Socjologia wobec kultury – uwagi na marginesie koncepcji Antoniny Kłoskowskiej

Dzisiejsze spojrzenie na dzieło Antoniny Kłoskowskiej prowadzi do podjęcia dwóch kwestii ogólnych. Pierwsza z nich dotyczy istoty kultury, a także jej historii oraz obecnego stanu. Druga odnosi się do statusu socjologii kultury jako jednej z dziedzin wiedzy o kulturze. Obydwa te zagadnienia rozpatrywane są na dwóch poziomach: rzeczowym (czym jest kultura? czym jest socjologia kultury?) i dyskursowym (jak kształtowały się dzieje pojęcia kultury i pojęcia socjologii kultury?). W tych ramach omawiam następujące problemy: kultura w tzw. węższym rozumieniu a kultura duchowa; socjologia kultury a socjologia kulturowa; autoteliczność a autonomia kultury; homogenizacja a hybrydowość kultury; oraz dystancjacja a dedystantacjacja. W tych kontekstach nawiązuję w szczególności do koncepcji Alfreda Webera, Jeffreya Alexandera, Theodora Adorno i Karla Mannheima.

A contemporary look at the oeuvre of Antonina Kłoskowska leads to consideration of two general issues. The first of these concerns the essence of culture as well as its history and current state of affairs. The second question involves the status of the sociology of culture as one of the domains of knowledge regarding culture itself. Each of these issues is discussed on two separate levels: culture as substance (what is culture? what is the sociology of culture?), and culture as discourse (how have the notions of culture and of the sociology of culture been formed?). It is within this framework that the following problems are addressed: culture in a narrower sense of the term vs. intellectual culture (Geisteskultur); the sociology of culture vs. cultural sociology; the autotelicity vs. autonomy of culture; the homogenization vs. hybridity of culture; and, finally, distantiation vs. de-distantiation. In these contexts I refer in particular to the concepts of Alfred Weber, Jeffrey Alexander, Theodor Adorno, and Karl Mannheim.A contemporary look at the oeuvre of Antonina Kłoskowska leads to consideration of two general issues. The first of these concerns the essence of culture as well as its history and current state of affairs. The second question involves the status of the sociology of culture as one of the domains of knowledge regarding culture itself. Each of these issues is discussed on two separate levels: culture as substance (what is culture? what is the sociology of culture?), and culture as discourse (how have the notions of culture and of the sociology of culture been formed?). It is within this framework that the following problems are addressed: culture in a narrower sense of the term vs. intellectual culture (Geisteskultur); the sociology of culture vs. cultural sociology; the autotelicity vs. autonomy of culture; the homogenization vs. hybridity of culture; and, finally, distantiation vs. de-distantiation. In these contexts I refer in particular to the concepts of Alfred Weber, Jeffrey Alexander, Theodor Adorno, and Karl Mannheim.