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SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Parenting adoption – experiencing extreme emotions in the phase of the decision on adoption

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Bieńkowska M.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2016

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vol. 17(4)

11-26

EN

This article focuses on the emotional experiences of adoptive families particularly in theinitial phase of adoptive parenthood. It is part of a research project devoted to the constructionof adoptive parenthood. The argument I develop here is based on empirical datafrom participant observation, autoethnography and an analysis of the existing literature.Employing the concept and method of bricolage, I consider issues related to adoptive parenthoodwhich have merged from two different empirical data sets. On the one hand,I use unstructured interviews conducted after a phase of autoethnography and participantobservation in an informal support group for people waiting for adoption and with adoptivefamilies (which was the main inspiration for this article); on the other hand, I analyseblogs which are dedicated to all issues concerning adoption.

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SOCJOLOGIA EMOCJI: Rodzicielstwo adopcyjne – doświadczanie skrajnych emocji w fazie decyzji o adopcji

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Bieńkowska M.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2016

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vol. 17(4)

11-26

PL

Celem prezentowanego tekstu jest ukazanie specyfiki rodziny adopcyjnej w kontekścieemocji, jakie towarzyszą jej w początkowej fazie kształtowania się rodzicielstwa adopcyjnego.Artykuł powstał w ramach projektu badawczego poświęconego konstruowaniu rodzicielstwaadopcyjnego. Opieram się tu głównie na danych empirycznych pochodzącychz obserwacji uczestniczącej, autoetnografii oraz na analizie literatury zastanej. Odwołującsię do koncepcji brikolażu i rozważając kwestie związane z rodzicielstwem adopcyjnym,poszukiwałam danych empirycznych różnymi ścieżkami – od wywiadów swobodnychprzez autoetnografię i obserwację uczestniczącą w nieformalnej grupie wsparcia dla osóbczekających na adopcję i rodzin adopcyjnych (co było główną inspiracją) po analizę blogówtematycznych związanych z adopcją.

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

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Kolbowska K.

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses

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2013

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vol. 14

305-321

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.

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Analysing the tourism activity of seniors by applying the method of participant observation

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Głąbiński Z.

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

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2016

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vol. 33

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issue 33

55-70

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Issues concerning seniors’ participation in tourism have been of increasing interest to many researchers. This results from their dynamic growth in the world’s most developed societies which, together with cultural changes, contributes to greater participation in various forms of tourism. So far, this phenomenon has been examined by applying quantitative methods, surveys being the most common. Some researchers state that qualitative methods may also be of great use in the analysis of tourist behaviour. Therefore, this article aims at presenting the methodological conditions of participant observation as a qualitative method for analysing such behaviour. Its use is exemplified by research findings on Polish seniors conducted among participants of package tours to various European countries. It presents observations concerning their behaviour in both time and space. Special attention was paid to seniors’ motives and the forms of tourism those motives led to.

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Arab Culture Education Using a Soap Opera: Focus on the Application of the Methodology of Ethnography of Communication

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Kim S.

The New Educational Review

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2017

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vol. 47

104-115

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This article aimed to suggest implications of learner-centered culture education through observation, participant observation, interviewing or ethnoscience in particular. Korean Arabic language learners were asked to watch two episodes of an Arab soap opera and compare and contrast their own culture from Arab culture based on what they had watched. Results of this study showed a desir- able direction, from insiders’ perspectives, for culture education utilizing the methodology of ethnography of communication. In order to establish Korean learners’ cultural identities as well as to equip them with cross-cultural compe- tence through which they can appropriately, accurately behave depending on situational context, this methodology of ethnography of communication into Arab culture educational practice should be made in the future.

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The Potential of Emic Perspective in the Qualitative Inspections of Everyday Life

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Pilarska J.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2018

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issue 4(122)

147-163

EN

These reflections tackle a specific understanding of researching everyday life, which presents itself as a methodological demand, i.e., as a constitutive element of the new forms of inquiry. Consequently, the discourses revolve around the specificity of the anthropology of everyday life, as seen from various angles entailing third wave of sociology, cultural anthropology, and symbolic interactionism. It also elaborates on the methodological issues encompassing idiographic, emic characteristics of a qualitative inquiry that with relation to everyday life can provide a useful and cognitively attractive tool of reconstructing the world of different cultural groups.

