Stefan Nowakowski

Stefan Nowakowski (born August 6, 1912 in Kobyłka, Poland) is a Polish sociologist and researcher at the University of Warsaw, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a sociologist of the city. Curriculum vitae

In 1932 he graduated from the city grammar school No. 4 in Warsaw and in 1936 studied law at the University of Warsaw. In the years 1937-1939 he studied sociology at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, while working as a senior assistant at the Polish Sociological Institute. During World War II he participated in secret teaching and research work of the Polish Sociological Institute. In 1945 he worked briefly at the University of Lodz as an assistant in the Department of General Sociology. In December 1945 he started working at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, until 1950 as Senior Assistant in the Department of Theory of Culture. In 1947, he became a doctoral student at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries under the direction of Jan Stanisław Bystron. In the years 1950-1952 he headed the Chair of Social Techniques of Field Research, in 1951 he habilitated on the basis of the work of the social transformation of the indigenous population in Opole Silesia, then worked as a docent, and after the liquidation of the cathedral, in 1952-1957 in the Department of Historical Materialism headed by Julian Hochfeld .

Between 1957 and 1964 he was the head of the Chair of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, in 1960 he was appointed Professor of Extraordinary Studies, leading the Department of Sociology at the head of the department from 1964 to 1968. In 1968 he received the title of full professor. After the founding of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw in 1968, he headed the Department of Sociology of Villages and Cities in 1968-1982. He retired in 1982. At the same time since 1960 he worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, initially in the Interpretation of Theory of Culture and Social Change, in the years 1961-1969 as the head of the Department of Sociology of the City, in the years 1968-1980 he was the chairman of the IFiS PAN Scientific Council. Since 1971 he has been a correspondent member, since 1986 he was a real member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1969-1981 he served as deputy chairman, 1981-1984, from 1984 to 1989, honorary chairman of the Sociological Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1957 he was a member of the editorial staff of the Sociological Review, in the years 1967-1967 the editor-in-chief of the Sociological Studies, in the years 1961-1966 the editor-in-chief of the Polish Sociological Bulletin. From 1959 to 1962 he was the vice-president of the Polish Sociological Association, from 1977-1982 the vice-president, 1982-1989 the president of the Polish Society of Friends of Diary.

In 1973, he was awarded the Knight's Cross, in 1982 the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Since 1952 he was Sara Hurwic's husband (Irena Nowakowska). Publications Bibliography

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