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provides the picture takers with the possibility of fully subjective expression
concerning their own experiences, needs or goals, which is particularly important in
the case of minority, marginalized, or excluded groups. However, this is when
participatory photography goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge, and into the
area of social change, becoming a means of sociological intervention.
Keywords:
Phenomenological perspective; Social world; Participatory photography; Photo
interview; Private photographs; Sociological intervention.
Frąckowiak Maciej
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Rogowski Łukasz
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Images and negotiation of the social worlds
The aim of this article is to incorporate visuality into the theory of the social world as it
was proposed in the interpretative sociology. The text consists of three parts. In the
first, the authors present basic assumptions of the social world phenomenological
theory. The second, elucidates the concept of visuality – the underpinnings of the
chosen contexts of building and unifying the social worlds’ visual aspects that are
presented in the foregoing article. The last, opens to scrutiny the examples of
processes in which the visuality becomes a pretext for gainsaying the intersubjectivity
of social worlds and therefore, relates to the opposite phenomenon. The theoretical
and exemplifying endeavors undertaken in the article may constitute an introduction
to further, more complex analyses.
Keywords:
Social world; Social ties; Visuality; Phenomenological sociology.
Waldemar Dymarczyk
University of Łódź, Poland
Hobbyists-madcaps: deviants, freaks, normals - about a claim for the normality
acknowledgement
The article presents the author’s attempt to define a particular kind of people who
realize various types of interests with a strong commitment – the ‘hobbyists’.
Primarily open to scrutiny, is how the typical patterns of their careers are being
constructed. Moreover, both the significant others’ negative reactions to hobbyists’
activity, and the reasons of why they act in a certain way are elucidated. Hobbyists’
strategies and actions undertaken in order to defend against ‘deviants’
stigmatization’, and their struggle for a status of being ‘normal’ are presented in
(ewentualnie the further parts of) this article. The ‘revealed’ (lub reconstructed)
strategies are: Professionalization of hobbyist’s passion; ‘Factual’ denial of
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