Misztal
Dr. Bronislaw Misztal
December 1997
BRONISLAW MISZTAL
CURRENT
POSITION PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIOLOGY
FELLOW, THE LIFE CYCLE
INSTITUTE
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
PROFESSIONAL
ADDRESS THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF
AMERICA
LCI
213
WASHINGTON, DC
20064
Phone: (202) 319-5999 FAX (202)319-4630
Internet: misztal@cua.edu
EDUCATION
Advanced Degree POLISH
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
DR.
HAB.
INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY & SOCIOLOGY;
1977
Post-Doctoral
CENTRE D'ETUDE DES MOUVEMENTS
SOCIAUX
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA
RECHERCHE
SCIENTIFIQUE
PARIS, FRANCE, 1974-1975
Doctor's Degree POLISH
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
DR.
HAB.
INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY & SOCIOLOGY;1973
Graduate
WARSAW UNIVERSITY
M.A.
(Sociology) PHILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT: 1966-1968
summa cum
laude DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES: 1968-1970
Undergraduate
POLYTECHNIC OF WARSAW
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1996- THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF
AMERICA
Ordinary Professor
(tenured)
Department of Sociology and The Life Cycle
Institute
University Honors
Program
Coordinator, Summer School of European Studies
in
Cracow, PL
1988-1995 INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT FORT
WAYNE
Full Professor (1990-), tenured; Associate
Professor
(1988-1990)
Graduate Faculty, Indiana University (Full Member)
1984-1986 JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY IN CRACOW, POLAND
Associate Professor
1971-1982
POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
&
SOCIOLOGY
Associate Professor (1977-1982); Assistant
Professor
(1971-1977)
RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
COMPARATIVE
EDUCATION
EUROPEAN STUDIES
COMPARATIVE POLITICS &
SOCIETY POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS &
CHANGE POST-COMMUNIST
SOCIETY
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
TRANSITION SOCIAL THEORY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
RESEARCH
RESEARCH IN
PROGRESS
1996-98 Patterns of Human
Concern.
Re-make of Hadley Cantrill's research, to be
conducted
as a comparative project in Poland, Slovakia,
China
and East Germany.
1997 Identity Politics and
Political Discourse.
"Solidarity" and "Militant Solidarity" in Poland
of
the 1980s. Research on the archives of the
two
movements.
GRANTS [last 7 years]
1995
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant
1994 Centre d'Etude des
Mouvements Sociaux;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris,
France
1992 The University of
Michigan. Center for Russian
and
East European
Studies.
Faculty Enrichment Program Grant
1991 The Foellinger
Foundation and Samuel
Gompers
Foundation (AFL-CIO).
Directing and Coordinating Solidarity Urban
Training
Program in Ft.Wayne
1990 Hewlett Foundation
Research
Grant.
Indiana University-Bloomington.
1990 The Poland Municipal
Leadership Education &
Training
Program.
Project Coordinator. Sister Cities International.
1989 Europeanization of the
Sociology Curriculum.
Institute for Global Studies, Indiana University.
1989 Alternative Social
Movements in Eastern
Europe.
School of Arts & Sciences. Indiana University,
Fort
Wayne.
FELLOWSHIPS & HONOURS
1996 The Skalny Foundation,
University of Rochester
&
St.John Fisher's
College
Skalny Lecture and Artist Series, Featured Lecturer
1994 Harvard University &
The National Science
Foundation
The Chatauqua Programs, Special Course
on
"Nationalism."
1992 The University of
Michigan, Center for Russian &
East
European Studies Center Associate
1991 Augusta College, GA.
Cullum Scholar.
1988 Northwestern University;
Visiting Research
Scholarship
Center for Urban Affairs & Policy Research,
and
Sociology Department
1985 Agder College,
Kristiansand, Norway; Visiting
Research
Scholarship
1984 The Hoover Institution
for War, Peace and
Revolution
Research Scholarship
1982-83 Northwestern University; Visiting
Research
Scholarship
Center for Urban Affairs & Policy Research
1980-81 University of Chicago; Department of
Sociology
Fulbright-Hays Academic Award; Senior Fellowship
1981 Universite Catholique de
Louvain,
Chair-Jacques
Leclercq; Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
1978 The Royal Academy of
Sweden; Visiting Fellowship
1976 The British Council,
U.K.; Visiting Fellowship
Universities of Essex, Cambridge and Edinburgh
1975 Centre d'Etude des
Mouvements Sociaux, CNRS.
