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The Social Transformation of Self-Injury
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
This research offers a description and analysis of the relatively hidden practice of self-injury: cutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking. Drawing on over 150 in-depth interviews and tens of thousands of website ...
Is Homicide a Turning Point in the Life of Perpetrators? A Narrative Analysis of the Life Stories of Marginalized and Middle-Class Male Homicide Offenders in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
This paper aims to analyze the relevance given to violent deaths and imprisonment by male homicide perpetrators in their biographical reconstructions. Drawing on narrative criminology, this study examines the offenders’ ...
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 ...
Unexplored Realities in Qualitative Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
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 ...
A Socially Constructed Individualist: An Interactionist Study of Role-Making among Orchestral Conductors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
The paper analyzes the role-making of an orchestral conductor. It is framed by the symbolic interactionist perspective and focuses on Ralph Turner’s role-making theory and the works of Alfred Schütz and Howard S. Becker ...
To Be an Autoethnographer or Not to Be—That Is the Question
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
It is the most personal article I have ever written, revealing my fears, hesitations, reflections, and decisions. I am still striving to write a scientific and academic paper, still looking for that academic framework that ...
Healthcare Information Technology’s Relativity Challenges: Distortions Created by Patients’ Physical Reality versus Clinicians’ Mental Models and Healthcare Electronic Records
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
This paper examines the inconsistencies or distortions among three medical realities: patients’ physical reality (as reflected in clinical observations, lab reports, and other “objective” measures); clinicians’ mental ...
Sensual Construction of Body and Biography. Suggestions to Mutually Improve Deficient but Widespread Body Concepts and Biographical Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-31)
Against the backdrop of an increasing interest in visual methods in social research, this paper examines some theoretical foundations of human (inter-)action by reflecting on the interplay between senses, the body, and ...
Whiteness and the Black Fan Imagination: Making Meaning of Whiteness within the Geographies of NASCAR
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)
This article places its attention on how the spatial boundaries, practices, and separations—as structured by whiteness—impact the contestation and negotiation of meaning-making processes in the production and consumption ...