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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Metodologiczne aspekty badań regionu śląskiego w okresie międzywojennym z socjologicznej perspektywy

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The paper demonstrates the methodologic aspect of the Polish sociologic research on the Silesian region in the interwar period. Referring to pre-sociologic and sociologic research, it depicts the methodologic foundations and intellectual perspectives that were conceptualised by ludwik krzy-wicki and constitute the cognitive basis for the construction of the knowledge about Silesia – they are defined as the object analysis current and the subject analysis current. The article illustrates the evolution of research methods – from the questionnaire technique, via the existing materials analy-sis, to Florian Znaniecki’s id method and the monographic method used in field research. it touches upon the considerations on the unexploited current of sociologic research which was to provide the new category of sociologic materials, other than historic and ethnographic. consequently, the pa-per attempts to answer the question which methods and methodologies had the decisive impact on structuring the then knowledge about Silesia.