Qualitative Sociology Review: Recent submissions
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Revealing the Silenced Spots: The Influence of Thomas and Znaniecki on the Study of Marginalized Aspects of Social Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article aims to highlight the influence of the work of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki on the perception of social reality by sociologists. I focus on the social practice of creating personal documents (memoirs, ... -
The Interactive Dimension of Creating Cultural Artifacts Using Agile Methodologies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The authors consider symbolic interactionism to be a suitable theoretical framework to analyze projects in creative sectors because it affords ample space for individual and collective creativity. Furthermore, teams working ... -
The Role of Sport in the Process of Negotiating Identity: Dealing with the Stigma of Disability by People with Acquired Bodily Dysfunctions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This paper is intended to present the role of sport in the lives of people with physical disabilities and to determine how practicing sports changes the way a person with a physical disability sees themselves. The paper ... -
Body and Social Interaction—The Case of Dance. Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article aims at presenting the symbolic interactionism as a useful and flexible theoretical perspective in research on the human body. It shows the assumptions of symbolic interactionism in their relation to the human ... -
How Non-Heteronormative Mothers Negotiate Meaning: Experiencing and Contextualizing “Invisibility”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article aims to shed light on how non-heteronormative mothers—whose child had been conceived via artificial insemination of one of them with the sperm of an anonymous donor— decode, experience, and make meaning of ... -
The Social Organization of Merchants’ Activities. An Interactionist Study of Urban Marketplaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article briefly presents the empirical results of a large research project focused on Polish urban marketplaces, commonly known as bazaars, and their interactional order. Due to the spatial separation and legal regulations ... -
An Ethnographic Analysis of Escort Services in Poland: An Interactionist Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)In the Polish literature on the subject, prostitution is analyzed from various theoretical perspectives, but, first of all, from the perspective of social pathology. This approach makes the researchers focus mainly on the ... -
Freelance Workers—Experiencing a Career Outside an Organization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)This article focuses on the issues of everyday work as a self-employed, professional freelancer in Poland. The appearance of this specific category of workers on the labor market is connected with certain major changes on ... -
The Work of Sales Representatives in the Context of Interactions and Work with Emotions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)The article aims to present the interactional encounters undertaken within their professional context by the studied group of Polish sales representatives concerning their emotions and emotional work. It is an internally ... -
Mobbing from the Standpoint of Symbolic Interactionism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)Mobbing at the workplace assumes strong, intensive, and significant interactions between an offender and a target, or a group of targets, causing serious damage to work efficiency, atmosphere, motivation, and employee ... -
Spatial and Temporal Dilemmas of Managers and Entrepreneurs. The Reconstruction of Neutralization Techniques
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)It is often assumed (in line with social expectations) that being a business manager and/or owner implies the feeling of omnipotence. Not only do organizational leaders run businesses, but they are also qualified to do so ... -
Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)In the paper, we present the development of symbolic interactionism (SI) in Poland by tracing and discussing its beginnings, as well as the influence the Chicago School had on the reception of SI in Polish sociology. ... -
An Introduction to the Special Issue of QSR: “Symbolic Interactionism in Poland”
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Book Review: Konecki, Krzysztof T. 2018. "Advances in Contemplative Social Research". Lodz: Wydawnictwo UŁ / Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press
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An Attempt to Restore the Ordinary Death to the Visual Realm—Artistic, Therapeutic, and Ethical Aspects of the Post-Mortem Photography of Children in the 21st Century. Short Introduction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Post-mortem photography was a transcendental element in the 19th century, which not only democratized portraiture, but also helped in the bereavement process. The comeback of post-mortem photography as a psychological tool ... -
Ethical Aspects of Social Research: Old Concerns in the Face of New Challenges and Paradoxes. A Reflection from the Field of Biographical Method
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)The paper deals with the ethical aspects of the research process and contemporary changes in this field, which make the discussion on ethical dilemmas and concerns more dynamic and varied. Although in natural science and ... -
Body, Beauty, and Death in an Andean Context: A Self-Ethnographic Narration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)With this article I seek to build bridges between the different narrative elements where the body is situated as a central language, of experiences as a researcher in socio-cultural contexts of Bolivian indigenous peoples ... -
Meetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work in a Transnational Police Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Yet, the meeting society is being reproduced again and again. There ... -
Othering of Full-Time and Volunteer Women Firefighters in the Canadian Fire Services
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)Being discriminated against because of factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and stature (i.e., height and weight) has been a common experience for women in traditionally men-dominated/identified ... -
Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)My qualitative research paper focuses on the Anne Frank sapling installation at the Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saplings grafted from the tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s window in ...