Ubóstwo, przemoc i wykluczenie w miastach Stanów Zjednoczonych. Refleksje wokół badań Alice Goffman

• Authors: Małgorzata Krywult-Albańska , Łukasz Albański

Title variants

EN

Poverty, Violence and Social Exclusion in American Cities. Reflections on Alice Goffman’s Research

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Celem eseju jest omówienie badań Alice Goffman, opublikowanych w książce On the Run. Fugitive Life in an American City (2014) w kontekście innych badań oraz aktualnych debat na temat wykluczenia i przemocy w miastach amerykańskich. W pierwszej części przedstawiony został kontekst społeczny i badawczy omawianej problematyki. Druga część referuje główne argumenty krytyczne wysuwane wobec sposobu prowadzenia badań etnograficznych i odpowiedź na tę krytykę ze strony zaangażowanych w nie badaczy. Ostatnia część tekstu zawiera omówienie sposobu prowadzenia badań przez Goffman oraz odniesienie do argumentów krytycznych.

EN

The aim of the essay is to discuss Alice Goffman’s research, published in the book On the Run. Fugitive Life in an American City (2014), set against the backdrop of other research and current debates on social exclusion and violence in the cities of the USA. The first part of the text focuses on the social and scholarly context of the problems discussed. The second part relates the main critical arguments to the ethnographic research and the response thereto by the authors involved in this type of research. The last part of the essay presents the way of conducting her study by Goffman and offers a critical discussion.

Keywords

PL

Alice Goffman; badania etnograficzne; masowe uwięzienie

EN

Alice Goffman; ethnographic research; mass incarceration

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(229)
• Pages: 207-226

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Krywult-Albańska

• Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków

author

Łukasz Albański

• Instytut Nauk o Wychowaniu, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN, ul. Ingardena 4, 30-060 Kraków

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