Qualitative Sociology Review: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 201-220 z 247
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The Return of the Surreal: Towards a Poetic and Playful Sociology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article argues that the time is ripe to reacquaint sociology and surrealism. Taking inspiration from surrealism’s emphasis on making the ordinary strange through bizarre, lively and sometimes haunting methods might ... -
Uncloaking the Researcher: Boundaries in Qualitative Research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Qualitative researchers are expected to engage in reflexivity, whereby they consider the impact of their own social locations and biases on the research process. Part of this practice involves the consideration of boundaries ... -
“I Mean, Define Meaningful!”: Accounts of Meaningfulness among Restaurant Employees
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a five-year period, this study addresses the complex topic of what constitutes meaningful lives. This research examines restaurant employees’ accounts of meaningfulness in and ... -
The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg: A Cry for Help?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical ... -
Constructing Masculinity in Women’s Retailers: An Analysis of the Effect of Gendered Market Segmentation on Consumer Behavior
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)While gender-based differences in consumer behavior have been previously investigated within the context of gender-neutral or unisex retailers, men’s behavior in women’s retailers remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, ... -
What Support? Foucault, Power, and the Construction of Rape
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper is concerned with the social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies, England. Using sociological, cultural, and post-structural theoretical frameworks, mainly the works of Foucault, I ... -
Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Whereas Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has long been envisioned as a structuralist, quantitative, and positivist sociologist, some materials that Durkheim produced in the later stages of his career—namely, Moral Education (1961 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Narratives and Everyday Life
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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 ...