In order to take the appointment, she resigned as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where she represented the Lublin region from the Civic Platform Party list from 2009.

Krzysztof T. Konecki is a full professor and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review, and he holds the position of President of the Polish Sociological Association. He is also a member of the Sociology Committee of Polish Academy of Science. His interests lie in qualitative sociology, sociology of interaction, symbolic interactionism, sociology of body, methodology of social sciences, visual sociology, communication and intercultural management, organizational culture and management, and contemplative sociology. He is an author of many books and articles.

Monika Maria Kostera is a Polish economist, professor of management and organization theorist. She is known for her contribution to business studies, organizational archetypes and myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in organizational anthropology. She holds professorships at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, at Durham University, United Kingdom, and at Linnaeus University in Sweden.

Mikołaj Kozakiewicz was a Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.

Zdzisław Marek Krasnodębski, Ph.D. is a Polish sociologist, social philosopher, publicist and professor at the University of Bremen (Germany), who has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 election.

Stanisław Krusiński was a Polish economist, sociologist and political activists. One of the first Polish Marxists. With his colleagues, he translated Karl Marx's Capital into Polish.

Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist and sociologist. One of the early champions of sociology in Poland, he approached historical materialism from a sociological viewpoint. From 1919 to 1936 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw.

Józef Piotr Kupny is a Polish Catholic priest, current archbishop of Wrocław, and was the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice from 2006 to 2013.

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski is a Polish sociologist, professor, doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995). He was a rector of Cracow University of Economics in years 1990–1996.

Maria Ossowska was a Polish sociologist and social philosopher.

Stanisław Ossowski was one of Poland's most important sociologists.

Leon Petrażycki was a Polish philosopher, legal scholar, and sociologist. He is considered an important forerunner of the sociology of law.

Marek Prawda is a Polish sociologist and diplomat. Since April 2016 he is Head of Representation - Poland at European Commission.

Teodor Shanin, OBE was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995. Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Sławomir Witold Sierakowski is a Polish journalist, literary critic and sociologist as well as head of Krytyka Polityczna, a movement of left-wing intellectuals, artists and activists based in Poland and director of Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.

Paweł Śpiewak is the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He is a sociologist, historian, author and former politician.

Jadwiga Staniszkis is a Polish sociologist and political scientist, essayist, a former professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu, a Polish campus of National-Louis University.

Jacek Zbigniew Sutryk is a Polish politician and sociologist. He currently serves as the mayor of the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

Brunon Synak was a Kashubian sociologist, politician and local government activist. He was Chairman of the Main Board of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association.

Jerzy Ryszard Szacki was a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas. From 1973 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw, and in 1991 became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas.

Jacek Szmatka was a Polish sociologist. Professor the Jagiellonian University, visiting professor in a number of American universities State University of New York (Buffalo), Stanford University (Stanford), University of Washington (Seattle), University of South Carolina (Columbia).

Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński was a Polish sociologist, political scientist and writer. A professor of sociology, he was the founder and first headperson of the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Studies and the rector of Warsaw-based Collegium Civitas. He was also a fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, the University of Notre Dame, and Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, as well as a member of the Polish National Council for Civil Service and the National Council for European Integration. He was teaching at the College of Europe since 1999.

Florian Witold Znaniecki was a Polish philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work he shifted his focus from philosophy to sociology. He remains a major figure in the history of Polish and American sociology; the founder of Polish academic sociology, and of an entire school of thought in sociology. He won international renown as co-author, with William I. Thomas, of the study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918–1920), which is considered the foundation of modern empirical sociology. He also made major contributions to sociological theory, introducing terms such as humanistic coefficient and culturalism.

Ferdynand Zweig was a Polish sociologist and economist noted for his studies of the British working classes.