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Book Review, Czarniawska, Barbara. 2011. Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News.
(Instytut Socjologii, Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2012-12-30) -
A Draft Profile of a Very Unusual Scholar
Czyżewski, Marek
(Instytut Socjologii, Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2014-01)
Remarks on Professor Fritz Schütze -
The War on the Wall. Polish and Soviet War Posters Anaysis
Dymarczyk, Waldemar (Katedra Socjologii Organizacji i Zarządzania, Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2014-10)
Every war is not only the fight of the armies but also a war of the ideologies. One of the forms of the ideological war is propaganda posters. Over forty posters presented and analyzed in this article come from the ... -
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 ... -
Book Review. Griffin, Nathan Stephens. 2017. Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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Confronting Institutional Discrimination in a Color-Blind World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This article builds on the scholarship on color-blind ideology by examining discourse challenging two cases of institutional discrimination (the criminalization of unauthorized immigrants and sports teams’ use of Native ... -
Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Researchers have identified a host of factors that influence immigrant men’s understanding of and commitment to health, but overall the scholarship is still unsettled, in large part because the experiences of immigrant ... -
“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The reading practices of women, mediated by a prison library in Portugal, constituted an interesting case study. In Santa Cruz do Bispo prison, female prisoners were increasingly aged and excluded from social groups, less ... -
The Timing of Pregnancy: Women’s Interpretations of Planned and Unplanned Pregnancy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)In this paper, we apply the concept of timing to explore the meaning that women attach towards planned and unplanned pregnancy. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 42 Canadian women who were pregnant ... -
Intervention Tales: Talk, Documents, and “Engagement” on a Wage Subsidy Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on a wage subsidy project for NEETs in London, this article examines how talk and documents are used to make sense of caseloads and clients. The article draws attention to the way that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
Book Review: Leavy, Patricia. 2017. Privilege through the Looking-Glass. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers
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The Body as a Private and Social Space. The Margins of Research Regarding Old Age and Gender
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)In the conditions of late modernity, the body is a project realized in both the public and private spheres. The aim of this article is to review theories and empirical studies concerning socio-cultural issues and the ... -
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 ... -
The Theater Plays the Body. Replication of the Canon of Beauty among Young Actresses in the Theater
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article presents the results of our independent qualitative research conducted in Polish theater circles. In-depth interviews have been conducted with fourth-year female students of acting faculties from four state ...