Paradygmat wielkiej dialektycznej syntezy i jego obecność w polskiej socjologii

The contemporary sociology should be considered in the relation to its past. However, the problem should also be understood in the context of a current deep post-industrial crisis, resulting from enormous civilization changes, especially technological ones. Moreover, considering the issue one ought to take into account intellectual confusion of many people, a specific evolution of trends of thought, collective imaginaries or systems of values. The process of secularization has been one of the principal dominants of such a state of crisis. Another important feature is the crisis of social order, impairing the stability of social structures, principal social institutions from the State through family, culture, economy and so forth. This is the context in which the main trends in contemporary sociology are shown. Especially its three fundamental paradigms: objectivistic, subjectivist and great dialectical synthesis. The last part of this paper is devoted to the question about the significance of the great paradigm of dialectical synthesis in Polish sociology.