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The article deals with the life situation of the families of prisoners, in particular, parental relationships connected with the experience of incarceration in a correctional institution. During the realisation of the research I noticed many difficulties in finding contact with potential interlocutors, therefore I considered the families of prisoners as an environment "invisible in the research field". In addition, I defined families of prisoners as marginalised and stigmatised environments. The main aim of the article is to show selected methodological dilemmas that can be encountered through the design and analysis of biographical research of family members of prisoners. The theoretical introduction of the paper as an extended definition of the penitentiary crisis allowed to characterise the dominant trends and directions of research on prisoners' families. Further, it focused on selected problems of realisation of qualitative research (especially biographical research). I analyse the literature and present my own methodological approach based on the direction of interpretative sociology. Using the potential of the autobiographical narrative interview technique (of the German sociological school of Fritz Schütze), I collected 31 interviews with adult children of prisoners and 30 interviews with parents of prisoners. Finally, I refer to my own research experience and discuss the "usefulness and ineffectiveness" of an autobiographical narrative interview. Moreover, I characterise key reflections on the role of the researcher in obtaining autobiographical narrations. The article is an invitation to discuss the improvement of research procedures, especially in the area of research on family members of persons in prisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dealing with sensitive topics in social science research has a distinct and well established tradition, and post-memory studies may fall into this category as well. The paper focuses on practical issues connected to qualitative interviewing on sensitive topics. In detail, it bridges the gap between psychological literature and practice, primarily counselling psychology, and scholarship on sensitive topics present in many areas of sociology. The main problems that a researcher may face while conducting interviews on sensitive issues lay in or are connected to the structure of the interview, the resistance of the informant as well as the authenticity and personal communication competences. Attention is devoted to ethical issues present in this category of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article describes "Wymiennik" -- Warsaw system which uses the alternative currency "alterka". The main aim of the paper is to think over how the creators of the initiative understand their resistance to consumption practices and to what extent their activism leads to socio-economic change. The categories by Marek Krajewski concerning on nonconformist lifestyles are used; it turned out that the most useful concept is "discreet resistance". To get knowledge about "Wymiennik" I conducted 12 in-depth interviews and two years of participatory observation, furthermore I analyzed materials published or recommended by the creators of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of the paper is to describe the function of words of the jakby-type in unofficial and official utterances, compared to their lexicographic descriptions. The analysis has been based on transcripts of oral examination interviews, and unofficial conversations. It revealed the differences in the functional load of words of the jakby-type in these two types of conversations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Polish Nursing / Pielegniarstwo Polskie is the property of Poznan University of Medical Sciences Publishing and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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In the paper were realized surveys concerning customers interested in purchasing household appliance with CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interviews) and questionnaire methods in large-area objects making distribution of those equipment. Made survey in a group of above 500 respondents let conclude that circumstances about preferences of usage of defined distribution channels through customers, who buy costly household appliance, are decided. Verification of defined hypothesis concerning preferences differentiation was possible, because a one of surveyed group of customers were surfers and the second one were customers fulfilling questionnaires in area of large-area stores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measurement errors due to failure to obtain the required data from the selected sample (non-response errors) are a matter of great methodological concern to current survey researchers. The author assumes that respondents' attitude to the questionnaire is largely determined by social conditions and maintains that in order to minimise this error (and achieve a satisfactory response rate) these conditions should be taken into account in the course of survey design, during the preparatory stage (interviewer selection and training: when specifying the timeline and number of contacts with individual respondents). implementation stage (interviewer monitoring) and control stage (back-checks). Although there are many ways to enhance response rates, the paper focuses on response-maximisation techniques applied in the European Social Survey that achieved a response rate of more than 70%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the analysis of questionnaire context effects. The initial assumption was that answers in a questionnaire could he influenced not only by adjacent items but also by e.g. questions read out at the beginning of the interview . To identify potentially interrelated questions, the Answer Tree statistical model was applied. This is an advanced classification tree method based on item correspondence analysis. The author presents classification trees construed for the thematic block 'Attitudes to law, feeling of safety' and a number of questions selected from the questionnaire as a whole. It has turned out that in the case of the first model, 30% of respondents have not been classified, that is their answers do not fall into the Answer Tree pattern. The percentage of respondents whose answers do not fit in the second classification model is even higher and amounts to nearly 40%. Although questions that differentiate between respondents in questionnaire versions A and B have been identified, there is no sufficient evidence that separate items in a questionnaire arc mutually correlated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biographical research has enjoyed immense popularity over the last few decades. Social scientists have rediscovered life histories and provided biographical research with a fresh theoretical and methodological insight (e.g. the concept of narrative interview developed by Fritz Schütze). The paper focuses on narrative interview as a tool for biographical research. Theoretical assumptions, the text analysis and criticism of narrative interview are discussed in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wstęp. Jak zauważają socjologowie sportu i przedstawiciele nauk o kulturze fizycznej, korzystanie z różnorodnych form sportu i rekreacji w czasie wolnym wydaje się jednym z najistotniejszych współczesnych obszarów badań społecznych, w których aplikować można klasową teorię Pierre'a Bourdieu. Cel. Celem opracowania było nakreślenie w kontekście teorii dystynkcji autorstwa Pierre'a Bourdieu aktywności sportowo-rekreacyjnej pielęgniarek i położnych. Materiał i metody. Badaniami objęto 127 zawodowo czynnych pielęgniarek i położnych pracujących w szpitalach oraz przychodniach POZ znajdujących się z terenie województwa wielkopolskiego. W pracy wykorzystano metodę sondażu diagnostycznego zrealizowanego za pomocą narzędzia, jakim był autorski kwestionariusz ankiety, wspomagany wywiadem nieustrukturyzowanym. Wyniki. Badane kobiety najczęściej preferują jazdę na rowerze, nordic walking, gimnastykę i ćwiczenia w domu, biegi, pływanie, aerobik, sporty zimowe oraz gimnastykę odchudzającą. Sprawność fizyczna oraz dobra kondycja często są rudymentarni dla osób wykonujących zawód pielęgniarki i położnej. Potrzeby estetyczne to kolejny obszar lokujący się wśród istotnych wartości wynikających z uczestnictwa w aktywności sportowo-rekreacyjnej. Wnioski. Uzyskane dane dotyczące aktywności sportowo-rekreacyjnej pielęgniarek i położnych pozwalają stwierdzić, że wybierane przez nie formy aktywności ruchowej mogą być dyskretnymi, ale ważnymi wyróżnikami ich stylu życia lub - idąc tokiem myślenia francuskiego socjologa Pierre'a Bourdieu - cechami społecznie dystynktywnymi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]