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    • Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret 

      Heggenstaller, Alessandra K.; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan K.; Smit, Ria; Ryen, Anne (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored ...
    • The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making 

      Setai, Phokeng T.; Coetzee, Jan K.; Maeder, Christoph; Wojciechowska, Magdalena ORCID; Ackermann, Leane (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Since the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge the extant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandings in society. An artist is ...
    • Deconstructing My Library, Unwrapping My Lifeworld 

      Coetzee, Jan K. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      One of the most frequent ways of narrating everyday life in developed countries has been via the printed book. The invention of printing allowed for an ever-increasing mass production of documents of life that systematically ...
    • Emotions and Belonging: Constructing Individual Experience and Organizational Functioning in the Context of an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Program 

      Rau, Asta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The analytical approach of this article is inspired by C. Wright Mills’ (1959) notion of “the sociological imagination.” Individual experience is viewed through the lens of the wider social context, particularly that of ...
    • Experiencing Physical Disability: Young African Women in Lesotho 

      Rafoneke, Seithati; Coetzee, Jan K.; Bülow, Pia H.; Jaffray, Penny; Young-Hauser, Amanda (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The article unwraps notions related to young African women’s lifeworld experiences of physical disability. The study is positioned in the broad context of the theoretical frameworks of phenomenology, existential sociology, ...
    • Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association 

      Matebesi, Sethulego Z. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      A growing body of literature on urban and grassroots social movements is replete with case studies of citizens mobilizing against infrastructural development projects. These mobilizations, known as insurgent citizenship—the ...
    • Narratives and Everyday Life 

      Coetzee, Jan K.; Rau, Asta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
    • Online Gamers, Lived Experiences, and Sense of Belonging: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 

      Pietersen, André J.; Coetzee, Jan K.; Byczkowska-Owczarek, Dominika; Elliker, Florian; Ackermann, Leane (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Individuals who partake in video games are often regarded with prejudice. It is an activity that is perceived to be mainly related to senseless leisure and teenage entertainment. However, many diverse people make video ...
    • Online Social Networking, Interactions, and Relations: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 

      Sele, Sello J.; Coetzee, Jan K.; Elliker, Florian; Groenewald, Cornie; Matebesi, Sethulego Z. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Online social networking (OSN) is an activity performed through social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram. OSN has become a dominant interaction mechanism within contemporary society. ...
    • Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment 

      Heggenstaller, Alessandra K.; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan K.; Ryen, Anne; Smit, Ria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male ...
    • A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe 

      Chikonzo, Ndakaitei; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan K.; Ryen, Anne; Elliker, Florian; Young-Hauser, Amanda (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it ...