Politicization of Social Divisions in Post-War Poland

Piotr Borowiec is Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Politics at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. He is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Teoria Polityki and author and co-author of over 70 articles on the sociology of politics, political theory, and methodology, as well as seven monographs.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The First Structural Experiment: Communist-era Homogenisation.- 3. Consequences of the Experiment: the Division between Society and the nomenklatura.- 4. The Second Experiment: the Differentiation of the Social Structure.- 5. Consequences of the Second Experiment: the ‘winners’ – ‘losers’ Division.- 6. The Formation of Social Divisions and the Theory of Practices of Repartition.- 7. Conclusion.