Browsing by Subject "ethnography"

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„Ale dlaczego dwaj do ciebie mówią »kochanie«?”. Konsensualna niemonogamia w polsce w perspektywie antropologicznej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2024) Stasińska, Antonina
relationships in postmodernity. While psychology and sociology currently dominate this topic, an anthropological approach based on ethnographic research can provide a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. Ethnography allows for the examination of diverse strategies and practices adopted by people living in a nonmonogamous manner. The anthropological approach, which places individual human experience at the center of cultural context, has the potential to broaden an understanding of concepts such as jealousy, relationship/ frienship, and family. The author examines the development of concepts of non-monogamy, polygamy, and monogamous family by looking at the beginnings of anthropology and then critically reading them in relation to the contemporary social world and her own fieldwork conducted among women living in consensually nonmonogamous relationships in Poland.
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Jak badać procesy mobilności zawodowej? Kluczowa rola etnografii w powstaniu nowej propozycji teoretycznej odnośnie do socjologii mobilności
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2010) Wagner, Izabela
Some theoreticians state that the Ethnography and microsociology allow the researchers to ripen previously built even frequently obvious THEORIES, and constitute excellent tools to provide detailed descriptions or examples of processes, which were already in the center of Macro inquiry. Micro is, according to them, kind of picturesque supplement for the majority of Macro – studies – the supplement, which confi rms (and when contradicts this is only for showing exception) the Macro–Knowledge. On the other hand, Grounded Theory practitioners follow an opposing method – from Micro to Macro – developing their own theories from their fields. Other way of QM practice is simply using of Micro without Macro perspective: Ethnographers analyze the phenomenon doing Micro-sociology, strongly close to a chosen particular example – directly from their field– they avoid construction of theoretical models, because they believe that social processes are dynamic and depend on interaction (so each time different), as a consequence people’s behavior cannot be »modelized«. Started from this last perspective (micro without theoretical ambitions) I was surprised to see the whole specialty of sociology (Mobility), well organized and with a lot of publications (Macro level, large statistics) working with erroneous tools regarding wrong models. My ethnographical fi eld (started in 2003) – life-science researchers’ world – done in different countries (France, Poland, Germany, USA) gives me the data for showing that this obvious and largely practical perspective is not exact. Based on the results of my research on careers and mobility of life-science scientists, I showed that starting from Micro is not only one of the way of doing science but also it is the necessary method for providing the Macro Sociology. This method of working Micro-Macro, provides the stability of research process, and, in consequence, the maturity of our »young discipline« – sociology (according to Kuhn’s and other sociologists of knowledge).
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Opowiadanie w społecznym układzie stołu. Analiza konwersacyjna spotkań rodzinnych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2015) Rancew-Sikora, Dorota
The storytelling approach is a new chapter in the study of linguistic activity. The research does not focus on the content nor structure of the finished verbal products, but rather on an analysis of processes by which stories are created and performed in particular social contexts. Within this approach in recent years a trend to study small stories has evolved, one which is especially concerned with interactional and pragmatic roles of stories in social relations and for shaping the social identities of the participants. The purpose of this article is to examine in detail and present the processes of small story production in the situation of gatherings of families and their guests at the table. It is aimed at discovering some aspects of social organization and the social importance of small stories told at the table. Stories are treated here as parts of the »table culture«, complementary to other important elements of this social setting. The theoretical grounding for the investigations is in conversation analysis. The empirical material includes 82 sequences of storytelling at the table.
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"Yizkor" : a case of Holocaust memory activism in a Czech village
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2024) Seidlová, Veronika; Novotná, Hedvika
The article explores the construction and preservation of Holocaust memory in the small Czech village of Kosova Hora. The study, based on focus group interviews, reveals how local Holocaust memory is shaped by a unique combination of activism, local history, and communal practices. The article highlights the role of a Jewish couple who, by rescuing and restoring the village synagogue during the Communist era, created a central site for Holocaust remembrance. This act of preservation catalyzed broader local engagement, resulting in a collective effort to remember the Jewish community that once thrived there. The synagogue now serves not only as a cultural and educational center but also as a place for religious commemoration, despite the absence of a local Jewish population. The research concludes that such localized efforts are crucial for sustaining Holocaust memory, showing how minority activism can embed itself within majority memory, even in small and seemingly ordinary communities.