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- Title
Hysteresis, academic biography, and political field in the People's Republic of Poland.
- Authors
Zysiak, Agata
- Abstract
I enter a debate about state-socialism elite's reproduction and higher education to propose an implementation of Bourdieu's hysteresis effect. I argue that the intelligentsia and the interwar university shaped biographical paths of academics stronger than the political factors, which are usually brought to the forefront by contemporary researchers. I analyse academic biographies shaped by the socialist university and reconstruct a model academic biography in the post-WWII period, in particular, in Poland. I compare it with biographies of professors from working-class and peasant backgrounds, and arrive at the conclusion that the differences are minor. Those who formed a seemingly perfect new intelligentsia were socialized by the traditional academic habitus. A few who entered the new academic world from working class or peasant backgrounds had to embrace the interwar university ethos in order to justify their own merits in belonging. I propose a model of opposite hysteresis vectors to explain tensions between academia and political field.
- Subjects
POLAND; HYSTERESIS (Economics); BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); COLLEGE teachers; INTELLECTUALS; SOCIALISM; HIGHER education &; politics; BOURDIEU, Pierre, 1930-2002
- Publication
Theory & Society, 2019, Vol 48, Issue 3, p483
- ISSN
0304-2421
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11186-019-09349-1