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Challenges of field research. Between involved participant and outside observer

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Chovgrani C., Cieślikowska M., Odyniec K.

International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies

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2019

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vol. 6(1)

122-126

EN

The article is a theoretical contribution that deals with problems of field researcher. Shows difficulties related to researcher's morality, their role as a witness and an observer, describes etic and emic research. The authors begin their deliberations with an in-depth description of the essence of the relationship created between the arrived researcher and rooted in the given research community. They review anthropological research, pointing to valuable discoveries of field researchers, and do not bypass the description of difficult situations related to the experience of social relations that can not be experienced or described adequately from the privacy of an office.

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Reportaż narracyjny jako szczególny sposób na tłumaczenie rzeczywistości z Jackiem Hugo-Baderem w tle

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Chruszczewski P. P.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2019

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vol. 8

51-56

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The entire text is just a small fraction of a much larger work (still not finished) describing an attempt at an analysis of narrative reports interpreting reality. It is a very brief overview of Jacek Hugo-Bader’s ( JHB) idiosyncratic ways of rendering reality into his excellent very much field-work based narratives. The author of the text is of the opinion that the true meaning of the communicated text changes not only with the style of the text; the understanding of the actual meaning is based upon the profound knowledge of the interpreted information. There is only one way to get to the core of the true meaning of the described reality, it is done by the method known as participant observation. JHB knows that very well, and that is why all his narrative reports are preceded by extended field works.

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Interakcje pedagogiczne w szkole gimnazjalnej

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Kalinowska K.

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2012

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vol. 8

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issue 3

30-57

EN

This article provides a synthetic overview of the methodology and a brief presentation of the results of a participant obser¬vation study among junior high school students. The first part of the paper briefly presents the research methodological assumptions. It also describes the course of fieldwork and the research environment as well as the author’s methodological and ethical considerations regarding participant observation of junior high school students. The second part of the article is focused on different dimensions of pedagogical interactions. The author discusses the issues of symbolic violence, the institutional nature of school interactions, the contextualization of pedagogical interactions and the role of stereotypes in the communication between students and teachers.

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Duszący dym odpalonych rac. O wyzwaniach w etnografii subkultury kibiców piłkarskich

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Kossakowski R., Antonowicz D., Szlendak T.

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2012

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vol. 8

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issue 3

6-29

EN

The paper explores a wide range of ethnographic challenges – risky situations, methodological dilemmas, ethical and logistic problems ‒ that we encountered in our field research on most devoted fans of FC Twente Enschede. The analysis is focused on the variety of issues that come along with the process of exploration of largely closed communities of hardcore fans. By doing so, we want to provide some guidelines for those researchers who would want to undertake similar adventures ethnographic tasks in the future. The paper is centered around four major issues. The first one refers to the access to the hermetic world of football fans, while the second section is devoted to the different types of dangers that are linked with experiencing football fandom in the match day. The third one are the consequences of such radical ethnography for the identity of the researcher, resulting from carrying out the research in the mode of “complete immersion.” The fourth issue is the influence of the first three problems (gaining access to a closed group, dangers of full involvement in the actions of a group and changes within the identity of the “immersed one”) on the inner accuracy and outer integrity of the ethnographic description.

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Průběh a hlavní témata výzkumu jízdy králů ve Vlčnově

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Dotlačilová P., Slavíková P., Syslová K. V., Zilvarová D.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2013

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vol. 23

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issue 1

20 – 32

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The contribution pays attention to the course of the Ride of the Kings in Vlčnov in relation to its actors, who are mainly the eighteen-year old local boys, so-called legrúti, and the young king and his family. The authors lean especially on the field research that they implemented in Vlčnov during four days between 24th and 27th May 2012, i.e. on the day before the festival and in its entire course. In addition to their on-the-spot observation, it was the interviews with the Ride’s participants, their relatives and other inhabitants of the village that constituted the source of information. The Internet and social network provided other information. The Ride of the Kings in 2012 was the first one after the custom had been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. During the research, high stress was put on understanding of internal mechanisms in the community of young boys and their families which the Ride is related the most to. It was monitored to which extent the custom is just a spectacle for the visitors and to which extent it is important for its bearers even though a three-day folklore festival has been based on this tradition.

