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American soft power in Iraqi Kurdistan: a qualitative case analysis

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Ibrahim H.

Reality of Politics

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2023

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issue 24

82-105

EN

A constructivist IR approach is blended with a Grounded Theory-based analysis of in-depth in interviews in an interpretive discussion of the US’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, its later soft power approach in country, and the responses of young Kurdish participants in an American program in that sphere. The invasion of Iraq is argued to have been the outcome of ideational and cultural as well as realist factors within American society. Analysis of interviews with Kurdish students reveals a) strengths and weaknesses of the American soft power approach, and b) their thoughts on their homeland, its culture, and its future.

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An Ethnographic Analysis of Escort Services in Poland: An Interactionist Approach

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Ślęzak I.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2020

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vol. 16

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issue 4

122-144

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In the Polish literature on the subject, prostitution is analyzed from various theoretical perspectives, but, first of all, from the perspective of social pathology. This approach makes the researchers focus mainly on the social maladjustment of women providing sex services and the reasons for their violation of the normative order. In my ethnographic research conducted in escort agencies in Poland, I was willing to go beyond this narrow outlook. I have adapted an interactionist perspective to analyze the escort agencies as organizations where intense interactions between employees, as well as employees and clients, take place, the sex work process is organized, and the meanings of prostitution are negotiated. I conducted the analysis according to the procedures of the grounded theory methodology. It allowed me to see and describe such processes as: (re)defining the situation of providing sex services from vice to work, sex work as a collective action, performing sex work, secondary socialization for sex work. The adaption of an interactionist perspective opens some new directions for analysis, which could help to understand the phenomenon of women getting involved in and continuing to provide sex services for a long time.

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Actions of social workers towards the patients with “mental disorders”

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Jarkiewicz A.

Praca Socjalna

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2017

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vol. 32(6)

51-73

EN

The article addresses the issue of interactive practices of the social workers with people who are “mentally disturbed”. In the study, the author applied the grounded theory (Glaser, Strauss, 2009). Due to the nature of the selected method, it was essential that the daily routine of the social workers become also the daily routine of the author. The research was conducted at the Social Welfare Center and the author spent 6 months in the social work institution and additionally, the first 6 months at the internship in the same location. In the research, the following material sourcing techniques have been used: observation, document analysis and interviews (conversations) with the social workers.

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The Social Organization of Merchants’ Activities. An Interactionist Study of Urban Marketplaces

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Marciniak L.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2020

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vol. 16

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issue 4

106-121

EN

The article briefly presents the empirical results of a large research project focused on Polish urban marketplaces, commonly known as bazaars, and their interactional order. Due to the spatial separation and legal regulations concerning bazaar trade, a relatively constant community of market vendors is created in the area of the particular marketplace. The primary activity of each merchant is to offer and sell goods; however, the specificity of marketplace trade results in the necessity to maintain relationships with other vendors to keep this primary activity going. Thus, the activities of merchants are carried out in the same direction for both economic results and performance (sales and profit) and social action, that is, building and managing relations with vendors operating in the same marketplace. A wide range of activities and interaction strategies is developed that create an order of interactions between vendors, both in terms of perceiving and assigning meanings, interpreting, and taking actions. The consequences of such an interactional foundation affect the economic layer of the market, embedding, on the one hand, economic phenomena in social phenomena, and, on the other hand, generating paradoxes of prices and competition-the two economic concepts that cannot be analyzed without their social contexts.

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Freelance Workers-Experiencing a Career Outside an Organization

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Miller P.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2020

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vol. 16

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issue 4

90-104

EN

This article focuses on the issues of everyday work as a self-employed, professional freelancer in Poland. The appearance of this specific category of workers on the labor market is connected with certain major changes on the economic, technological, and socio-cultural levels. The career of a freelancer is sometimes considered to be an antithesis of a corporate career. The key points are: working on one’s own, functioning outside the traditional organizational structures, HR management and supervision, promotion procedures, corporate career paths, et cetera. For a freelancer, the organization is not “an employer,” but rather “a client” or “a business partner.” The manager of the organization is not “his boss” and the employees are not his “colleagues.” As we can observe, most of the typical boundaries of a career are blurred here and that is one of the reasons why it arouses curiosity as an unusual phenomenon. The article aims to present a sociological perspective regarding the career of a freelancer in Poland. A framework of symbolic interactionism and grounded theory were applied to the author’s research (conducted in 2009-14) on which the article is based. Its first part focuses on the theoretical background and the methods that were used to collect and analyze data. The second part includes some of the author’s findings and conclusions on a freelance career from the interactionist perspective, as well as a discussion about the possible agreement and discrepancies between the author’s understanding of freelance against the widely discussed concept of precarity.

