Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)

Kaźmierska, Kaja

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.15.4.01

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“…Ramonaitė et al, 2007), as something to envy, and the capitalist system was accepted as the only alternative (cf. Kaźmierska and Waniek, 2022).…”

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Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany

Ulinskaitė,

Hilmar,

Verbalyte

2024

Cultural Sociology

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In times of major change, people reassess what is a valuable and, therefore, prideful achievement in the context of a new societal structure and culture. Our article challenges the traditional view of achievements and pride as purely individual experiences, arguing that pride has social and cultural sources and modes of articulation, which may shift dramatically during radical change. We find that people express pride in their achievements when they align with social structures of worth and when societal feeling rules confirm that pride is appropriate and justified. We demonstrate this by analysing four biographical interviews from two research projects with a similar methodology on the post-socialist transformation in Lithuania and in East Germany. By examining how people construe accounts of pride, we find that they express this emotion in recurrent narratives of hard work, notions of resourcefulness and agility, images of restructuring corporate structures, and constructions of ethnic belonging. Our findings reveal that while achievements often lead to pride, not all achievements are narrated with a sense of pride. Our contribution offers a novel, context-sensitive approach to this emotion by bringing together frameworks from cultural sociology and the sociology of emotions.

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“…Ramonaitė et al, 2007), as something to envy, and the capitalist system was accepted as the only alternative (cf. Kaźmierska and Waniek, 2022).…”

Section: Research Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany

Ulinskaitė,

Hilmar,

Verbalyte

2024

Cultural Sociology

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“…No such pattern of "waves" has occurred regarding Ukraine. Foreign publications are usually the aftermath of literature and research published in Poland and Ukraine and are written mainly in English by Poles and Ukrainians, which also means that they are, in the majority, concurrent with Polish and Ukrainian views on this systemic transformation (Smalej 2016;Dolińska 2019;Fałkowski, Kurek 2019;Holubiak 2019;Kaźmierska 2019). A special issue of the "Qualitative Sociology Review" Vol 15 (2019) was published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the transformation in Poland.…”

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Economic Transformation in Poland and Ukraine

Wisła¹,

Nowosad²

2020

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When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political, social and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s, both economies were at a similar level of economic development (GDP $9,500 per capita). However, in 2018, Ukrainian GDP per capita had remained at the same level since 1991, while in Poland, it had increased significantly, to more than $27,000 per capita.This book assesses the reasons for the growing gap between the level of economic development in Ukraine and Poland. It examines the course of events and evaluates the effectiveness of the system transformations, both in the context of the economy, as a whole, and in individual regions (Polish 'voivodeships' (provinces) and Ukrainian 'oblasts'). It also analyzes the consequences of the 2008-2009 Ukrainian-Russian gas conflict and 2013-2014 Euromaidan events for the Ukrainian economy. Additionally, the authors offer an insight into the migration movements, which have recently been observed in Poland and Ukraine. This is the first comprehensive, comparative analysis concerning the spatial diversification of economic development in these two countries, and the authors highlight the ways in which these reforms have proved effective in Poland and hardly effective in Ukraine. This analysis helps to identify the basic interrelations between the core macroeconomic variables at the regional level and the impact of political events from both a national and regional perspective.The book will appeal to academics, researchers and policy makers interested in the economic and political changes in these two countries, in a comparative setting and on national and regional levels, as well as those working on issues of EU integration.

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Volunteering and care in old age: voices from People's Solidarity in East Germany

Hachmeister

2023

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

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Thirty Years after the Great Change. The Process of Social Transformation in Poland in Biographical Research Perspective(s)

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany

Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany

Economic Transformation in Poland and Ukraine

Volunteering and care in old age: voices from People's Solidarity in East Germany

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