Qualitative Sociology Review: Recent submissions
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Feigning Incompetence in the Field
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)A basic feature of professions is specialized competence. Indeed, expertise grants professions and their members privileged, prestigious, and protected statuses. Members of professions thus face interactional pressure to ... -
Agnostic Interactionism and Sensitizing Concepts in the 21st Century: Developing Shaffirian Theory-Work in Ethnographic Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)In this paper, we reflect upon our experiences taking a graduate qualitative methodology course with Dr. William (Billy) Shaffir. We highlight Billy’s approach to ethnographic research and his declaration to “just do it.” ... -
The Gift of a Vocation: Learning, Writing, and Teaching Sociology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)To write a sociological festschrift for a scholar necessarily means looking at a chain of influence instead of one person. In this essay, I honor William Shaffir, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, who ... -
Journeying into Academia via Immersion into Qualitative Research: Professor Shaffir as a Master Guide
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)The choice of a work career is one of the most important events in a person’s life course and typically involves secondary socialization and identification with role models. This paper is concerned with the crucial role ... -
The Virtue of Patience
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)Shaffir (1998:63) writes, “We must learn to reclaim the virtue of patience. When we enhance the pace of doing research, it is often at the expense of acquiring a deep appreciation of the research problem.” This paper engages ... -
The Hughesian Legacy: William Shaffir—A Principal Interpreter of the Chicago School Diaspora in Canada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)In this paper, I discuss the invaluable role played by William Shaffir, my mentor and doctoral supervisor, who shaped my approach to interpretive fieldwork and deepened my understanding of symbolic interactionist theory. ... -
Editorial. A Festschrift for William Shaffir: Guest Editors’ Introduction
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Dealing with Feeling: Emotion, Affect, and the Qualitative Research Encounter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)Emotion and affect are different, yet intricately interwoven. Emotions such as fear, joy, or sadness are biological in as far as they are physically felt, but they are relational in as far as they are more fully experienced. ... -
Emotional Education Discourses: Between Developing Competences and Deepening Emotional (Co-)Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)The article addresses an issue important in educational sciences which is emotional education understood as an activity for human emotional development. It is important in the context of lifelong learning, that is, both ... -
“Living with Illegal Feelings”—Analysis of the Internet Discourse on Negative Emotions towards Children and Motherhood
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)The aim of the article is to show the socio-cultural conditions influencing the ways of expressing emotions and feelings by mothers. It presents the results of the analysis of the Internet discourse on negative attitudes ... -
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of Love
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)Against the backdrop of contemporary sociological theories of love, this article explores the disappearance of the other in contemporary love relationships by focusing on the relationship between love and depression. The ... -
Pride in Teachers’ Everyday Work. Conditions and Contexts
Pawłowska, Beata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)
The aim of this article is to elaborate on the reasons behind feeling the emotion of pride within the professional context of actions undertaken by contemporary Polish teachers. The article attempts to answer the question ... -
Narrating Emotions: Towards Deeper Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)Qualitative research aims at unwrapping the ordinary and the exceptional in order to bring us closer to a complete description and interpretation of life. People’s narratives are particularly effective in revealing deeper ... -
Emotions in Research and Everyday Life. From Feeling to Acting
Pawłowska, Beata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)
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The Coping Strategies in Biographies of Polish Middle- Class Representatives of (Post)Transformation Period
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the problem of life strategies adapted by the representatives of young Polish middle-class in the (post)transformation period in Poland towards different aspects of social change. On the basis of two ... -
The Precarious Life Situation Trap. The Case of “Zealous” Julia—A Proponent and a Victim of Neoliberal Reality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The analysis of Julia’s (b. 1984) case, empirically grounded in the autobiographical narrative interview method, will discuss the mutual influence of the individual experiences and the collective processes that result in ... -
Socio-Economic Costs of Systemic Transformation in Ukraine in the Lens of the Biographical Experiences of Ukrainian Female Migrants to Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to discuss the socio-economic costs of the post 1990 transformation process in Ukraine resulting in the chronic feeling of discontent with one’s life, which results in the individuals and whole ... -
Migration as a Source of Suffering in the Context of the Biographical Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland. Case Study of Weronika’s Life History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the case study of the life history of Weronika, a person biographically experiencing the consequences of the transformation process in Poland. On the one hand, the text concentrates on showing the ... -
The PPR, Systemic Transformation, and New Poland. Opportunity Structures in the Biographical Experience of Senior Social Reformers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper is based on preliminary results of the analysis of four pilot narrative autobiographical interviews conducted with members of the oldest generation of Polish social innovators (born in the 1930s—early 1950s) ... -
“We Are the Poles from Former Yugoslavia.” Transformation Processes Shifted in Time—The Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper is based on the first analysis of the 25 narrative interviews collected from March to November 2018 in small local communities in the Lower Silesia Region. All narrators belong to the families that were transferred ...