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Building symbolic boundaries. The case study of cultural conditions of social workers professional activity

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Niesporek A.
Praca Socjalna
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2018
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vol. 33(6)
26-40
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The primary aim of this publication is the presentation of the sociological research findings concerns cultural practices of social workers. These practices taking place on two basic levels. The first of these is that of the informal categorization and assessment of social welfare clients; the second is the related construction of symbolic boundaries which delineate social worker’s professional identity.
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‘We have always been like this’: the local embeddedness of migration attitudes

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Rapoš Božič I., Synek Rétiová A., Klvaňová R.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2023
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vol. 59
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issue 3
339-365
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This article contributes to the local turn in migration research. It explores how the city context shapes migration attitudes among residents, resulting in the formation of imagined communities of 'Locals' and 'Others'. Relying on qualitative research methods and cultural sociological theories of cultural armatures of the city, cultural repertoires, and symbolic boundaries, we examine the cases of two Czech cities, Teplice and Vyšší Brod. We find that the specific characteristics of the local history, geography, and demography of the cities give rise to distinct cultural repertoires that shape how their residents view migration and the presence of people with a migratory background in their city. We identify two prevailing cultural repertoires, local cosmopolitanism in Teplice and Czech nativism in Vyšší Brod, which inform both the patterns of boundary work towards residents with a migratory background and their positioning on local hierarchies of otherness. We argue that to understand the role of local context in the formation of migration attitudes, it is not sufficient to study only the characteristics of cities; how these characteristics are made meaningful by the people who live in them should also be considered.
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Deliciously Exotic? Immigrant Grocery Shops and Their Non-Migrant Clientele

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Parzer M., Astleithner F., Rieder I.
International Review of Social Research
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2016
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vol. 6
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issue 1
26-34
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This paper examines native consumption practices in immigrant grocery stores. Drawing on qualitative research on immigrant food retail in Vienna, we reveal how native Austrians use immigrant grocery shops, how they purchase products and which meanings they attribute to the act of shopping. We identified two different modes of shopping: While consuming for convenience is driven by aspects of practicability, consuming for exceptionality is related to the attraction of ‘the foreign’. This typology corresponds with two special types of consumers: The ‘Because’-consumers use immigrant shops mainly because of the ethnicity associated with the shops, the owners and their staff. The ‘Nevertheless’-consumers use these shops in spite of the entrepreneurs’ (imagined) ethnic origin and their migrant background. While ‘Because’-consumers run the risk of reproducing ethnic stereotypes, the ‘Nevertheless’- consumers may tend to retain or even strengthen their xenophobic resentments. These results partly challenge previous findings which argue that natives’ shopping routines in immigrant stores have become increasingly ordinary. We conclude by suggesting further research to examine the conditions under which an everyday engagement with foreign culture is promoted – without falling into the trap of reproducing symbolic boundaries between the majority and the minority.
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Na stejné lodi, ale na kapitánském můstku : jak čeští politici konstruují symbolické hranice

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Samec T., Černá L.
Naše společnost (Our Society)
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2015
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vol. 13
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issue 2
3-12
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Levels of trust in political institutions and political actors are constantly low in the Czech Republic. This paper deals with the perspective of professional politicians, which is an unexplored topic in the Czech context. At the same time, we supplement the traditional view of political culture with an approach based on interpretive and constructivist sociology. We focus on the construction of symbolic boundaries by Czech politicians. We pursue a combination of narrative (Ricoeur) and critical discourse analysis (Wodak) based on 21 thematically oriented biographical interviews with politicians from three traditional political parties (ODS, ČSSD, KSČM) who have been actively involved in politics since the early 90´s. The findings suggest that the politicians use symbolic boundaries as a cultural instrument for legitimizing their identity, status and practice of „traditional“ politics. By defining „others“, the politicians are able to construct a reality in which they are on the same boat with citizens while standing on the command bridge.
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Důvěra občanů České republiky v politické instituce a politiky je dlouhodobě nízká. V textu se zaměřujeme na perspektivu profesionálních politiků v hodnocení politiky, která je v českém kontextu neprobádaným tématem. Doplňujeme zároveň tradiční pohled na politickou kulturu o přístup vycházející z interpretativní a konstruktivistické sociologie. Soustředíme se přitom na konstrukci symbolických hranic u českých politiků, kdy si klademe otázku, mezi jakými skupinami politici symbolické hranice vytvářejí. Provádíme kombinaci narativní (Ricoeur) a kritické diskurzivní analýzy (Wodak) na 21 tematicky orientovaných biografických interview s politiky ze tří tradičních politických stran (ODS, ČSSD, KSČM), kteří byli aktivní v politice od začátku 90. let 20. století. Zjištění interpretujeme v tom smyslu, že symbolické hranice představují pro politiky kulturní nástroj legitimizace jejich identity, statusu a praxe „tradiční“ politiky. Díky symbolickému vymezování se vůči „jiným“ jsou politici schopni konstruovat realitu, ve které jsou s občany sice na stejné lodi a zároveň musí podle nich sami stát na kapitánském můstku.
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Klasy w postnarodowych społeczeństwach. Socjologia klas według Michèle Lamont

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Lewicki M.
Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa
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2016
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vol. 05(1-2)
31-54
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Sociology of classes of Michele Lamont, which was developed in a dialogue with Pierre Bourdeu’s theory of classes, is a separate and original proposal of studies on classes. It is to be based on analyses of group identification articulation that are used by actors for self-defining, but at the same time also imply the process of defining and drawing symbolic boundaries between classes. However, these boundaries tend to differ from the boundaries defined in the analyses of economic resources and the social and demographic diversity. Lamont creates and develops her theory against two major challenges that theories of classes face: international comparisons which would focus on cultural distinctions and avoid methodological nationalism, similarly to Bourdieu’s theory. The second challenge would be the forms of social diversity, which are not likely to occur in class analyses, such as racial or gender diversity, and seem to be essential to understand contemporary diversity of societies.
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