Search results

1

Komunikowanie polityczne w ujęciach interpretacyjnych

100%

Marciniak E.

Studia Politologiczne

|

2012

|

vol. 25

EN

This article attempts to reconstruct the basic ways of defining political communication, with particular emphasis on interpretative perspective. Indicates the usefulness of a number of qualitative approaches, stressing the fact that they allow to understand the nature of political communication, especially from the point of view the recipients of political messages. The article discusses: symbolic interactionism, constructivism and system-pragmatic concept of communication.

2

KONCEPCJE KRYMINALIZACJI UBÓSTWA – WZMACNIANIE DEWIACYJNOŚCI

100%

Ćwiertnia E., Rodasik R.

Kultura Bezpieczeństwa. Nauka – Praktyka – Refleksje

|

2014

|

vol. 15(15)

56-62

EN

The subject of our considerations will be conceptions of criminalization of poverty as a result of spiral of strengthening the deviancy through moral panic. Despite of decrease of interest in the phenomenon of strengthening the deviancy researchers of criminality still refer to the conceptions of deviancy such as Stanley Cohen’s and Jock Young’s conception of moral panic, which examines social pathologies and analyzes social stigmatization of outsiders.

3

Bezdomność, czyli co? Próba teoretycznego uporządkowania zjawiska

88%

Kostrzyńska M.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny

|

2016

|

issue 4(242)

221-238

EN

The article is an attempt to systematise the extremely rich literature dealing with the phenomenon of homelessness, to which a key has been reading out of the rationale underlying the proposed definitions of homelessness, along with various ways of understanding the causes of it. It is a trial to find the common factors of the proposed perspectives and to grasp the accents exposed in them allowed for the grouping of the phenomenon in three areas: homelessness as a state of “having”/“not having”, homelessness as minimisation of social participation, and “becoming” homeless as a process of negotiating the identity in symbolic-interactive terms. The motivation for taking up the attempt to theoretically systematise the examined phenomenon was my participative research conducted among homeless men staying on the streets of a big city (2005–2008) and at a hostel created as part of one of the associations (2007–2013). On the one hand, I was guided by the need to know the current research achievements in the area which is in the focus of my interests, and on the other hand, the material collected during the study revealed the need for a different approach than the current perspective on homelessness.

4

Bezdomność, czyli co? Próba teoretycznego uporządkowania zjawiska

88%

Kostrzyńska M.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny

|

2016

|

vol. 61(4 (242))

221-238

PL

The article is an attempt to systematise the extremely rich literature dealing with the phenomenon of homelessness, to which a key has been reading out of the rationale underlying the proposed definitions of homelessness, along with various ways of understanding the causes of it. It is a trial to find the common factors of the proposed perspectives and to grasp the accents exposed in them allowed for the grouping of the phenomenon in three areas: homelessness as a state of “having”/“not having”, homelessness as minimisation of social participation, and “becoming” homeless as a process of negotiating the identity in symbolic-interactive terms. The motivation for taking up the attempt to theoretically systematise the examined phenomenon was my participative research conducted among homeless men staying on the streets of a big city (2005–2008) and at a hostel created as part of one of the associations (2007–2013). On the one hand, I was guided by the need to know the current research achievements in the area which is in the focus of my interests, and on the other hand, the material collected during the study revealed the need for a different approach than the current perspective on homelessness.

5

Working with Children at Risk in the Perspective of Symbolic Interactionism (IS) and Situational Action Theory (SAT)

88%

Bernasiewicz M.

The New Educational Review

|

2017

|

vol. 48

167-176

EN

This paper indicates how practice (treatment, social work) may benefit from the application of notions deriving from symbolic interactionism and Situational Action Theory. I conducted interviews with therapists from a day care treatment centre. The centre offers educational assistance and counselling to children and youth aged from three to eighteen. In the article I present four methods of treatment of children and youth at risk (including juvenile offenders), which I draw from the analysis of in-depth interviews. The professionals who would benefit from applying the ideas presented in the article are probation offi cers, social workers, counsellors, street workers, and therapists.