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Post-transformational Trends in Hungarian Sport (1995-2004)

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Földesi G.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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2009

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vol. 46

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issue 1

137-146

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The radical political and economic changes of 1989-1990 in Hungary affected all societal subsystems. In sport there was neither revolution from below nor relevant reforms from above prior to the regime change. The aim of this paper is to present the further development that are the post-transformational trends in Hungarian sport. The topic is approached from modernization perspectives. The information for the study was gained by various methods, such as analysis of documents, in-depth interviews, and participant observation. The results are analysed by three major dimensions: over-politicization, re-centralization, and paternalism. The findings show that the changes in sport were undergone in a very controversial manner, they were rather incremental than discontinuous. Neither a modernized sport model nor a national sport strategy on the basis of which a new model should have been built was founded. In Hungarian sport there seems to be an aversion and resistance to modernization. In conclusion the author states that Hungarian sport won a few battles, but it lost the war. A more democratic and a truly modern turnaround in the institution of sport is still expected. The transformation of Hungarian sport is continuing.

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Can I just observe: Reflection on the role of the researcher in ethnography with young children

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Tang F.

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji

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2013

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vol. 9

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issue 1(20)

68-75

EN

This paper analyses the complexity of the researcher’s role in ethnographic research with young children. As an inexperienced researcher, the author constantly felt the pressure from the intense emphasis on objectivity in early childhood research. This paper attempts to show that the engagement of self, including emotional engagement, moral involvement, and professional responsibilities in the process of research is far outside the objectivity arena. In relation to observations of young children, ethical conflicts and moral dilemmas continue to remain, and the researcher’s emotionality is strongly involved. While arguing the inappropriateness of objectivity in early childhood research, the paper reveals why the researcher had to conform to the conventional objectivity debate.

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Activist anthropology as a cultivating of participant observation

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Tubacki H. M.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2022

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issue 1

60-69

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The text describes a consideration of activist anthropology, which I treat as an extension of participant observation. It stems from and builds upon the methodological eclecticism of anthropology/ ethnology. For me, activist anthropology is the closest to the original premise of participant observation because in this view the researcher’s participation is possibly closest to that of the research partners. I present the theoretical foundations on which it is based and the circumstances of my research-activist practice in which my interpretation of it was developed. I demonstrate in the text its features that reinforce the need to distinguish the term activist anthropology as a specific practice of participatory observation and anthropology itself.

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Szczególne potrzeby współpracy. Proces powstawania „Pokoju nieobecnych” w ramach Cricoteki otwartej

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Kwaśniewska M.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2022

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issue 169-170

138-180

EN

The article analyses the process of workshops and the staging of the performance Room of absentees (Pokój nieobecnych) directed by Joanna Pawlik within the framework of Cricoteka otwarta in collaboration with people (artists and non-artists) with and without disabilities. The article is based on the author’s participant observation. She analyses it in relation to many theories, such as participatory art, devised theatre, disability studies, art by artists with disabilities, art therapy, and crip time. The author shows how the same working conditions affect differently people with different bodies or senses, and how the rules have to be changed in the process to accommodate different needs. The relationship between the institutional framework and the status of the artist is also one of the topics. The article ends with a call for establishing an institution where Joanna Pawlik could work with her team on a regular basis rather than from project to project.

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THE RESEARCHER – THE TOURIST IN THE CHILD`S WORLD ON THE STREET

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Zdanowicz-Kucharczyk K.

Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język

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2021

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vol. 13

207-221

EN

In this article, I present my reflections about research with street children. I show how I, as a researcher, tried to go into child`s word to understand it. During the research project I had a feeling that I was as the tourist in the unknown space full of secrets and mysteries. I took an inspiration to that comparition from Z. Bauman (1993). That the article is meant to contribute to a discourse about research with children as participants who like tourist guides bring us into their world. I conducted my research with street children as participators using participant observation (Angrosino 2010), focus interviews (Barbour 2011) and photo reports (Sztompka 2005; Banks 2009). Children were my guides in the street world. In this article I present my experiences of doing research with children and also how I, as a researcher, matured to qualitative research. My journey has enriched my practice of doing research and I wouldlike to share it. I introduce street children as involved participants of research who are very helpfull in understanding street life.