(Paris)
French Government's Academic Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INTELLECTUAL DEBATES OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
(University Honours Programme)
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
& REVOLUTIONS
POST-COMMUNIST
SOCIETY
SOCIAL CHANGE IN E.
EUROPE
INTEGRATION & DISINTEGRATION OF
EUROPE
COMPARATIVE POLITICS & SOCIETY
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
VISITING POSITIONS
1995
EINAUDI INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN
STUDIES
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca
NY
Visiting Professor of Government
1995 THE MAXWELL SCHOOL OF
CITIZENSHIP
SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY
Visiting Professor
1994 CENTRE D'ETUDE DES
MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX, CNRS,
Paris,
France
Directeur de la recherche
associe
1986-87 GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY,
Australia
Visiting Lecturer
1983-84 THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES, Pitzer College,
Claremont,
California
Visiting Lecturer
1982-83 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY,
Carbondale,
Illinois
Visiting Associate
Professor
1982
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis,
Missouri
Visiting Associate Professor
PUBLICATIONS
A. WORK IN PROGRESS
"Social Movements as a Factor of Hope in the Processes
of Social
Change." Conference paper developed into a chapter in
the
forthcoming book on Comparative Social Movements.
"Social Movements & Social Change in East Central Europe."
manuscript
TO BE submitted to University of Minnesota Press.,
series on International
Social Movements.
Social Movements at the Turn of Century. Prentice Hall
(forthcoming
1999). Manuscript under contract.
B. BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Religion and Social Action. Edited volume.
Westport, CT: Praeger
1997 (Co-editor with Anson Shupe) (forthcoming)
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective. Revival of
Religious
Fundamentalism in East and West. Edited volume.Westport,
CT: Praeger.
1992. (Co-editor with Anson Shupe)
Social Movements As A Factor of Change in the Contemporary World.
vol. 10
of "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change."
Greenwich, Conn:
JAI Press, 1988. Volume Editor and Co-Author.
Poland After Solidarity. Social Movements versus the State.
New
Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1985. Volume Editor and
Co-Author.
C. BOOKS IN POLISH
Urban Sociology. Theory and the Prospects for
Practical
Applications. Warsaw: CRZZ Publishers, 1978.
The Problems of Social Participation & Co-operation. An Analysis
in
the Light of Sociological Theory & Research. Warsaw:
Ossolineum
Publishers, 1977.
Peer Groups in Urban Socio-Political Culture. Warsaw:
Ossolineum
Publishers, 1974.
D. ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
in English
"A World without A Doctrine." 2B. Intellectual Quarterly. 1997, 1
[refereed] [forthcoming]
"Social Movements, Protest Cycles and the Collapse of Communism.
Polish
Sociological Bulletin 1995, 1: 15-31 [refereed]
"In the Beginning Was Non-Violence. Social Movements, Protest
Cycles and
the Collapse of the Communist World." The Joan B. Kroc
Institute for
International Peace Studies, Occasional Papers
Series, 7:OP:3, 1994.
[refereed]
"One Movement, Two Interpretations. The Orange Alternative
Movement
in Poland." British Journal of Sociology 43 (1)1992:
55-79. [refereed]
"An Intellectual vis a vis the Breakdown of the Etatistic Order:
Between
Misunderstanding of the Past and Misinterpreting the
Future."
Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature & Culture
1(1), 1991:
46-49. [refereed]
"Social Movements of the Core and Periphery." Australian &
New
Zealand Journal of Sociology 24, 1, March 1988: 65-83. [refereed]
"The State's Capacity to Change. The Case of Poland and the
Philippines."
International Journal of Comparative Sociology XXVII
3-4 (1987),
July-October:141-161. [refereed]
"Uncontrolled Processes in the Socialist City." Politics & Society
15,
2 (1986-1987): 145-156.
"Barriers to Social Development in Polish Sociological Thought."
British
Journal of Sociology 4 (1985), December: 574-585.
[refereed]
"The Explanatory Utility of Major Sociological Theories Developed
in
Poland 1970-1980." Sociology 18, 2 (1984), May: 239-252.
[refereed]
"Urban Social Problems in Poland. The Macrosocial Determinants."
Urban
Affairs Quarterly 19, 3 (1984), March: 315-328. [refereed]
"Autobiographies, Diaries, Life-Histories and Oral Histories as a
Source
of Socio-Historical Knowledge." International Journal of
Oral History 3
(1981):181-194. [refereed]
in other languages (selected publications)
"Sociological Theory as a Way of Seeing." Studia Socjologiczne
1998,
[in Polish] [refereed] [forthcoming]
"The Costly Road to Identity. Nationalism and the Modern World."
