Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology: Characteristics of Associational Life and the Development of Civic Society

peter EvansMalgorzata kurjanska加州大学伯克利分校这个项目是关于政治排斥和文化压制的国家政策如何塑造公民社会的论文实地工作的延续。在过去的二十年里，人们对社团生活的兴趣重新燃起。一些研究人员将公民社会置于民主巩固的核心。其他人则列举了由人口密集但不文明的社会支持的威权国家的例子。然而，很少有研究分析是什么力量塑造了联想景观？年代的性格。因此，这项研究提出了这样的问题：为什么会产生联想，是什么导致它们在性质上变得文明或不文明？通过对相关学术文献的梳理，可以发现两种解释：国家中心理论和经济理论。该项目通过对一战前和两次世界大战之间（1918-1939）波兰的交往生活的比较分析来测试和建立这些理论。该项目采用跨地区和跨时间的历史比较。它利用历史叙事和描述性统计来研究第一次世界大战前和两次世界大战之间波兰协会生活的发展。除了理论贡献外，这项研究将有助于了解东欧的公民社会。波兰公民社会在后共产主义背景下得到了广泛的研究。然而，对20世纪初东欧种族多样化社会中二战前社团生活的研究却很少。本文解决了现有研究中的这一空白。更广泛的影响这项研究包含了经常被忽视的研究，因为它不容易为非波兰语使用者提供。因此，它将把由于语言障碍而被边缘化的研究带给英语国家的观众。对两次世界大战之间形成波兰联合格局的因素进行历史分析，将有助于揭示具有日益增长的公民社会和不确定的民主化道路的现代多民族国家所奉行的社会和经济政策的影响。该项目有助于确定支持民间社会发展的社会或经济政策类型，从而促进现代辩论。

SES-1334130Peter EvansMalgorzata KurjanskaUniversity of California-BerkeleyThis project is a continuation of dissertation fieldwork on how state policies of political exclusion and cultural repression shaped civic society. The past two decades have seen a resurgence of interest in associational life. Some researchers place civil society at the heart of democratic consolidation. Others cite examples of authoritarian states supported by dense yet uncivil society. Few studies, however, analyze what forces shape the associational landscape?s character. Thus, this research asks: Why do associations arise and what leads them to become civil or uncivil in character? A survey of relevant scholarly literature reveals two types of explanations: state-centered and economic theories. This project tests and builds upon these theories through comparative analysis of associational life in pre-WWI and interwar [1918-1939] Poland. The project employs cross-regional and cross-time historical comparisons. It utilizes historical narratives and descriptive statistics to examine the development of associational life in pre-WWI and interwar Poland. In addition to theoretical contributions, this research will contribute to knowledge on civic society in Eastern Europe. Polish civic society has been researched extensively in the post-communist context. Yet there are few studies of pre-WWII associational life in the ethnically diverse societies of early twentieth century Eastern Europe. This dissertation addresses this gap in existing research.Broader Impacts The study incorporates research that is often overlooked as it is not readily available to non-Polish speakers. Thus, it will bring to an English-speaking audience studies that have been marginalized due to language barriers. A historical analysis of factors that shaped the associational landscape in interwar Poland will shed light on the implications of social and economic policies pursued by modern, multi-ethnic states with growing civic societies and uncertain paths to democratization. This project contributes to modern debates by helping to identify the types of policies, social or economic, which support the development of civil society.