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W artykule prezentuję refleksje na temat badań z dziećmi ulicy. Pokazuję, w jaki sposób jako badacz próbowałam dotrzeć do świata dziecka ulicy i zrozumieć go. W czasie projektu badawczego miałam wrażenie, że jestem turystą (Bauman, 1993) w nieznanej przestrzeni pełnej sekretów i tajemnic. Artykuł jest głosem w dyskusji na temat badań z dziećmi jako uczestnikami badań, którzy wprowadzają badacza jak turystę w nieznany dla niego świat. Przeprowadziłam badania za pomocą następujących metod: obserwacja uczestnicząca (Angrosino 2010), wywiady fokusowe (Barbour 2011) i reportaże zdjęciowe (Sztompka 2005; Banks 2009). Dzieci były moimi przewodnikami w świecie ulicy. W artykule prezentuję doświadczenia prowadzenia badań z dziećmi oraz proces swojego dojrzewania jako badacz świata dziecka. Moja podróż wzbogaciła mnie jako badacza i chciałabym się tym podzielić. Przedstawiam dzieci ulicyjako zaangażowanych uczestników badań, którzy mogą być bardzo pomocni w zrozumieniu ulicznego życia.

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Socjalizacja ekonomiczna dzieci w zdalnym nauczaniu w ramach projektu Oczy Szeroko Otwarte

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Bajak M., Manczak I.

Przegląd Prawno-Ekonomiczny

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2022

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issue 3

9-30

EN

The article concerns the issues of economic socialization in distance learning. An initiative implemented by the University of Economics in Krakow as part of the university’s third mission was analyzed. For the purposes of this research, the focus was on classes with school children, which were a key part of the Eyes Wide Open project (December 2020–June 2021). This project was financed by the National Center for Research and Development. The awarded projects are an example of an initiative that falls within the scope of the third mission of the university, including those dedicated to issues related to the economic socialization of children. In order to implement the adopted research assumptions, the participant observation method was used. The article presents the results of the author’s observations that were collected during the classes. The course of the educational process was studied remotely, and an attempt was made to find answers to the research questions posed. On the basis of the considerations, conclusions and recommendations were formulated that may contribute to the improvement of the quality of remote teaching activities.

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Artykuł dotyczy problematyki socjalizacji ekonomicznej w zdalnym nauczaniu. Poddano analizie inicjatywę podjętą przez Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie w ramach trzeciej misji uczelni. Na potrzeby prowadzonych badań skoncentrowano się na zajęciach z dziećmi w wieku szkolnym, które stanowiły kluczową część projektu Oczy Szeroko Otwarte (grudzień 2020–czerwiec 2021). Niniejszy projekt był sfinansowany ze środków Narodowego Centrum Badań i Rozwoju. Jest on przykładem inicjatywy wpisującej się w zakres trzeciej misji uczelni, w tym dedykowany zagadnieniom związanym z socjalizacją ekonomiczną dzieci. W celu realizacji przyjętych założeń badawczych posłużono się metodą obserwacji uczestniczącej. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki przeprowadzonych obserwacji autorskich, które zgromadzono podczas zajęć z dziećmi. Badano przebieg procesu edukacyjnego w trybie zdalnym, jak również podjęto próbę znalezienia odpowiedzi na postawione pytania badawcze. Na kanwie podjętych rozważań sformułowano konkluzje oraz rekomendacje, które mogą przyczynić się do podniesienia jakości zajęć dydaktycznych przeprowadzonych zdalnie.

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Autoetnografia jako metoda w badaniach nad religią

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Grotowska S.

Przegląd Religioznawczy

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2018

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issue 2/268

EN

After the period of domination of quantitative research in Polish sociology of religion one can observe a growing interest in developing qualitative analyzes. The turn towards an interpretative approach has reasons both in the transformation of modern societies (modernization, individualization, mobility, interest in everyday life etc.), as well as transformations of religion itself (subjectivization, privatization, respirytualization, orientation in the search for sensations, etc.). The subject of the research is the use of autoethnography in the study of religious phenomena. The author analyzes the area of possible applications of this method, the expected benefits of using this perspective, but also its limitations. In her deliberations, she refers to two examples – works on religion available on the Polish publishing market in which this method was used.

