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The Coping Strategies in Biographies of Polish Middle- Class Representatives of (Post)Transformation Period
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the problem of life strategies adapted by the representatives of young Polish middle-class in the (post)transformation period in Poland towards different aspects of social change. On the basis of two ... -
The Precarious Life Situation Trap. The Case of “Zealous” Julia—A Proponent and a Victim of Neoliberal Reality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The analysis of Julia’s (b. 1984) case, empirically grounded in the autobiographical narrative interview method, will discuss the mutual influence of the individual experiences and the collective processes that result in ... -
Socio-Economic Costs of Systemic Transformation in Ukraine in the Lens of the Biographical Experiences of Ukrainian Female Migrants to Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to discuss the socio-economic costs of the post 1990 transformation process in Ukraine resulting in the chronic feeling of discontent with one’s life, which results in the individuals and whole ... -
Migration as a Source of Suffering in the Context of the Biographical Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland. Case Study of Weronika’s Life History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the case study of the life history of Weronika, a person biographically experiencing the consequences of the transformation process in Poland. On the one hand, the text concentrates on showing the ... -
The PPR, Systemic Transformation, and New Poland. Opportunity Structures in the Biographical Experience of Senior Social Reformers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper is based on preliminary results of the analysis of four pilot narrative autobiographical interviews conducted with members of the oldest generation of Polish social innovators (born in the 1930s—early 1950s) ... -
“We Are the Poles from Former Yugoslavia.” Transformation Processes Shifted in Time—The Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper is based on the first analysis of the 25 narrative interviews collected from March to November 2018 in small local communities in the Lower Silesia Region. All narrators belong to the families that were transferred ... -
Life of Things from the Perspective of Polish Systemic Transformation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The main purpose of the paper is to present the “biography” of selected things which appear in autobiographical narrative interviews conducted within the project “Experiencing the Systemic Transformation Process in Poland. ... -
The Experience of Systemic Transformation in Contemporary Biographical Narratives of Older Poles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to explore whether—from the subjective perspective of people born before the end of WWII—systemic transformation brought about significant changes in their individual lives, and if yes—what was ... -
Winners and Losers of the Process of Transformation as an Etic Category versus Emic Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)One of the common and schematic descriptions in the perspective of the 1989 breakthrough are two ways of dealing with it by people who are respectively called winners or losers of transformation. These stereotypical ... -
Narrative Agency and Structural Chaos. A Biographical-Narrative Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article is an analysis of a single case—a biographical narrative of a Tri-City resident who enters adulthood at the beginning of political transformation in 1989, and whose life path turns out to be an unintentional, ... -
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we ... -
Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)
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Religion and Culture of Origin. Re-Shaping Identity in the Integration Process: A Case Study in Sicily
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)What happens when people of different cultures, values, religion live together? Sociological studies on immigrative phenomenon often swing between immigration and integration policies. These policies actually reveal the ... -
Yes! Kissing Too… The Child Would Not Be Hurt in Any Way: Social Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Ga Community in Ghana
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child obligates nations to protect children from all forms of abuse including sexual. However, child sexual abuse is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to understand ... -
On Entering the Field: Notes from a Neophyte Researcher
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Qualitative field research can capture the life worlds and definitions of the situation of informants often not reported in quantitative studies. Post hoc reflections of how more seasoned researchers define, assess, and ... -
An Analysis of Biographies in Collective Memory Research: The Method of Socio-Historical Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the use of biographies in qualitative research about collective memory. It is argued that commemorative ceremonies, as well as changes appearing in macro-level structures within the time-span of ... -
Getting Prepared to Be Prepared: How Interpersonal Skills Aid Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article deals with fieldwork in challenging research contexts that make preparation for field research particularly difficult. Challenging contexts include generally insecure places, politicized contexts, and unknown ... -
Social Problems and the Contextual Compromise: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Knowledge in Everyday Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article builds on recent sociological debates about the explanatory importance of claims-making contexts and the continuing challenges associated with subjectivism and objectivism in social problems research. The ... -
Nowotny, Helga. 2016. "The Cunning of Uncertainty". Cambridge: Polity Press
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Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)I would like to present the possibility of broadening the traditional methodological and technical skills of researcher and analyst, but also the intellectual capacity of the researcher associated with combining data, ...