dual structure for this space from axiological constructions mapped by symbolic expressions. A humanistic sociologist will follow the path pointed to by Znaniecki and reject the naturalistic view. Post-modernism Post-modernism, by its emphasis on subjectivity, implies that no one set of values is any better than any other (This is criticised by some as moral relativism). It is however quite possible to equate a scientific analysis of value systems with post-modernism. The analysis of globalisation is one such application of the analysis within post-modernism. By a focus on the subjective nature of experience, a humanistic sociologist can be a post-modern thinker. However a humanistic sociologist has core values and beliefs with which it is possible to assign a positive or negative evaluation to a value, for example, the priority of the "inner dignity of man". Just as in the practices of humanistic research or humanistic social work, a value is positive to the extent that it leads to creative and constructive social activity. It is therefore wrong to equate post-modernism with humanistic sociology, which above all seeks an irreducible representation of the human world. See also Education in Poland during World War II Verstehen Humanity & Society Association for Humanist Sociology References External links Elżbieta Hałas, The Humanistic Approach of Florian Znaniecki "Internal bolshevisation? Elite social science training in stalinist Poland" Edith Kurzweil, Reviewed work(s): On Humanistic Sociology. by Florian Znaniecki, in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 1, Varieties of Political Expression in Sociology (Jul., 1972), pp. 236–238, JSTOR Main Page of the CONFERENCE: Florian Znaniecki’s Humanistic Sociology. A Message for the Contemporaneity, April 9, 2008, Warsaw Sociological theories