Tönnies and civil society: Origins of a modern concept of the state

While reading a Polish translation of Community and Society of Ferdinand Tönnies one may conclude that it is associationism that constitutes the main attribute of modern society. It is so because translator decided to wr...

Liminality as a Field Experience in a Study of a Group of Homeless Poles in Brussels

Migrants from Central and Eastern Europe constitute a growing part of rough-sleeping population in the Western European cities. Cultural aspects of their multiple marginalization can be analyzed with the use of the oppos...

Woman In The Male World – Conflict Or Cohesion Of Roles? Examples of mountaineering, skimountaineering and adventure racing

The article raises the topic of the relation between female roles and sports roles on the example of the collectivity of women who professionally do sports that are commonly associated rather with masculinity than with...

Anthropologist on war – the dilemma of ethical engagement of social sciences

When a researcher is a secret agent. On undercover participant observation as an ethic problem, quantitative and qualitative research methods, social scene (life) backstage dimensions and it’s connection to what’s written above

The article focuses on ethically sensitive matter, that’s using undercover participant obsevation as a sociological method. Do we always have to inform people, that they’ve become a research target (object), or maybe, in...