
The article focuses on how the thinking of Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), who exerted a formative influence on the development of sociology in Poland after World War II, is currently received. She is acknowledged as the founder of the Łódź school of sociology of culture. Her concepts of culture and nation are rarely cited today. Sociologists of the younger generation see this as resulting from social changes and the different way in which science is now practised. While pondering over whether Antonina Kłoskowska’s concept of culture and nation could provide answers concerning today’s reality and its roots, they emphasise the major significance of this heritage for the development of sociology and cultural studies.
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