Doing civil society (praktykowanie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego) w postsocjalistycznej Polsce. Triangulacja analizy biograficznej i analizy dys
Doing civil society in post-socialist Poland. Triangulation of biographical analysis and discourse analysis

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the intersection of actors and discourses in “doing civil society” in everydaylife. It takes into account the diversified discourse about civil society in the socio-historical contextof Poland. Interviews with human rights and democracy activists in post-socialist Poland providedthe empirical basis for the qualitative study. Methodologically, a triangulation of biographical analysis and discourse analysis was used in order to approach the social phenomenon from different perspectives. Using the framework of Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM), two interpretativetypes were reconstructed on the level of action patterns and interpretative schemes: the qualification and the empowerment type. The article introduces the methodological framework, the discursive construction of civil society and the two interpretative types, illustrated by case studies.

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