"In this age of conflict, when pessimism and defeatism are rampant, when some of our greatest intellectual leaders write intimations of impending doom for our civilization, one of the most respected sociologist-philosophers of our time -- ...

This book contributes to a better understanding of Florian Znaniecki as an eminent culturologist and the lasting relevance of his theory of cultural becoming. Znaniecki opted for a humanistic approach that he called culturalism.

In this seminal contribution to the sociology of knowledge, first published in 1940, Florian Znaniecki develops a typology of the variety of specific social roles that scholars have played, and investigates the normative patterns that ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.