This thematic issue will be devoted to the relationships between fashion and (in)justice. Fashion, understood as a socially structured system of practices, meanings, and relations within which dress becomes a vehicle of identity, power, and difference, today constitutes one of the key arenas in which the tensions of contemporary social orders are revealed. Positioned at the intersection of aesthetics and economics, creativity and exploitation, and global aspirations and local consequences, fashion is simultaneously entangled in processes that produce inequalities, hierarchies, and forms of symbolic exclusion. As an object of sociological and anthropological analysis, fashion cannot be reduced merely to the sphere of consumption or the clothing industry. Rather, it functions as a lens through which one can examine mechanisms of power, social classification, bodily control, and the production of material goods and cultural norms. It is precisely this multidimensional character of fashion that makes it an important and compelling subject for the social sciences.

The last decade in Polish humanities has been a special period. Research on 20th-century society, culture, and history has seen the emergence of new ways of thinking about post-war modernization, new approaches to the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, reinterpretations of the legacy of the People's Republic of Poland, as well as attempts to capture the history of class struggles within the so-called “zwrot ludowy” – and beyond. These scattered threads are linked by a common question about how to understand the transformations of Polish society after World War II and how to talk about their legacy in the present.

Kapituła IX Edycji Konkursu o nagrodę im. prof. Elżbiety Tarkowskiej na posiedzeniu w dniu 9 października 2025 roku oceniła nadesłane prace i dokonała wyboru nagród. Z uwagi na wysoki poziom prac nadesłanych do IX edycji Konkursu Kapituła tej edycji przyznała także wyróżnienie. 

Poland is home to diverse Ukrainian collectivities. Its distinctive feature, also compared to other Central and Eastern European countries, is that the numerous migrants from Ukraine arriving, especially after 2014, encounter representatives of the autochthonous Ukrainian national minority of non-migrant origin. In turn, after February 24, 2022, Poland welcomed people migrating due to the war in Ukraine – a third Ukrainian collective actor, on whose behalf there was an unprecedented mobilization of Ukrainian collectivities and whose presence has significantly reshaped the quantitative and symbolic relations between the Ukrainian national minority, Ukrainian citizens who arrived before 2022, and Polish society. 

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of APS, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences - publisher of the Quarterly "Culture and Society" and the Polish Sociological Association invite you to participate in the 9th Edition of the Competition for the Professor Elżbieta Award Tarkowska.

The authors are kindly invited to submit the paper through our website till June 18th, 2025. 

In anthropology, sensibility is one of the key features that allow practicing the discipline. Anthropologists constantly listen to the pulse of social life and vigilantly look out for its new forms and meanings. The sensibilities of anthropological theories are changing, their lens is transforming and it begins to capture those aspects of reality that were previously invisible or perceived as unimportant. Changes in sensibility take place in the methodology of anthropological research. New sensibilities of anthropology also result from its openness to broadly understood political transformations related to decolonization or social crises.

The proposed thematic issue of “Culture and Society” called “Biographical Method in the Social Sciences. Trends and Controversies” is a response to the ongoing discussions in the community of researchers dealing with personal documents regarding the understanding of epistemological-ontological bases, theoretical approaches, creative transformations of data collection techniques and analytical tools, but also ethical issues. 

Nagrodę za wyróżniającą się autorską pracę naukową z zakresu nauk społecznych o problemach ubóstwa i wynikającego z niego wykluczenia otrzymała

Magdalena Chułek za książkę pt. Jak wytwarzany jest slums? Studium przypadku mieszkańców Kibery i Korogocho w Nairobi, opublikowaną w 2023 w Toruniu przez Fundację na rzecz Nauki Polskiej.

In this issue of “Kultura i Społeczeństwo” we would like to address the issue of symbolic boundaries in social communication. We are interested in both theoretical articles and empirical studies of public and private discourse. We are also waiting for texts that reflect on the subject of communication research itself in its various forms. The editors of the issue are Jerzy Stachowiak (University of Lodz) and Adam Konopka (University of Gdańsk).