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Po okresie dominacji badań ilościowych w polskiej socjologii religii daje się zauważyć rosnące zainteresowanie rozwijaniem analiz jakościowych. Zwrot ku podejściu interpretatywnemu ma przyczyny zarówno w przemianach współczesnych społeczeństw (modernizacja, indywidualizacja, mobilność, zainteresowanie życiem codziennym etc.), jak i przekształceniach samej religii w kulturze Zachodu (subiektywizacja, prywatyzacja, respirytualizacja, orientacja na poszukiwanie doznań itd.). Współczesna, zorientowana na indywidualne doświadczenie religijność wymaga innego postępowania badawczego lub przynajmniej uzupełnienia arsenału narzędzi o metody jakościowe.

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Wprowadzenie do obserwacji online: warianty i ograniczenia techniki badawczej

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Miller P.

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2012

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vol. 8

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issue 1

76-97

EN

The paper presents some possibilities of using the observation technique in the virtual space of the Internet. It begins with some thoughts about the main changes of the Web and their consequences for its users as well as for the social researchers. Some main types of the qualitative online researches are also mentioned. Finally, the article focuses on the online observation – its possible types and di¬lemmas of using it in the research project.

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Argots français de métiers : une étude de terrain

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Retinskaya T., Université d’État d’Orel, tatiana.retinskaya@yahoo.fr

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica

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2015

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vol. 010

EN

The results of the field collection of professional argots are stated in the following paper. Farmers of Ardennes and Aisne departments who deal with cultivating grain-crops, breeding cattle and meat-processing took part in the linguistic experiment. The field records of the oral speech of professional groups were organized in different situations with the use of four methods: interviewing, participant observation, written questionnaires and the so-called method « from the initiated to the initiated ». The method of processing and the presentation of collected material are described and the analysis of the professional argots is given in this work.

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Cet article se propose d’exposer les résultats de l’étude sur le terrain des argots de métiers. Ont participé à l’expérimentation linguistique des fermiers céréaliers, des éleveurs bovins et les professionnels de la filière viande des départements des Ardennes et de l’Aisne. Les enquêtes de terrain ont été organisées dans diverses situations et ont obéi à quatre modalités : entretiens, observations en situation, questionnaires et la méthode « d’initié à l’initié ». Cet exposé offre la description des procédés méthodologiques de traitement et de présentation du corpus obtenu ainsi que l’analyse des argotismes professionnels.

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SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Parenting adoption – experiencing extreme emotions in the phase of the decision on adoption

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

Analysing the tourism activity of seniors by applying the method of participant observation

Arab Culture Education Using a Soap Opera: Focus on the Application of the Methodology of Ethnography of Communication

The Potential of Emic Perspective in the Qualitative Inspections of Everyday Life

Challenges of field research. Between involved participant and outside observer

Reportaż narracyjny jako szczególny sposób na tłumaczenie rzeczywistości z Jackiem Hugo-Baderem w tle

Interakcje pedagogiczne w szkole gimnazjalnej

Duszący dym odpalonych rac. O wyzwaniach w etnografii subkultury kibiców piłkarskich

Průběh a hlavní témata výzkumu jízdy králů ve Vlčnově

Post-transformational Trends in Hungarian Sport (1995-2004)

Can I just observe: Reflection on the role of the researcher in ethnography with young children

Activist anthropology as a cultivating of participant observation

Szczególne potrzeby współpracy. Proces powstawania „Pokoju nieobecnych” w ramach Cricoteki otwartej

THE RESEARCHER – THE TOURIST IN THE CHILD`S WORLD ON THE STREET

Socjalizacja ekonomiczna dzieci w zdalnym nauczaniu w ramach projektu Oczy Szeroko Otwarte

Autoetnografia jako metoda w badaniach nad religią

Wprowadzenie do obserwacji online: warianty i ograniczenia techniki badawczej

Argots français de métiers : une étude de terrain