This volume Society and Gender: Contemporary Issues and Research Perspectives, is a reflection of dynamically developing gender studies in the Polish social sciences. The first part of the introduction shows that gender/gender ...

The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of human experience in the living world. This diversity is ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the thematic area of disability became the subject of academic debates and empirical research conducted in the field of social sciences within two simultaneously developing ...

In the study of disability, an extremely important role is played by issues related to identity changes occurring under the influence of experiences which alter the current course of life and force the adoption of new roles ...

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the meaning of professional activity and to present strategies for coping with work-life balance among parents of persons with disabilities. Research proves that having a child with ...

The aim of the article is to introduce the subject of this special issue devoted to showing the meaning of gender, which – in relation to disability and other demographic and social factors – affects the constructed ...

The article will present some problems that Polish sociology is currently facing, although the issues in question could also be crucial for sociology practised in other countries. The problem of noticing and not noticing ...

The article herein analyzes the contemporary discourse of social sciences with regard to the presence of research on abortion within it. Abortion is a regular medical practice in the world. At the same time, it is one of ...

A sense of the patient’s body as a part of the profession of manual therapists is a subject related to the concept of non-discursive knowledge. The main goal of the article is to familiarize the reader with these issues ...