Multi‑contextual Quality of „Being” in the Space of Family Life Cover Image

Wielokontekstowa jakość „bycia” w przestrzeni życia rodzinnego
Multi‑contextual Quality of „Being” in the Space of Family Life

Author(s): Joanna Żeromska‑Charlińska
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Family and social welfare, Sociology of Culture, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: family; culture; self‑consciousness; critical experiences; trajectory;

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the consideration was an attempt to perform in‑depth analysis concerning woman experiences, occurring on the background of her life trajectory as well as depicture of her microcosm, emphasizing the processes of auto‑identification and auto‑valorization in the straggle with pressure of everyday life by the recognition and the reconstruction of this processes, the need to understand effort in biographical constructing of studied woman identity and to indicate the daily potential as well as sensitization to diversity of femininity experiences THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The answers were searched for: How is subject constituted? How is subject building everyday life and what importance she gives to its symptoms? to what extent can individual decide about oneself and to what extent others determine who she was, who she is, who she will be, what existential trajectories is narrator presenting? What importance does suffering trajectory have in the course of biography? Methods: biographical, narrative interview THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: Analysis of woman’s trajectory experiences in the situation of marriage, in the context distinguished by her during construction of narrative, three areas of her life. Subsequently a scenario of trajectory process has been presented, pointing the course of a life and importance of persons’ competence involved in it, in the perspective of the studied individual RESEARCH RESULTS: Analysis of narration indicates complex sources of someone’ suffering, who feels unacceptable, subordinated to an idea of marital “Neverland”, who does not have resources to accept herself in the role, who does not have time for a transformation and the need for the reflective inclusion, allowing assistance individuals, who are on the borderline, between and outside CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Presented struggle with everyday life’s pressure, in narrative is an attempt of making an area for a discourse that enable understanding and interpersonal agreement, the discourse allowing cultural rearrangement. A process of auto‑identification and auto‑valorization immersed in the culture of family life, raise the awareness of problems and emotions that can be experienced by the contemporary man as well as enable to survey the life in own or unknown perspective, what can constitute prerequisite for understanding of existing microcosm.

  • Issue Year: 18/2019
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 53-62
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish