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Community Immersion, Trust-Building, and Recruitment among Hard to Reach Populations: A Case Study of Muslim Women in Detroit Metro Area
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Scholars have identified a range of factors that influence the ability of researchers to access hard-toreach groups and the willingness of their members to participate in research. In this paper, we draw on insights from ...
A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
This article explores the concepts of dignity at work and worker voice in the public workplace during a period of surging neoliberal austerity intended to reduce taxes, government regulations, and public services. I ask ...
Shifting the Burden to Daughters: A Qualitative Examination of Population Policy, Labor Migration, and Filial Responsibility in Rural Bangladesh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
This research examines the gendered consequences of the international low-fertility agenda, as it has been realized in an era of a globalized labor market, by documenting some of the ways that families in rural Bangladesh ...
Doing the Unknown: Spa Activities in Nursing Homes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
An ethnomethodological point of departure is that people rely on shared knowledge when mutually accomplishing everyday situations. Whereas most residents in a nursing home have a reasonable previous knowledge of events ...
The Multi-Dimensional Influence of a Sports Activity on the Process of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and the Improvement in the Quality of Life of Persons with Physical Disabilities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Purpose: The purpose of the research is to analyze the role that sport plays in the lives of persons with physical disabilities within the process of rehabilitation and the improvement of their quality of life.Background: ...
Book Review: Leavy, Patricia. 2017. Privilege through the Looking-Glass. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Research into Transformations in Everyday Life: Three Methodological Notes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The article focuses on the reflection of my research experience in obtaining qualitative data using narrative interviews. I confronted my own research experience with the phenomenological methodology of Alfred Schütz, ...