Qualitative Sociology Review: Ostatnio dodane
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Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
(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 ... -
Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association
(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 ... -
Deconstructing My Library, Unwrapping My Lifeworld
(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
(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
(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, ... -
Narratives and Everyday Life
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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 ... -
Book Review: Leavy, Patricia. 2017. Privilege through the Looking-Glass. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers
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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 ... -
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: ... -
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, ... -
Body on the Plate. On the Relation between the Carnality and Food (on the example of meat in advertising)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Do we own our bodies? Do we control them during the meal, or does the meal control us? In this paper, we aim to examine the complex nexus of social and physical practices embedded in eating habits. During the examination ... -
A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body—Recipes for a Healthy Living as Seen in Polish Vlogs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The fashion for leading a healthy lifestyle has recently reached Polish society. Inspired by exposure through the mass media, many people have decided to introduce changes into the way they eat and exercise, primarily in ... -
Sociology of the Body—Teaching Embodied Approach through Autoethnography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article presents and discusses the way of teaching sociology of the body whose aim is to allow students to become familiar with embodied methodology and make them methodologically sensitive. The research tasks given ... -
The Body as a Private and Social Space. The Margins of Research Regarding Old Age and Gender
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)In the conditions of late modernity, the body is a project realized in both the public and private spheres. The aim of this article is to review theories and empirical studies concerning socio-cultural issues and the ... -
The Theater Plays the Body. Replication of the Canon of Beauty among Young Actresses in the Theater
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article presents the results of our independent qualitative research conducted in Polish theater circles. In-depth interviews have been conducted with fourth-year female students of acting faculties from four state ... -
Nudity, Sexuality, Photography. Visual Redefinition of the Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article examines the relations between photography, body, nudity, and sexuality. It presents changing relations of photography with a naked or semi-naked body and different forms and recording conventions. From the ... -
Girls in Football, Boys in Dance. Stereotypization Processes in Socialization of Young Sportsmen and Sportswomen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article at hand presents and discusses the issue of gender stereotypization strategies during the socialization process of children practicing atypical gender sports, which is perceived as inappropriate to their gender. ...