6

Kritická kriminologie

88%

Šmausová G.

Česká kriminologie (Czech Criminology)

|

2022

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

1-20

EN

This essay is intended as an introduction for Czech readers to critical criminology, which emerged in the late 1960s in the United States and Western Europe. It covers the labelling approach, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and conflict theories, and primarily provides a critique of etiologic criminology, which investigates the causes of criminality. The criticism lies in that “criminality” and “criminals” do not have an ontic character, but an ascribed one. It also faults etiologic criminology for not acknowledging all the institutions responsible for producing definitions of crime. Critical criminology examines the entire feedback control system and comes to the conclusion that the criminal justice system targets clients in an extremely selective way, despite the fact that putative criminal modes of behaviour are of universal distribution. This unequal and unfair assignment of the criminality label, along with its negative consequences for “offenders”, is the main social criticism here.

7

The Methodological Convergences between Symbolic Interactionism and Constructivist Grounded Theory

88%

Salvini A.

|

2019

|

vol. 15

|

issue 3

10-29

EN

This article explores the connection between Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) and Symbolic Interactionism (SI) in the light of the methodological position presented in Herbert Blumer’s Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. The examination of this connection will take place in three steps: firstly, I will offer some preliminary considerations with regard to ‘variant forms’ in Grounded Theory (GT) as well as cite the present debates about the differences and similarities between different approaches within it; then, I will describe the essential characteristics of the ‘methodological position’ of SI and build some lines of continuity between these elements and the main tenets of constructionist GT; finally, I will present ten conceptual expressions and methodological practices in which it is possible to verify the methodological convergence between the two perspectives. This analysis makes it possible to consider the Constructivist Grounded Theory as a set of coherent principles, methods, and research practices from the point of view of a scholar inspired by the SI’s perspective. However, the peculiar reference to the methodological position of SI does not exhaust the set of possible epistemological and methodological sources, from which the perspective of GT derives. Instead, it represents a controversial point, with regard to which the debate still appears to be particularly heated.

8

What is the Relationship Between Theory of Mind and Social Attachment and What can we do About it?

76%

Eden C.

Studia Edukacyjne

|

2016

|

issue 40

305-325

PL

The aim of this article is to examine whether the attitude towards the deficiency of people with the Autistic Spectrum Disorder relies on the Theory of Mind concept and the symbolic interaction approach. Autism is a deficiency hampering the ability to receive messages from others and develop appropriate mutual relations. The deficiencies are apparent in three areas of development – social functioning, communication and behaviour. The study population are high functioning people with autism – ASD. TOM is a concept of consciousness, the ability to understand and interpret human behaviour in interactions and social contexts, including the ability to identify mental states such as: emotions, thoughts, intentions and desires of the individual and those around him. There are three components within this interaction: cognitive (thoughts, beliefs), emotional (exhibiting and understanding emotions, empathy), and the behavioural component (the actual interaction). Symbolic interactionism is a sociological paradigm claiming that social reality is based on the interactions between individuals in society, based on symbols and interpretations. When we examine the interaction of people with ASD, in order to understand their social thinking, emotions and behaviours we want to have a framework focusing on the interaction within a group. One of important and meaningful groups is the peer group, which has an important general and specific role in youth and young adults. The peer group has a significant role in integrating personal identity, establishing a different status within the family, and acquiring greater autonomy in the world outside the family. Work within the peer group enables familiarization with the deficiency and different parts of the “self”, thus con-structing a solid identity and closer relations with the environment. Group work will include aspects such as projection, giving and receiving feedback, learning about emotional mirroring, and defending oneself.

9

Towards New Probabilistic Assumptions in Business Intelligence

75%

Schumann A., Szelc A.

