"Squarness" as a phenomenon in the sociological texts’ translations process.

Workers and business people: Occupational career patterns and social change in Poland

The paper presents the results of a research on the occupational careers followed by workers and business people in the period of deep social change in Poland after 1989. The concepts of career, resources, and biographi...

Becoming a university teacher. Symbolic interactionist analysis.

The monograph devoted to the analysis of the process of becoming a teacher at national universities. Assumptions used symbolic interactionism and grounded theory methodology for synchronous and diachronic depict the cour...

The Importance of Subjectively Constructed Meaning: Integration Viewed From the Perspective of Immigrants

In political discourse, as much as in social studies, the term integration is commonly viewed in the context of migration. On the basis of ‘objective’ indicators and statistical analysis, the level of integration is meas...

Autoethnography – Technique, Method, or New Paradigm? On Methodological Status of Autoethnography

The goal of the paper is an introduction of conceptual order to existing categories of autoethnography research. The author tries to reconstruct dimensions in which autoethnography is used in contemporary social investig...