Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica: Recent submissions
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“Either we defend our polishness or there will be no Polonia”. Practices of negotiating national identity among the Polish diaspora members in Cleveland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article presents the findings of a pilot study on the ways of negotiating national identity within the Polish community (Polonia) in the American city of Cleveland. The study showed the complex ways of maintaining and ... -
The U.S. Mexican immigrant family in a changing society: a critical overview
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)This article charts literature debates about the structural changes of the Mexican immigrant family in the United States. It presents, first, a critical overview of the conventional literature on the Mexican immigrant ... -
(Nie)planowane (nie)powroty Ukraińców pracujących w Polsce w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Czynniki warunkujące przeobrażenia migracji czasowych w osiadłe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The article attempts to use the concept of social anchoring to analyse the phenomenon of temporary migration of Ukrainians working in Poland in the second decade of the 21st century.The concept is relatively new in Polish ... -
Dzieci w migracji – co o nich wiemy?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)When discussing migration processes, the problem of children and minors is often disregarded, although global data show the growing number of processes in which they participate. In 2017, it was estimated that 30 million ... -
Doświadczenie rozłąki emigracyjnej a relacje rodzinne. Sposób postrzegania emigrantów zarobkowych przez ich dzieci
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-03-30)The research included the characteristics of immediate family members made by the children of economic migrants. In the research, the respondents defined as children of economic migrants were defined as individuals who, ... -
The Pakistani community in Spain: social and cultural challenges
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This article uses the example of the Pakistani community to explore the phenomenon of multiculturalism in Spain. Although Muslims of Maghrebi origin constitute the most numerous immigrant group on the Iberian Peninsula, ... -
The participation of children in social research. Introduction to the issue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)The perspective of childhood studies has existed in science since the 1990s. Currently, it is considered as a paradigm. The article concerns one of the assumptions of this theoretical orientation – the participation of ... -
Usefulness of the psychological contract concept: the definition and conceptual considerations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper focuses on the review, analysis and synthesis of literature on the psychological contract. The main purpose of the synthesis in the extensive literature review is to delineate the scope in which interpersonal ... -
The teacher as a child-rearer or the teacher as an educator. Two views of education workers on the teacher’s role
Pawłowska, Beata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
Teaching is a learned and practiced profession. In the course of their activities, the teacher influences the formation of attitudes, and the views and awareness of children and adolescents. Teaching should prepare young ... -
The internationalisation of higher education: losses and benefits
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)International declarations emphasise the role of higher education in building the knowledge society and underline its importance for the economic, social and cultural development of individual countries. The article shows ... -
People with excess body weight and weight discrimination in the labour market
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This article addresses issues associated with the perception of obesity and being overweight in the labour market, and the issue of weight discrimination. Excess body weight has become a very serious social problem. The ... -
Empowered patient autonomy in the network in the selected area of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis
Łaska-Formejster, Alicja (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)
The aim of the article is to perceive the understanding of autonomy by conscious, empowered patients through an awareness of responsibility for their own health and knowledge of their rights. This perception was made by ... -
Accentuating the role of the upbringing society in Korczak’s pedagogy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The aim of the article is to show the sociological elements in the education process that are present in Korczak’s pedagogy, both in its scientific form as well as in his fiction aimed directly at children. Therefore, ... -
Actors in the social world of public drama theatre in Poland during the communist period and in the 21st century. A comparative analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)This article aims to provide a comparative analysis of the social condition of actors during the communist era in Poland and after the political transformation of 1989. The empirical material used by the author includes ... -
Film and cinema as a subject of sociological study. Between tradition and the present
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Relations between sociology and cinema span over a hundred years. The author’s task is to reflect on this fact and, as a result, to present her own theoretical and methodological concept. Constructive framing is done in a ... -
Cinema for children in Poland – a bastard child of popular culture, an element of cultural education
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)In the mid-1950s, film sealed its place in the world of art with the voice of essentialist theories. At the same time, it did not give up its status as mass entertainment, which it had acquired at the beginning of ... -
Prisoner-of-war stories in the movies (the case of Andrzej Munk’s Eroica)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)This paper analyses Polish feature films which deal with the subject of POW camps during World War II, especially the so-called oflags (German: Offizierslager), i.e. Wehrmacht camps for officers. In Poland, nearly 200 ... -
Animated film as a space for presenting and contesting masculinity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Animated movies can be treated as one of the forms of cultural transmission that can be a source of gender stereotypes. Therefore, they are involved in the process of constructing images of femininity and masculinity, ... -
American war movies. David Ayer’s Fury as mythologisation of war and soldiers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Both pop culture and modern Hollywood cinema are mainly intended for entertainment. American war films are not free from this vice. A researcher of culture should shun attempts to find hidden symbols, myths and flashes of ... -
Visual sociological research using film and video, on the example of urban studies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The use of film and video in sociological research, or social sciences in general, has a long and well-established tradition. Motion pictures have, on the one hand, been the object of analysis, as in the case of sociology ...