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The War on the Wall. Polish and Soviet War Posters Anaysis

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Dymarczyk W., Uniwersytet Łódzki I. S., dymarczyk.waldemar@gmail.com

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2014

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vol. 10

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issue 4

EN

Every war is not only the fight of the armies but also a war of the ideologies. One of the forms of the ideological war is propaganda posters. Over forty posters presented and analyzed in this article come from the Polish-Soviet war in 1919-1921. The research work is based on grounded theory procedures adopted for visual data analyses. Particularly useful was a method of coding families worked out by Barney Glaser and modified to the visual data analysis by Krzysztof Konecki. The author reconstructed several basic motifs, formal solutions, and communication strategies (i.e., continuity and continuation versus avant-garde and revolution, image of the enemy and “one’s own” imagination, strategic conversion) used by artists-ideologists from both sides of the conflict.

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Family Changes in Iranian Kurdistan: A Mixed Methods Study of Mangor and Gawerk Tribes

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Mohammadpur A., Corbin J., Sadeghi R., Rezaei M.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2012

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vol. 8

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issue 3

76-96

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Over the last few decades, the Iranian Kurdish society, including family and kin¬ship systems, has experienced enormous changes as a result of government im-plemented modernization efforts. This paper reports the results of a quantitative/ qualitative mixed methods study aimed at exploring (a) the nature of change in family and kinship systems and (b) how people understand and interpret these changes. The sample for this study was drawn from the Mangor and Gawerk tri¬bes residing in the Mahabad Township located in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Using standardized questionnaires, 586 people were sampled as part of the quantitative portion of the study. For the qualitative portion, data was collected on 20 people using both in-depth interviews and participant observations. The quantitative data was analyzed by SPSS software and the qualitative data was in¬terpreted using grounded theory procedures. The quantitative findings showed that the urbanization, modern education, and mass media have all contributed to the emergence of a new form of family and kinship life. In addition, while sup¬porting quantitative findings, the qualitative results revealed that participants were aware of and sensitive to sources, processes, and effects of modernization on their family and kinship life.

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Poznawcza i emocjonalna adaptacja do sytuacji choroby psychicznej w rodzinie

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Frąckowiak-Sochańska M.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2015

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vol. 11

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issue 4

88-112

PL

Celem artykułu jest analiza poznawczych i emocjonalnych aspektów procesu przystosowania do sytuacji choroby psychicznej w rodzinie. Pomiędzy wyżej wymienionymi aspektami istnieją zależności w postaci dodatnich i ujemnych sprzężeń zwrotnych. Istotnym elementem adaptacji poznawczej jest konstruowanie kategorii „choroby psychicznej” oraz „zdrowia psychicznego” tworzących ramy interpretacji przeżywanych doświadczeń. Proces ten jest uzależniony od uprzednich stanów afektywnych i wpływa na dalsze doświadczenia emocjonalne, zwrotnie oddziałując na aktywność poznawczą. Orientację teoretyczną i metodologiczną niniejszego opracowania wyznacza podejście konstruktywistyczne. Podstawę empiryczną prezentowanej analizy stanowią badania przeprowadzone w oparciu o metodologię teorii ugruntowanej. Badania te sprowadzają się do analizy i interpretacji opublikowanych narracji biograficznych członków rodzin osób zmagających się z chorobą psychiczną (Stark, Bremer, Esterer 2002; Stowarzyszenie Rodzin i Przyjaciół Osób Mniejszych Szans „Więź” b.d.). Przeprowadzona analiza dotyczyła zarówno treści wypowiadanych przez narratorów, jak i charakterystycznych sposobów kategoryzowania doświadczeń. W efekcie przeprowadzonych badań odtworzony został proces przystosowania do sytuacji choroby psychicznej w rodzinie wraz z jego wariantami, głównymi etapami i punktami zwrotnymi.

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This paper is aiming at an analysis of some aspects of the process of cognitive and emotional adaptation to the situation of mental illness within family. There have been observed mutual relations between the abovementioned aspects. The significant component of the cognitive adaptation process is the construction of categories of mental disease and mental health, which constitute the frames of interpretation of one’s experience. This process depends on one’s affective states and influences further emotional condition, which provides feedback to cognitive processes at a more advanced stages. Theoretical and methodological frameworks of this paper are based on the constructionist paradigm. The empirical research has been carried out according to the grounded theory assumptions. The research material consists of intentionally constructed and published (in a book and online) biographical narrations of mentally ill persons’ family members. The analysis of the abovementioned narrations is focused on the content, as well as on the forms of descriptions constructed by the relatives of the mentally ill persons. According to the presented analysis, the process of adaptation to the situation of mental illness within family, with its variations, stages, and turning points, has been reconstructed.

