Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica: Recent submissions
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Płeć kulturowa a percepcja środkowej fazy życia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The theoretical framework of the sociological analysis conducted for the purpose of this publication is the gender approach. Its aim was to find signs of the influence of the patriarchal culture on perceptions of middle ... -
Oczekiwania i motywacja transplantacyjna potencjalnych biorców kończyny górnej – teoretyczno-badawcze studium socjologii fenomenologicznej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Issues discussed in the paper are located on the borderline between sociology and medicine. The aim of the paper is to present expectations and motives of patients with the absence of hand with regard to their potential ... -
Tożsamość i postawy polityczne studentów wybranych kierunków Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The article presents the results of research carried out in 2015 – before and after the presidential elections on a group of students of selected fields of the University of Łódź. The main objective of the study was to ... -
The discourse about immigrants. Argumentation strategies in Polish weekly magazines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The article deals with the problem of different argumentation strategies inside the discourse about immigrants. In the beginning there is a short description of immigration phenomena in Poland. The next section explains ... -
Disabled citizens – defining their own role in the political process. An empirical analysis of the attitudes of disabled people in Poland in 2002–2014
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Define our own role in the process of political participation determines the manner of its implementation, and therefore the attitude we adopt the operating entity in the wider political community. This may be the attitude ... -
Rationality in discourses on work and entrepreneurship. Institutional reflexivity vs. dominating methods of defining reality in (post)transformational Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Text is dedicated to: (a) the presentation of the meaning of “rationality” and its consequences for social life in the era of institutional reflexivity; (b) a brief introduction to the problems of power resulting from ... -
Dlaczego demokracja? Proceduralne, instrumentalne, epistemiczne i deliberacyjne teorie demokracji
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The author analyzes procedural and instrumental theories of democracy, interpreting them in the context of epistemic and deliberative democracy. Three major forms of procedural democracy (perfect, imperfect and pure ... -
Wokół profilaktyki onkologicznej. Charakterystyka uwarunkowań zachowań zdrowotnych kobiet objętych „Populacyjnym Programem Profilaktyki i Wczesnego Wykrywania Raka Szyjki Macicy”. Komunikat z badań
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The subject of the present analysis are health behaviors among women between 25 and 59 years of age and their determinants, which, simultaneously, constitute the social context for cervical cancer prevention in Poland. ... -
Korzystanie z oferty usług fizjoterapeutycznych w ośrodkach spa i wellness jako sposób dbania o zdrowie i urodę
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)These days the topics of health and beauty care have become particularly interesting for people. Consequently, health and beauty treatments are becoming increasingly more popular. The aim of this paper is to analyse aspects ... -
Telewizja, słodycze i zdrowie. O sprawczości dzieci i napięciach w praktykach życia codziennego w kontekście programów promocji zdrowia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)In this text I present the results of research conducted as part of the project “Health in the opinions of children – childhood studies perspective” conducted by the Interdisciplinary Team for Childhood Studies at the ... -
Niuanse atrakcyjności. Co to znaczy być atrakcyjną według pracownic agencji towarzyskich?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Purpose of the article is to reconstruct the meaning of an attractive woman and an attractive worker of an escort agency for women providing sex services, as well as to identify the actions that they undertake as a result ... -
Kontrolowanie formy ciężarnego ciała
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The aim of this paper is to present the main discourses controlling a pregnant body – biomedical and aesthetic and their internalisation. The first is related to the medicalization of the body during pregnancy and focuses ... -
Medykalizacja męskiego ciała
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Men’s bodies are subject into the process of medicalization similarly to women’s bodies. Although dynamics of those processes in men and in women is different and the history of man’s medicalization significantly shorter ... -
Ku źródłom polskiej mody na bieganie ‒ perspektywa nietzscheańska
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)In the article the currently observed phenomenon of the popularity of running is discussed. The comprehensive description of changes among the attitude to one’s own body during runner’s career is proposed. Collected empiric ... -
Stosunek młodych ludzi do własnego zdrowia a ideologia healthismu
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The article presents the results of qualitative research on the beliefs and health behaviors of young people which turned out to be convergent with the ideology of healthism. Young people are convinced of individual ... -
Co jedzą Polacy, czyli o jedzeniu z perspektywy stratyfikacji społecznej. Recenzja książki Henryka Domańskiego, Zbigniewa Karpińskiego, Dariusza Przybysza, Justyny Straczuk, „Wzory jedzenia a struktura społeczna”, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2015 (254 strony)
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„Dieta z pudełka” ‒ motywacje osób korzystających z gotowego cateringu dietetycznego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)The article is based on in-depth interviews conducted with customers of diet food deliveries. It aims at investigating the motivations of this service’s clients for using the service. It also makes an attempt to reveal, ... -
Profil społeczno-demograficzny uczestnika imprezy biegowej na przykładzie Półmaratonu Poznańskiego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)In many countries we are observing now an increase of fashion for running and in connection with the participation of athletes in various running events – marathons, halfmarathons, ultramarathons. Running events become ... -
Nowe szaty healthismu. Self-tracking, neoliberalizm i kapitalizm kognitywny
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)Self-tracking refers to all kinds of ways to measuring and analyzing one’s biological condition. Self-trackers use various kinds of mobile technologies (smart phones, bands, buttons, rings etc.) and applications. Using ...