Zapraszamy do składania tekstów za pośrednictwem naszej strony! Na artykuły czekamy do 8 lipca 2024.

We invite researchers to submit articles for a special issue of our journal devoted to the concept of vulnerability. This concept is becoming more and more popular in social research, but it is ambiguous, used inconsistently and interpreted in various ways. It becomes all the more important to determine the meaning of this term in sociological sciences and related disciplines.

We invite you to submit articles for the upcoming issue of our journal, where we will focus on reflections on the concept of well-being. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2024. Details regarding submission and editorial requirements can be found on the journal's website: http://www.kulturaispoleczenstwo.pl/.

In the 7th edition of the Competition, the award for "an outstanding author's scientific work in the social sciences on the problems of poverty and the resulting social exclusion" went to Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych for her book entitled. "Dziecko wobec zagłady. Institutional care for orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto', published in 2022 by the Jewish Historical Institute.

In the planned issue of “Culture and Society,” we would like to consider topics related to the transformations of symbolic power and changes of its holders. Please submit texts by January 15, 2024.  

Zapraszamy do zgłaszania prac naukowych z zakresu nauk społecznych o problemach ubóstwa i/lub wykluczenia społecznego, opublikowanych w 2021 lub 2022 roku!

Członek Zespołu Redakcyjnego "Kultury i Społeczeństwa", prof. dr hab. Robert Traba otrzymał doktorat honoris causa Martin-Luther-Universität w Halle-Wittenberdze - najwyższą godność w naszej akademickiej pracy. Wręczenie doktoratu nastąpi 28 czerwca 2023 w Halle. Podczas tej podniosłej uroczystość prof. Traba wygłosi wykłąd pt. "Sukcesja kulturowa. Dlaczego (nie) potrzebujemy niechcianego dziedzictwa kulturowego"?

W liście Dziekana, prof. Andreasa Pečara informującym prof. Roberta Trabę o nadaniu doktoratu honorowego czytamy:  "Wydział Humanistyczny I: Nauki społeczne i historyczne nauki o kulturze Uniwersytetu Marcina Lutra w Halle-Wittenberdze decyzją Rady Wydziału, na wniosek Instytutu Historii, w dniu 19 kwietnia 2023 roku podjął decyzję o nadaniu Panu tytułu doktora honoris causa. Chciałbym pogratulować Panu w imieniu całego wydziału i złożyć moje szczere gratulacje. Honorujemy Pana za pracę nad metodologią i badaniami empirycznymi w zakresie transnarodowej historii wzajemnych oddziaływań [crossed history] oraz za osiągnięcia w krytycznym badaniu europejskich kultur i praktyk pamięci".

We invite you to submit texts until the end of March 2023. Due to the extension of the deadline for the call, we plan to publish the issue in 2024.

The editors of Culture and Society are extending the deadline for the submission of texts until January 31, 2023.

We invite authors to contribute to an issue devoted to topics related to war, refugees and social reactions to them, as well as social, population, identity and memory policies carried out both before and after February 24, 2022, by countries directly involved in the conflict (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus), "frontline" (Poland, the Baltic States, Moldova) and other European countries.

The winner of the VI Edition of the Competition for the Prof. Elżbieta Tarkowska Award is Beata Szluz, PhD, for her book entitled "'Przez zamknięte okno ganku” Opieka nad osobą z chorobą Alzheimera w biografiach opiekunów rodzinnych" published by the University of Rzeszow Publishing House in 2021.

Reminder! Call for papers on post-war people's histories - we invite you to submit texts until 31 May 2022.

We are pleased to inform you that The Ministry of Education and Science of Poland assigned 70 credits to publications in „Kultura i Społeczeństwo.” We invite authors to publish in English!

The Editorial Team of "Culture and Society" would like to remind you that the quarterly invites original texts and publishes them regularly. From 2020 onwards in the thematic issues we publish not only texts on a specific theme, but also articles on other topics.