Transformations in Interactions: the Example of the Relationship between Parents and LGBT + Children Cover Image

Transformacje w interakcjach: przykład relacji między rodzicami i dziećmi LGBT+
Transformations in Interactions: the Example of the Relationship between Parents and LGBT + Children

Author(s): Katarzyna Gajek
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: transformations; narrative interview; parents; LGBT people; coming out

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the transformation process that takes place in the parent-child relationship with a non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity (LGBT+). Due to the fact that the transformation of oneself and reality takes place in the course of undertaken activities, mental, affective and performative activities as well as relationships between them were identified from the communicated biographical experiences of the narrators. Parents of LGBT+ people from Poland who were selected according to the snowball procedure participated in the study. Empirical data was collected through the narrative interview technique and developed through qualitative inductive thematic analysis. The transformation process recreated on this basis included the identified mental changes in the perception and understanding of reality, modifications of affects that dynamized the activity of the subject and activities transforming the world. The transformations were expressed both in the perception and transformation of reality, as well as the subject acting in it.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 186-204
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish
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