Studia
Socjologiczne 3-4, 1995: 193-201. [in Polish] [refereed]
"The Politics of Protest and the Processes of Dismantling Socialist
State
in Poland and in Hungary". Politikatudomanyi Szemle
[Hungarian Journal of
Political Science] 3, 1993: 71-94 [refereed]
"East European Social Movements
and their Role in Social Change."
Sociologia, 23 , 5-6, 1992: 387-403.
[Bratislava, Slovakia]
[refereed]
"The Orange Alternative Movement in Poland" and "Political
Transformations
and Social Movements in Eastern Europe." Magyar
Narancs. March 1990,
April 1990. [Budapest, Hungary]
"The Explanatory Ability of the Mainstream Marxist Theories of
Socialist
Society." Przyjaciel Nauk. [Independent underground
academic journal in
Poland] November 1987 [refereed]
"Les vainqueurs et les vaincuus: la Pologne apres decembre 1981."
Life
Stories/Recits de vie 2 (1986): 21-34. [with Jacek Wasilewski]
[refereed]
"Fascination & Involvement. Current Theoretical Streams in
American
Urban Sociology." Studia Socjologiczne 3 (1985). [refereed]
"Sociological Theory of Social Movements." Studia Socjologiczne
1
(1984): 113-138. [refereed]
"The Role of the Spontaneous and
Controlled Processes in the Course
of Socialist Urbanization." Studia
Socjologiczne 3-4 (1982):
115-134. [refereed]
"La politique sociale en Pologne et les formes du travail social."
Sociologie du Sud-Est 28-29 (1981): 103-117. [refereed]
"Workers" Autobiographies as a Source of Socio-Historical
Knowledge."
Dzieje Najnowsze [Recent History] 2 (1980):
139-151.[refereed]
"Social Participation at the Age of Technological Civilization."
Studia
Filozoficzne 9 (1979): 75-85. [refereed]
"The Circulation of Cultural Patterns: The Centre and Periphery."
Regiony
[Regions] 1 (1976): 39-54. [refereed]
"Development of Towns, Urbanization and the Emerging Urban
Life-Style in
England." Studia Socjologiczne 2 (1975): 147-168.
[refereed]
"Social Differentiation of the Tradesmen at the Private Retail
Market."
Studia Socjologiczne 3 (1971): 203-222. [refereed]
E. CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS
in English
"Religious Fundamentalism and Social Action." Pp. Xxxx in Religion
and
Social Action. Anson Shupe and Bronislaw Misztal (eds.),
Westport, CT:
Praeger. [forthcoming in 1997]
"The Old, The New and the Alternative. Social Movements As Actors
in
Conflict and Social Movements As Actors in Social Change in
Eastern Europe. "
Pp. xxxx in New Social Movements. European and
American Perspectives.
Margit Mayer (ed.). London: Routledge.
[forthcoming 1997] [refereed]
"Starting From The Scratch is Not Always The Same. The Politics of
Protest
and the Strategies of Post-Communist Reconstruction in
Poland and
Hungary." Pp. 324-341 in The Politics of Protest and
Social Movement
Strategies. Craig Jenkins and Bert Klandermans
(eds), Minneapolis: Minnesota
Univ. Press 1995. [with Craig J.
Jenkins] [refereed]
"The Uses of Freedom." Pp. 264-287 in Cultural Policies and
New
Social Movements. Barbara Epstein and Richard Flacks
(eds.),
Philadelphia, Temple Univ. Press 1995. [refereed]
"Sociological Theories of Socialist Society." Pp. 163-177 in
Eastern
Europe in Transformation. The Impact on Sociology. Michael
F. Keen and
Janusz Mucha (eds.), Greenwood Press. 1994. [refereed]
"Theories of Social Change in East-Central Europe." Pp. 13-50
in
Studia nad transformacja polskiej gospodarki [Studies of
transformation
of the Polish economy]. Stanislaw Marczuk and
Kazimierz Z. Sowa (eds),
Rzeszow: Resovian University Press. 1993.
[refereed]
"Making Sense of the Global Revival of Fundamentalism." (with
Anson
Shupe) Pp. 3-10 in Religion and Politics in Comparative
Perspective.
Revival of Religious Fundamentalism in East and West.
