The article will present some problems that Polish sociology is currently facing, although the issues in question could also be crucial for sociology practised in other countries. The problem of noticing and not noticing ...

In 2007, Marie Clements, a Canadian playwright, was asked to prepare a play about the cultural history of Canada. She decided to write a play about Edward S. Curtis, the author of an epic series of photographic works titled ...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the ambivalent character of success in the social world of artists. The analysis is conducted taking into account the context of the broadened field of culture, and special attention ...

A sense of the patient’s body as a part of the profession of manual therapists is a subject related to the concept of non-discursive knowledge. The main goal of the article is to familiarize the reader with these issues ...

The aim of the article is to reflect on the directions of work on taming otherness in the activities of artists and theatre pe­dagogues from the Theatre 21. We present a model of integration of otherness through theatre ...

The article herein analyzes the contemporary discourse of social sciences with regard to the presence of research on abortion within it. Abortion is a regular medical practice in the world. At the same time, it is one of ...

One of the most important contemporary experiences of European societies is undoubtedly the migration crisis. The resulting social fears of ‘strangers,’ which have been activated, show how important the archetypical ...

This thematic issue focuses on two questions, namely – ‘what place does art occupy in qualitative sociological research?’; and ‘how can joined academic and artistic explorations address the problem of otherness (also within ...

Questioning the epistemological assumptions of positivism and hermeneutics, postmodernism has had a huge impact on the methodology of qualitative research. Not only genres and research roles, but also the boundaries between ...