Studia Humana

|

2014

|

vol. 3

|

issue 4

11-21

EN

One of the main assumptions of mathematical tools in science is represented by the idea of measurability and additivity of reality. For discovering the physical universe additive measures such as mass, force, energy, temperature, etc. are used. Economics and conventional business intelligence try to continue this empiricist tradition and in statistical and econometric tools they appeal only to the measurable aspects of reality. However, a lot of important variables of economic systems cannot be observable and additive in principle. These variables can be called symbolic values or symbolic meanings and studied within symbolic interactionism, the theory developed since George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer. In statistical and econometric tools of business intelligence we accept only phenomena with causal connections measured by additive measures. In the paper we show that in the social world we deal with symbolic interactions which can be studied by non-additive labels (symbolic meanings or symbolic values). For accepting the variety of such phenomena we should avoid additivity of basic labels and construct a new probabilistic method in business intelligence based on non-Archimedean probabilities.

10

Krąg społeczny: od klasycznej metafory do współczesnych ujęć analitycznych

75%

Porczyński D.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

|

2017

|

vol. 61(3(458))

93-106

PL

The paper undertakes the problem of a social circle notion “wandering”. The main objective is the description of this process and the extraction of its key fields. My main argument is that as many of terms are borrowed from everyday language, its vagueness makes a social circle a notion differently interpreted in structural and interactionist perspectives, which constitute two main ways of its transfer. The analysis presents three transfers: from everyday life to cultural sciences theoretical framework; from low-operationalised notion to an acute one from perspective of different sociological paradigms; from a metaphor of collectivity to an element of network theory.

11

Trust in Symbolic Interactionist Research and in Phenomenological Investigation

75%

Konecki K.

Polish Sociological Review

|

2019

|

vol. 207

|

issue 3

271-288

EN

We will show some interpretations of trust from two perspectives: symbolic interactionist research and phenomenological qualitative research. Trust could be interpreted in many ways. Generally, the cognitive and “rational” approach prevails in researching trust in social sciences. The everyday life connotation of trust that is created by chance or in unpredictable situations because of unknown and unpredictable conditions could be treated by such research as “irrational”; however, we are interested in those meanings of trust and their research in this paper. The symbolic interactionist perspective will help us to see how the subjective interpretation and situational features influence the creation of trust or distrust. We will analyze trust as an interactive phenomenon. The phenomenological approach could show us the essential features of trust and also its embeddedness in the lifeworld of participants. We will see how the lifeworld is maintained or refused, how routine activities are the basis of trust, and how existential security is created.

12

Codzienność a niektóre znaczenia Internetu. Analiza wizualna i konwersacyjna fragmentu komiksu nadesłanego na Ogólnopolski Konkurs Socjologiczny „Życie w Internecie”

75%

Nowakowska-Kutra A.

Kultura i Edukacja

|

2013

|

issue 4(97)

149-170

EN

In order to answer the research questions, the visual and conversation analyzes of a part of the selected work of art (a cartoon) were carried out and presented. The work was submitted by a student of an upper-secondary school to the Polish Nationwide Sociological Competition „Life on the Internet” organized by the Institute of Sociology of the University of Economy in Bydgoszcz. The competition had been inspired by the similar undertakings carried out in Poznań by Florian Znaniecki in the beginnings of the 20th century. The project bases on the assumption that the social reality is a creation of constant, everyday interactions taking place between its members and the objects to which social meanings were given. The Internet, still remaining in the phase of social construction, is such an object, too, and the source of meanings for it are the complex interactions between the Internet-users. Therefore, it has been assumed that the users direct their actions towards the object basing on the meaning they have for it. The aim of the paper is to reply to the question of what meanings are socially given to the Internet within the everyday (habitual) social interactions via the text (language), the social actions and the images.

13

An Exploratory Study on American- Born Imams: Negotiating Pastoral Responsibilities and Expectations

75%

Askar A.

|

2021

|

vol. 17

|

issue 3

90-106

EN

Symbolic interactionism, applied in the context of Muslim clerics, suggests that society is constructed based on lived experiences and shared symbolic meanings where people see themselves and the social environment through the eyes of others. For this study, data collected from in-depth interviews were examined to investigate the viewpoints and occupational pathways of American born imams. Thus, this study explored the responsibilities assigned to imams and their communal objectives. Overall, this study found several challenges that imams experienced, professional and organizational. Utilizing symbolic interactionism, these issues were explicated, and the following overarching themes were generated: imams received inadequate training as religious leaders in their communities, relationships between the mosque board and an imam can directly reinforce or mitigate a challenging work environment, and it is most advantageous for American communities to hire American-born imams over foreign-born imams. The findings indicate that organizational support extended to imams from mosque boards leads to not only an amicable relationship but more productive community engagement.