Bronislaw Misztal and
Anson Shupe (eds). Westport, CT: Praeger.
1992. [refereed]
"The Conflict Between Denominational State and 'State of Law.'"
Pp.
164-179 in Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective.
Revival of
Religious Fundamentalism in East and West. Bronislaw
Misztal and Anson
Shupe (eds). Westport, CT: Praeger. 1992.
[refereed]
"Alternative Social Movements in Poland." Pp. 67-88 in Research
in
Social Movements, Conflicts & Change. Louis Kriesberg
(ed.),vol.
12, 1990. Greenwich, Conn., JAI-Press. [refereed]
"Poland." Pp. 265-287 in International Handbook of Housing.
Willem
van Vliet (ed.), Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.
[refereed]
"Democratization Processes As An Objective of New Social
Movements." In
Social Movements As A Factor of Change in the
Contemporary World. Pp.
93-107 in Bronislaw Misztal et al (eds.),
Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1988.
[refereed]
"Scarce State Resources and the Unrestrained Social Processes
under
Socialism. The Case of Housing." Pp. 191-203 in Housing Markets
and
Policies under Fiscal Austerity. Willem van Vliet
(ed.),
Greenwood, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1987. [refereed]
"The Transformation of Political Elites." Pp. 169-186 in
Polish
Politics: Edge of the Abyss. Jack Bielasiak and Maurice D.
Simon
(eds.), New York: Praeger, 1984. [refereed]
"Apathy-Participation-Apathy. The Vicious Circle of Collective
Behaviour
in Contemporary Poland." Pp. 3-19 in Poland After
Solidarity. Social
Movement versus the State. Bronislaw Misztal
(ed), New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction Books, 1985. [refereed]
"Social Movements against the State. Theoretical Legacy of the
Welfare
State." Pp. 143-165 in Poland after Solidarity. Social
Movement versus
the State. Bronislaw Misztal (ed), New Brunswick,
N.J.: Transaction
Books, 1985. [refereed]
"Stability of the Socio-Political System in Poland. Revolutionary
Social
Processes and Their Totalitarian Epilogue." Pp. 161-193 in
Poland's
Solidarity Movement. Lawrence Biondi and Frank Mocha
(eds.), Chicago: Loyola
University Press, 1984. [refereed]
"The Petite Bourgeoisie in Socialist Society." Pp. 90-105 in
The
Petite Bourgeoisie. Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratum.
Frank
Bechhofer and Brian Elliott (eds), London: Macmillan, 1981.
[refereed]
in other languages
Polish Sociological Encyclopaedia. Three Entries: "Social
Movements."
"Collective Behavior." "Fundamentalism." Wladyslaw
Kwasniewicz (ed.),
Polish Scientific Publishers, 1996 [forthcoming]
[refereed] [in Polish]
"Social Differentiation of the Tradesmen at the Private
Retail
Market." Pp.xx-xx in Classical Traditions in Polish
Modern
Sociology. Antoni Sulek (ed.), Polish Scientific Publishers,
1994.
[in Polish] [refereed]
"Ganadores y Perdedores en Polonia despues del golpe militar
de
1981." Pp. 121-135 in El Poder En La Sociedad. Historia y
fuente
oral. Mercedes Vilanova (ed.), Barcelona: Antoni Bosch,
1986.
[with Jacek Wasilewski] [refereed]
"Macro-Social Determinants of Urban Social Problems in Poland."
Pp.
121-135 in Urban Theory and the Social Problems of the
Polish
Cities. Ewa Kwiatkowska et als. (eds.), Wroclaw:
Ossolineum
Publishers, 1983. [in Polish] [refereed]
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Sociological
Association
Social
Movements & Collective Behavior
Section
Political
Sociology Section
Sociological Theory Section
International
Sociological
Association
Executive
Secretary, Research Committee 48 on
Social
Movements &
Social Change
Research
Committee 43 on Housing & Built Environment
Polish Sociological Association
Polish Institute of
Arts & Sciences in America
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
American Sociological Review, Social Forces;
International Social
Movements Research, Social Problems; Polish
Sociological
Encyclopaedia; Prentice Hall; Wadsworth Publishers;
Minnesota
University Press; Texas A&M University Press
BOOK REVIEWER
Contemporary Sociology; International Journal of Life
Histories;
Social Forces, Journal of Architecture and Planning
Research,
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION JUDGE
Sterling Sentinel Scholarship Competition in
Social Studies- 1993,
1994.
