Piotr Sztompka

Piotr Sztompka (born 1944) is professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile.^[1]

Works

• System and Function (Studies in Anthropology, 1974).
• Sociological Dilemmas (1979).
• Robert K. Merton: an Intellectual Profile (1986)
• The 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, 1996).
• Trust: a Sociological Theory (1999).

Awards

• New Europe Prize.

See also

• Robert K. Merton
• List of multiple independent discoveries
• Trust (social sciences)

References

• "Sztompka, Piotr (1944—)," Contemporary Authors, 2004.

External links

• Short bio
• Interview with

Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 44318733 LCCN: n79115921 ISNI: 0000 0000 8122 4858 GND: 129679100 BNF: cb12055992n

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Name	Sztompka, Piotr
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Short description	Polish sociologist
Date of birth	1944
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