Towards the World Culture Society: Florian Znaniecki’s Culturalism

The series ＂Studies in Sociology: Symbols, Theory and Society＂ has been created by Elzbieta Halas and Risto Heiskala to stimulate cooperation in research on the meaning, forms and functions of symbolism in society. The series is open to various theoretical and methodological orientations in the studies of social symbolism. The aim is to show the central place of the problems of symbolization and symbolism in sociology - processes of symbolization in everyday life or in collective actions.

The Author: Elżbieta Halas is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Warsaw (Poland). Her recent publications include Symbols and Society, Warsaw 2007 (in Polish). Her research interests are in cultural sociology, social symbolism and collective memory, interpretive social theory and history of sociology.