Browsing Qualitative Sociology Review 2019 Volume XV Issue 4 by Issue Date
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Narrative Agency and Structural Chaos. A Biographical-Narrative Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article is an analysis of a single case—a biographical narrative of a Tri-City resident who enters adulthood at the beginning of political transformation in 1989, and whose life path turns out to be an unintentional, ... -
The Precarious Life Situation Trap. The Case of “Zealous” Julia—A Proponent and a Victim of Neoliberal Reality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The analysis of Julia’s (b. 1984) case, empirically grounded in the autobiographical narrative interview method, will discuss the mutual influence of the individual experiences and the collective processes that result in ... -
The PPR, Systemic Transformation, and New Poland. Opportunity Structures in the Biographical Experience of Senior Social Reformers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper is based on preliminary results of the analysis of four pilot narrative autobiographical interviews conducted with members of the oldest generation of Polish social innovators (born in the 1930s—early 1950s) ... -
The Experience of Systemic Transformation in Contemporary Biographical Narratives of Older Poles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to explore whether—from the subjective perspective of people born before the end of WWII—systemic transformation brought about significant changes in their individual lives, and if yes—what was ... -
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
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This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we ... -
Migration as a Source of Suffering in the Context of the Biographical Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland. Case Study of Weronika’s Life History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the case study of the life history of Weronika, a person biographically experiencing the consequences of the transformation process in Poland. On the one hand, the text concentrates on showing the ... -
Life of Things from the Perspective of Polish Systemic Transformation
Dopierała, Renata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
The main purpose of the paper is to present the “biography” of selected things which appear in autobiographical narrative interviews conducted within the project “Experiencing the Systemic Transformation Process in Poland. ... -
Socio-Economic Costs of Systemic Transformation in Ukraine in the Lens of the Biographical Experiences of Ukrainian Female Migrants to Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The aim of this article is to discuss the socio-economic costs of the post 1990 transformation process in Ukraine resulting in the chronic feeling of discontent with one’s life, which results in the individuals and whole ... -
“We Are the Poles from Former Yugoslavia.” Transformation Processes Shifted in Time—The Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper is based on the first analysis of the 25 narrative interviews collected from March to November 2018 in small local communities in the Lower Silesia Region. All narrators belong to the families that were transferred ... -
The Coping Strategies in Biographies of Polish Middle- Class Representatives of (Post)Transformation Period
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article focuses on the problem of life strategies adapted by the representatives of young Polish middle-class in the (post)transformation period in Poland towards different aspects of social change. On the basis of two ... -
Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)
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Winners and Losers of the Process of Transformation as an Etic Category versus Emic Biographical Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)One of the common and schematic descriptions in the perspective of the 1989 breakthrough are two ways of dealing with it by people who are respectively called winners or losers of transformation. These stereotypical ...