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Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development

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Konecki K. T., Kacperczyk A.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2020

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vol. 16

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issue 4

8-34

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In the paper, we present the development of symbolic interactionism (SI) in Poland by tracing and discussing its beginnings, as well as the influence the Chicago School had on the reception of SI in Polish sociology. Furthermore, we differentiate between two trends in the development of SI in Poland. One is connected with the early theoretical elaborations of the SI orientation and translations of classical books representing this perspective; another is linked with empirical work underpinned by SI concepts and the grounded theory approach in empirical research and data analysis. Stressing the importance of translations of classical texts of SI in its reception in Poland, we emphasize the role of field research and applications of SI concepts in sociological investigations that we shortly characterize.

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Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis

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Konecki K. T.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2019

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vol. 15

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issue 3

6-25

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I would like to present the possibility of broadening the traditional methodological and technical skills of researcher and analyst, but also the intellectual capacity of the researcher associated with combining data, categorizing, linking categories, as well as the interpretation of the causes and consequences of the emergence of certain social phenomena. Some methodologies, methods, and research techniques are more conducive to creative conceptual and interpretive solutions. Therefore, I describe the serendipity phenomenon in such methodologies as grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenological research, and contemplative inquiry. The problem of intuition in qualitative research will be also described in the paper. There will be presented also some suggestions how to be creative in qualitative research. From the review of issues of creativity in qualitative research we can derive the following conclusions: Creativity in qualitative research depends on the strength of a priori conceptualization and stiffness of the adapted methods of research and analysis. If the methodology is more flexible (as the methodology of grounded theory), the researcher can get to phenomena that he/she has not realized and which are still scantily explored in his/her field of expertise. The phenomenological and contemplative approaches allow the use of the investigator’s feelings and experience as they appear in the studied phenomena, which usually does not take place in objectifying and positivistic research. The investigator may therefore consciously use these methodologies and approaches that foster creativity. The researchers can improve their skills in thinking and creative action by doing some methodical exercises (journal writing, writing poetry as a summary of the collected data, the use of art as representation of the phenomenon, the use of meditation, observation of the body feelings, humor, etc.).

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Workshops as an Essential Practice in Doing Biographical Research

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Kaźmierska K., Wygnańska J.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2019

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vol. 15

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issue 2

164-177

PL

Celem artykułu jest refleksja na temat wartości pracy warsztatowej w metodzie biograficznej. Wspólna praca nad tekstem jest nie tylko elementem pracy analitycznej, ale powinna być uznana za jeden z niezbędnych kroków procedury analitycznej prowadzącej do refleksji teoretycznej. Artykuł składa się z następujących części: krótkiej prezentacji historii idei warsztatów analitycznych w polu badań biograficznych zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do pracy ze studentami; opisu korzyści charakterze edukacyjnym, analitycznym i teoretycznym, jakie płynąć mogą z pracy zespołowej; charakterystyki konkretnych przykładów warsztatowej pracy badawczej i jej rezultatów w formie tekstów pokazujących różne podejścia analityczne i teoretyczne.

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The aim of the paper is to share our reflections on the meaning, goals, and course of analytical workshops, which are treated by the authors not only in terms of methodological procedures, but also as a process of grounded theory building, where the phase of collective work is pivotal. We present the idea of workshops worked out within interpretative sociology and qualitative analysis and developed in different fields, yet we mainly focus on biographical research analysis. The knowledge and practice transfer between scholars in this respect is also one of the frames of our reasoning. The paper consists of several sections: firstly, we present a short overview of workshop practices in the field of biographical research referring mainly to students’ workshops; in the second part, we describe advantages of workshop practices for researchers and their possible outcomes; the third section describes examples of research and analysis of the same empirical material done by researchers representing different methodological approaches; finally, we finish with concluding remarks.

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American soft power in Iraqi Kurdistan: a qualitative case analysis

An Ethnographic Analysis of Escort Services in Poland: An Interactionist Approach

Actions of social workers towards the patients with “mental disorders”

The Social Organization of Merchants’ Activities. An Interactionist Study of Urban Marketplaces

Freelance Workers-Experiencing a Career Outside an Organization

The War on the Wall. Polish and Soviet War Posters Anaysis

Family Changes in Iranian Kurdistan: A Mixed Methods Study of Mangor and Gawerk Tribes

Poznawcza i emocjonalna adaptacja do sytuacji choroby psychicznej w rodzinie

Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development

Creative Thinking in Qualitative Research and Analysis

Workshops as an Essential Practice in Doing Biographical Research