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Intimacy: From Transformation to Transmutation

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Bianchi G.

Human Affairs

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2010

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vol. 20

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issue 1

1-8

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The paper reflects the historical and current dynamism of the concept of intimacy. Besides differences between scientific disciplines in understanding what the substance of intimacy is, the recent discourse on change in intimacy has been dominated by the transformation theme introduced by Anthony Giddens (1992). Led by reflections of Richard Sennett (1986) the author draws attention to the opposite aspect of change in intimacy-the change in content, or the "transmutation" of intimacy. Transmutation of intimacy-the substitution of the satisfaction of intimate needs with identity creation-not only contests the very essence of intimacy, but also constitutes a significant challenge for the project of intimate citizenship (Plummer 2003).

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Once Upon a Time-and They lived Happily Ever After? The Pure Relationship and Love Relationships in the Italian Context

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Guizzardi L.

Polish Sociological Review

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2010

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vol. 169

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issue 1

21-40

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The purpose of this essay is to examine whether the theory of the pure relationship advanced by Anthony Giddens can be used to explain love relationships in Italy. The essay is structured as follows: we start with a presentation of the pure relationship (§ 1) and why I hold that to remain as faithful as possible to the essential presuppositions of this model we need to study the phenomenon of the free union between two people (§ 2). In the third section I present statistics from the 2003 ISTAT study Multifunctional analysis of the family and move on in the fourth section to draw conclusions taking this data into account.

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Disgust and Intimacy

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Bužeková T., Išová M.

Human Affairs

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2010

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vol. 20

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issue 3

232-240

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The aim of the paper is to present the results of preliminary research into the relation between disgust and intimacy. The authors apply current psychological conceptions of the emotions relating to social behaviour, primarily the theory of disgust associated with Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt and Clark McCauley. The research was conducted in a community of students living in student halls in Bratislava. The authors argue that social relationships may influence expressions of core disgust and the animal-nature disgust that is considered to be an earlier stage in the evolutionary development of this emotion. More specifically, people's representations of feelings of disgust towards elicitors linked to certain persons are conditioned by the social categories those persons belong to and the socio-cultural schemas distributed in the given environment.

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Być inną – o kategorii różnicy w autobiograficznych wypowiedziach kobiet XX i XXI wieku

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Chłosta-Zielonka J.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2018

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issue 6

59-74

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The aim of this article is to present women’s experiences, considered as different, different frommen’s, unarticulated earlier and therefore marginalised. The material subjected to interpretation hasbeen selected from autobiographical texts by women, created at the beginning of the 21st century.The authors are representatives of various professions related mainly to the media sphere, such aswriters, actresses, singers, journalists, but also sportswomen or simply “known for being known”celebrities. They talk about education in patriarchy, being doomed to perform specific social roles,and their addiction to men and family.

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Rozwojowe ujęcie Trójczynnikowej Teorii Miłości Roberta Sternberga − trójwarstwowa miłość

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Olesiński P.

Psychologia Rozwojowa

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2013

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vol. 18

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issue 2

9-18

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The article presents the developmental approach to the Sternberg’s theory which introduces love as the trilayers phenomenon. This approach enables the adoption of a developmental perspective to understand the experience of love. Assuming that individuals develop from biological to social being, the article describes biological, psychological and sociocultural factors that influence three aspects of love. The article also describes interactions between this aspects. This layered approach allows understanding of the infl uence of conation, emotional and cognitive processes on three love layers: intimacy, passion, and commitment. The metaphor of layers helps to understand the diffi culties in forming intimate relationships.

