Bronislaw Malinowski
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist, ethnographer, and sociologist. Malinowski is often considered as a pioneer in the ethnographic field research methods, such as participant observation, interviews, and statistics. His studies focused on beliefs and forms of social organization. Malinowski is often recognized as one of the founders of modern social anthropology and functionalism.
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Klimczuk, A., & Tomczyk, Ł. (2017). Bronislaw Malinowski. In B. Turner (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (pp. 1–3). London: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0225