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  • Florian Znaniecki’s Culturalistic Sociology of Nation

  • Jacek Poniedziałek
  • Journal:
    Nationalities Papers / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / May 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 July 2022, pp. 665-683
    Print publication:
    May 2023
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  • The aim of this article is to characterize the culturalist theory of the nation by Florian Znaniecki. Opposing the sociological theory dominated by Western, particularly Anglo-Saxon, thinkers, Znaniecki rejected the view of the nation as a state society. He believed that the nation is a type of community constituted by a specific culture that is created by its intellectual leaders. To derive his findings, he used the knowledge gained from the experiences of the nations of Central and Eastern Europe. He believed that their specific history required the development of a sociological theory that was adequate for such research, not dominated by the findings of Western sociology.