Short presentation

Post-doctoral Beata Łaciak, work in Sociology Departement of Customs and Law at Warsaw University.
Interests : sociology of childhood, sociology and history of customs and mass culture.
Doctorate and post-doctoral degree  at the Institute of Social Science.
Participation in Polish- English research on the family, the research on the middle class, coruption and local society.

The main publications
“Public world of children” University Publisher “Żak”, Warszawa 1998

1. “Coruption in public life” in collaboration with Jacek Kurczewski, ISP, Warszawa 2000
2. “The Child in a Modern Media Culture”, book edited by, ISP Warszawa 2003
3. Civil Society in Poland, Jacek Kurczewski in collaboration with K.Dzieniszewska-Naroska, M.Fuszara, I.Jakubowska-Branicka, J.Kurczewska, B.Łaciak, M.Łajtar, J.Śmigielska and L.Zakrzewski, Institute of Applied Social Sciences Warsaw University Center for Social Research , Warsaw 2003
4. “Polish customs of the Days of Transformation – the war of fasting with the carnival”, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2005
5. Sex, Gender and Body in Polish Democracy in the Making w International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family,  nr10, 1996,
6. The Family in Social Policy of the Days of Transformation: Decentralization and Scarcity w Family Law and Family Policy in the New Europe, ed. Jacek Kurczewski I Mavis Maclean, Onati 1997
7. “Aspiration and future plans of young women. Chances and risks at the women labour market” [in] Women in Poland at the turn of centuries., edited by Małgorzata Fuszara, ISP, Warszawa 2002
8. “The picture of Polish home in TV series.” [in] What does it mean living? edited by Grażyna Woroniecka, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2007
9. “The picture of Polish family in Polish drama series” [in] . Electronic media – creating the picture of home and family, edited by J. Izdebska, Trans Humana, Białystok 2008