Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 15061-15080 z 47077
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Life Strategies of the Parents of Children with Intellectual Disabilities in the Context of Mixed Social Situations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of the managing of the stigma of a child’s disability by their parents. Using the concept of stigma by Erving Goffman, I point to its usefulness in understanding the management of ... -
Continuing Social Constraints in Education Agency: The School Choices and Experiences of Middle- Class African American Families in Albany, NY
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)This paper explores the experiences of middle-class African American parents who have enrolled their children in a central-city public school district and the factors that inform and contribute to their school enrollment ... -
Writing Tales of the Future: Five “Balancing Acts” for Globographers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Since the early 1990s much has been written about how ethnographers should do fieldwork of the local in a globalizing world. The challenge of communicating their analyses authentically in a world of information overload ... -
The “Illusion” of Social Research/ Action. Reflections on Neo-Colonial Pedagogy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)In the text, the author demonstrated that regardless of the prevailing regime, the State, by relying on separate laws for people with disabilities (or any other minority group), has created and continues to create colonies ... -
Archaeological, Alethurgical, and Dispositif Analysis: Discourse Studies on Higher Education in Poland from a Post-Foucauldian Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)At the present stage of the reception of Foucault’s ideas, various theoretical and methodological trends coexist, within which the concepts of Michel Foucault are used fruitfully in empirical research. One of them is ... -
Post-Foucauldian Discourse and Dispositif Analysis in the Post-Socialist Field of Research: Methodological Remarks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Post-Foucauldian discourse and dispositif analysis, a methodological approach inspired by the work of Michel Foucault and developed in Western Europe, over the last decade has gained an increasing amount of attention from ... -
Paradoxes of Doctoral Studies in Education Sciences in the Czech Republic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Adequate staffing of university studies with qualified academics was completed thanks to the reimplementation of three-stage university education during the post-socialist restoration of higher education in the Czech ... -
Governmentality without Truth: An Essay on the Role of Foucauldian Thinking in a Post- Truth Society
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Considering the issue of power in Foucault will always lead to comments on the issue of knowledge and vice versa. What I suggest in this paper, however, is to look into both topics presented in the work by Foucault separately, ... -
Archeology as a Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)The scientific discipline of archeology has gone through various stages of its development and improvement of research methods. First, it was combined with ancient history and the history of art. In the mid-nineteenth ... -
Panel Discussion. The Politics of Truth in Education and the Public Space: Discussion at the Opening of the Volume
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From the Editors. Critically with Foucault: Anarchaeology of Education and Public Spaces
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Revealing the Silenced Spots: The Influence of Thomas and Znaniecki on the Study of Marginalized Aspects of Social Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article aims to highlight the influence of the work of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki on the perception of social reality by sociologists. I focus on the social practice of creating personal documents (memoirs, ... -
The Interactive Dimension of Creating Cultural Artifacts Using Agile Methodologies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The authors consider symbolic interactionism to be a suitable theoretical framework to analyze projects in creative sectors because it affords ample space for individual and collective creativity. Furthermore, teams working ... -
The Role of Sport in the Process of Negotiating Identity: Dealing with the Stigma of Disability by People with Acquired Bodily Dysfunctions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This paper is intended to present the role of sport in the lives of people with physical disabilities and to determine how practicing sports changes the way a person with a physical disability sees themselves. The paper ... -
Body and Social Interaction—The Case of Dance. Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article aims at presenting the symbolic interactionism as a useful and flexible theoretical perspective in research on the human body. It shows the assumptions of symbolic interactionism in their relation to the human ... -
How Non-Heteronormative Mothers Negotiate Meaning: Experiencing and Contextualizing “Invisibility”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article aims to shed light on how non-heteronormative mothers—whose child had been conceived via artificial insemination of one of them with the sperm of an anonymous donor— decode, experience, and make meaning of ... -
The Social Organization of Merchants’ Activities. An Interactionist Study of Urban Marketplaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article briefly presents the empirical results of a large research project focused on Polish urban marketplaces, commonly known as bazaars, and their interactional order. Due to the spatial separation and legal regulations ... -
An Ethnographic Analysis of Escort Services in Poland: An Interactionist Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)In the Polish literature on the subject, prostitution is analyzed from various theoretical perspectives, but, first of all, from the perspective of social pathology. This approach makes the researchers focus mainly on the ... -
Freelance Workers—Experiencing a Career Outside an Organization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article focuses on the issues of everyday work as a self-employed, professional freelancer in Poland. The appearance of this specific category of workers on the labor market is connected with certain major changes on ... -
The Work of Sales Representatives in the Context of Interactions and Work with Emotions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article aims to present the interactional encounters undertaken within their professional context by the studied group of Polish sales representatives concerning their emotions and emotional work. It is an internally ...