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AUTHOR
Anna Kopczak-wirga
Between leisure and work. The case of Polish trade tourism
The aim of this article is the introducing of the phenomenon of Polish trade tourism , which took place between the years 1956 - 1989. Working in the sort of interpretative sociology (or more precisely - the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz’s) the ways of experiencing contemporary commercial travel that exist in the social memory were presented. Qualitative research (conducted by the episodic interview) revealed a multitude of ways of constructing memories of the trade tourism and at the same time revealing intersubjectivity of experiences. The example could be the dichotomy of attitudes towards trade travel, in which on one end of the continuum is the sense of shame for practitioners of gray…
A Collector Deceives—About the Ways of Deceiving Women by Men and Men by Women as far as Spending Money on Collecting Items Is Concerned
The presented research shows that neither women nor men are honest with their partners when informing them about the amount of money spent on collecting items. Their behaviour may show signs of addiction to collecting. Men in comparison to women spend more and are less likely to lower the amounts of money spent on collected items. Those who earn more spend more on their collections. Women and men also use different techniques of hiding their expenses. Women do not inform about their expenses using denying techniques (such as saying that it was bought/borrowed a long time ago, etc.), whereas men inform about expenses but use preventive techniques (such as exchange). What is more, men tend to…
Crossing the borders. Tourist trips abroad in the biographies of Polish travellers
The purpose of the present article is a brief presentation of the results of sociological research, which attempts to answer the question of how to construct memories of the moments of crossing state borders by the Poles in the years 1956 - 2012. The main time caesura is 1989. That exact date is a political boundary of the conditions of life of the Poles (from real socialistic to capitalistic). The theoretical frame of insight into the world of tourist trips of the Poles is sociological phenomenology of Alfred Schutz, and the chosen methodological approach – the biographical prospect. The research was conducted using qualitative interview (episodic) on a sample of 40 people, were travelling…