MALINOWSKI ACADEMIC AWARD
Member, Academic Jury Committee, Polish
Institute of Arts and
Sciences
MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL
BOARDS
Texas A&M University, Eastern European Studies
Praeger
Publishers, Studies in Sociology of Religion
Sociological Review, The Journal
of Slovak Sociological
Association,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Environment et
Nature, Paris, France
2B. Intellectual Quarterly, Chicago, US
PAPERS GIVEN AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
1997
European Sociological Association Conference, Essex, UK,
August.
"Two movements and their identity politics. 'Solidarity'
and
'Militant Solidarity' in Poland." Social Movements Section.
First Regional Conference on Social Movements, Tel-Aviv,
Israel,
September. "Like Oranges to Apples--Comparing Social Movements."
Fourth Biennial Conference on Polish Affairs. "The Psycho-Social
Costs of
Transition" St.Mary's College. "Post-Communist Transition
and the Prospects
for the "New Men""
1995
International Research Group on Social Movements.
Special
Colloquium on Transnational Social Movements, Geneva,
Switzerland.
Research Paper on Production and Diffusion of
International
Fundamentalist Movements. [refereed]
Fourth Biennial Conference on Polish Affairs. "Fifty Years
Later.
East-Central Europe 1945-1995." St. Mary's College. "Return of
the
Elephants, or the Intellectual Heritage of Ellie Halevy."
1994
International Sociological Association. World Congress
of
Sociology. Bielefeld, Germany. "Intellectuals and
Social
Movements in East-Central Europe-The Nomads of the Future."
(with
S. Magala); "Prolegomena to the Theory of New Religious
Movements."
(with A. Shupe)
American Sociological Association. Annual Meetings, Los Angeles,
CA.
Organizer. Special Session on Political Participation in
Post-Communist
Europe.
1993
International Sociological Institute. 31st World Congress.
Paris,
France. "Historical development and evolution of
sociological
theories of state socialist society." [refereed]
American Sociological Association. Annual Meetings. Miami,
FL.
"Dismantlement of State Socialism and Building Democracy in
Poland."
[refereed]
Indiana University-Bloomington. International Conference on
Transitions in
East-Central Europe. Discussant; Plenary session.
Third Biennial Conference on Polish Affairs. "Poland..Between
Two
Worlds." St.Mary's College. "Indefiniteness of Social Change
in
Poland."
1992
Southern Sociological Meetings. N. Orleans. "The Politics
of
Protest in Poland &Hungary." [refereed]
International Conference on Life Stories of Intellectuals.
CNRS-Paris
& Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Czechoslovakia.
First European Conference on Social Movements. Berlin. Keynote
speaker.
"Social movements as the ways of doing and social
movements as the ways of
seeing." [refereed]
Second Annual Conference on Polish Affairs. "From Post-Communism
to
Post-Solidarity: Polish Transition Embroiled." St.Mary's
College.
"Deterioration of Social Movement."
1991
International Conference.Perestroika and the Global Village.
York
University, Toronto, Canada. "Social Movements as Actors of
Change."
[refereed]
International Conference: Theory and Contemporary Social
Movements.
University of California-Santa Cruz. "Social Movements as Actors
in
Conflict and as Actors in Change. The East European Amendment
of
Sociological Theory." [refereed]
North-East Central Sociological Association. Annual Meetings,
Dearborn,
Mi. "Social Movements in Eastern Europe. What Was Seen
and What Was
Missed By the Western Media."
Cullum Colloquia Series, Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia. Poland.
A
Symbol of Change. "The Role of Intellectuals in Social
Movements." [refereed]
Intergovernmental Conference on Cooperation Between East and West.
Prague,
Czechoslovakia. "Initiating the Grassroots Cooperation
Programs."
Association for Humanist Sociology. Annual Meeting, Ottawa,
Canada.
Workshop on training for democracy (in absentia).
First International Conference on Polish Affairs: "New
Poland-Old
Obstacles. Democratic Aspirations vs. Communist Legacy in
Today's
Poland." St.Mary's College. "The Uses of Freedom in
Post-Communist
Poland."
Foreign Affairs Forum. Fort Wayne, Indiana. American Leadership in
the
Changing World Order. "Freedom Does Not Equal Democracy In
Eastern Europe."
1990
Perspectives of the East European University: Expectations
and
Realities. National Association of State Universities and
Land
Grant Colleges. Annual Meeting, Kansas City, KS.
Invited
Panelist.
