'Pasjonaci: dewianci, dziwacy, 'normalsi', czyli o roszczeniu uznania normalnosci

• Authors: Dymarczyk Waldemar

Title variants

EN

HOBBYISTS-MADCAPS: DEVIANTS, FREAKS, NORMALS - ABOUT A CLAIM FOR THE NORMALITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the author's attempt to define a particular kind of people who realize various types of interests with a strong commitment - the 'hobbyists'. Primarily open to scrutiny, is how the typical patterns of their careers are being constructed. Moreover, both the significant others' negative reactions to hobbyists' activity, and the reasons of why they act in a certain way are elucidated. Hobbyists' strategies and actions undertaken in order to defend against 'deviants' stigmatization', and their struggle for a status of being 'normal' are presented in (ewentualnie the further parts of) this article. The 'revealed' (lub reconstructed) strategies are: Professionalization of hobbyist's passion; 'Factual' denial of stereotypical view; Dividing 'normal' hobbyists from 'deviant' ones, Underlining one's exceptionality (dramatization) in order to gain the acceptance; Using humor and sarcasm; Distancing from the one's social world.

Keywords

EN

LABELING; MADCAP (HOBBYIST); NORM; PASSION; SOCIAL DISTINCTNESS; STIGMATIZATION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-72
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dymarczyk Waldemar

• Waldemar Dymarczyk, Katedra Socjologii Organizacji i Zarzadzania, Instytut Socjologii, Wydzial Ekonomiczno Socjologiczny UL, ul. Rewolucji 1905r. nr 41/43, 90-214 Lódz, Poland

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