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“Am I Going to Die?” Considering the Preparation for Research on an Example of Hospice Patients
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
This article concerns the situations experienced by the researcher in one of the sensitive research groups—hospice patients. The article is based on the author’s experiences in three studies in Poland—94 in-depth interviews ...
Book Review. Bjørgo, Tore, ed. 2005. Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Qualitative Research Conducted among Vulnerable Groups—Guest Editors’ Introduction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
Transitioning (on the) Internet: Shifting Challenges and Contradictions of Ethics of Studying Online Gender Transition Narratives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
The use of social media in qualitative research has become extremely popular. YouTube, in particular, has attracted attention from scholars working on (self-)representation of minority groups, including the transgender ...
The Conceptual Metaphor as an Ethical Kaleidoscope in Field Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
Attention to metaphor as a tool for cognition and action has already been called by the classic work by Georg Lakoff and Mark Johnson—Metaphors We Live By (1980). However, some four decades after this publication’s first ...
Researching Vulnerable Groups: Definitions, Controversies, Dilemmas, and the Researcher’s Personal Entanglement
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
The article aims to describe vulnerable groups in the context of qualitative research in social science with special attention to ethical and methodological dilemmas. This is a theoretical study, which does not aspire to ...
Biographical Work of Parents of Children with Non-Normative Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity
Gajek, Katarzyna 
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-01-31)
This paper aims to reconstruct the biographical work (Corbin and Strauss) undertaken by parents of non-normative people. The initiating event of biographical work is the disclosure of a non-normative sexual orientation ...