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A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body—Recipes for a Healthy Living as Seen in Polish Vlogs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The fashion for leading a healthy lifestyle has recently reached Polish society. Inspired by exposure through the mass media, many people have decided to introduce changes into the way they eat and exercise, primarily in ... -
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, ... -
In Keeping with Family Tradition: American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Through an interpretive lens that borrows from feminist postmodernist perspectives on identity and cognitive sociology, the manuscript utilizes in-depth interview data from 33 women active in the American second-wave ... -
Book Review. Lloyd, Justine and Ellie Vasta, (eds.). 2017. Reimagining Home in the 21st Century. Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Book Review. Boylorn, Robin M. and Mark P. Orbe, (eds.). 2016. Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. London, New York: Routledge
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Nudity, Sexuality, Photography. Visual Redefinition of the Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article examines the relations between photography, body, nudity, and sexuality. It presents changing relations of photography with a naked or semi-naked body and different forms and recording conventions. From the ... -
Girls in Football, Boys in Dance. Stereotypization Processes in Socialization of Young Sportsmen and Sportswomen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article at hand presents and discusses the issue of gender stereotypization strategies during the socialization process of children practicing atypical gender sports, which is perceived as inappropriate to their gender. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Editorial: Sociology of the Body—Research Practice in Poland
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Narratives and Everyday Life
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...