The aim of the article is to make visible the violence experienced by researchers in the field. Firstly, violence is sometimes a part of the fieldwork and as such can be analyzed. Secondly, keeping quiet about it strengthens ...

This paper aims to shed light on how various micro- and macro-level contexts shape the parenting decision-making process among same-sex female couples. Drawing on my six-year study of two-mother planned families in Poland, ...

The domination of a metropolitan social theory is the main topic of Raewlyn Connell’s work. Her 2007 book titled The Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science has provoked discussion among European ...

Classical explanations of the genesis of social values and norms refer to mechanisms that more or less directly facilitate the development of human societies. However, the explanation of moral norms pertaining to other ...

The article presents the results of a qualitative research on the Facebook group called ‘Porcelanowe Aniołki’ [‘Porcelain Angels’]. The main aim of the article is to present the role of storytelling about a disease in ...

The article focuses on sensitising concepts that allow us to capture the individual dimension of class experience with particular emphasis on the biographies of academics with working-class origins. The study is based on ...

The article raises the problem of conflicting axionormative models, diagnosing the phenomenon of anomie in the system of science in Poland. The content of the paper is based on in-depth interviews with experts who work in ...