2024-04-15, 18:12 PAP/Editorial team
Next week prof. Staniszkis would have been 82 years old. The information about the professor’s death was confirmed on Monday afternoon by the deceased’s daughter, Joanna Staniszkis.
Prof. Staniszkis graduated from the Sociological Section of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1971, she defended her doctorate (the book “Pathologies of organizational structures: an attempt at a systemic approach” written on the basis of her doctoral thesis received the Ossowski Award in 1976), and in 1978 she obtained the academic degree of doctor habilitated in humanities in the field of sociology. On October 20, 1992, she received the title scientific professor of humanities.
Together with respected professors
After graduating, she worked at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. She was one of the young assistants (along with Waldemar Kuczyński, Marcin Król, Andrzej Mencwel and Aleksander Smolar) who, together with respected professors (including Zygmunt Bauman, Włodzimierz Brus, Leszek Kołakowski, Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Maria Ossowska) and politically active students (so-called commandos, including Seweryn Blumsztajn, Teresa Bogucka, Jan Lityński, Adam Michnik and Henryk Szlajfer) organized intellectual political life at the University of Warsaw in the form of discussion meetings and seminars often held in clandestine conditions. As part of such an organized environment, she participated in the March events in 1968. For participating in student protests, she faced repression in the form of dismissal from her job at the University and nine months of arrest.
She advised the Solidarity trade unionists
After being dismissed from work, she continued her scientific activities. She started writing her doctoral thesis while still under arrest, and defended it while working as a teacher at a nursing school. She was reinstated to work at the Institute of Sociology only in 1981. Earlier, in August 1980, she was invited by the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee in Gdańsk to participate in negotiations with the government. She became a member of the MKS Expert Committee. After concluding the August Agreements and establishing the Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity”, she advised trade unionists.
After the introduction of martial law, she lectured at the Solidarity University and published in the underground press. The result of her experience in NSZZ “Solidarność” is Poland’s self-limiting revolution (1984), a monograph in English about the self-limiting revolution, which was published in Polish in 2010.
Prof. Staniszkis was mainly concerned with broadly understood political sociology, as well as economic sociology and organizational sociology. Her interests included the problems of political, economic and social transformation in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, the theory of real socialism and post-communism, as well as globalization.
(Ed. Wikipedia)
According to the family of the deceased, the funeral of prof. Jadwiga Staniszkis will take place on Thursday, April 25, in the church in Podkowa Leśna.
