Things and ways of life in the PRL or what can be found in the Andrzej Siciński’s archive? Cover Image

Rzeczy i style życia w PRL, czyli co można znaleźć w archiwum Andrzeja Sicińskiego?
Things and ways of life in the PRL or what can be found in the Andrzej Siciński’s archive?

Author(s): Agata Zborowska
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the ways of life in PRL through objects. It focuses on Andrzej Siciński’s survey about ways of life in Poland during the late seventies. In the first part of the article, the author discusses the problem of re-using qualitative data in humanities as well as the danger of their decontextualisation and misuse. In the following part, she analyses the materials from the perspective of everyday objects. The theoretical framework of the analysis is determined by the category of „lifestyles of things” formulated by Marek Krajewski.

  • Issue Year: 40/2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 6-17
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish