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Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2025 | vol. 69 | No. 1

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Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska
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Aleksandra Zalewska-Królak
2
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  1. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
  2. Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych
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The article aims to present selected issues related to conducting fieldwork in the extremely demanding environment of the street. The difficulties are compounded by the fact that street children are engaged in the research, with their active and participatory involvement in reconstructing knowledge about who a child is in Poland. The author presents selected own experiences from in-depth fieldwork carried out in the light of radical ethnography in urban studies and childhood studies, focusing on the
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Małgorzata Michel
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  1. Jagiellonian University
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The article’s author aims to present her own doubts and challenges, both methodological and ethical, that appeared during the course of designing research with the participation of children. The research involved interested school pupils putting together a school autobiography, in the form of a diary: “My school day”. Their task was to describe what was going on at school and how their day at school looked. The research questions focused on issues connected to being a child, to school seen and described from the viewpoint of a pupil. When designing the study, the author referred to the latest trends in biographical and participatory studies involving children, and a modern interpretation of Korczak’s concept. The goal was to give voice to the children, to enable them to freely express their own opinions regarding the difficulties of being a child at school. The author asks about dilemmas questioning the ethicality of studies with the participation of children. She provides examples of possible answers and solutions, while also posing questions about matters which — in her opinion — still generate difficulty when conducting research with children.
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Anna Górka-Strzałkowska
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  1. The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw
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The article analyses the emergence of studies concerning childhood with disability, and discusses the developmental potential of this new research approach. The purpose of studies on disabled children’s childhood is to identify the causes of discrimination in the context of the formation of an individual’s personality, to understand the impact of oppressive relationships, and to outline the difficulties faced by researchers conducting research in this area. The authors discuss the transition from a medical perception of disability to the social construct of childhood with disability. They present the main directions of research, as well as good practices in conducting research into how childhood with disability is experienced.
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Tomasz Kasprzak
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Dorota Prysak
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  1. University of Silesia, Katowice
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The article examines the conceptual space at the intersection between queer perspective and childhood studies, increasingly referred to as queer childhood studies. The text introduces two key approaches to understanding the child and childhood within the field of queer studies. It also outlines the two main planes of examining the queerness of childhood experiences and the child’s status, before proceeding to suggest exploring categories formative for the social discourse of childhood — such as development, innocence, and agency — through the lens of queerness. This highlights not only how these categories are entangled in sustaining the heteronormative social order, but also the value of incorporating queer childhood experiences and identities in order to provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of modern childhood.
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Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska
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  1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
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The article concerns the care work and organizational involvement of women in the health of their family members. Its primary purpose is to provide a working definition of the concept of family health management and to outline the field of research for it, while also discussing some of the available data related to the management process. The authors also point out the basic gaps in ongoing research, and formulate the most urgent research demands for the area in question. The text also refers to the systemic and cultural determinants of the management process, referring on the one hand to the problems of the healthcare system in Poland, and on the other to broader trends in contemporary culture, which include (bio)citizenship and the individualization of responsibility for health. This picture of how health management is practised in Polish families is based on an analysis of available data (desk research). The challenges linked to transforming the social roles of men and women, and the contradictions that emerge in the implementation of these roles, are also pointed out.
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Urszula Abłażewicz
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Małgorzata Skowrońska
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  1. University of Bialystok
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The aim of the article is to present care and the concept of care ethics as fundamental in building and maintaining sustainable wellbeing for society as a whole. The first part reflects on the concept of wellbeing in the modern world, and reviews and synthesizes the scientific understanding of care to formulate a definition that best reflects its nature. The assumptions of the ethics of care are then presented, along with the Kathleen Lynch’s proposal of combining this concept with social justice as understood by Nancy Fraser. The article also contains an exploration of the meaning of care among men, based on selected theories of masculinity. The author draws from her own qualitative research, the material she accumulated (in-depth individual interviews) constituting the basis of a sociological attempt to find connections between masculinity and care suggesting that male care seems to be tied to extraordinary situations rather than a strongly internalised commitment characteristic of the ethics of care. The article should be treated as indicating the importance of research into male care, because its quality and methods of practice contribute to the achieving of social wellbeing.
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Julita Prusak
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  1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
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Public discourse is a field of rivalry for the resources of symbolic power. Although its relations still regulate public communication, symbolic power changes its object, subjects and scope. The aim of this article is to attempt to provide answers regarding what symbolic power consists of today in public discourse, who or what controls it, who or what is its object, and whether power in discourse is also power over discourse. The author confronts Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power and its critical elaborations with (post-)Foucauldian analyses of power. She proposes a dynamic and relational approach to symbolic power — as a constellation of subject positions. She also asks about the topicality of the concept of symbolic elites, developed by Teun van Dijk in the 1990s. On the example of Polish public discourse, a typology of controllers of symbolic power is discussed — from the symbolic intelligentsia to capitalists of attention.
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Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak
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  1. University of Lodz
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The aim of the article is to analyse rural social movements in Poland. The authors strive to analyse the identities, goals and methods by which these movements’ activists operate. They distinguish three periods of social mobilisation. The first, covering the 1980s, was tied to the process of an active political opposition taking shape in Poland; the next was the early 1990s, so the first years of the systemic transformation; and the third — the active involvement of rural social movements after 2015. The analysis presented here concerns above all the manner in which the farmers covered by the research perceive rural social movements and themselves, and takes into account the economic, political and social contexts. The authors strive to provide answers regarding whether and what social processes and events were of key significance for individual and collective identity. They draw attention to the importances of global crises and their impact on strategies of social mobilisation and the respondents’ ways of reasoning. Aspects of interest to them include the generational differences and how they affect the respondents’ perception of their involvement in protests, and the situation of such people as themselves. The conclusions from the analysis indicate that the local perspective is intermingling with the perspective confirming that rural inhabitants are exposed to the influence of changing factors that transcend national borders.
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Ewelina Nowakowska
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Kacper Leśniewicz
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Michał Wenzel
1

  1. SWPS University, Warsaw
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The article aims to show how music can be used in the process of establishing symbolic boundaries — how people draw dividing lines based on musical taste, and what criteria they use. The analyses presented in the text are based on a qualitative study conducted in 2021 with respondents representing five different social and occupational categories. From the statements of the interviewees, three criteria emerge that contribute the most strongly to differentiation in Poles’ musical tastes. These are: social origin; the level of education; and place of residence — with regional differences, the urban-rural divide, and split into eastern and western Poland. In addition, based on the empirical material, four types of strategy for evaluating and prioritizing musical tastes were distinguished: value-adding; egalitarian; ambivalent; and neutral. In the group covered by the study, the most popular strategy proved to be ambivalent (that is, combining valuing elements with beliefs about the non-hierarchical nature of the cultural world within a single narrative), discerned in almost half of the respondents, and most often among representatives of cultural elites and middle- and lower-level white-collar workers.
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Katarzyna M. Wyrzykowska
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  1. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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This article discusses some of the difficulties related to the participation of animals in contemporary cultural traditions, using the example of the animal blessing held annually in Mikstat on St. Roch’s Day. This custom is one of the few traditional cultural phenomena involving live animals included on Poland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and in some respects it is unique. The rapid cultural and social transformations, manifested in changing ways of thinking and lifestyles, as well as modern technology and economic practices in animal breeding, are giving rise to challenges in the cultivating of this tradition. The emergence of a new type of human–animal relationship, and consequently of animal species other than “traditional” taking part in the animal blessing, has had a twofold effect: on the one hand, it offers fertile ground enabling the custom to persist; on the other, it generates a kind of tension at the intersection between theological narrative and social practice.
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Joanna Książek
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  1. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
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The article focuses on how the thinking of Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), who exerted a formative influence on the development of sociology in Poland after World War II, is currently received. She is acknowledged as the founder of the Łódź school of sociology of culture. Her concepts of culture and nation are rarely cited today. Sociologists of the younger generation see this as resulting from social changes and the different way in which science is now practised. While pondering over whether Antonina Kłoskowska’s concept of culture and nation could provide answers concerning today’s reality and its roots, they emphasise the major significance of this heritage for the development of sociology and cultural studies.
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Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak
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Renata Dopierała
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Łukasz Biskupski
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Michał Łuczewski
2
Marta Faustyna Chmielevska
2

  1. University of Lodz
  2. University of Warsaw

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Nowak Stefan, 1979, System wartości społeczeństwa polskiego, „Studia Socjologiczne”, nr 4.
Szacki Jerzy (red.), 1995a, Sto lat socjologii polskiej. Od Supińskiego do Szczepańskiego, PWN, Warszawa.
Szacki Jerzy, 1995b, Wstęp: krótka historia socjologii polskiej, w: Jerzy Szacki (red.), Sto lat socjologii polskiej. Od Supińskiego do Szczepańskiego, PWN, Warszawa.
Weber Max, 2002, Gospodarka i społeczeństwo. Zarys socjologii rozumiejącej, tłum. Dorota Lachowska, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa.
Odniesienie w tekście ma wówczas postać (Weber 2002, s. 113).
Prosimy o niepodawanie adresów internetowych, dzięki którym dotarto do tekstów, lecz o umieszczanie w bibliografii opisu ich wersji pierwotnych.
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J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, s. 113.
J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, cyt. wyd, s. 233. Tamże, s. 255.
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RECENZENCI W 2021 ROKU

Monika Adamczyk, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski
Janusz Barański, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Piotr Binder, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Tadeusz Borutka, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II
Anita Brzozowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Marta Bucholc, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Michał Buchowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Mariusz Czubaj, Uniwersytet SWPS
Wioleta Danilewicz, Uniersytet w Białymstoku
Marcin Dębnicki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Rafał Drozdowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Tomasz Ferenc, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Mirosław Filiciak, Uniwersytet SWPS
Piotr Filipkowski, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Monika Frąckowiak-Sochańska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Jacek Gądecki, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie
Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Marek Gorzko, Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku
Małgorzata Jacyno, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Krzysztof Jasiecki, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Katarzyna Kajdanek, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Katarzyna Kalinowska, Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
Jerzy Kałążny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Antoni Z. Kamiński, Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Tomasz Kaźmierczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Kaja Kaźmierska, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Przemysław Kisiel, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Jerzy Kochanowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Maciej Kowalewski, Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Wiesława Kozek, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Natalia Krzyżanowska, Örebro University
Paweł Kubicki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek, Uniwersytet Pedagogoczny im. KEN w Krakowie
Waldemar Kuligowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Anna Kwaśniewska, Uniwersytet Gdański
Marta Leśniakowska, Instytut Sztuki PAN
Wojciech Łukowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Mirosława Marody, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Piotr Mitzner, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego
Andrzej Moskwin, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Dorota Mroczkowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Adam Mrozowicki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Janusz Mucha, emeritus
Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Lech M. Nijakowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Przemysław Nosal, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński, Uniwersytet Gdański
Krzysztof Pietrowicz, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Jakub Potulski, Uniwersytet Gdański
Ryszard Radzik, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Dorota Rancew-Sikora, Uniwersytet Gdański
Jerzy Rohoziński, Ośrodek Badań nad Totalitaryzmami Instytutu Pileckiego
Maja Sawicka, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Krystyna Skarżyńska, Uniwersytet SWPS
Marta Songin-Mokrzan, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska, Uniwersytet SWPS
Beata Szluz, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Magdalena Ślusarczyk, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Wojciech Świątkiewicz, Uniwersytet Śląski
Piotr Toczyski, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Arkadiusz Tuziak, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Andrzej Waśkiewicz, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Ewelina Wejbert-Wąsiewicz, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Piotr Witek, Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Cezary Włodarczyk, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Anna Wylegała, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Katarzyna M. Wyrzykowska, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Tomasz Zarycki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Anna Ziembińska-Witek, Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Magdalena Zowczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski

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