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“Gender troubled” – from the production and reproduction of masculinity to the forms of overcrossing gender: “Are his lies true?”. Preliminary remarks on the relations between the gender of the researcher and informant in the investigation of intimacy

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Banaszak E.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2017

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vol. 18(2)

184-204

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This article presents research focused on the experience of nudity/body as an intimate space of an individual. It also considers the influence of gender in situations such as an in-depth interview when a female researcher works with a male informant while bodily intimacy is in the center of exploration. In this paper the author makes an attempt to find answers to the following questions: How/if does the gender of researcher and informant influence the interview? Do males participating in research have any objections regarding intimate explorations in the presence of a female researcher? Do they lie during such conversation and do they lie less often when interviewed by the same sex researcher? Can a female conduct a reliable, focused on intimacy interview with a male? Presented research provides answers to these questions.

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Disentangling Privacy and Intimacy: Intimate Citizenship, Private Boundaries and Public Transgressions

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Reynolds P.

Human Affairs

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2010

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vol. 20

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issue 1

33-42

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Recent theorisations of transformations of intimacy-like Ken Plummer's (2003) Intimate Citizenship project-concentrate on social and cultural transformations that erode the containment of intimacy within the private sphere. They have less to say about the character of and oppositions to that erosion, and specifically how far the idea of the private stands in opposition to intimacy transgressing into the public. In this essay, the private is explored through its constitutive features-liberal codifications of rights, liberty and property, medico-moral discourses and conservative values and legal and political regulation-to give a more political and critical reading. This reading suggests that an explicit disentangling of the private and the intimate is necessary if tendencies toward public and emancipated intimacies are to become meaningful transformations, and this involves a dissembling of and critical engagement with the powerful historically entrenched idea of privacy in western societies.

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Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse for Intimate Couple Relationship according to Relational Marital Therapy

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Jerebic S., Jerebic D.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2018

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vol. 8

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issue 2

PL

Childhood sexual abuse is a traumatic experience, the consequences of which are numerous in adult intimate relationships. Couples often have problems in maintaining their relationships and frequently face problems in their sexual life. Because of the consequences that they experience and which they usually do not attribute to past trauma, couples increasingly seek therapeutic help. A safe therapeutic relationship enables the formation of new neural connections and a change in relational structures. Identifying and understanding the consequences of sexual abuse with elements of dual awareness is essential for the partnership and healing of both partners. The purpose of the article is to deepen the understanding of the consequences of childhood sexual abuse for couple relationships according to the Relational Marital Therapy paradigm.

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Polski dyskurs prywatności

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Kita M.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2013

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issue 1(11)

93-103

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The main hypothesis presented in this article is the very existence of the discourse of privacy that is rooted in culture. This research covers the area of Polish contemporary discourse. The author claims that certain parts of the world of discourse consist of specific genres of speech and cultural scripts that determine the subsequent language choices of those who communicate. The author also implies that privacy as a psycho‑social feature is relative and it is revealed in a bipolar (PRIVATE – PUBLIC) structure. She implies that there is the migration of the discourse of privacy manifestations from their natural context („internal world“ of an individual, home, family, friends) to the public discourse. Such transgressive behaviour of participants of the „worlds of texts“ is one of the most important features of postmodern contemporaneity.

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To Staunchly “Remain a Reader” and build up a World Comradeship: Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature

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Marchi L.

Review of International American Studies

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2022

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vol. 15

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issue 2

163-185

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What is a classic? To what extent are books and book collections endangered goods? What is the role and meaning of literature and translation in times of hardship? In An Unnecessary Woman (2013), Rabih Alameddine addresses these questions, while also indirectly contesting traditional canonical practices based on rigid hierarchies and the logic of national and linguistic purity. Alameddine highlights the violence inscribed in the practices of book selection and canon formation. In doing so, he troubles received notions of the canon, the classics, and especially of world literature, offering an alternative conceptualization of this long-debated category as an intimate, cosmopolitan assemblage of worldly texts.

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Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

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Hernández Navarro M. Á.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

98-113

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Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism. Their work produces an intertemporal space where the past is relevant for the present, and the present enables us to understand the past. Intimacy and routine are central in their exploration of Flaubert’s contemporaneity. Those issues are precisely one of the keys in Karl Ove Knausgård’s project of literary autobiography, where he expands narration foreclosing the ellipsis and giving visibility to small things and emotions; a project with some resonances with Munch’s crude-obscene uses of intimacy. This essay explores how both proposals, Bal and Williams Gamaker in film, and Knausgård in literature, can serve us to connect present and past sensibilities and, more than that, demonstrate resistances to the hegemonic discourses of temporality.

