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2013 | 14 | 305-321

Article title

Techniki jakościowe w badaniu środowiska niszowego. Grupy trenujących capoeirę - brazylijską sztukę walki-tańca

Title variants

EN
Qualitative Techniques in a Niche Community. Groups of Capoeira Trainees

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
The article is focused on the description of the capacity and restrictions of qualitative research methods in inaccessible and tight communities. These types of communities have the tendency to isolate themselves and become challenge for a researcher. The goal in the investigation was the exploration and the creation of an elaborate picture of capoeira groups in Poland. In this leading research, the problem was how the primeval, symbolic substance transposed from its original source to another culture changes. Such substance becomes trivialised in the process of transposition, since it is deprived of its natural context. The first part of my doctoral dissertation describes the history and the social setting of the Brazilian martial art capoeira in which it has evolved. The second part presents the investigation into capoeira groups in Poland. The case of the Warsaw group which the researcher looked into, unveiled the process of adaptation of the culture of capoeira and group development based on the rules of this martial art's symbolic universe. The article deals with the problem through interpretation of this social phenomenon as an example of alternative culture and an aesthetic community. The text then goes on to consider “me as the researcher” who plays the double role as a participant and an observer. Thereafter the research shows the advantages of using the participant observation and casual interviews. Then the article includes an analysis of the stage of specification of research tools. It describes unforeseen situations during the investigation process and strategy of data analysis. At the end of the text the author deals with the problem of analytical categories, and presents conclusions.

Year

Volume

14

Pages

305-321

Physical description

Dates

published
2013

Contributors

  • Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, Wydział Socjologii, ul. Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787 Warszawa, Poland

References

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
2084-2740

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-d37ae772-967f-4b97-b2aa-63b9e66082e8
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