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Panel Discussion. The Politics of Truth in Education and the Public Space: Discussion at the Opening of the Volume
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08) -
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 ... -
Parental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ Understandings and Responses to Parental Digital Mediation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)Research on parental mediation of children’s online engagements situate historically longstanding anxieties within the dynamics of present-day information communications technologies (i.e., concerns over new “cyber risks,” ... -
A Penile Implant: Embodying Medical Technology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)This article situates the experiences of having penile implant surgery between medical interventions and privately understood meanings and practices. Using my own experiences, supplemented with information from online ... -
The Perception of Security Threats in Lithuania: A Human Security Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article presents original research concerning subjective security and the perception of security threats in Lithuania. It is based on an analysis of data collected during qualitative interviews conducted in 2016 within ... -
Petre, Caitlin. 2021. All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-04-30) -
Piecing Together the Meaning of “Dirty Work”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-04-30)I reflect upon Dr. William Shaffir’s influence on my approach to ethnographic research and my study of homeless shelter workers. Dr. Shaffir introduced me to his own brand of the craft of qualitative field work, but also ... -
Popular Stoicism in the Face of Social Uncertainty
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)The article discusses popular Stoicism (a modern, simplified, and often commercialized version of ancient Stoicism), which is offered as an answer to the uncertainty of modernity. The financial, political, climate, and ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
A Present and a Non-Present Body—Experiencing the Body by Female Sex Workers in Commercial Sexual Relations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Making women’s bodies accessible to men in the commercial context is related to specific ways of experiencing it. The purpose of the article is to discuss the category of a non-present, selectively present, and present ... -
Pride in Teachers’ Everyday Work. Conditions and Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)The aim of this article is to elaborate on the reasons behind feeling the emotion of pride within the professional context of actions undertaken by contemporary Polish teachers. The article attempts to answer the question ... -
The Problematics of Gender for Aviation Emergency Communication during an Inflight Emergency: A Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-04-30)Due to the rarity of female pilots, aviation communication is typically conducted in a single-gender environment. The role of gender in interactions during inflight emergencies has not yet been adequately explored. This ... -
Quali(a)tative Methods: Sense-Based Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)This paper begins by tracing the sensory turn in the human sciences—most notably, history and anthropology—which, in turn, gave rise to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. The latter field is articulated around ... -
Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Whereas Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has long been envisioned as a structuralist, quantitative, and positivist sociologist, some materials that Durkheim produced in the later stages of his career—namely, Moral Education (1961 ... -
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 ... -
Reframing Patient’s Autonomy in End-of-Life Care Decision-Making: Constructions of Agency in Interviews with Physicians
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)In the research literature, critical viewpoints question the idea of patient autonomy as a robust basis for approaching end-of-life treatments. Yet physicians express distinctly positive attitudes towards patient autonomy ... -
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 ... -
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, ...