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Reflected Bodies: Women’s Perspectives on the Marital Experience and the Transformation of the Maternal Body. A Case Study of Middle-Class Women in Suburban Romania

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Butean S.

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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2015

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vol. 6

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issue 2

21-38

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Even if concepts of marriage and motherhood are subject to continuous changes and reinterpretations, women and men still marry and have children following more traditional or more unconventional patterns. My major interest in this research was to unveil Romanian middle-class women’s narratives regarding their perceptions over their own bodies and identities, by focusing my analysis on lived experiences, intimate scenes, daily practices and activities within marriage and motherhood. Qualitative empirical work was conducted in 2012 and 2015 in a post-socialist suburban neighbourhood, known as a place mostly inhabited by young, middle-class families. The analysis unfolds women’s class affinities and dispositions, their perception of the marital experience, identity and corporeal transformations, and their reflections on maternity as a transformative stage in terms of subjectivity, agency and body.

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Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

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Hernández Navarro M. Á.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

98-113

EN

Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism. Their work produces an intertemporal space where the past is relevant for the present, and the present enables us to understand the past. Intimacy and routine are central in their exploration of Flaubert’s contemporaneity. Those issues are precisely one of the keys in Karl Ove Knausgård’s project of literary autobiography, where he expands narration foreclosing the ellipsis and giving visibility to small things and emotions; a project with some resonances with Munch’s crude-obscene uses of intimacy. This essay explores how both proposals, Bal and Williams Gamaker in film, and Knausgård in literature, can serve us to connect present and past sensibilities and, more than that, demonstrate resistances to the hegemonic discourses of temporality.

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Vzťahová väzba v dospelosti, intimita, záväzok, vášeň v súvislosti s partnerskou spokojnosťou

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Šlosáriková M.

Československá psychologie (Czechoslovak Psychology)

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2021

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vol. 65

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issue 3

300-308

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Objectives. The research aimed to examine the relationship between the different types of adult attachment (secure type, anxious and avoidant type) and relationship satisfaction. Also examined relationship between satisfaction and intimacy, commitment and passion. Sample and setting. The research sample consisted of 120 respondents, university students aged 18 to 26 years (M = 22.54, SD = 1.71). The sample consisted of 97 women and 23 men. Hypotheses. It was hypothesized that a secure adult attachment would be positively related to relationship satisfaction. On the contrary, in the case of anxious and avoidant adult attachment a negative attitude towards relationship satisfaction were assumed. It was hypothesized that intimacy, commitment and passion would be positively related to relationship satisfaction. Statistical analysis. Multiple linear hierarchical regression (stepwise method) was performed to verify the relations between the different types of adult attachment, intimacy, commitment, passion and relationship satisfaction. Results. The research confirmed the relationship between adult attachment and relationship satisfaction, which was one of the main findings. Respondents who showed a secure type of adult attachment were more satisfied in a relationship than those who showed anxious or avoidant behavior. Another important finding was the relation between the love component – intimacy and couple relationship satisfaction. Study limitation. The fact that data were obtained from only one of the partners can be considered as a possible limitation of the study.

