Potoczne reprezentacje struktury społecznej w górniczych i hutniczych osada4ch przyzakładowych w województwie śląskim
Popular common-sense renderings of social structure in mining and steel industry factory settlements in Silesian Voivodeship

Summary/Abstract: The paper is based on the fragment of outcomes of workpackage 5 realizing the SPHERE project. It is devoted to popular common-sense ways of experiencing divisions and social hierarchy which seem to be more or less related to the economic conditions of living in a settlement located close to an industrial plant. The social categories being developed in the process of interaction may be treated as prototypes or equivalents of thinking in terms of class, although they do not usually meet the requirements imposed by essentialistic ways of formulating this idea. Analyzing some popular categorizations functioning in the biographical narrations of the residents of housing estates for workers, one can notice a wide range of specific articulations of different social identities which come as a reflection of the coexistence of selected social and economic factors making up the context of living in a settlement located close to an industrial plant.

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