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Communications Editor Klaudia Wójcik

Layout Editor Marek Gawron

Editor-in-Chief Stanisław Mocek

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Monika Nowicka

Editorial Secretary Mariusz Finkielsztein

Thematic Editors Marta Sałkowska, Anna Radiukiewicz, Paweł Matuszewski, Tadeusz Gadacz, Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi

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Gender – pomiędzy sprawczością a determinizmem. Analiza w perspektywach teoretycznych Michela Foucaulta, Pierre’a Bourdieu, Ervinga Goffmana i Anthony’ego Giddensa

Weronika Żybura

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 45 - 92

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.004.19953

The aim of the article is to present diverse approaches to gender derived from the sociological theories of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, and Anthony Giddens. This concepts describe the tension between power and freedom in different ways, thus providing theoretical tools for describing the relationship between individual gender identity and the determining or limiting social order. The theoretical perspectives on gender are discussed as an apparatus of power-knowledge, embodied practice, role in the theater of everyday life, and an identity project. A discussion is proposed between these theoretical positions and their organization on an axis, the extremes of which are described as individual agency vs the determinism of social structure.

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Performatywny proces kształtowania tożsamości zawodników profesjonalnego wrestlingu

Klaudia Ślusarczyk

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 128 - 163

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.006.20002

The article presents the theoretical assumptions of professional wrestling, its elements and history. It also cites considerations of identity and its performativity in sociology. The research conducted in the form of qualitative interviews deals with the process of forming performative identity among wrestlers. As a result of the analysis of the research, it was possible to create a typology of ways of creating a character used for performance in professional wrestling, describe the process of identity formation and determine the roles of third parties in it. The exploration and description of the phenomenon placed in the text made it possible to haracterize the profession of professional wrestler as a multiprofession.

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Subpole sądowe w Polsce w świetle teorii elit. Recenzja książki Pawła Maranowskiego Elita sądownictwa w III RP na początku procesu przemian i destabilizacji (2022). Warszawa: Collegium Civitas

Hanna Dębska

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 31 - 44

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.005.20001

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„Podatek od bycia kobietą?”, czyli tak zwane podatki: różowy i od tamponów. Analiza porównawcza stanu faktycznego w Polsce i Stanach Zjednoczonych

Agata Rączka-Chodykin

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.001.19673

This article presents the problem of price discrimination resulting from different taxation of hygiene products intended exclusively for use by menstruating people. The analysis includes a comparison of the actual situation in Poland and the United States in terms of taxation of peri-menstrual hygiene products, such as tampons, sanitary pads, pads, as well as basic hygiene products. The article raises the issue of the existence of the "Pink Tax" in Poland and its connection with gender marketing, i.e. the use of gender differences to direct products to specific target groups.

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Słomiany zapłon i diament wspólnego działania.
Recenzja książki Społeczeństwo łatwopalne. Praktyki pomagania uchodźcom wojennym z Ukrainy w 2022 roku w Polsce; Katarzyna Kalinowska, Paweł Kuczyński, Izabella Bukraba-Rylska, Katarzyna Krakowska, Marta Sałkowska. Warszawa: Collegium Civitas

Ireneusz Krzemiński

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 20 - 30

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.002.19915x

The reviewed book received the Zygmunt Bauman Prize awarded by the Polish Sociological Association in the first edition of the competition in 2024.

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Między obiektywnymi mitami a subiektywnymi odczuciami – refleksja nad przeżyciem kinowym w perspektywie socjologii przeżywania Simmla

Natàlia Cantó-Milà, Swen Seebach

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 93 - 127

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.003.19952

This article sheds light on the experience which we share in the one and a half hours which we spend in the cinema. It discusses the experiences that are framed between the opening and the closing of the curtain that covers the screen. Thereby it reflects on the reasons for the success and importance of the cinema in modern and especially late modern society, on its meaning for us as individuals and for the webbing of our social bonds. By discussing texts of Simmel, Turner, Sennett and Benjamin, and relating them with each other, we have tried to analyse critically the changes that might have happened to actors and audiences when the stage became a screen, and the actor part of an imaged story. As a result we have identified the cinematic experience as a new kind of ritual that fits with the needs and conditions of late modern society, a ritual wherein emotions play the central role.

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Yes means yes and no means no? A critical sociolinguistic analysis of cultural assumptions and transnationalism in Polish online sexual education discourses on sexual consent

Olga O’Toole

Zoon Politikon, 15/2024, 2024, pp. 164 - 201

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.007.20810

The subject of sexual consent has received increasing media and academic attention in recent years and the question of its sociolinguistic significance has been investigated in the context of the English language in Canadian, American, and British settings (sources). There seems to be a lack of cross-cultural analyses; however, little research has investigated the complexities of consent as far as attitudes and discourses. This paper presents an analysis of sexual education discourse taken from Polish grassroots sexual education initiatives and looks at the phenomenon of changes in discourse on consent, as well as signs of linguistic imperialism in sexual consent education practices. The project takes a qualitative approach to integrating critical discourse analysis (CDA) and feminist post-structural discourse analysis (FPDA), in which five sources of sexual consent materials found online are analyzed for the linguistic remnants of cultural assumptions about sexuality. This is done to investigate the implied understandings of roles in giving and asking for sexual consent, which at the same time work towards a more progressive discourse on sexuality.

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Słowa kluczowe: gender, Foucault, Bourdieu, Goffman, Giddens, agency, determinism, sociology of sport, sociology of art, identity, professional wrestling, performance, Tax, price discrimination, gender marketing, tampon tax, gender-based pricing, Georg Simmel, cinematic experience, cinema, aura, sexual consent, critical discourse analysis, feminist post-structural discourse analysis, computer-mediated discourse

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