Qualitative Sociology Review: Recent submissions
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Body, Meanings, and Physical Exercise in Older Adults: The Qualitative Perspective of Frequent Gym-Goers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-31)It is known that rates of participation in sports and physical activities among older adults decrease as they get older. This article focuses on the experience of the aging body at the gym, and it is one of the few that ... -
Generic Social Process and the Problem of Success-Claiming: Defining Success on the Margins of Canadian Federal Politics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-31)Envisioning success and its pursuit as an enduring feature of human group life, this paper examines success as a humanly constructed and realized social process. As framed herein, success represents the attribution by some ... -
Types of Rationality in Discourses on Work in (Post)Transformation Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-31)Rationality is the key concept for understanding the reproduction of social life in the era of reflexive modernization. A fusion of lessons learned from the constructivist view of the world and analysis of the hermeneutic ... -
Influence Work, Resistance, and Educational Life-Worlds: Quintilian’s [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] (35-95 CE) Analysis of Roman Oratory as an Instructive Ethnohistorical Resource and Conceptual Precursor of Symbolic Interactionist Scholarship
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-31)Despite the striking affinities of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric with the pragmatist/interactionist analysis of the situated negotiation of reality and its profound relevance for the analysis of human group life more ... -
Parental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ Understandings and Responses to Parental Digital Mediation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)Research on parental mediation of children’s online engagements situate historically longstanding anxieties within the dynamics of present-day information communications technologies (i.e., concerns over new “cyber risks,” ... -
Biographical Work as a Mechanism of Dealing with Precarity and Precariousness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)The article aims to explore the relationship between biographical work and the strategies of managing precarity (low-paid and unstable employment) and precariousness (insecurity and instability of life conditions in general) ... -
Alfred Schütz Revisited: Social Exclusion of Refugees in Brandenburg
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)For refugees, the transition from their home to the host society is especially challenging. In particular, their situation shortly after arrival entails the risk of social exclusion. Based on two case studies, this article ... -
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 ... -
Gender, Embodiment, and Self-Regulation: Surveillance in Canadian Intercollegiate Women’s Distance Running
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)This article draws on data collected through semi-structured interviews with intercollegiate cross country and track athletes to investigate how female distance runners experience their sport concerning gender and embodiment. ... -
What Is Going On? An Analysis of the Interaction Order
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-04-30)Seeing sociology visually adds a sense of realness to the viewer compared to only reading sociological texts. In this paper, I aim to provide an example of how a single scene from a feature film can be utilized as a practical ... -
Child Disciplinary Practices versus Child Rights in Zimbabwe: Viewed through Social Work Lenses
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)Although parents are a vital cog in instilling and maintaining child discipline, very little information exists about the methods they employ. Using a qualitative approach, this paper explored the methods used by parents ... -
Stressors and Coping Mechanisms among Extended-Stay Motel Residents in Central Florida
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)Not having a permanent home means living in a constant state of stress. Though much has been written about homelessness and its stressors, very little research has focused on the experiences of those living in liminal ... -
“If Things Really Go On as They Are at the Moment, Then I Will Work Illegally. End of Story.” Pandemic Realities in Marginalized Entrepreneurships
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)Micro-enterprises and self-employed individuals have been hit particularly hard by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but few studies have tackled the issue. This paper is based on four in-depth case studies ... -
Vocational Teacher Educators’ Role Identity: A Case Study in Malta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)This paper gains a deeper understanding of the professional role identities of vocational teacher educators (VTEs) when compared with mainstream teacher educators (MTEs) in Malta. It is framed using identity theory from ... -
Honoring Student “Voice” in Investigating Student Identity Development in a Narrative Study: A Methodological and Analytical Example
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)Multiple, interrelated narrative methods were employed in a doctoral study purposed to investigate the student identity development of seven first-year participants. This approach provided them with multiple opportunities ... -
Methodological Experiences in Collaborative Ethnography. Communication and Participation as Frameworks for Constructing in Common
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-01-31)In this article, we will analyze how we built the research process of a collaborative ethnography with the Stop Evictions Granada 15M Movement (SEG15M). We will begin with a brief contextualization of the housing issues ... -
Mechanisms of Identity Construction among Members of Pyramid Schemes in Iran: A Critical Ethnography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-10-31)Whereas the emergence of pyramid schemes exerted considerable impacts on people’s lives, up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the experiences of members from the sociological perspective, particularly in ... -
Supporting the President in a #NotMyPresident Context: Experiences of College-Aged Trump Supporters at a Southern University
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-10-31)In light of sexual misconduct allegations involving the former president of the United States, this study analyzes the reasons some university students provide for their continued support of Donald Trump. Relying on ten ... -
“You Are First a Chinese Citizen, Then A Consumer”: Presenting and Balancing Identities Online as Chinese International Tourists
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-10-31)This paper is based on the analysis of 261 video and word posts collected from four popular social media sites on which Chinese tourists shared their consumption-related experiences during and after the trip. It investigates ... -
Researching Masculinity and Men’s Sexual Health in Bangladesh: Methodological Reflections
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-10-31)Sex and sexuality are deemed “sensitive” issues in relatively conservative, predominantly Muslim countries. Men’s sex and sexualities research within such cultural contexts confronts certain challenges and raises important ...