Teoria społeczna a technologia społeczna. Próba rekonstrukcji stanowiska Floriana Znanieckiego

Abstract

The article attempts at reconstructing F. Znaniecki's standpoint as to several selected issues focused on the problem of social technology. The first part characterizes in general terms his attitude to (different types of reflection on society, namely to social philosophy, to practically oriented social knowledge and to social theory. Seeing the need or even the necessity of the coexistence of these three types of reflection on society, he is none the less of the opinion that the sociologists should first of all deal with creating theoretical social knowledge, possible to be verified empirically through its practical application. The next part contains the elaboration of the dilemma which — according to F. Znaniecki — modern societies, being in the phase of an accelerated social evolution, will have to face. The last two parts of the article deal with the processes of differentiation of various forms of social technology, as well as with general characteristics of those forms and with an attempt at pointing out to the conditions necessary to the rise of something called by F. Znaniecki „the rational social technology".