Polish sociologist (born 1944)
Piotr Sztompka (born 2 March 1944, in Warsaw , Poland [ 1] sociologist known for his work on the theory of social trust. He is professor of sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków , Poland , and has also frequently served as visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , and at Columbia University in New York City .[ 2]
From 2002 to 2006 he was the 15th president of the International Sociological Association .[ 2]
Life
Sztompka studied law and sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, obtaining a Ph.D. degree there in 1970.
Two years later, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley . Since 1974 he has been on the faculty of its Sociology Department, as a teaching assistant and subsequently as a professor.
In the 1970s, Sztompka established a close collaboration with Robert K. Merton , which greatly influenced Sztompka's view of the discipline.
Sztompka has also taught as visiting professor at Columbia University , the University of Michigan , Johns Hopkins University , the University of Rome , and Tischner European University . He is a fellow of the Collegium Invisibile .[ 3]
Contributions
Sztompka's principal sociological interests include the social phenomenon of trust , social change , and, recently, visual sociology .[ 4]
Works
System and Function (Studies in Anthropology, 1974).Sociological Dilemmas (1979).Robert K. Merton : an Intellectual ProfileThe New Technological Challenge and Socialist Societies (editor, 1987).Rethinking Progress (with Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1990).Society in Action: the Theory of Social Becoming (1991).Sociology in Europe: in Search of Identity (with Birgitta Nedelmann, 1993).The Sociology of Social Change (1993).Agency and Structure: Reorienting Social Theory (International Studies in Global Change, vol. 4; editor, 1994).Robert K. Merton , On Social Structure and Science (editor), Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 0-226-52070-6 .Trust: a Sociological Theory (1999).
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