14

Znacznie doświadczenia pobytu w więzieniu dla dynamiki karier przestępczych recydywistów. Perspektywa interakcyjna

66%

Szczepanik R.

Archiwum Kryminologii

|

2019

|

issue XLI/1

65-123

EN

The starting point for the content of this article is the assumption that penalty and imprisonment constitute an important element of a criminal career. Time in prison has been considered firstly to promote the development of a career, and secondly as a chance for the inmate to give up crime by taking conscious action. The aim of the article is to find answers to the following questions: How does recidivist imprisonment influence a criminal’s career at its various stages? What functions does imprisonment serve for beginner criminals and for those who are experienced inmates? The empirical material consisted of records of autobiographical narrative interviews. Additional data came from an analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews with inmates and personnel. The adoption of a perspective of cognition that goes beyond the biographies of individuals and enables the discovery of general formulas and mechanisms which shape the understanding of recidivists’ behaviour in prison conditions was possible thanks to Grounded Theory methodology.

PL

Punktem wyjścia dla rozważań zaprezentowanych w artykule jest stwierdzenie, że kara pozbawienia wolności i pobyt w więzieniu stanowi ważny element kariery przestępczej. Pobyt w więzieniu potraktowany zostało dwojako: po pierwsze – jako czas służący rozwojowi kariery, a po drugie – jako warunek sprzyjający jej zahamowaniu poprzez podejmowanie działań przez skazanego na rzecz zerwania z przestępczym stylem życia. Rozważania podjęte w artykule zmierzają do uzyskania odpowiedzi na pytania: jakie znaczenie dla dynamiki kariery przestępczej (na różnych jej etapach) ma doświadczenie pobytu w więzieniu dla recydywistów? Jakie funkcje pełni pobyt w więzieniu dla „początkujących” karierowiczów, a jakie dla tych, którzy mają doświadczenie wielu pobytów i lat spędzonych w zakładach karnych? Podstawowy materiał empiryczny stanowiły zapisy wywiadów autobiograficznych. Dodatkowe dane pochodziły z analizy dokumentów i wywiadów swobodnych ze skazanymi oraz personelem. Sięgnięcie po metodologię teorii ugruntowanej umożliwiło poznanie wykraczające poza indywidualne biografie jednostek.

15

SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Common-sense Definitions of Yoga and Its Meaning for Practitioners

63%

Konecki K., Bogusławska-Lesiak A., Saganowska E.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

|

2016

|

vol. 17(4)

77-94

EN

This paper presents an analysis of the common-sense definitions of hatha-yoga practice.Employing qualitative research methods, I aim to develop an understanding of how yogais perceived by people exercising and practicing it. Initially it appears as if most practitionershad an idiosyncratic approach to definitions of yoga: However, as my analysis showsindividual and personal approaches are in fact based on social framing of yoga definitionspresented in classical yoga texts and by instructors’ interpretations of these texts. Moreover,popular media ideologies emphasising the healthy effects of the hatha-yoga also playan important role, including the stress placed on the psychotherapeutic effect of yogaexercising. My analysis further identifies problematic issues in the verbal transmission ofhatha-yoga definitions; this aspect of this paper suggests that other methods (e.g. visualones) might also be conducive to studying the perception and definition of hatha-yoga.

