The Polish Career of The American Soldier: From the Model to the Legend

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The study conducted by Samuel Stouffer and his team in the US Army during World War II is generally considered to be a founding study in empirical sociology. The book The American Soldier (1949-1950) played a major role in the development and institutionalization of empirical social research. Joseph Ryan’s monograph Samuel Stouffer and the GI Survey (2013) analyzes the history and reception of the research and book in theUnited States. This paper goes one small step further. It investigates the reception and impact of the book far from theUnited States: inPoland. Apart from its purely descriptive value, this paper provides an analysis of the diffusion of sociological innovation

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