The issue of social situation of homosexual women as a potential for using eclectic research
The issue of social situation of homosexual women as a potential for using eclectic research

Summary/Abstract: Scientists practicing social sciences issues more and moreoften undertake constructing and performing eclectic researchprojects. Nowadays, qualitative and quantitativeapproaches are thought to be equivalent. Their results canbe characterized by complementarity, facilitation and/ortriangulation.The article presents two research papers – quantitativewhich is represented by a report titled ‘Social situation ofLGBTA people in Poland. Report 2015-2016’ written byorganizations supporting LGBTQIA environments – andquantitative master thesis titled ‘The quality of life of homosexualwomen – cases study’. These projects arose insimilar time, but they were developed and conducted independently.Compared results are connected to issues offunctioning of homosexual women in a range of identicalor approximate categories of both studies..The main aim of the article is to show the validity of quantitativeand qualitative trends connection on the exampleof presented papers – despite of distinctiveness of thesetwo conceptions their results illustrate each other in manyquestions. The quantitative publication pictures the scaleof the phenomenon while the qualitative one gives thecontext of gathered data. In presented text it is shown notonly how the results complement one another, but alsohow they mutually verify and give a possibility to widenthe cafeteria of dependent variables or categories of thematic-notions frame.The secondary aim of the paper is to outline the problematicaspects of functioning of homosexual women in environmentsand social groups to which they belong. The articleis rich in references that discusses in details mentionedissues; these are: an attitude toward public institutions andcondipoliticsin Poland, conditions of sexual orientation openness,professional, family and social relations, same-sexrelationships and a violence motivated by prejudices.The awareness of benefits from using the eclectic approachin examining social phenomena can arise the cognitive valueof research projects and as an effect increase effectivenessof actions in favour of nonheteronormative individuals.

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