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Preface
forPolishscientists.Teyhavealreadyresultedinmanypublications
inthePolishlanguage.Wewishtopresenttheresultsofouractivity
toalargeraudience,andthisistheprimaryaimofthismonograph.It
hasbeenpurposefullytitled:CriticalRealismandHumanityintheSocial
Sciences.ArcherianStudies,asitisdevotedtooneofthemostcrucial
issuesoriginatingfromM.S.Archer’sinquiries.Itisalsooneofthe
mainthemesoftheresearchconductedatourDepartment,namely:
theadequacyofsociologytounderstandtheessenceofhumannature,
asemergingfromtheperspectiveofcriticalrealism.
Tetextsofthismonographaddresstheparadigmaticandmeta-
methodologicalproblemswhichcontemporarysociologyfaceswhen
tryingtoprovethatinordertoanswerthequestion:(howshouldit
beexamined?’,thecrucialpointtodefineis:(whatexactlyisit?’Tus
weneedtoreturntotheontologyofman,societyandculture.Te
presentedstudiesareofarathergeneralcharacter,referringmainlytothe
sphereofphilosophicalanthropologyand–sotospeak–sociological
anthropology.Tesetwofieldsareutilisedinanattempttoscrutinize
theissuemorethoroughly,byexploringsubjectivityandpower,aswellas
thesignificanceandlegitimacyofreligiouslymotivatedsocialsciences.
Itappearsthatthesocialsciencesarecurrentlystandingat
aparadigmaticcrossroads.Manyofthealluringconceptsofthe1970s
havelosttheirappeal–andinouropinion,rightlyso.Criticalrealism,
whosebeginningsinsocialsciencesgobacktothesamedecade,hasstood
thetestoftime.Infact,itnowseemstohavegainednewmeaningand
isperhapsmorerelevantthaneverbefore.Westronglybelievethatit
olersgreathopeforthedisorientatedanddisconcertedsocialsciences,
andthatitiswhyitisworthseriousinvestigation.
Tefirstpartofthismonograph,titled:CriticalRealismintheSocial
Sciences,coversfivechapterswrittenbyKrzysztofWielecki,Wiesław
Wójcik,ArkadiuszJabłoński,MarcinZarzeckiandIzabelaBukalska,
andcommencesbypresentingtheverysubstanceoftheparadigmatic
andmethodologicalpropositionsmadebyM.S.Archer.
KrzysztofWielecki’sessay,titledSociologyataCrossroads:the
SignificanceofMargaretS.Archer’sTeory,isanattempttoshowthe
impactofthistheoryonmodernsociology.Ananalysisofthemain
