Antonina Kłoskowska

Antonina Kłoskowska (7 November 1919, Piotrków Trybunalski – 12 July 2001, Warsaw), was a Polish sociologist. In her work, she focused on the sociology of culture. Kłoskowska taught at the universities Łódź (1966–1977) and Warsaw (1977–1990). She was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1973 and worked in its Institute for Political Studies from 1990. Since 1983, she edited the journal Kultura i Społeczeństwo. From 1989 until 1993, she was the president of the Polish Sociological Association. With Władysław Markiewicz and others, Kłoskowska co-edited a multi-volume Polish complete edition of Bronisław Malinowski's works which appeared 1984–1990.

Antonina Kłoskowska
Born	(1919-11-07) November 7, 1919 (age 105) Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Died	July 12, 2001(2001-07-12) (aged 81) Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Third Polish Republic
Title	Professor
Board member of	FJN PTS
Awards	Order of Polonia Restituta Meritorious Activist of Culture
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Łódź
Thesis	Zagadnienie osośbowości człowieka pierwotnego we współczesnej etnosocjologii amerykańskiej (1950)
Academic work
Discipline	Sociologist
Sub-discipline	Sociology of culture
Notable works	Kultura masowa

Works

• 1954: Machiavelli jako humanista na tle włoskiego odrodzenia (transl. Machiavelli as a humanist in the context of the Italian Renaissance). Łódź: Zakład im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu [?].
• 1964: Kultura masowa. Krytyka i obrona (transl. Mass culture: Critique and defence). 2nd edition, Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 83-01-01511-X
• 1969: Z historii i socjologii kultury (transl. On the history and sociology of culture)
• 1972: Społeczne ramy kultury (transl. The social framework of culture)
• 1977 (ed. with Guido Martinotti): Education in a changing society. London: 1977. ISBN 0-8039-9984-4
• 1981: Socjologia kultury (transl. Sociology of culture). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 83-01-02697-9
• 1983: (et al., eds.) Naród, kultura, osobowość: księga poświęcona Profesorowi Józefowi Chałasińskiemu (transl. Nation, culture, personality: Festschrift for Professor Józef Chałasiński). Wrocław: Zakład im. Ossolińskich. ISBN 83-04-01220-0
• 1990 (ed.): Oblicza polskości (transl. The face of Polishness). Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Program Badań i Współtworzenia Filozofii Pokoju.
• 1991 (ed.): Encyklopedia kultury polskiej XX wieku (tom 1): pojęcia i problemy wiedzy o kulturze (transl. The encyclopedia of Polish culture in the 20th century (vol. 1): Concepts and problems of knowledge about culture). Wrocław: Wiedza o Kulturze. ISBN 83-7044-022-3
• 1994 (ed. with Richard Grathoff): The neighbourhood of cultures. Warszawa: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN. ISBN 83-85479-65-1
• 1996: Kultury narodowe u korzeni Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 83-01-11997-7
  English translation 2001: National cultures at the grass-root level. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-83-1