Major reseach areas:

Institute of Cultural Studies

I. Studies into the philosophy of science, the history and the methodology of cultural (social) sciences:
The development of the social-regulative theory of culture as the foundation for cultural studies.
The American neo-pragmatism.
Methodological problems of contemporary studies on art.
New trends in the semiotics of man.
Cultural pluralism. Cultural relativity. Ethnocentrism.
The philosophy of language.
The impact of computers on the process of individual and collective production of knowledge.
II. Studies on participation within culture:
Cultural changes: their cultural, psychological and social determinants:
Social roles, myths and careers of artists.
The theoretical history of psychology.
Ethical issues of business: cultural changes in Poland since 1989.
Psycho-social and cultural determinants of participation within cultures: Theory of participation within cultures.
The participation within culture from the point of view of the sociology of culture and the sociology of knowledge.
Man as a moral agent from philosophical and psychological viewpoints.
Aesthetic experience and participation within artistic culture.
Problems of mass-culture, reception of films and the psycho-social mechanisms. Forms of magical thinking.
Methodology of the humanities.
III. Studies of contemporary culture: Foundations of post-modern ethics.
Literature as social discourse.
The avant-garde in Central Europe.
The philosophy movement of dramaturgy.
The ways of actors' existence in the American avant-garde theatre in the 1960-70s.
Contemporary mass-culture and the role of the mass-media.
Anti-totalitarian language in the post martial law period as a reaction against the new-speak.
Computer ethics in post-communist societies.
The culture of Polish ethnic groups abroad and ethnic minorities in Poland.
The genesis of Polish mass-culture.
Art-market researches.
Theoretical and practical issues of promotions.
IV. Studies into theories of art:
Computer technology as a subject matter of art.
Contemporary musical culture; its forms, historical sources and changes.

Institute of Political Science and Journalism

Centralisation, regionalisation and autonomy. The case of Wielkopolska (Great Poland). Contemporary political institutions in Poland.
Self-government on a national level under systemic transformation.
Goals of political education in overcoming hostility and prejudices of youngsters towards other nations in unifying Europe.
The problem of protection of agricultural markets in Poland under systemic transformation.
The issue of Poland in European policy in the period 1949-1990.
Polish political party systems and their transformation during 1989-1994.
International implications of the process of European integration.
Theory of international relations.
Common security (essence-structure-mechanism).
Political-legal analysis of the European treaty.
Understanding of basic political categories: A case of selective social groups.
Theory and practice of democracy
Attributes and conditions of political power.
Political model of consumption.
The European Union and states of preferential trade.
Economic adjustments in the German Neuländer to market economy conditions. Regulating trade and exchange of agricultural goods between Poland and the European Community.
Role of financial systems in the transformation of Polish agriculture in the context of integration with the EU.
Wielkopolska (Great Poland) Chamber of Industry and Commerce as a form of professional and economic self-government.
Socio-political crises in East Europe and their international consequences.
The influence of the Second World War on the collapse of the British Empire. Wielkopolska (Great Poland) and Polish-Czech Relationships in 1918-1939.
National Democracy towards Religion and the Church till 1926.
Polish-Ukrainian relations during 1989-1993.
The Polish Press in Lvov and Belarus after the Second World War.
Contemporary Polish-Lithuanian and Polish-Belorussian relationships.
The Primate's Office and Gniezno Metropolis in the history of the Church and of the state in Poland.
Political education under conditions of systemic change in Poland.
The Press systems of European states.
Press rectification. Functioning of the institution in the practice of the mass media of communication.
Satellite television in the system of international communication.
New communication order in unifying Europe.
The Liberal political thought of Ludwig von Mises.
Policy of a state in overcoming the ravages of social pathology.
The reconstruction of the political system in Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Place and role of the territorial government in the political system.
Conditions of systemic changes in Central-East Europe.

Institute of Psychology

Theoretical and methodological foundations of psychology.
Normative and descriptive aspects of research; experimental design; statistical methods in psychology, quantitative psychology, psychometry (standardization and normalization studies of the WAIS-R, WAIS- III, and Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory).

Psychological diagnostics: psychometric characteristics of assessment procedures, bias in psychological assessment, computerized systems, computerized assisted assessment. History of psychological thoughts. Ethics and psychology. Language and psychology.

Models of human development and socialization. The socio-cultural approach. Education as a factor of development. Models of health and disease (salutogenesis and pathogenesis). The nature of changes in prevention and therapy. Psychology of the family, family determinants of development, health and pathology.

Individual and social determinants of: social problems, nonverbal communication, advertising, expertising, stigmatization, selfdestructiveness, alcoholism crises, burnout, assessment of change and the quality of life. Psychology of personality: self-destructivity and eating dosorders.

Organisational, Personnel and Work psychology: corporate identity, organisational and team identification, organisational culture and culture change, organisational interventions and impact evaluation, contracting and issues of contract violation, individual, team and organizational effectiveness at work, people well-being at work, innovation and creativity at work, career development and management development.

Social psychology: culture, gender and sex identity, composition, structure and organization of local communities.

Institute of Philosophy

Local community and self-government studies.
Sociological theory of culture and civilization.
Multiculturalism and identity in contemporary civilisation.
Changes and diffusion of culture.
Crisis of European civilization.
Economy and society.
Market and public opinion research.
Social problems of transborder area.
Polish society and economic migration.
Sociology of transition in Poland.
Migration - Europe's integration and the labour force brain drain.
Polish society and European integration.
Privatization in theory and practice.
Changes in contemporary Polish families.
The family and unemployment.
The impact of societal transformation on the family and social work.
The socialization process of children and adolescents.
Sociology of health and medicine.
Sociology of disabled persons.
Social gerontology.
History of the European family.
Processes of globalization.
Sociology of Travel.
Sociology of Youth.
Sociology of Popular Culture.
Media Studies.
Social Policy.
Social Work.
Subcultures.
Urban Sociology.
Social Structure in Transition.
Institutions of Civil Society.

Institute of Sociology

Local community and self -government studies.
Latin American sociology.
New Latin American social movements.
Values and practices of European managers.
Sociological theory of culture and civilization.
Multiculturalism and identity in contemporary civilisation.
Diffusion of culture.
Crisis of European civilization.
Economy and society.
Market and public opinion research.
Social problems of transborder area.
Polish society and economic migration.
Social standing of social workers.
Social safety in the consciousness of big town inhabitants.
The question of loneliness in old age.
History of German sociology.
Sociology of transition in Poland.
Migration - Europe's integration and the labour force brain drain.
Polish society and European integration.
Privatization in theory and practice.
Demographic and social determinants of the quality of life of married women in Konin.
Changes in contemporary Polish families.
The family and unemployment.
The impact of societal transformation on the family and social work.
Methodology of sociological research.
History of Polish sociology.
The socialization process of children and adolescents.
Sociology of health and medicine.
Sociology of disabled persons.
Social gerontology.
Sociology of power.
Interest and values of post-communist societies.
Process of adaptation to family and extra-family social roles.
Gaetano Mosca - the sociological theory of the elite.
Prosopographia Moesiaca (the administration of the Roman province of Moesia lnferior in the time of Principate).
History of the European family.
Processes of globalization.