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Metoda dokumentów osobistych Floriana Znanieckiego oraz metoda biograficzna i ich współczesne konotacje w socjologii

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The article demonstrates the significance of Florian Znaniecki’s personal documents method and biographical method in contemporary sociology. By relating to the methodological disputes of the late 19lh and early 20lh century, it indicates the theoretical basis for the establishment of those methods and the connection with inductive sociology put forward by F. Znaniecki. It presents the diary-writing competitions announced in the interwar period as a sign of the implementation thereof. Proceeding to the post-war period, the article shows the construction of knowledge concerning the Western and Northern Lands based on diary materiał. In conclusion, it refers to the significance of the personal documents method and the biographical method in research of minority groups as well, putting emphasis on its evolution towards the broadly conceived “biographical perspective.”