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Reviewing the Stigma: A Critical Analysis of Conspiracy Belief in Social Science Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-26)The analysis shows that empirical social science studies examining psychological and social characteristics of conspiracy belief are characterized by a persistent deficit orientation, with a strong tendency to pathologize ... -
State and Civil Society Response to the 2024 Floods in Southern Poland: A Critical Review
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-26)This article presents a secondary analysis of research findings on the responses of state institutions and civil society to the September 2024 flood in southern Poland. The study selectively examines results from individual ... -
Choosing a School, Imagining a Childhood. Emotional, Moral, and Social Dimensions of School Choice in Denmark
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-26)International studies have shown that concerns about children’s academic outcomes and future educational opportunities shape parents’ choice of primary school. In Denmark, such concerns are manifested differently due to a ... -
“It Looked Like I Was Going Through a Breakup”: Extinction-Based Sleep Training and the Cultural Dilemmas of Mothering
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-26)This article explores extinction-based sleep training as a case study of the lived tensions of contemporary motherhood in the United States. Extinction-based sleep training is an umbrella term for techniques used to teach ... -
Emotional Framing of Emotional Deviants as a Political Strategy for Strengthening Collective Emotional Resilience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-03-06)This article examines how leaders in the United States and the United Kingdom used rhet oric to frame emotional deviants and strengthen collective emotional resilience during two crises in 2024. Drawing on emotion management ... -
Too Little, Too Late: Consent Education, Sexual Practice, and Institutional Power in College Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-03-06)Despite widespread efforts to address sexual assault on US college campuses through consent education, understanding and practicing consent remains a complex and under-researched area. Consent, defined as clear, continuous, ... -
“Care Work” in Facilitative Mediation: Interactional Techniques for Emotional Support in the Context of Conflict Resolution
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-03-06)This paper investigates how facilitative mediators use “care work” techniques when participants display emotional or relational concerns during the session. Conversation analysis is used to analyze a pre-existing dataset ... -
Two Decades of Reflection and Critique. The Continuous Fear of Replacement—The Renaissance of Feeling and Intuition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Sociology Review (2005–2025)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-03-06)On the twentieth anniversary of Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), this article offers a critical and autoethnographic reflection on how qualitative sociology has responded to technological innovation over the past two ... -
COVID-19 as a Family Stressor: A Life Course Exploration of Family Stress Among Rural Grandparents and Their Adult Children in Upstate New York
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-31)COVID-19 has brought about many changes for rural families, affecting their family roles, childcare responsibilities, financial status, and experiences of family stress. In this study, I examine (1) how rural grandparents ... -
The Experience of Everyday Life Alongside Virtual Companions. A Case Study of Human-Chatbot Encounters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-31)This article a nalyses i nteractions between a human and a virtual entity, namely, a chatbot. These encounters are considered in the context of cyberspace, understood as a specific social interactional space. They are also ... -
Is There a Sociologist in the Room? Raising the Sociological Voice in Educational Spaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-31)Educational spaces are both material and human sites. While people design and build the physical space of educational institutions, these spaces also shape human behavior, interaction, and thought, playing a crucial role ... -
Selling Sleep: A Qualitative Study of Infant Sleep Coaching in Western Canada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-31)This article theorizes the experience of using a coach to assist with a baby or young child’s sleep “training” as occurring at the intersection of three broader phenomena: the increasing use of paid experts to advise on ... -
Ethical Processes and Dilemmas during Research with Youth on Cyber-Risk
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-07-31)In this article, we reflect on the ethical processes and dilemmas we encountered in almost a decade of qualitative research with teenagers about digital technologies and cyber-risk. Our research underscores both the ... -
Recording Solo: Managing Long-Distance Data Collection within Audio Diary Research with Healthcare Professionals
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-07-31)This paper explores the methodological and reflexive implications of using audio diaries in remote qualitative research with healthcare professionals. Drawing on a three-month study involving 18 participants who submitted ... -
Labor of Care and Contracts: A Study of Surrogacy after the Transnational Ban in India
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-07-31)Characterized by the interplay of care and contracts, surrogacy is an exclusive form of gendered work. The paper is based on a micro-level ethnographic study exploring the lived and embodied challenges of commercial ... -
The Sociality and Liminality of Bangkok’s Cannabis Cafés
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-07-31)In June 2022, Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis, only to face opposition from conservative political forces that are now attempting to pass policies that will recriminalize its recreational ... -
Affective Governmentality in Food Delivery Platforms: A Study of Bolt Food Riga Push Notifications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-04-30)The paper uses a governmentality perspective to discuss the issue of control in food delivery platforms through analysis of 4083 push notifications sent by the Bolt Food platform to its couriers in Riga from 2020 to 2023. ... -
The Biographical Experience of Being a Stay-at-Home Mother of a Large Family Versus Online Activity. A Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-04-30)The article presents the analysis of two cases of women reconstructed based on autobiographical narrative interviews. They are mothers of many children and are active online, having accounts on Instagram and creating ... -
Navigating Recognition: The Symbolic Struggles in the Biographies of Young Polish Internet Content Creators
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-04-30)This paper aims to examine the symbolic struggles embedded in the biographies of internet content creators. Pursuing a relatively new profession that lacks symbolic legitimization necessitates both explanatory and emotional ... -
Can You Make Money from Being Queer? Commodification of Queerness on Social Media as Biographical Experience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-04-30)The article presents a case study of an autobiographical narrative interview with Adam—a young influencer who creates books-related content. Special attention is given to Adam’s relationship with his audience and how it ...