Qualitative Sociology Review: Recent submissions
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The Experience of Systemic Transformation in Contemporary Biographical Narratives of Older Poles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to explore whether—from the subjective perspective of people born before the end of WWII—systemic transformation brought about significant changes in their individual lives, and if yes—what was ... -
Life of Things from the Perspective of Polish Systemic Transformation
Dopierała, Renata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
The main purpose of the paper is to present the “biography” of selected things which appear in autobiographical narrative interviews conducted within the project “Experiencing the Systemic Transformation Process in Poland. ... -
Narrative Agency and Structural Chaos. A Biographical-Narrative Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article is an analysis of a single case—a biographical narrative of a Tri-City resident who enters adulthood at the beginning of political transformation in 1989, and whose life path turns out to be an unintentional, ... -
Winners and Losers of the Process of Transformation as an Etic Category versus Emic Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)One of the common and schematic descriptions in the perspective of the 1989 breakthrough are two ways of dealing with it by people who are respectively called winners or losers of transformation. These stereotypical ... -
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
; ; Seehaus, Alexandra; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we ... -
Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)
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Religion and Culture of Origin. Re-Shaping Identity in the Integration Process: A Case Study in Sicily
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)What happens when people of different cultures, values, religion live together? Sociological studies on immigrative phenomenon often swing between immigration and integration policies. These policies actually reveal the ... -
Yes! Kissing Too… The Child Would Not Be Hurt in Any Way: Social Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Ga Community in Ghana
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child obligates nations to protect children from all forms of abuse including sexual. However, child sexual abuse is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to understand ... -
On Entering the Field: Notes from a Neophyte Researcher
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Qualitative field research can capture the life worlds and definitions of the situation of informants often not reported in quantitative studies. Post hoc reflections of how more seasoned researchers define, assess, and ... -
An Analysis of Biographies in Collective Memory Research: The Method of Socio-Historical Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the use of biographies in qualitative research about collective memory. It is argued that commemorative ceremonies, as well as changes appearing in macro-level structures within the time-span of ... -
Getting Prepared to Be Prepared: How Interpersonal Skills Aid Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article deals with fieldwork in challenging research contexts that make preparation for field research particularly difficult. Challenging contexts include generally insecure places, politicized contexts, and unknown ... -
Social Problems and the Contextual Compromise: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Knowledge in Everyday Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article builds on recent sociological debates about the explanatory importance of claims-making contexts and the continuing challenges associated with subjectivism and objectivism in social problems research. The ... -
Nowotny, Helga. 2016. "The Cunning of Uncertainty". Cambridge: Polity Press
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019) -
Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)I would like to present the possibility of broadening the traditional methodological and technical skills of researcher and analyst, but also the intellectual capacity of the researcher associated with combining data, ... -
Self-Enhancement and Helping Behavior: Motivations of Volunteers in Registration and Reception Centers for Refugees in Bulgaria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Helping behavior can be triggered by complex motivators, a number of them self-related. Investigation of this issue can foster a better understanding of such current social phenomena as volunteerism within the context of ... -
Between Individual and Collective Actions: The Introduction of Innovations in the Social World of Climbing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article, which is based upon the findings of a seven-year research project concerning the social world of climbing, discusses climbing as an organized social practice that possesses a strong historical dimension and ... -
Imagined Engagements: Interpreting the Musical Relationship with the Canadian North
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this article, we extend Benedict Anderson’s notion of imagined communities to examine the idea of an “imagined engagement” between or among people and groups that have not met. These imagined engagements include a ... -
The Story of the Nearest Relative: Shifts in Footing in Dramaturgical Replayings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This discussion assesses the utility of Goffman’s thinking about conversational interaction for illuminating features of a research interview between one of the two authors (LM) and a fellow social work professional. We ... -
The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper uses examples from rural studies to demonstrate the relevance of symbolic interactionism for unlocking the complexity of contemporary society. It does so by making a case for a nonprescriptive theory-method ... -
The Everyday Life Intersection of Translational Science and Music
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theoretical relationship between translational science and music. The relationship between science and music has been of great interest to philosophers, historians, and musicologists ...