PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS IN THE STUDIES ON CULTURE

J. Grad

Theories of Culture and Studies of Participation in Culture in Polish Sociology

E. Rewers

The Image of the Literary Work in Present Day Sociological Studies

T. Jerzak-Gierszewska

Theoretical and Methodological Context of the Differentiation between Magic and Religion in the Conception of Hubert, Mauss and Durkheim

A. Grzegorczyk

Reconstruction of Myth in the Semantics of A.J. Greimas

B. Kotowa

Anti-Naturalistic Principles of Systematizing Statements in Art Studies

A. Szahaj

Reflection on the Methodology of Social Sciences in the Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas

E. Kobylinska

From Critical Theory to a Theory of Communicative Action: A Change of Paradigm?

Z. Gierszewski

Types of Cognitive and Moral Relativism and Herskovits’ Cultural Relativism

W. Lawniczak

Theoretical Problems of Reinterpretation

M. Piotrowski

On Two “Intrinsic” Meanings of Music

PART II: SCIENCE AS A DOMAIN OF CULTURE

J. Kmita

The Legacy of Magic in Science

J. Sojka

Theory of Science in the Light of Recent Methodological Discussions

W. Burszta

The Epistemological Aspects of the Controversy over Cultural Relativism

M. Buchowski

Ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, Scientocentrism

A. Palubicka

Structuralist Overdetermination and Historical Materialism

PART III: ON CULTURE AND CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

K. Zamiara

Psychological versus Cultural Approaches to Participation in Culture

A. Pluta

On Application of the Notion of Pedagogical Culture

P. Ozdowski

Logical Semantics and Psychology of Cognitive Processes

T. Zgolka

Study of Language as a Form of Symbolic Culture: Methodological Foundations

G. Banaszak

Contemporary Musical Consciousness in the Perspective of the Socio-Pragmatic Theory of Culture

A. Zeidler

Valorization of Tradition as a Means of Preserving the Continuity of Culture