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„Zgorszenie postludzkie” - posthumanistyczne definiowanie zgorszenia w obszarze technologii, informacji i relacjach międzygatunkowych

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Stasieńko J.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura

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2012

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issue 4

6-24

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A special response to the various manifestations of posthumanistic idea may be the sense of scandal. It may be related to the lack of acceptance of the idea of non-human entity and therefore, its broad definition, and the act of inviting an entity to become creations of different ontological status. However, it appears that the scandal may have a reciprocal nature. Shocking may be both a definition formed from the anthropocentric point of view (for posthumanists) as well as from posthuman perspective, when followers of the rhetoric of openness to the “other” can manifest their disagreement over narrow vision of subjectivity. Thus the shape of the subject relations comes under an intensive discoursivisation in the sphere of social and cultural activity, which I would like to survey in this text. The article aims to show the intricate circumstances of a scandal that might arise in the discussion about subjectivity. I will demonstrate how scandal manifests itself within the three areas: interspecies relations, technological and information areas, by analyzing selected case studies within each of the areas.

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Love as subversion: the long afterlife of the romantic ideal

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Sokolski M.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2015

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issue 2(37)

61-77

EN

The aim of this paper is to confront two opposite views on the romantic idea of love and its role in contemporary Western societies. According to one of the analysed perspectives, represented most fully by Anthony Giddens, the romantic idea of love is seen as a dangerous delusion, bound to be abandoned in the rapidly changing societies of today. According to the other view, proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, romantic love is still the only means to escape the power of symbolic domination. In conclusion, both accounts are analysed in terms of their underlying mythologies: victorian in case of Giddens, romantic in case of Bourdieu. Notions of ‘ontological security’ and the ‘unity of the loving dyad’ are shown to be the cornerstones of powerful mythological systems encompassing our aims and modes of expression.

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Feminism and the Cooling of Intimacy. Unintended Consequences of Women’s Movements

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Musiał M.

Ethics in Progress

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2013

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vol. 4

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issue 1

119-128

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Numerous diagnoses of contemporary transformations of love and eroticism emphasise the fact that the intimate life has become democratised and liberated. Anthony Giddens argues that personal relationships increasingly become compatible with the model of pure relationship, which means that they are more egalitarian and that both partners are free to choose and to negotiate the shape of their relations. Jeffrey Weeks claims that in “the world that we have won”, women, homosexuals and queers are increasingly considered as equal to heterosexual men. Most scholars agree that feminism(together with gays’ and lesbians’ movements) is one of most important factors that enabled the democratisation of intimacy. Yet, it is possible to distinguish some interesting approaches that examine the unintended consequences of women’s emancipation. Sociologists like Arlie Russell Hochschild and Eva Illouz recognise the importance of feminism in democratising intimacy, thus they also claim that liberation of women has entailed rationalisation and commercialisation of intimacy. One of Hochschild’s main thesis is that feminism commercialises intimacy by legitimising “the commercial spirit of intimate life”. What is more, she argues that instead of humanizing men feminism is capitalising women. On the other hand, Illouz persuades that feminism – together with therapeutic discourse – rationalises intimacy by emphasising the necessity of analysing and quantifying all aspects of intimate life. Hochschild and Illouz claim that feminism unintentionally makes intimacy “cold” – that is that it suggests focusing on personal autonomy and perceiving warm and close bonds as an endangerment for that autonomy. The cooling entails loosening of family and intimate relationships and making individuals more attached to the market. In the end, both sociologists agree that “cool” branches of feminism make women similar to men and intimacy similar to the market

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Domesticating Feelings Through Short Message Service (SMS)

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Moise R.

International Review of Social Research

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 2

145-162

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Starting from the ostentatious presence of the SMS for teenagers, I attempted to identify the values of its appropriation process and to outline the trajectory of SMS within teenage culture. My argument is that the SMS develops two interpenetrating usage trajectories: an individual and a collective line, the later bearing a marked cultural logic. The relation between the object of consumption and the individual is framed by specific values of usage and regulated by cultural practices. In this article, I will present the factors that regulate the individual usage of the SMS, incorporating this form of communication in teens’ universe. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Romania, I have carried out participant observation and interviews in places that are frequented by teenagers and I have collected and analyzed more than 300 text messages, written by teenagers in daily personal journals of communication.

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„– if we twirl too much will our panties be seen?” – the social construction of intimacy and bodily privacy among girls in a kindergarten

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Ferreira M.

