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A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it ... -
Online Gamers, Lived Experiences, and Sense of Belonging: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Individuals who partake in video games are often regarded with prejudice. It is an activity that is perceived to be mainly related to senseless leisure and teenage entertainment. However, many diverse people make video ... -
Online Social Networking, Interactions, and Relations: Students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Online social networking (OSN) is an activity performed through social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram. OSN has become a dominant interaction mechanism within contemporary society. ... -
The Creative Process. A Case for Meaning-Making
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Since the beginning of time art-making has been a tool to express, preserve, and challenge the extant knowledge in society. Artists do this by finding or creatively constructing new understandings in society. An artist is ... -
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored ... -
Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male ... -
Deconstructing My Library, Unwrapping My Lifeworld
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)One of the most frequent ways of narrating everyday life in developed countries has been via the printed book. The invention of printing allowed for an ever-increasing mass production of documents of life that systematically ... -
Emotions and Belonging: Constructing Individual Experience and Organizational Functioning in the Context of an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Program
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The analytical approach of this article is inspired by C. Wright Mills’ (1959) notion of “the sociological imagination.” Individual experience is viewed through the lens of the wider social context, particularly that of ... -
Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)A growing body of literature on urban and grassroots social movements is replete with case studies of citizens mobilizing against infrastructural development projects. These mobilizations, known as insurgent citizenship—the ... -
Experiencing Physical Disability: Young African Women in Lesotho
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article unwraps notions related to young African women’s lifeworld experiences of physical disability. The study is positioned in the broad context of the theoretical frameworks of phenomenology, existential sociology, ... -
Narratives and Everyday Life
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Shifting the Burden to Daughters: A Qualitative Examination of Population Policy, Labor Migration, and Filial Responsibility in Rural Bangladesh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This research examines the gendered consequences of the international low-fertility agenda, as it has been realized in an era of a globalized labor market, by documenting some of the ways that families in rural Bangladesh ... -
Doing the Unknown: Spa Activities in Nursing Homes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)An ethnomethodological point of departure is that people rely on shared knowledge when mutually accomplishing everyday situations. Whereas most residents in a nursing home have a reasonable previous knowledge of events ... -
Book Review: Leavy, Patricia. 2017. Privilege through the Looking-Glass. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers
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Community Immersion, Trust-Building, and Recruitment among Hard to Reach Populations: A Case Study of Muslim Women in Detroit Metro Area
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Scholars have identified a range of factors that influence the ability of researchers to access hard-toreach groups and the willingness of their members to participate in research. In this paper, we draw on insights from ... -
A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This article explores the concepts of dignity at work and worker voice in the public workplace during a period of surging neoliberal austerity intended to reduce taxes, government regulations, and public services. I ask ... -
The Multi-Dimensional Influence of a Sports Activity on the Process of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and the Improvement in the Quality of Life of Persons with Physical Disabilities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Purpose: The purpose of the research is to analyze the role that sport plays in the lives of persons with physical disabilities within the process of rehabilitation and the improvement of their quality of life.Background: ... -
Research into Transformations in Everyday Life: Three Methodological Notes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article focuses on the reflection of my research experience in obtaining qualitative data using narrative interviews. I confronted my own research experience with the phenomenological methodology of Alfred Schütz, ... -
Sociology of the Body—Teaching Embodied Approach through Autoethnography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article presents and discusses the way of teaching sociology of the body whose aim is to allow students to become familiar with embodied methodology and make them methodologically sensitive. The research tasks given ... -
Body on the Plate. On the Relation between the Carnality and Food (on the example of meat in advertising)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Do we own our bodies? Do we control them during the meal, or does the meal control us? In this paper, we aim to examine the complex nexus of social and physical practices embedded in eating habits. During the examination ...