16

SOCJOLOGIA EMOCJI: Common-sense Definitions of Yoga and Its Meaning for Practitioners

63%

Konecki K., Bogusławska-Lesiak A., Saganowska E.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

|

2016

|

vol. 17(4)

77-94

PL

This paper presents an analysis of the common-sense definitions of hatha-yoga practice.Employing qualitative research methods, I aim to develop an understanding of how yogais perceived by people exercising and practicing it. Initially it appears as if most practitionershad an idiosyncratic approach to definitions of yoga: However, as my analysis showsindividual and personal approaches are in fact based on social framing of yoga definitionspresented in classical yoga texts and by instructors’ interpretations of these texts. Moreover,popular media ideologies emphasising the healthy effects of the hatha-yoga also playan important role, including the stress placed on the psychotherapeutic effect of yogaexercising. My analysis further identifies problematic issues in the verbal transmission ofhatha-yoga definitions; this aspect of this paper suggests that other methods (e.g. visualones) might also be conducive to studying the perception and definition of hatha-yoga.

17

Problem kontekstu w teoriach komunikowania społecznego

63%

Bielecka-Prus J.

Studia Socjologiczne

|

2012

|

issue 1(204)

19-37

EN

The diversity of paradigms and research perspectives in social sciences results in multiple definitions of context. The definitions vary in the structure of their elements and methods of building the concept as well as its scope. The article presents some modern social theories, in which the problem of context has been addressed: The Bakhtin Circle, symbolic interactionism, ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis. The main similarities and differences among the approaches are put under scrutiny by the author. The article’s aim is to initiate work on a more accurate notion of context in social sciences.

PL

Wielość paradygmatów i perspektyw badawczych w naukach społecznych sprawia, że elementy tworzące kontekst, sposoby jego konstruowania, jak i same jego granice nie są jednoznacznie zdefiniowane. W artykule przeanalizowane zostały różne sposoby ujęcia kontekstu w wybranych współczesnych teoriach społecznych (Koło Bachtinowskie, interakcjonizm symboliczny, etnografia mówienia, analiza konwersacyjna i krytyczna analiza dyskursu), wskazane zostały podobieństwa i różnice w omawianych podejściach badawczych. Analiza sposobów ujęcia kontekstu interakcji może przyczynić się do uporządkowania sposobów kon- ceptualizacji kontekstu w naukach społecznych.

18

Praca interakcyjna nad tożsamością drugiego, czyli o taktykach wzajemnego „wychowywania się” przez osoby doświadczające bezdomności

63%

Kostrzyńska M.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

|

2020

|

vol. 64

|

issue 1

223-241

PL

This article contains a partial report on ethnographic research conducted among homeless people who live in the streets outside the system of institutional aid or are staying in a hostel they created themselves. The study, carried out according to the principles of an interpretive orientation, created an opportunity to learn the views of the homeless people. It describes manifestations of engagement on behalf of the hostel in which they live and of a special type of work they undertake – interactive work on one another’s identity, which they refer to as mutual “education” – as well as involvement in the form of “doing nothing.”

19

Mediacja w świetle symbolicznego interakcjonizmu

63%

Dragon A.

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses

|

2014

|

vol. 15

141-153

EN

In this paper the author presents an analysis of mediation in symbolic interactionism perspective, showing how in this trend the creativity of individuals is emphasized in the world of social meanings. The author shows the common elements of the mediation process and the counselling situation understood as a special experience. The paper indicates the “role” as a concept of an orientating function in an interaction. Drawing inspiration from Erving Goffman’s metaphor of the theatre, mediation participants are shown as actors of the social stage and an original theatre metaphor, applied to the mediation situation, is proposed. The author shows the dramaturgy of the mediation table, which constitutes the drama of the victim and the offender linked together by participating in the same process at the same time. Just as in a drama, there are actors, a common stage, an audience and a backstage, and the action happens according to the script. Demonstrating a different from the presented so far image of mediation helps to show its interactive and creative nature, as well as to draw attention to other-than-legal aspects of mediation in criminal cases. The presented vision of mediation reveals that the settlement written by the parties is not the only benefit of using this procedure, which, in contrast to the court trial, focuses not only on facts but also on relationships and interests of the parties. Looking at the process of mediation through the prism of a metaphor of the theatre may become a recommendation for practice, revealing the possibility of a mediator’s interference in the process, serving as inspiration and raising awareness and openness to the philosophy of restorative justice.

