• The image of paralympic athletes in the Polish media on the example of “Przegląd Sportowy” 

  Wesołowska, Paulina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

  One of the key components of the image of athletes is the media discourse. The media message reaching its recipients affects their perception of sport and people involved in it. This seems particularly important in the ...

• Pro memoria Śp. Profesor Zbigniew Krawczyk (1930–2024) 

  Dziubiński, Zbigniew; Lenartowicz, Michał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

• Diet as a challenge and a strategy: on the phenomenon of diet rationalisation in everyday life 

  Maj, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

  This article describes the diet catering service (delivering ready-made meals to customers’ homes or work in a selected period) as an example of rationalization and professionalization of diet. The article is based on the ...

• The situation of women in professional road cycling in the contexts of media and finance 

  Wiśniewska, Zuzanna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

  The article aims to present the current situation of women in professional road cycling with a special focus on areas of inequality in media and finance. The research had two main objectives: (1) to analyze the situation ...

• Radical socialization? Analysis of the secondary socialization process in the table tennis environment 

  Witkowska, Julia; Kossakowski, Radosław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

  The article is devoted to the analysis of the secondary socialization process in the table tennis environment. Sports communities represent a specific case study in this context because the secondary socialization processes ...

• On the possibilities of mutual inspirations between sociological subdisciplines. The example of the sociology of the body and the sociology of sport 

  Stempień, Jakub Ryszard ; Byczkowska-Owczarek, Dominika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-06-30)

  The aim of the paper is to present the phenomenon of the division of sociology into subdisciplines, using the sociology of the body and the sociology of sport as examples, and to show the possibility of mutual inspirations ...

• School architecture, its adaptability and forms of student’s life at school: a case study of the art high school in Cracow 

  Lasiewicz-Sych, Angelika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  The case study research presented here focuses on the modern building of the State High School of Fine Arts in Cracow. The objective was to examine the adaptability of school architecture in response to new educational ...

• Gender socialisation and perception of gender by non-heteronormative people 

  Izydorczyk, Natalia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  The submitted report focuses on the results of research carried out for a bachelor’s thesis titled “gender socialisation and perception of gender by non-heteronormative people”, in which the author focuses on gender ...

• Pomiędzy protorasizmem szlacheckim a rasizmem naukowym. Studium porównawcze praktyk urasawiania innych na przykładzie polskich chłopów pańszczyźnianych i Afroamerykanów 

  Taradejna, Paweł (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  This article aims to make a comparative study of the phenomena of gentry protoracialism and modern scientific racism and to frame them, according to the functioning academic practice, in the category of socio-cultural ...

• Badanie społeczności internetowych: nowe wyzwania dla badacza 

  Mincewicz, Wojciech (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  This article contributes to the discussion on research conducted in online communities by social scientists. It consists of three parts. After an introduction, the author points out the essential characteristics that define ...

• Modern crisis of youth mental health – the perspective of Poland 

  Żółtaszek, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  As young people are a vulnerable group, the prevalence of mental disorders in the population has been rapidly increasing in recent years. Not only are young people more at risk from mental disorders, but their lifelong ...

• The tenure of the local executive tenures on the example of local government elections in the Łódź voivodeship 

  Stasiak, Ewelina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  The article concerns issues related to the tenure of the executive body in Polish local government units. The paper aims to make a spatial analysis of the phenomenon of multicadency of mayors in Łódź voivodeship. The study ...

• Single people in Poland and Brazil on social isolation: living situations 

  Czernecka, Julita; Andrade, Darlane (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-03-31)

  This text is a report related to the quantitative data of the study “Single people in social isolation: a transnational study”. This research started in 2020 and aims to understand, from a gender perspective, how single ...

• Rustica Nova. The new countryside in Hungary at the turn of the millennium 

  Kovách, Imre (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  This paper comprehensively presents the complex transformation of rural Hungary after the turn of the millennium. The post-socialist land re-privatization provided land to more than 2 million families, but by the time of ...

• Six theorems of the social disintegration theory 

  Stempień, Jakub Ryszard (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  In the article the author’s own theoretical view, intended to describe the specificity and condition of contemporary society, is presented. The approach discussed in the paper refers to the functionalist tradition in ...

• Lodz in the process of deindustrialization. Social aspects of 1990–2004 systemic transformation 

  Warzywoda-Kruszyńska, Wielisława ; Kruszyński, Kamil (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  The aim of this article is to present a brief history of Lodz in view of historical events leading to the deindustrialization of the city during the period of Poland’s economic transformation. As a “great change” trauma ...

• Have special economic zones contributed to regional disparities in Poland? 

  Dorożyński, Tomasz; Świerkocki, Janusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  The main objective of the paper is to present the performance of special economic zones (SEZs) by province over 25 years of their operation and their role in reducing regional economic disparities. SEZs were created with ...

• Benefits of implementing the 15-minute city concept in stimulating the potential of social urban resurgence 

  Michalska-Żyła, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  The issue presented in the article is a proposal to look at a specific vision of the sociospatial organization of the city, namely the concept of the 15-minute city. In this proposed approach, this concept can become a ...

• Civic participation in Paweł Starosta’s research 

  Murawska, Agnieszka; Marks-Krzyszkowska, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  Research on the condition of democracy in post-socialist countries focuses primarily on issues of civic participation. This article, which provides an analytical overview, presents civic participation in light of the ...

• Associations, networks and civic virtues: The condition of non-governmental organisations in rural Poland vis-a-vis Paweł Starosta’s reflections on social capital 

  Knieć, Wojciech; Piszczek, Elwira (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-30)

  In the work of Prof. Paweł Starosta, issues related to social capital have not only been discussed frequently but their various dimensions have also been dealt with. Social capital-related considerations, according to the ...

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