Qualitative Sociology Review: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 101-120 z 239
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Organizational Challenges in the Public Sector. A Qualitative Study of the Swedish Armed Forces and Elderly Care
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-07-31)Society is continuously impacted by accelerating technical and social changes that challenge individuals, organizations, and societies. This appears to lead to the emergence of negative organizational behavior patterns ... -
Temporary Employment, Permanent Stigma? Perceptions of Temporary Agency Workers Across Low- and High-Skilled Jobs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-07-31)Research on temporary agency work emphasizes that temporary agency workers (TAWs), particularly those in low-skilled jobs associated with precariousness and low social prestige, are likely to be exposed to poor treatment, ... -
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 Activation and Restoration of Shame in an Intimate Relationship: A First-Hand Account of Self-Injury
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)This paper is grounded in a first-hand account of my own experiences with self-injury and shame. By using my personal diary entries as support for this account and a sociological framework of shame, I explore the process ... -
Between Political Myths, Dormant Resentments, and Redefinition of the Recent History: A Case Study of Serbian National Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)The subject of the article concerns the issue of constructing and reconstructing national identity. The object of interest here is a sociological case study of Serbian national identity. It includes reconstruction and ... -
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 ... -
Fighting for Their Future: An Exploratory Study of Online Community Building in the Youth Climate Change Movement
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)While offline iterations of the climate activism movement have spanned decades, today online involvement of youth through social media platforms has transformed the landscape of this social movement. Our research considers ... -
The Driving Lesson as a Socio-Technical Situation. A Case Study on the Interaction between Learner Driver, Driving Instructor, and the Motor Car
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-04-30)A micro-sociological examination of the driving lesson raises the following question: How is the interaction between learner driver and driving instructor structured in this technical setting, and what meaning can be ... -
Illuminating Existential Meaning: A New Approach in the Study of Retirement
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Current discussions on the importance of retirement are largely built on statistical analyses of longitudinal data showing that well-being seldom changes from before to after entering retirement, but is rather mainly ... -
Life Strategies of the Parents of Children with Intellectual Disabilities in the Context of Mixed Social Situations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of the managing of the stigma of a child’s disability by their parents. Using the concept of stigma by Erving Goffman, I point to its usefulness in understanding the management of ... -
Continuing Social Constraints in Education Agency: The School Choices and Experiences of Middle- Class African American Families in Albany, NY
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)This paper explores the experiences of middle-class African American parents who have enrolled their children in a central-city public school district and the factors that inform and contribute to their school enrollment ... -
Writing Tales of the Future: Five “Balancing Acts” for Globographers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Since the early 1990s much has been written about how ethnographers should do fieldwork of the local in a globalizing world. The challenge of communicating their analyses authentically in a world of information overload ... -
The “Illusion” of Social Research/ Action. Reflections on Neo-Colonial Pedagogy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)In the text, the author demonstrated that regardless of the prevailing regime, the State, by relying on separate laws for people with disabilities (or any other minority group), has created and continues to create colonies ... -
Archaeological, Alethurgical, and Dispositif Analysis: Discourse Studies on Higher Education in Poland from a Post-Foucauldian Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)At the present stage of the reception of Foucault’s ideas, various theoretical and methodological trends coexist, within which the concepts of Michel Foucault are used fruitfully in empirical research. One of them is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Governmentality without Truth: An Essay on the Role of Foucauldian Thinking in a Post- Truth Society
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)Considering the issue of power in Foucault will always lead to comments on the issue of knowledge and vice versa. What I suggest in this paper, however, is to look into both topics presented in the work by Foucault separately, ... -
Archeology as a Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)The scientific discipline of archeology has gone through various stages of its development and improvement of research methods. First, it was combined with ancient history and the history of art. In the mid-nineteenth ... -
Panel Discussion. The Politics of Truth in Education and the Public Space: Discussion at the Opening of the Volume
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From the Editors. Critically with Foucault: Anarchaeology of Education and Public Spaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-02-08)