Jan Pakulski

Jan Pakulski FASSA (born 1950 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Australian sociologist.

He received a master's degree in sociology in 1973 at the University of Warsaw, from 1975 he has been living in Australia where he completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 1980.

Pakulski taught at the University of Tasmania.[1] He was named professor of sociology in 1998, served as head of the School of Sociology and Social Work from 1998 to 2001, and was executive dean of arts between 2001 and 2008. He has held the title of emeritus professor since 2014.[1] He is fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2006+);[2] fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford; visiting professor at Nanyang University, Singapore; and affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University.[3] He on the editorial board of the Polish Sociological Review. From 2015 he is also Professor in Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.[4]

His book The Death Of Class[5] (co-written with professor Malcolm Waters) has been used as an undergraduate text book.

His most recent publication, a chapter titled The Development Of Elite Theory[6] in the Palgrave Handbook Of Elites[7] is targeted at policy-makers and members of parliament.

Awards and recognition

He was awarded the Golden of Cross of Merit from the Polish Republic (1991)[8] for his activism for Polish-Australian relations, especially with respect to his work for the POLCUL Foundation[9] for which he has served as director since 1980. He was President of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs (AIPA) 2001–05, and 2009–13, and currently holds a position of Vice-President.[10]

Selected publications

  • Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest, Melbourne[11] Longman Cheshire, 1991.
  • Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society (with S. Crook and M. Waters) London: Sage, 1992[12] Chinese translation 1994.
  • The Death of Class (with M. Waters)[5] London Sage, 1996.
  • Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (eds with J. Higley and W. Wesolowski)[13] London: Macmillan, 1998.
  • Globalizing Inequalities[14] Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2004.
  • Toward Leader Democracy (with A. Korosenyi)[15] New York and London: Anthem Press, 2012 (paperback edition 2014).
  • Leadership Failures in Australian Politics (with B. Tranter),[16] Sydney and NY: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015.
  • The Visegrad Countries in Crisis[17] (ed.), Warsaw: Collegium Civitas, 2016 (full text available).
  • Palgrave Handbook of Elites[6] (section editor and author in H. Best and J. Higley edition). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.

References

  1. ^ a b Unknown LDAP User (19 April 2012). "Jan Pakulski – Profiles". Profiles – University of Tasmania, Australia. Retrieved 21 June 2020. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Academy Fellow". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Jan Pakulski – Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality". inequality.stanford.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. ^ "PAKULSKI Jan, prof. dr". Collegium Civitas (in Polish). 24 May 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b Pakulski, Jan; Waters, Malcolm (1996). The death of class. London: SAGE. ISBN 0-8039-7838-3. OCLC 34323772.
  6. ^ a b Best, Heinrich; Higley, John, eds. (2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-51903-0.
  7. ^ Best, Heinrich; Higley, John, eds. (8 November 2017). The Palgrave handbook of political elites. Section editors: Cotta, Maurizio; Daloz, Jean-Pascal; Hoffmann-Lange; Pakulski, Jan; Semenova, Elena. London. ISBN 978-1-137-51904-7. OCLC 1012342956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Nadanie orderów i odznaczeń. – Prawo.pl". www.prawo.pl. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Polcul Foundation: 35 Years". SBS Your Language. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Organisation". Australian Institute of Polish Affairs. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  11. ^ Pakulski, Jan (1991). Social movements : the politics of moral protest. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire. ISBN 0-582-71235-1. OCLC 27016464.
  12. ^ Crook, Stephen; Pakulski, Jan; Waters, Malcolm (1992). Postmodernization : change in advanced society. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-8327-1. OCLC 26542353.
  13. ^ Higley, John; Pakulski, Jan; Wesołowski, Włodzimierz (1998). Postcommunist elites and democracy in Eastern Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-21179-1. OCLC 37588570.
  14. ^ Pakulski, Jan (2005). Globalising Inequalities : New Patterns of Social Privilege and Disadvantage. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74115-838-0. OCLC 1127169668.
  15. ^ Pakulski, Jan; Körösényi, András (2012). Toward leader democracy. London: Anthem Press. ISBN 978-1-84331-771-5. OCLC 780445294.
  16. ^ Pakulski, Jan; Tranter, Bruce (11 December 2015). The decline of political leadership in Australia? : changing recruitment and careers of federal politicians (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-137-51806-4. OCLC 945754351.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^ Conti, Nicolò; Göncz, Borbála; Real-Dato, José (18 June 2018). National political elites, European integration and the Eurozone crisis. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-351-06480-4. OCLC 1041707204.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)