20

Tożsamość w dobie globalizacji (raport z przeprowadzonego wśród studentów pochodzących z Polski i Zimbabwe badania z zastosowaniem Testu Dwudziestu Stwierdzeń Manforda Kuhna)

63%

Banaś M.

Edukacja Międzykulturowa

|

2022

|

vol. 17

|

issue 2

97-110

PL

Globalna rzeczywistość, a w szczególności rozbudowana sieć zależności ekonomicznych, politycznych a także strategicznych, szczególnie na przestrzeni ostatnich kilkunastu lat doprowadziła do znaczącej konwersji modelu edukacyjnego. Wskutek zachodzących realnych zmian można zaobserwować całe kategorie społeczne, których życie, praca, a także nauka odrywają się zupełnie od konkretnego miejsca, a pojęcie „my” wykracza poza granice wspólnoty lokalnej. Pojawia się zatem pytanie o czynniki kształtujące „ja” w zmiennym, globalnym świecie XXI wieku. Celem artykułu jest analiza porównawcza kategorii, w ramach których definiują się młodzi ludzie pochodzący z Polski i z Zimbabwe, i wyróżnienie dominujących elementów opisu koncepcji-siebie. Narzędziem badawczym jest Test Dwudziestu Stwierdzeń zaprojektowany przez interakcjonistę symbolicznego Manforda Kuhna. W interpretacji wyników testu zostanie zastosowany klucz kodyfikacyjny McPartlanda (1959).

EN

The global reality, and in particular the extensive network of economic, political and also strategic interdependencies, especially over the past several years, has led to a significant conversion of the educational model. As a result of the real changes taking place, whole social categories can be observed, whose life, work and also study are completely uprooted from a specific place and the concept of “we” goes beyond the borders of the local community. This raises the question of the factors that shape the “self” in the changing global world of the 21st century. The aim of this article is to compare the categories within which young people from Poland and Zimbabwe define themselves and to identify the dominant elements of a description of the “self” concept. The research tool is the Twenty Statements Test designed by the symbolic interactionist Manford Kuhn. McPartland’s (1959) codification key is used to interpret the test results.

Refine search results

Komunikowanie polityczne w ujęciach interpretacyjnych

KONCEPCJE KRYMINALIZACJI UBÓSTWA – WZMACNIANIE DEWIACYJNOŚCI

Bezdomność, czyli co? Próba teoretycznego uporządkowania zjawiska

Bezdomność, czyli co? Próba teoretycznego uporządkowania zjawiska

Working with Children at Risk in the Perspective of Symbolic Interactionism (IS) and Situational Action Theory (SAT)

Kritická kriminologie

The Methodological Convergences between Symbolic Interactionism and Constructivist Grounded Theory

What is the Relationship Between Theory of Mind and Social Attachment and What can we do About it?

Towards New Probabilistic Assumptions in Business Intelligence

Krąg społeczny: od klasycznej metafory do współczesnych ujęć analitycznych

Trust in Symbolic Interactionist Research and in Phenomenological Investigation

Codzienność a niektóre znaczenia Internetu. Analiza wizualna i konwersacyjna fragmentu komiksu nadesłanego na Ogólnopolski Konkurs Socjologiczny „Życie w Internecie”

An Exploratory Study on American- Born Imams: Negotiating Pastoral Responsibilities and Expectations

Znacznie doświadczenia pobytu w więzieniu dla dynamiki karier przestępczych recydywistów. Perspektywa interakcyjna

SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Common-sense Definitions of Yoga and Its Meaning for Practitioners

SOCJOLOGIA EMOCJI: Common-sense Definitions of Yoga and Its Meaning for Practitioners

Problem kontekstu w teoriach komunikowania społecznego

Praca interakcyjna nad tożsamością drugiego, czyli o taktykach wzajemnego „wychowywania się” przez osoby doświadczające bezdomności

Mediacja w świetle symbolicznego interakcjonizmu

Tożsamość w dobie globalizacji (raport z przeprowadzonego wśród studentów pochodzących z Polski i Zimbabwe badania z zastosowaniem Testu Dwudziestu Stwierdzeń Manforda Kuhna)