Sociology in Eastern Europe. Georgia Sociological Association,
Annual
Meetings, Chatsworth, Ga. Keynote Speaker.
A Discussion of Socialism: Past and Future by Michael Harrington.
American
Sociological Association. Annual Meetings, Washington,
D.C. Section on
Political Sociology. [refereed]
Transformation of the State--From Socialist to the Liberal One--and
Its
Impact on Housing Policies and the Processes of Segregation.
World Congress
of Sociology-International Sociological Association,
Madrid, Spain.
Research Committee #43 on Housing and Built
Environment. [refereed]
From the Jack to the King. Solidarity and Social Change From Above
in
Poland. World Congress of Sociology-International
Sociological
Association, Madrid. Spain. Working Group #01 on Social
Movements
and Collective Behavior. [refereed]
La transformation des valeurs de solidarite au cours de la
transformation
du systeme sociale en Pologne. International
Conference on the Values
of Solidarity in Industrial Enterprize.
Lievin-Paris, France.
Polish-American Lobby.Past and Present.International Conference
on
Diasporas and Modern Foreign Policy. The Panteios University of
Social
& Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. [refereed]
Social Change from Above in Eastern Europe.Southern Sociological
Society
& North-East Central Sociological Society. Annual Meetings,
Louisville,
KY.
An Individual vis a vis the Breakdown of the Etatistic Order.
Between
Misunderstanding of the Past and Misinterpreting the
Future.
International Workshop on The Varieties of Historicism.
University of
California-Irvine. [refereed]
1989
The Happeners & the Onlookers. The Orange Alternative in Poland
as
a Surrealistic Product of Surrealist Social Reality.
American
Sociological Association; Annual Meetings, San
Francisco.
[refereed]
Comparative Sociology's Contribution to the Advancement of
Critical
Thinking. The East-European Experience. International Conference
on
Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA.
Urban Social Problems in Poland Revisited. International Workshop
on the
Socialist City in Comparative Perspective. The University of
Texas-Austin.
LBJ School of Public Affairs and Sociology
Department. [refereed]
New Movements, Old Agendas. Theoretical Interpretations of
Social
Movements in Eastern Europe. International Workshop on Theory
of
New Social Movements. University of California-Santa Cruz.
[refereed]
1987
Political Explanations of Social Conflicts under State Socialism.
American Sociological Association; Annual Meetings: Chicago.
[refereed]
1986
Scarce State Resources and the Unrestrained Processes under
State
Socialism.World Congress of Sociology-International
Sociological
Association; New Delhi, India. [in absentia]
Social Movements of The Core and Periphery. and The State's
Capacities to
Change. The Case of Poland and the Philippines.
Sociological Association of
Australia & New Zealand; Annual
Meetings: Armidale.
1985
Theory of the Socialist State and State Socialism.III
World
Congress of East European Studies, Washington, D.C. [in absentia]
Democratization Processes As an Objective of New Social
Movements.
International Conference on Social Movements as a Factor of
Change
in the Contemporary World; Jagiellonian University: Cracow, Poland.
Methodology of Research on Social Development on Sparsely
Populated
Areas.Social Development of Sparsely Populated Areas,
International
Conference , Umea University, Center for Regional Research;
Umea:
Sweden.
Unrestrained Processes in the Socialist City. The Case of Housing.
Ad Hoc
Committee on Housing & Built Environment, International
Sociological
Association; Amsterdam: The Netherlands.
The Winners and Losers. International Oral History Association;
Barcelona:
Spain.
1984
Contemporary Social Movements Against the System in Poland.
Western
Slavic Association; Stanford: U.S.A.
1983
The Politics of the State and the Social Movement under Martial
Law
in Poland.American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies.
Annual Meeting: Kansas City.
Apathy and Participation. The Natural History of Polish
Solidarity
Movement. Midwest Slavic Association. Annual Meeting: Chicago.
Barriers to Social Development in Polish Sociological Thought.
Southern
Sociological Society. Annual Meeting: Atlanta. [in
absentia]
The Issue of Stability of the Socio-Political System in Poland.
American
Association for Teaching of Slavic and East European
Studies. Annual
Meetings: Chicago.
1982
The Stages of Development of Social Movement in Poland.
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Annual
Meeting:
Washington,D.C.
Spontaneous and Controlled Processes under Socialist Urbanization.
and The
Explanatory Accuracy of Sociological Theories Developed in
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XIII World Congress of Sociology. International Sociological
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Bielefeld, July 1994. Program Coordinator for all
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