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji

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2013

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vol. 9

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issue 2(21)

43-52

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Drawing on the Sociology of Childhood, this paper aims to show how children during their play in kindergarten ascribe symbolic meanings to their own actions and to certain objects reproducing interpretatively certain taboos. Ethnographic descriptive analysis about the uses around a pleated skirt by a group of girls aims to show the emerging tensions between its playful use and the moral events generated. The ways girls coped with them, allows one to identify i) the social construction of their identity as both children and girls in the kinder-garten; ii) the interpretation of reproductive taboos concerning the behaviour and morality of the female gender, and iii) the importance of taboos for a consciousness of the intimacy and privacy of the infant body.

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Kryzys więzi międzyludzkich jako kryzys kultury emocjonalnej

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Przybylska I.

Chowanna

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2020

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issue 2(55)

1-14

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The article attempts to describe the symptoms of the crisis of interpersonal bonds in the perspective of the crisis of emotional culture. The core of the analyzes of the causes and symptoms of the crisis of interpersonal ties are the concepts related to the emotional turn and the discursive dimension of affective life. The crisis of emotional culture is described in the text in the light of progressive individualization and diminishing intimacy, which supersedes the commonality of goals and attitudes. The main thesis of the text is that the invasiveness of expert discourses and consumer culture leads to the wind-down of emotional culture, rationalization of the private sphere and breaking axio-normative constraints that regulate social attitudes, also in the dimension of creating and maintaining interpersonal bonds.

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W artykule podjęto próbę wskazania symptomów kryzysu więzi międzyludzkich w perspektywie kryzysu kultury emocjonalnej. Trzonem analiz przyczyn i symptomów kryzysu więzi są pojęcia związane ze zwrotem emocjonalnym w kulturze (emotional turn) i dyskursywnym wymiarem życia afektywnego. Kryzys kultury emocjonalnej w tekście opisywany jest w wymiarze ochładzania intymności oraz postępującej indywidualizacji, która wypiera wspólnotowość celów i postaw. Główną tezą tekstu jest, iż inwazyjność dyskursów eksperckich oraz kultury konsumpcyjnej prowadzi do ochładzania wzorów kultury emocjonalnej, racjonalizowania sfery prywatnej i łamania obwarowań aksjonormatywnych, które regulują postawy społeczne, także w wymiarze tworzenia i utrzymywania więzi międzyludzkich.

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Intimacy: From Transformation to Transmutation

Once Upon a Time-and They lived Happily Ever After? The Pure Relationship and Love Relationships in the Italian Context

Disgust and Intimacy

Być inną – o kategorii różnicy w autobiograficznych wypowiedziach kobiet XX i XXI wieku

Rozwojowe ujęcie Trójczynnikowej Teorii Miłości Roberta Sternberga − trójwarstwowa miłość

“Gender troubled” – from the production and reproduction of masculinity to the forms of overcrossing gender: “Are his lies true?”. Preliminary remarks on the relations between the gender of the researcher and informant in the investigation of intimacy

Disentangling Privacy and Intimacy: Intimate Citizenship, Private Boundaries and Public Transgressions

Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse for Intimate Couple Relationship according to Relational Marital Therapy

Polski dyskurs prywatności

To Staunchly “Remain a Reader” and build up a World Comradeship: Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature

Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

Reflected Bodies: Women’s Perspectives on the Marital Experience and the Transformation of the Maternal Body. A Case Study of Middle-Class Women in Suburban Romania

Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

Vzťahová väzba v dospelosti, intimita, záväzok, vášeň v súvislosti s partnerskou spokojnosťou

„Zgorszenie postludzkie” - posthumanistyczne definiowanie zgorszenia w obszarze technologii, informacji i relacjach międzygatunkowych

Love as subversion: the long afterlife of the romantic ideal

Feminism and the Cooling of Intimacy. Unintended Consequences of Women’s Movements

Domesticating Feelings Through Short Message Service (SMS)