This article addresses the issue of hidden/invisible disabilities and the question of identity of individuals with disabilities. The authors use Erving Goffman’s concept of stigma and point to its usefulness for understanding ...

The situation of people with disabilities has been fundamentally transformed in the last decades. Changes in the environment of people with disabilities contribute to this. People with disabilities are actively involved ...

The article discusses questions of identity narratives emerging from the responses collected from Polish university students with disabilities to be analyzed by the author. The social image of persons with disabilities, ...

Images of disability present in the media have a significant impact on the perception of people with disabilities. They shape stereotypical ideas that translate into the attitudes and expectations that a large part of ...

The paper has the form of a sociosomatic study of the body reconstructed with an upper limb prosthesis. Its empirical basis is a qualitative research carried out in a group of people with a unilateral or bilateral hand ...

The article is intended to analyze reconstruction of an image related to two categories of disabled persons: those physically active and passive. On the one hand, I focus on the way, which the disable individuals perceive ...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the experience of the body of a person suspended by the skin from hooks, adopting the perspective of the subject as an embodied entity. The empirical basis for the paper is the author’s ...

Can we learn about the art of living from sociology? Sociology teaches us that we are the part of a broader group called society. We are taught that society should be first described in order to be understood and/or ...

The text contains a portrait of the regular horse racing audience on the Racetrack Służewiec in Warsaw. Based on the data collected during long-term ethnographic observation, a subculture of regular racegoers, their spatial ...

The paper is focused on the Polish “socios” movement which is a relatively new form of institutionalized football fandom in Poland. The presented analysis aims to: 1) investigate sociogenesis of the movement in Poland, 2) ...