Kazimierz Slomczynski
Professor
Sociology
322 Bricker
614.292.8078
slomczynski.1@osu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Sociology (1971)
M.A., University of Lodz, Sociology (1965)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Slomczynski's areas of specialization include social stratification and mobility, comparative sociology and cross-national studies. His current research focuses on the relationship between social structure and psychological functioning.
Selected Publications
"Polarized Social-Class Structure: On the Matthew Effect and Increasing Inequality," with Krystyna Janicka (Polish Sociological Review, 2008)
"Introduction: The Across Nation Project and Cross-National Studies," with J. Craig Jenkins (International Journal of Sociology, 2008)
"Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political-Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data," with Joshua Kjerluf Dubrow and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow (International Journal of Sociology, 2008)
"Fluid Party Systems, Electoral Rules and Accountability of Legislators in Emerging Democracies: The Case of Ukraine," with Goldie Shabad and Jakub Zielinski (Party Politics, 2008)
Social Structure: Changes and Linkages – The Advanced Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland (IFiS Publishers, 2002)
Social Patterns of Being Political – The Initial Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland (IFiS Publishers, 2000)
Wladza i Struktura Spoleczna. Ksiega Dedykowana Wlodzimierzowi Wesolowskiem [Authority and Social Structure. Publication Dedicated to Wlodzimierz Wesolowski], ed. with Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania (IFiS Publishers, 1999)
Power and Social Structure. Essays in honor of Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, ed. with Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania and Melvin L. Kohn (Warsaw University Press, 1999)
Mental Adjustment to the Post-Communist System in Poland, with Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach, and Wojciech Zaborowski (IFiS Publishers, 1999)
Polacy wobec Integracji z Unia Europejska [Poles For and Against Poland’s Integration with the European Union], with Bogdan W. Mach, Wojciech Zaborowski, Elzbieta Skotnicka-Illasiewicz, and Hanna Palska (Wiez, 1999)
Osobowosc a Struktura Spoleczna: Psychologiczne Funkcjonowanie Jednostki w Warunkach Zmiany Spolecznej [Personality and Social Structure: Psychological Functioning under Conditions of Social Change], with Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach, and Wojciech Zaborowski (Polish Academy of Sciences. 1996)
Badania Struktury Spolecznej Lodzi (Research on Social Structure in Lodz), with Krystyna Janicka and Wlodzimierz Wesolowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1994)
Social Structure and Self-Direction: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Poland, with Melvin L. Kohn and Carrie Schoenbach (Basil Blackwell, 1990; paperback, 1993)
Social Structure and Mobility: Poland, Japan, and the United States. Methodological Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989)
Struktura Spoleczna: Schemat Teoretyczny i Warsztat Badawczy [Social Structure: Theoretical Framework and Research Methods], with Ireneusz Bialecki, Henryk Domanski, Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan Mach, Zbigniew Sawinski, Joanna Sikorska, and Wojciech Zaborowski. (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989)
Sytuacja Pracy i Jej Psychologiczne Konsekwencje: Polsko-Amerykanskie Analizy Porownawcze [Work Conditions and Psychological Functioning: Comparative Analyses of Poland and the United States], with Melvin L. Kohn, Krystyna Janicka, Jadwiga Koralewicz, Joanne Miller, Carrie Schoenbach, Ronald Schoenberg, and Anna Zawadzka (Ossolineum, 1988)
Social Stratification in Poland. Eight Empirical Studies, ed. with Tadeusz Krauze (M.E. Sharpe, 1986)
Pozycja Zawodowa i Jej Zwiazki z Wyksztalceniem [Occupational Status and Its Relation to Education] (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1983)
Zroznicowanie Spoleczne w Perspektywie Porownawczej [Social Differentiation in Comparative Perspective], ed. with Wlodzimierz Wesolowski (Ossolineum, 1981)
Skale Zawodow [Occupational Scales], with Grazyna Kacprowicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1979)
Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective, ed. with Wesolowski, Wlodzimierz and Bogdan W. Mach (Ossolineum, 1978)
Class Structure and Social Mobility in Poland, ed. with Tadeusz Krauze (M.E. Sharpe, 1978)
Investigations on Class Structure and Social Stratification in Poland, 1945-1975, with Wlodzimierz Wesolowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1977; translated into Polish, Italian, Japanese)
Zroznicowanie Spoleczno-Zawodowe i Jego Korelaty [Socio-Occupational Differentiation and Its Correlate] ( Ossolineum, 1972)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio
State University (2008–10)
International Affiliate, Stanford Center for Study Poverty and Inequality (2008)
Grant of the (Polish) Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Academy of Science, "Polish Panel Study, POLPAN 1988-2008," with Krystyna Janicka, Henryk Domanski and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow (2007-10)
Head, Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (1992-)
Stefan Nowak Award, University of Warsaw and the Polish Sociological Association for methodological contributions in studying social consciousness (1999)
State Professorship, title obtained from Lech Walesa, President of Poland (1995)
Fellowship, Japan Foundation, for research on the meritocratic allocation of persons to jobs in Japan, the United States and Poland (1986)
Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, for cooperation with Japanese sociologists in the area of social stratification and mobility (1985-86)
Award of the Rector (President), University of Warsaw, for Pozycja Zawodowa i jej Zwiazki z Wyksztalceniem [Occupational Status and Its Relation to Education] (1983)
Award of the Rector (President), University of Warsaw, for Zroznicowanie Spoleczne w Perspektywie Porownawczej [Social Differentiation in Comparative Perspective]. With Wlodzimierz Wesolowski (1982)
Stanislaw Ossowski Award, Polish Sociological Association, for Zroznicowanie Spoleczno-Zawodowe i jego Korelaty [Socio-Occupational Differentiation and its Correlates] (1975)
Mershon Project
Symbolic Opposition to the USA Patriot Act
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